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Mark Sears Named to Top 20 Watch List for Wooden Award: Roll Call, February 13, 2025

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Feb 11, 2025; Austin, Texas, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide guard Mark Sears (1) reacts after scoring a three point basket during the first half against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Moody Center. Mandatory Credit: Scott Wachter-Imagn Images
Feb 11, 2025; Austin, Texas, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide guard Mark Sears (1) reacts after scoring a three point basket during the first half against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Moody Center. Mandatory Credit: Scott Wachter-Imagn Images | Scott Wachter-Imagn Images

Alabama men's basketball guard Mark Sears is one of 20 candidates selected to the 2025 Wooden Award Late Midseason Watch List, the organization announced on Wednesday. The Wooden Award is given to college basketball's most outstanding player.

Sears is currently the only player in the SEC––this year's indisputably best basketball conference––to rank in the top-five in both scoring (No. 3 with 17.8 points per game) and assists (No. 3 with 4.9 assists per game). He also became the 82nd player in Division I history with 2,500 career points earlier in the season and ranks second among active Division I players with 2,578 points.

Sears has helped lead the Crimson Tide to the No. 2 spot in the AP Top 25 with a 21-3 record, including a 10-1 slate against the conference which is tied with No. 1 Auburn, Alabama's next opponent.

This is Sears' second appearance on a midseason award watch list, as named one of 10 semifinalists for the Bob Cousy Award, which is given to the nation's top point guard.

Here's a list of the 20 candidates on the 2025 Wooden Award watch list:

  • Ace Bailey, Rutgers
  • Johni Broome, Auburn
  • Walter Clayton Jr., Florida
  • Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
  • Eric Dixon, Villanova
  • Cooper Flagg, Duke
  • Keshon Gilbert, Iowa State
  • PJ Haggerty, Memphis
  • Dylan Harper, Rutgers
  • Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois
  • Curtis Jones, Iowa State
  • Kam Jones, Marquette
  • Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
  • Alex Karaban, UConn
  • Chaz Lanier, Tennessee
  • Ryan Nembhard, Gonzaga
  • Maxime Raynaud, Stanford
  • Mark Sears, Alabama
  • Javon Small, West Virginia
  • Braden Smith, Purdue

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Did You Notice?

  • Alabama women's basketball guard Sarah Ashlee Barker was named to the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Midseason Team. Barker, who is averaging 16.9 points per game, is one of 11 SEC players to make the midseason list and one of just 30 across the NCAA.
  • Former Alabama standout and new Super Bowl champion Landon Dickerson recaps the Philadelphia Eagles season and the viral moments that occurred after beating the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday.
  • Alabama basketball has dealt with numerous injuries not only during the season but well before it as well. Crimson Tide guard Chris Youngblood missed a good portion of the fall and didn't make his season debut until December. Youngblood is one of the many players that Alabama athletic trainer Clarke Holter has aided in the past few months.
  • Former Alabama and current New Orleans Pelicans standout forward Herb Jones underwent successful season-ending surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
  • Alabama baseball has 10 players ranked among the top 100 of their respective positions on D1Baseball's lists.
  • Alabama softball freshman Audrey Vandagriff reflected on her first opening weekend with the Crimson Tide.

Countdown to Crimson Tide's 2025 Football Season Opener:

198 days.

On This Day in Crimson Tide History:

February 13, 1985: Ray Perkins labeled his signing class "as a group who will help sustain the Alabama tradition of excellence." Among those signing with Alabama were stellar running backs Bobby Humphrey and Gene Jelks, the state's premier offensive linemen Larry Rose and Howard Cross and out-of-state defensive aces Anthony Smith and Derrick Thomas. – Bryant Museum

Crimson Tide Quote of the Day:

“There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.”
Ray Perkins

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Hunter De Siver is the lead basketball writer for BamaCentral and has covered Crimson Tide football since 2024. He previously distributed stories about the NFL and NBA for On SI and was a staff writer for Missouri Tigers On SI and Cowbell Corner. Before that, Hunter generated articles highlighting Crimson Tide products in the NFL and NBA for BamaCentral as an intern in 2022 and 2023. Hunter is a graduate from the University of Alabama, earning a degree in sports media in 2023.

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