LOS ANGELES — Caitlin Clark of Iowa and Paige Bueckers of UConn are among the five finalists for the women’s John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s outstanding women’s college basketball player of the season.

The other finalists are Cameron Brink of Stanford, and freshmen JuJu Watkins of Southern California and Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame.

Clark, who won last year, and Bueckers, who was the 2021 winner, are playing in the Final Four this weekend in Cleveland.

The women’s Wooden All American team also includes Georgia Amoore and Elizabeth Kitley of Virginia Tech, Kamilla Cardoso of South Carolina, Angel Reese of LSU and Aaliyah Edwards of UConn.

Zach Edey of Purdue and Tristen Newton of UConn are among the five finalists for the men’s award. Joining them are RJ Davis of North Carolina, Dalton Knecht of Tennessee and Jamal Shead of Houston.

Hunter Dickinson of Kansas, Kyle Filipowski of Duke, Tyler Kolek of Marquette, Jaedon LeDee of San Diego State and Caleb Love of Arizona were also named Tuesday to the Wooden All American team.