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LOS ANGELES — Zach Edey of Purdue and Tristen Newton of UConn are among the five finalists for the John R. Wooden Award as the nation's outstanding men's college basketball player of the season. Joining them are RJ Davis of North Carolina, Dalton Knecht of Tennessee and Jamal Shead of Houston. On the women's side, Caitlin Clark of Iowa and Paige Bueckers of UConn are among the five finalists. Clark won last year and Bueckers won in 2021. The other women's finalists are Cameron Brink of Stanford and freshmen JuJu Watkins of Southern California and Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame.
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