Crockrom Finalist for ESPN - The Magazine Hoops Award
March 26, 2002 Baylor's Danielle Crockrom is one of three finalists for ESPN -The Magazine's College Basketball Women's Power Forward of the Year. Also competing for the award are Mississippi State's LaToya Thomas and Iciss Tillis of Duke. The nominees have been announced for the second annual Suzuki Presents ESPN The Magazine's College Basketball Awards, a Final Four kickoff event held on Thursday, March 28 in the host city of Men's and Women's Final Fours. ESPN will stage and televise the awards show, which will honor the top performers in men's and women's college basketball, from 7-9 p.m. ET from Atlanta (Men's Final Four) and San Antonio (Women's Final Four).
The nominees for both the men's and women's awards were determined by separate ESPN The Magazine blue-ribbon panels. The USA Today/ESPN Board of Coaches will utilize the list of nominees to determine the winners, which will be announced on the March 28 program. The men's USA Today/ESPN Board of Coaches, the 31 Division I NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches) coaches who vote on the weekly USA Today/ESPN Men's Coaches Poll, will vote for the men's basketball winners, while the women's winners will be decided by the 40-member USA Today/ESPN Board of Coaches - the Division I Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) coaches who also vote on the USA Today/ESPN Women's Coaches Poll.
A total of 15 awards will be presented, including the men's and women's player of the year by position, an overall men's and women's player of the year, men's and women's coach of the year and The V Foundation Comeback of the Year. For the women's player of the year category, ESPN has linked with the WBCA and the National Association of Girls and Women in Sports (NAGWS) to present the prestigious Wade Trophy on the show (determined separately). The V Foundation Comeback of the Year will also be determined separately and announced prior to the show. The men's nominations include finalists from nine different conferences. Highlights include nominations for three of Duke's starters at their respective positions (Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy, Jason Williams), plus a nomination for Williams as Player of the Year. Both Williams (Point Guard) and Stanford's Casey Jacobsen (Shooting Guard) captured awards last year. Coaching nominees include Marquette's Tom Crean, Pittsburgh's Ben Howland and Texas Tech's Bob Knight. On the women's side, top-ranked Connecticut has three of its starters nominated for position awards (Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi) plus nominations for Bird and Taurasi for the Wade Trophy (Player of the Year). Bird (Point Guard) and Mississippi State's LaToya Thomas are looking to repeat as award winners, while Vanderbilt's Chantelle Anderson (Center) was nominated for the second consecutive year. Coaching finalists include Minnesota's Brenda Oldfield, Kansas State's Deb Patterson and South Carolina's Susan Walvius. The awards ceremony will be held on the court at Alexander Memorial Coliseum on the campus of Georgia Tech, and the show will incorporate segments from the RiverCenter Mall in San Antonio. In an effort to capture a college basketball environment, the event will include many elements from a typical college game such as cheerleaders and a P.A. announcer.
Wade Trophy (Women's Player of the Year)
Women's Point Guard of the Year
Women's Shooting Guard of the Year
Women's Swing Forward of the Year
Women's Power Forward of the Year
Women's Center of the Year
Women's Coach of the Year
Men's Player of the Year
Men's Point Guard of the Year
Men's Shooting Guard of the Year
Men's Swing Forward of the Year
Men's Power Forward of the Year
Men's Center of the Year
Men's Coach of the Year |
