Texas’ Taylor Jones On Lisa Leslie Award Watch List
Texas center Taylor Jones is one of 20 players on the 2023 Lisa Leslie Award Watch List, announced by the Basketball Hall of Fame earlier this week.
Jones is the only Big 12 player on the initial watch list, though former Texas center Lauren Ebo — who transferred to Notre Dame last season — is on the list as well.
Jones, a 6-foot-4 center, transferred to Texas from Oregon State after last season.
Last season Jones played just nine games before suffering a season-ending injury, but still averaged 12.4 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.
As a sophomore in 2020-21, Jones averaged 12.3 points and 8.8 rebounds. As a true freshman in 2019-20, she averaged 12.3 points and 7.3 rebounds, as she earned All-Pac-12 freshman honors after setting the OSU record for blocked shots.
Named after the three-time All-American,1994 National Player of the Year and Class of 2015 Hall of Famer, the annual award in its sixth year recognizes the top centers in women’s NCAA Division I college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates.
Previous winners of the Lisa Leslie Award are Aliyah Boston, South Carolina (2020-22), Megan Gustafson, Iowa (2019) and A’ja Wilson, South Carolina (2018).
2023 Lisa Leslie Award Watch List
Quay Miller, Colorado
Aliyah Boston, South Carolina
Kennedy Brown, Duke
Francesca Belibi, Stanford
Mackenzie Holmes, Indiana
Lauren Betts, Stanford
Monika Czinano, Iowa
Tamari Key, Tennessee
Josie Williams, Louisville
Taylor Jones, Texas
Jessika Carter, Mississippi State
Ila Lane, UC Santa Barbara
Alexis Markowski, Nebraska
Dorka Juhasz, UConn
Lauren Ebo, Notre Dame
Elizabeth Kitley, Virginia Tech
Sedona Prince, Oregon
Emma Grothaus, Washington
Lucy Cochrane, Portland
Bella Murekatete, Washington State
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