Thornton Named to Wooden Award Midseason Top 25
1/7/2026 6:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State captain Bruce Thornton has been named to the 25 player John R. Wooden Award Midseason Watchlist on Wednesday.
Selected by a midseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 25 student-athletes who are frontrunners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-American Team™ and the Wooden Award® Most Outstanding Player.
Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award Program hosts the most prestigious honors in college basketball, recognizing the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player for men and women, the Wooden Award All-America Teams for men and women, and the annual selection of the Wooden Award Legends of Coaching recipient.
Thornton is averaging a career-best 20.6 points per game this season, which is third-best in the Big Ten. He is also averaging a career-best 5.2 rebounds per game and has recorded three of his six career double-doubles this season. Thornton has made 30 three-pointers and is shooting 44.1 percent from long range on the year.
Thornton and the Buckeyes are on the west coast this week, playing Oregon on Thursday evening and Washington on Sunday.
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