Ball and Karaban On Wooden Award Preseason Top 50

LOS ANGELES – Redshirt senior Alex Karaban and junior Solo Ball have been named to the 2026 John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club introduced on Tuesday (Nov. 18). The record was compiled by a panel of nationwide faculty basketball skilled to determine the frontrunners for the Wooden Award All-America Team and Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player.

Karaban ranks second on the Huskies this season with 18.3 factors per recreation and has added 5.3 rebounds and a couple of.3 assists per recreation. He is taking pictures 61.9 p.c thus removed from the sector and a hyper-efficient 63.2 p.c from 3-point vary. The UConn captain ranks among the many program’s all-time leaders in free throw share and 3-point area objectives and has ascended to 23^rd on the all-time scoring record with 1,426 profession factors. Karaban is a four-year starter who has compiled a 96-22 report (.814) and two nationwide titles in his embellished UConn profession.

Ball is third on Connecticut this season with 15.8 factors and has added 4.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.8 ‘shares’ per recreation. He is coming off a breakout sophomore season when he averaged 14.4 factors per recreation and shot 41.4 p.c from 3-point vary, hitting the fourth-most triples in UConn historical past with 99.

The Huskies return to motion on Wednesday evening for a top-five showdown with No. 4 Arizona at Gampel Pavilion.