Alex Karaban Named To Wooden Award Midseason 25

LOS ANGELES – UConn males’s basketball redshirt senior captain Alex Karaban has been named to the 2025-26 John R. Wooden Award Men’s Midseason Top 25 Watch List, the Los Angeles Club introduced on Wednesday (Jan. 7). Karaban is the lone BIG EAST consultant on the checklist.

Selected by a midseason ballot of nationwide school basketball consultants, the checklist contains 25 student-athletes who’re frontrunners for probably the most prestigious honors in school basketball: the Wooden Award All-American Team and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player.

Karaban is within the midst of a stellar last season in Storrs. The four-year starter is top-three on the Huskies in scoring (13.3 ppg), rebounding (5.5 rpg) and assists (2.3 apg) whereas beginning all 15 video games and main the BIG EAST in minutes. He has posted a sterling 50.0/41.8/88.0 taking pictures line and added 2.1 ‘shares’ per recreation, taking part in an integral position in UConn’s elite protection that ranks No. 3 in Kenpom defensive effectivity.

Climbing the ranks throughout the UConn report books, Karaban just lately turned the 21^st participant in program historical past to eclipse 1,500 profession factors and is monitoring in direction of the all-time data for video games, begins and 3-point discipline objectives. He leads all excessive main gamers in video games performed at one college with 126 and is already fourth in UConn historical past with 125 profession begins.  

During Karaban’s time as a Husky, UConn has compiled a 106-23 general report and a 13-1 mark within the NCAA Tournament.