Steele & Davidson Named Wooden Candidates

TUSCALOOSA ?? Two University of Alabama basketball players have been named preseason candidates for the 2006-07 Wooden Award All-American Team. Both junior point guard Ronald Steele of Birmingham and senior center Jermareo Davidson of Atlanta are among the 50 preseason candidates named on Wednesday.

Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award is considered the top individual honor in college basketball. Previous winners have included Larry Bird (1979), Michael Jordan (1984), and Tim Duncan (1987), among others. In January the Wooden Award committee will release the midseason Top 30, and the national ballot will be released and voted upon in March. The 10-player Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced on March 27, and the winner will be announced on April 7 in a presentation at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

The inclusion of both Steele and Davidson marks a first for Alabama in having two Wooden candidates. They bring to five the number of official Wooden Award candidates Alabama head coach Mark Gottfried has produced with a string that began with Erwin Dudley in 2003, Kennedy Winston in 2005, Chuck Davis in 2006 and now Steele and Davidson in 2007.

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Steele & Davidson Named Wooden Candidates

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