The Atlanta Tipoff Club and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Women's Defensive ...

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The Naismith Awards announced the 2025 Naismith Women’s College Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalists Tuesday, headlined ...

Jahmai Mashack and Zakai Zeigler become Naismith Defensive Player semifinalists, the only teammates on the list.

Tennessee women's basketball player Talaysia Cooper has been named a semifinalist for the 2025 Naismith Defensive Player of ...

Bueckers burst onto the scene in 2021 with a breakout freshman campaign that earned her AP Player of the Year and Naismith College Player of the Year honors. Although a string of injuries forced ...

LSU women's basketball's Aneesah Morrow is a semifinalist for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award, announced Tuesday. Morrow is one of 10 semifinalists and three players from the SEC ...

Penn State men's basketball graduate student Ace Baldwin Jr. has been named the Big Ten defensive player of the year for the second straight year.

USC Trojans sophomore guard JuJu Watkins was named a semifinalist for the 2025 Naismith Women's Defensive Player of the Year presented by MOLECULE on Tuesday as ...

The graduate point guard was one of three players to receive honors from the Big Ten. Baldwin and center Yanic Konan Niederhauser earned All-Big Ten honorable mention honors and Puff Johnson was named ...

Part 3 of a look back at LI's best basketball players, a series that goes through seven decades for the boys and five decades ...

Braden Smith was named the 2025 Big Ten Player of the Year, marking the third straight year a Purdue player has won the award ...