BATON ROUGE — The Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List Top 50 includes three LSU women’s basketball players.
Mikaylah Williams, MiLaysia Fulwiley and Jada Williams made the list.
Mikaylah Williams enters her fourth season at LSU after averaging 14.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.4 steals per game last season. She also passed 1,500 career points against Tennessee and 500 career rebounds against South Carolina in the SEC Tournament semifinal. Williams was a unanimous selection to the Coaches All-SEC first team and also made the All-SEC first team chosen by the media.
Fulwiley joined LSU in the 2024 offseason after two seasons at South Carolina. Last year, she led the Tigers in three-pointers made, defensive rebounds, assists and minutes. She averaged 14.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.4 steals per game.
Jada Williams joined the Tigers this offseason after her junior season at Iowa State, where she averaged 15.3 points, 7.7 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game. In 32 games in Ames, she earned first-team honors in the Big 12 and ranked top five nationally in assists and assists per game.
The organization will release a midseason list of 30 candidates before a national voting academy narrows the field to 4 finalists. Seimone Augustus, LSU’s current assistant coach and former player, is the only Tiger to win the Naismith Trophy, earning it in 2005 and 2006.
On Thursday night, LSU will play its second of two exhibition games against Loyola at 7 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
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