There's a lot of talent playing inside Lloyd Noble Center this basketball season.
An Oklahoma player from both the men and women programs were named on the Wooden Award Midseason Watch List as one of the top 25 players in the country to this point. Both lists included 25 college basketball players who are frontrunners for the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player or to be on the Wooden Award All-America Team when the season concludes.
For the men, freshman guard Jeremiah Fears was on the list after taking the Sooners by storm this season. He leads OU in scoring while averaging 17.9 points a game. That average is seventh-best in the SEC and ranks sixth among all freshmen in the country.
Fears also adds 3.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.2 steals a contest. He's also shooting 84% from the free-throw line with the second-most made free throws in the conference.
For the women, it was Raegan Beers getting the recognition. She's nearly the opposite of Fears as a veteran junior who plays down low. This is also Beers' first season in Norman, though, after transferring from Oregon State during the offseason.
Beers averages 17.1 points and 9.3 rebounds a game this season. Only 15 games into the season, Beers has already posted six double-doubles, which is already the second-most by a Sooner in a single season since the 2017-18 season.
Courtney Paris has been the only Wooden Award finalist in OU history for the women, and she did it four times but never won the award. The men have had two players win the award, though, with Blake Griffin in 2009 and Buddy Hield in 2016.