LOS ANGELES -- Wichita State sophomore guard Landry Shamet made the cut Thursday for the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25.
 
Players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2017 John R. Wooden Award, given annually to college basketball's top performer.
 
Shamet – a redshirt sophomore point guard from Kansas City, Mo. – was on preseason watch lists for three other national player of the year honors: the Naismith Trophy, the Oscar Robertson Trophy and the Lute Olson Award.
 
Shamet averages a team-high 16.1 points for the fifth-ranked Shockers (13-2, 3-0 American). He leads the American Athletic Conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.4) and three-pointers per game (2.6) and ranks fifth nationally in three-point percentage (.527).
 
The Wooden Award National Advisory Board will announce one final leading candidate list—the Late Season Top 20—prior to the selection of 15 players to the National Ballot.
 
Xavier McDaniel (1985), Cleanthony Early (2014) and Ron Baker (2015) have all earned Wooden Award All-American status over the years. Baker was the last Shocker to make the Midseason Top 25.
 
Nearly 1,000 voters will rank order 10 of those 15 players, who have been qualified as meeting the standards set forth by Coach Wooden. Voting will open prior to the start of the NCAA Tournament and will allow voters to take into consideration performance during the early round games.
 
The Wooden Award All American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the John R. Wooden Award will be announced in early April during the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show.