Victoria Vivians Named To Wooden Award Watch List
December 08, 2016 | Women's Basketball
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Victoria Vivians received the nod for another national honor as she was tabbed to the preseason watch list for the prestigious John R. Wooden Award.
The Carthage, Miss., native was named to the Top 30 watch list for the second-straight year. The list for the award, which recognizes the top player in women's college basketball, was selected by a preseason poll of national women's college basketball media members.
She has also been named to the Wade and Naismith preseason watch lists. Teammate Morgan William joined her on the Naismith list.
Vivians has paced Mississippi State in scoring this season with 14.6 ppg. She reached double figures for the sixth time on the year last Saturday, notching 16 points as Vic Schaefer's Bulldogs improved to 8-0 with an 85-81 overtime win at Iowa State in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
The junior guard earned MVP honors of both the Maine Tipoff Tournament and Rainbow Wahine Showdown. In the season-opening tournament she scored 26 against host Maine, while she opened the event in Hawaii with 17 points against previously-unbeaten Oregon.
The MVP performance in Honolulu followed a 19-point showing in the Bulldogs' lone home game of the year, a win against then-No. 8 Texas.
The SEC's returning leading scorer from last season, Vivians is currently Top 16 in the league in scoring this season and 13th in field goal percentage at 42.2 percent.
Vivians continues to climb the Bulldogs' career scoring list, rating 11th with 1,238 points. That total is fifth among active SEC players, first by a junior, and third among her class in the NCAA Division I ranks.
Her 15.9 career scoring average rates 15th in the nation and seventh among juniors. Among current league players she is seventh in career steals (120), fifth in field goals (450) and second in 3-pointers (161).
Vivians and the Bulldogs return to action Saturday, traveling to Hattiesburg for a 2 p.m. tilt against Southern Miss.
The Carthage, Miss., native was named to the Top 30 watch list for the second-straight year. The list for the award, which recognizes the top player in women's college basketball, was selected by a preseason poll of national women's college basketball media members.
She has also been named to the Wade and Naismith preseason watch lists. Teammate Morgan William joined her on the Naismith list.
Vivians has paced Mississippi State in scoring this season with 14.6 ppg. She reached double figures for the sixth time on the year last Saturday, notching 16 points as Vic Schaefer's Bulldogs improved to 8-0 with an 85-81 overtime win at Iowa State in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
The junior guard earned MVP honors of both the Maine Tipoff Tournament and Rainbow Wahine Showdown. In the season-opening tournament she scored 26 against host Maine, while she opened the event in Hawaii with 17 points against previously-unbeaten Oregon.
The MVP performance in Honolulu followed a 19-point showing in the Bulldogs' lone home game of the year, a win against then-No. 8 Texas.
The SEC's returning leading scorer from last season, Vivians is currently Top 16 in the league in scoring this season and 13th in field goal percentage at 42.2 percent.
Vivians continues to climb the Bulldogs' career scoring list, rating 11th with 1,238 points. That total is fifth among active SEC players, first by a junior, and third among her class in the NCAA Division I ranks.
Her 15.9 career scoring average rates 15th in the nation and seventh among juniors. Among current league players she is seventh in career steals (120), fifth in field goals (450) and second in 3-pointers (161).
Vivians and the Bulldogs return to action Saturday, traveling to Hattiesburg for a 2 p.m. tilt against Southern Miss.
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