Redick, Augustus Wooden winners

Duke senior completes sweep of player-of-year awards

? Duke’s J.J. Redick and LSU’s Seimone Augustus capped their college careers by winning the John R. Wooden awards, presented Saturday to basketball’s players of the year.

Redick, completing a sweep of the men’s player-of-the-year awards this spring, collected 4,646 points to edge Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison by 72 points in the third-closest balloting by the panel of over 1,000 voters.

Duke’s Shelden Williams finished third with 2,142 points, followed by Villanova’s Randy Foye with 2,050 and Washington’s Brandon Roy with 1,885.

The award is named for the former UCLA coach who guided the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships in a 12-year span before retiring in 1975. UCLA’s Marques Johnson was the first to win the award – two years after Wooden stepped down.

Redick, a 6-foot-4 senior, averaged 26.8 points this season – second in the country behind Morrison – and leaves Duke as the leading scorer in Atlantic Coast Conference history.

John R. Wooden Award winner J.J. Redick of Duke University answers questions at a news conference Saturday, April 8, 2006, at The Los Angeles Athletic Club in Los Angeles.

He is the sixth Duke player to win the award, joining Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams and Alana Beard, who won two years ago to become the first woman so honored.

Augustus, a 6-foot-1 senior, has won the women’s award each of the past two years to join Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (1982-83) as the only two-time winners.

Augustus collected 298 points in the balloting of over 200 voters to finish 83 points ahead of North Carolina’s Ivory Latta. Cappie Pondexter of Rutgers finished third with 135 points, followed by Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris with 106 and Duke’s Monique Currie with 96.