Women's John Wooden Award Odds: JuJu Watkins heavily favored

The Women's John Wooden Award has been awarded every season since 2003/04, and legendary players including Seimone Augustus, Candace Parker, Maya Moore and Brittney Griner have won it.

With two-time reigning winner Caitlin Clark now in the WNBA, the field has opened up for a new winner in 2024/25.

Who will win the Wooden Award for the 2024/25 season?

2024/25 Women's John Wooden Award Odds

JuJu Watkins	-500
Hannah Hidalgo	+500
Lauren Betts	+1000

USC Trojans guard JuJu Watkins is the -500 favorite, and her odds got shorter from -150 last week after the Trojans beat then-No. 2 UCLA by an 80-67 score. In that game, she scored 30 points with three rebounds, five assists, two steals and three blocks in 38 minutes.

Watkins is averaging a Big Ten-high 24.4 points with 6.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 2.1 steals and 2.0 blocks while shooting 33.9 percent from three and 42.9 percent overall. She has six games with 30+ points this season and one 40-point outing, as well as six double-doubles.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish guard Hannah Hidalgo is second in the market at +500.

Hidalgo is averaging 24.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and an ACC-best 3.7 steals while shooting 40.1 percent from three-point range. She led her team to a win over UConn with 29 points, 10 boards, eight assists and three steals this season, and she has reached 30 points in four different games.

Lauren Betts, the UCLA Bruins' 6-foot-7 center, is the last player listed in the market at +1000.

Betts was the team's star player with averages of 19.7 points, 9.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and a Big Ten-high 2.8 blocks. She reached 30 points in two games, had 16 double-doubles, had a nine-block game against Baylor, and had an 11-assist game against Minnesota.

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Odds displayed within this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.