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Battle named to Wooden Award watch list

Penn State junior point guard Talor Battle has been named to the preseason Wooden Award candidate list.

The Wooden Award is given out annually to the nation's college basketball player of the year, and Battle is one of 50 players who made the cut.

Other Big Ten players named:
Kalin Lucas, Michigan State
Raymar Morgan, Michigan State
Robbie Hummel, Purdue
E'Twaun Moore, Purdue
Manny Haris, Michigan
DeShawn Sims, Michigan
Evan Turner, Ohio State

Battle led the Big Ten in scoring in 2009, averaging 17.3 points per game, and was named first All-Big Ten.

Oklahoma's Blake Griffin won the award last season, and no Big Ten player has taken it home since Purdue's Glenn Robinson in 1994.

-Brown

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AJ Cassavell is a junior majoring in journalism and is a men's basketball reporter for the Collegian. He is a former Collegian women's volleyball, softball, Lady Lions, men's soccer and men's gymnastics reporter. A 5-foot-7 center in Middle School, AJ at one point said he wished he was shorter so he could play guard. The gods blessed him, and by the time he reached his senior year of High School he had grown half an inch, making him just tall enough to see the floor for about ten minutes all season - as a point guard.


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Stephen Hennessey is a junior majoring in journalism and is a men's basketball reporter for the Collegian. He is a former Collegian women's soccer, men's lacrosse, wrestling, field hockey and women's tennis writer. Steve used to idolize former Utah Utes and New Jersey Nets forward Keith Van Horn — he even wore high, white socks to his CYO basketball games and always demanded the number 44 for his jersey. He even scored a Van Horn autograph on the back of a Toys 'R Us catalog. No joke.


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Andrew Robinson is a junior majoring in journalism and is a men's basketball reporter for the Collegian. He is a former women's soccer, women's rugby and men's swimming writer. A loyal supporter of Dwyane Wade, A-Rob can often be spotted wearing his red, white or black number 3 Heat jersey with basketball shorts, even in the dead of winter. He will, however, respect press etiquette and wear khakis and dress shirts to Nittany Lion games.

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