Who is the favorite for player of the year?"Last season, South Carolina's A'ja Wilson was the front-runner as the top player in the country, and she never lost her lead in that race. Wilson was the consensus college player of the year, the WNBA's No. 1 draft pick and that league's rookie of the year.
It's harder to say if there is a front-runner this season because there are several strong candidates, including Durr, Samuelson, Collier, Ogunbowale, Ionescu,
Brown, McCowan and Iowa's Megan Gustafson.
Of those eight, all are seniors except the junior Ionescu. Others might emerge, too.
This is a season when some of the marquee head-to-head matchups of top teams could help determine the player of the year race. And voters might go right until the end of the season before making their choices."
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Mechelle Voepel, espnW, 29 Oct 2018