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Oklahoma’s Taylor Robertson Named Finalist for Ann Meyers Drysdale Award

The trophy is names after college basketball's first four-time All-American and goes to the game's top shooting guard.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma senior Taylor Robertson was named as one of five finalists for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award.

The award is named for the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Famer, who became the first college player, male or female, to be named All-America four straight times, and recognizes the top shooting guard in the Division I college women's game.

Robertson, DePaul’s Sonya Morris, Florida Gulf Coast’s Kierstan Bell, UConn’s Christyn Williams and Ohio State’s Taylor Mikesell are this year’s finalists.

Robertson, from McPherson, KS, broke the school and Big 12 Conference career records for 3-pointers this year and now sits at 432 — just 65 short of the NCAA record.

Robertson leads the nation in 3s this season with 110, sits first at 3.67 per game, and ranks fourth in 3-point percentage at .451. She’s the first player in Big 12 history to make 100 treys in a season three times.

She’s also the only player in NCAA history to shoot better than 45 percent from 3-point range on more than eight attempts from behind the arc in a season.

Robertson, who earned unanimous first-team All-Big 12 accolades, is the only one of this year’s five finalists to average 16.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.

She’s also averaging career-highs in rebounds (4.6) and assists (3.2).

Under first-year head coach Jennie Baranczyk, Robertson helped OU into the AP Top 25 for the first time in five years and likely will make its first NCAA Tournament since 2017-18.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.