Women's Wooden Award Odds 2025: Bueckers, Watkins Lead the Way

The most prolific scorer in college basketball history, Iowa's Caitlin Clark, owns numerous NCAA basketball records, and last season, she joined elite company as the seventh player to win the women's Wooden Award multiple times.

With Clark now graduated and fresh off a dominant Rookie of the Year campaign in the WNBA, there's a handful of new contenders looking to become the next Player of the Year in women's college basketball.

The field isn't overwhelmingly deep, with only three players sitting with odds shorter than +1800 at our best sports betting sites, but those lead competitors will be expected to fight tooth and nail against each other in one of the highest profile races for the women's Wooden Award.

With Paige Bueckers' UConn Huskies, JuJu Watkins' USC Trojans, and Hannah Hidalgo's Notre Dame Fighting Irish all battling in the women's March Madness odds in addition to the individual awards, there's  ton of drama set to unfold at the top of the thriving sport.

Here's a look at the odds for the 2024 Wooden Award at our best sports betting sites with the season now underway.

Women's Wooden Award odds 2025

Wooden Award odds from our best sports betting apps.

• Morrow will look to take a big leap in her second season at LSU after former teammate and star forward Angel Reese went to the WNBA
• Fulwiley is the lead candidate to take over the role as top scorer on South Carolina, the odds-on favorite for the title
• Booker is fresh off an All-American season as a freshman at Texas, and is looking to put up even more impressive stats as a sophomore
• Amoore followed her head coach to Kentucky, where she'll look to be the lead option in reviving the storied program

Women's Wooden Award odds favorites 2025

Paige Bueckers (+150)

Bueckers took the women's college game by storm back in 2020-21, winning the Wooden Award as just a freshman, averaging an absurd 20 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 5.8 assists per game. However, injuries have been the story of her college career since then. However, as the clear superstar on the No. 2 team in the country, Bueckers is looking to get back to the pinnacle once again.

The early results of Bueckers' senior season have been up and down. She is shooting a pristine 73.7% from the field but is averaging just 17.5 points to go along with 3.5 rebounds and four assists. This is because she's taking just 9.5 field-goal attempts per game, well below her career average of 14.2.

Simply put, there is not a more efficient player in the women's game. Bueckers has already led the entire country in effective field-goal percentage both of the seasons she's been fully healthy, and leads the country in that statistic again early this season with a wild 81.6% clip.

At the end of the day, it just comes down to shooting volume. Playing alongside freshman phenom Sarah Strong and with fellow starter Azzi Fudd still on the sidelines, there's a chance Bueckers just doesn't put up lofty enough counting stats to take home the award.

At nearly even odds across our best sports betting sites, a bettor would have to believe very strongly in Bueckers' usage picking up to put down a wager.

Best odds: | Implied probability: 40%

JuJu Watkins (+175)

The other clear favorite for the women's Wooden Award this season is USC sophomore superstar JuJu Watkins. Had it not been for the dominance of Caitlin Clark, Watkins may very well have followed in Buecker's footsteps as a Wooden Award winner as a freshman, leading the nation in scoring at 27.1 points, adding 7.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.3 steals, and 1.6 blocks per game.

The expectations couldn't be any higher for Watkins this season, as the clear lead option on a team amongst the favorites for the national championship.

However, Watkins has struggled a bit with efficiency over her first two games, shooting just 41.9% from the field and 14.3% from long range. That said, she's still tallied 21.5 points per game along with eight rebounds, 2.5 assists, 2.5 steals, and a nation-leading 4.5 blocks.

As a whole, Watkins has the opposite issue of her main competitor in Bueckers.

While Bueckers may not shoot enough to warrant the award, the Trojans are so dependant on Watkins that she runs the risk of being inefficient with so much on her plate. However, given she's likely to remain amongst the sport's leaders in points per game on one of the best teams in the country, it may not matter how poorly Watkins shoots so long as she continues to be so effective in every single stat category.

Watkins sits at nearly the same odds Bueckers has with no one remotely in their stratosphere as a third-place competitor. In a back-and-forth race between the two stars, it may be worth waiting to see how the season unfolds before emphatically deciding a winner.

Best odds:  | Implied probability: 36.36%

Past women's Wooden Award winners

Women's Wooden Award FAQs

Who won the women's Wooden Award?

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark won the Wooden Award for the second straight season, having already won it in 2022-23. Her -250 odds in January implied a 71.43% probability she would win it.

Who won the women's Wooden Award last year?

 Caitlin Clark won the women's Wooden Award for the 2022-23 season after averaging 27.8 points and 8.6 assists. 

Who was the last back-to-back women's Wooden Award winner?

Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu was the last back-to-back women's Wooden Award winner. She won it in 2019-20 and 2020-21. 

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