KEVIN KLAUS/Arizona Daily Wildcat Senior guard Jason Gardner fends off fellow All-American Kirk Hinrich of Kansas during the Jayhawks' 78-75 win over the Wildcats last weekend.

Gardner chosen for Wooden list

The Wooden Award Committee announced Tuesday that Arizona men's basketball player Jason Gardner has been selected to the John R. Wooden Award All-America team.

Gardner made the prestigious list of 10 players following voting by more that 1,000 media members and college basketball experts. The senior from Indianapolis, who earlier was named All-America by the United States Basketball Writers Association and National Association of Basketball Coaches, is joined on the Wooden All-America team by Nick Collison (F, Kansas), T.J. Ford (G, Texas), Kirk Hinrich (G, Kansas), Josh Howard (F, Wake Forest), Brandin Knight (G, Pittsburgh), Emeka Okafor (F/C, Connecticut), Hollis Price (G, Oklahoma), Dwayne Wade (G, Marquette), and David West (F, Xavier).

The highest-scoring guard in Arizona history, Gardner, a 5-foot-10, 191-pound senior, averaged 14.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.9 assists in 32 games this season. He averaged a team-best 34.9 minutes per game, shot 39.2 percent from the field, including 33.2 percent from three-point range. Gardner scored in double figures in 24 of 32 games and passed out at least five assists in a game 17 times in 2002-03. He is the only Arizona player to register at least one double-figure point, rebound and assist game this season.

Gardner was named All-Pacific-10 Conference for the third time in his career on March 10 and was a second team USBWA and NABC All-America selection. Gardner received All-America accolades nine times in his four-year career.

He is the school record holder for career games (136) and minutes (4,825) played, as well as games started (135). Gardner finished his Arizona career ranked among the career leaders in 13 statistical categories. In 136 career games played, Gardner tallied 1,984 points (14.6 ppg), 462 rebounds (3.4 rpg), 622 assists (4.6 apg) and 225 steals (1.7 spg).

Jung named Pac-10 Player of the Week

Softball senior Lovie Jung has been named Pac-10 Player of the Week for March 24 ÷March 30. Over the weekend against No. 19 Oregon and No. 20 Oregon State, Jung had a .750 batting average. Jung also had five runs, six hits, two home runs and three RBIs.

On the season, Jung has a .453 batting average with 19 home runs and 55 RBIs. Jung leads the team in runs (42), doubles (15), home runs (19) and RBIs (55). Jung currently leads the Pac-10 in runs scored, doubles, total bases (124), slugging percentage (1.170) and runs batted in.

This is the second Pac-10 award for Jung this season. Jung was named Pac-10 Player of the Week for February 3 ÷ 9.

The Wildcats are on the road this weekend, traveling to Seattle to face No. 2 Washington tomorrow at 2 p.m. Arizona will play No. 1 UCLA on Saturday at 2 p.m. and again on Sunday at 1 p.m.