LOS ANGELES (AP) – Connecticut’s Emeka Okafor, Duke’s Chris Duhon and Oklahoma State’s John Lucas are among 10 candidates for the John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s top college basketball player.

Okafor, Duhon and Lucas led their teams to the Final Four.

The five finalists will be announced this weekend, with the winner determined in voting by more than 1,000 members of the media and college basketball experts.

The other candidates announced Wednesday: Josh Childress of Stanford, Andre Emmett of Texas Tech, Ryan Gomes of Providence, Devin Harris of Wisconsin, Jameer Nelson of Saint Joseph’s, Lawrence Roberts of Mississippi State and Blake Stepp of Gonzaga.

The award will be presented April 10.

at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

Stanford coach Mike Montgomery will receive the Legends of Coaching award.

, and a women’s Wooden Award will be presented for the first time.

Texas point guard T.J. Ford, now with the Milwaukee Bucks, won the 2003 Wooden Award.

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