Indiana women’s basketball junior guard Yarden Garzon was named on the Cheryl Miller Award preseason watchlist for the second consecutive season, according to an Indiana Athletics release Wednesday.
The award, named after three-time Naismith Player of the Year Cheryl Miller, honors the top small forward in NCAA Division I women’s college basketball. Garzon’s appearance on the list marks the fifth consecutive season a Hoosier has made the top 20 after former guard Grace Berger did so from 2020-22 in her final three seasons at Indiana.
Garzon finished her sophomore campaign averaging 11.7 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. She also shot 44.9% from the field alongside 42.2% from beyond the arc.
Fan voting for the award begins Friday until late January when the list will be reduced to 10 players. In late February it will be trimmed to just five before the winner will be selected by Miller and the Hall of Fame’s selection committees in March.
Fans can vote for the award on hoophallawards.com.
University of Colorado graduate student forward Lior Garzon, Yarden’s older sister, also made the watchlist.
Lior transferred from Oklahoma State University in the offseason. She started all 30 games for the Cowgirls last season, averaging 9 points and 1.8 assists per game.
On Sunday, Lior and the Buffaloes won their only exhibition game this season 91-46 over the Colorado School of Mines. They begin their regular season Nov. 4 against the University of Wyoming.
Indiana hosts Maryville University in its lone exhibition contest at 7 p.m., Wednesday, inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. It begins its regular season at 7 p.m., Nov. 4, against Brown University in Bloomington.
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