ATLANTA - For the second consecutive season University of Dayton women's basketball senior Andrea Hoover has been named to the 50-person Naismith Trophy Watch List. The list was announced Monday, Dec. 10 by the Atlanta Tipoff Club

Hoover is one of three student-athletes from the Atlantic 10 to be named to the prestigious list.

The 2014 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, Hoover currently leads the team and ranks second in the A-10 with 18.3 points per game and leads the league with 8.7 rebounds per game so far this season. She was also named to the 2014-15 A-10 Preseason All-Conference First Team. With 1,366 career points, Hoover ranks ninth on Dayton's all-time scoring list.

The midseason 30-player Watch List roster will be announced Feb. 11.

About Atlanta Tipoff Club
Founded during the 1956-57 season, the Atlanta Tipoff Club, an Atlanta Sports Council property, is committed to promoting the game of basketball and recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of those who make the game so exciting. The Atlanta Tipoff Club administers the Naismith Awards, which have become the most prestigious national honors in all of college basketball. Named in honor of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball, the Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T recognizes the top Men's and Women's College Basketball Players of the Year.

Other Naismith Awards are presented to the Men's and Women's College Basketball Coaches of the Year, Boy's and Girl's high school basketball players and coaches of the year, high school scholar-athletes, basketball officials, student sections and overall contributors to the game. The Naismith Trophy was first presented to UCLA's Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in 1969. Old Dominion's Anne Donovan won the inaugural Women's Naismith Trophy in 1983.