– Fan Voting Begins Friday, February 6 –
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — The Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame introduced the Mid-Season Prime 10 candidates for the 2026 Julius Erving Award and, in partnership with the Girls’s Basketball Coaches Affiliation (WBCA), the 2026 Cheryl Miller Award.
*Gamers can play their means onto and off the checklist at any level within the 2025-26 season.
Followers are inspired to take part in Fan Voting in each of the remaining rounds beginning on Friday, February 6, on hoophallawards.com. The Fan Vote will depend as one committee vote in the course of the finalist choice course of.
In mid-March, the Mid-Season Prime 10 checklist will likely be narrowed to only 5, and in late March, the 5 finalists will likely be introduced to Erving, Miller, and the Corridor of Fame’s choice committees, the place winners will likely be chosen. The Choice Committees for the Julius Erving and Cheryl Miller Awards are composed of prime males’s and ladies’s faculty basketball personnel, together with media members, head coaches, sports activities info administrators, and Corridor of Famers.
The winner of the 2026 Erving and Miller Awards will likely be introduced on a to-be-determined date, together with the opposite 4 members of the Males’s and Girls’s Beginning 5. Further awards being introduced embrace the Bob Cousy and Nancy Lieberman Awards (Level Guard), Jerry West and Ann Meyers Drysdale Awards (Taking pictures Guard), Karl Malone and Katrina McClain Awards (Energy Ahead), and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lisa Leslie Awards (Heart).
Earlier winners of the Julius Erving Award embrace Cooper Flagg, Duke (2025), Dalton Knecht, Tennessee (2024), Jalen Wilson, Kansas (2023), Saddiq Bey, Villanova (2020), Mikal Bridges, Villanova (2018), Josh Hart, Villanova (2017), and Denzel Valentine, Michigan State (2016).
Earlier winners of the Cheryl Miller Award are Madison Booker, Texas (2024-25), Ashley Joens, Iowa State (2021-23), Satou Sabally, Oregon (2020), Bridget Carleton, Iowa State (2019), and Gabby Williams, UConn (2018).
For extra info on the 2026 Julius Erving and Cheryl Miller Awards and the most recent updates, go to hoophallawards.com and observe @hoophallu, #ErvingAward, and #MillerAward on X and Instagram.
Concerning the WBCA:
Based in 1981, the Girls’s Basketball Coaches Affiliation is the skilled affiliation for coaches of ladies’s and ladies’ basketball in any respect ranges of competitors. The WBCA affords instructional sources that coaches want to assist make themselves higher leaders, academics, and mentors to their gamers; supplies alternatives for coaches to attach with friends within the career; serves because the unifying voice of a various group of coaches to these organizations that management the sport; and celebrates these coaches, gamers, and different people who excel annually and contribute to the development of the game. For extra info, go to us on-line: WBCA.org, observe @wbca1981, or name 1-770-279-8027.
Concerning the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame:
Situated in Springfield, Massachusetts, the town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame is an unbiased nonprofit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving, and celebrating the sport of basketball at each stage—women and men, novice {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is dwelling to greater than 475 inductees and over 40,000 sq. ft of basketball historical past. Almost 200,000 individuals go to the Corridor of Fame museum annually to be taught in regards to the recreation, expertise the interactive displays, and check their expertise on the Jerry Colangelo “Courtroom of Goals.” Finest identified for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the sport’s elite, the Corridor of Fame additionally operates over 150 highschool and collegiate competitions yearly all through the nation and overseas. For extra info on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and observe @hoophallU.
