Dee Brown picked up another honor Monday when the midseason top 30 candidates for the John R. Wooden Award were announced.

Brown was the only Illini to make the midseason list, which included just four other Big Ten athletes: Michigan State’s Maurice Ager and Paul Davis, Indiana’s Marco Killingsworth and Wisconsin’s Alando Tucker.

Brown and Duke’s J.J. Redick are the only players chosen as 2004-2005 John R. Wooden Award All-Americans and to make the 2005-2006 midseason candidate list.

“The Midseason Selection Committee had an incredibly difficult task this season in narrowing the list to 30 players because there have been so many outstanding individual performers thus far,” Wooden Award chairman Duke Llewellyn said in a press release. “In addition to a number of top preseason candidates who have excelled, the midseason list includes several talented newcomers who have elevated their teams. We look forward to watching this group of amazing athletes as we determine the top candidates for the Wooden Award All-American Team.”

Players who did not make the midseason watch list may still be chosen in March as Wooden Award recipients.

Brown averages 16.9 points per game so far this season.

Sports Illustrated, Jay Bilas, and Andy Katz have also named Brown as a midseason All-American. The senior guard has also picked up other awards this season, including the Pape Jam MVP, the South Padre Island Invitational All-Tournament team, Associated Press and Playboy Magazine Preseason All-American, Senior CLASS award candidate and preseason candidate for the Wooden, Naismith and Robertson Awards.