Atlanta — Three UConn women's basketball players — seniors Moriah Jefferson and Breanna Stewart and red-shirt junior Morgan Tuck — were named finalists for the Wade Trophy, it was announced by the Wade Trophy Committee on Thursday.

The committee will select the winner of The Wade Trophy from among 15 finalists who also are named to the 10-member WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches’ All-America Team when it is chosen in April. The WBCA will officially announce The Wade Trophy winner during the WBCA Convention, held in conjunction with the NCAA Women’s Final Four in Indianapolis on April 3-5.

Jefferson, a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award and Dawn Staley Award, became the sixth-ever Husky to be chosen as the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year. She is averaging 12.8 points in 30.5 minutes per game. She leads the team in assists (179) and steals (88) and is one of six Huskies shooting over 50.0 percent from the floor (56.0).

The outstanding senior joined Jennifer Rizzotti as the only Huskies to tally 600 career assists and 300 career steals on Feb. 27. She tallied her third consecutive season with at least 150 assists on her way to helping UConn win its third-straight American Athletic Conference Championship.

Tuck, the American Athletic Conference Sportsmanship Award winner and All-Conference First Team member, ranks third on the team with 12.8 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. She became the 41st Husky to join the 1,000-point club on Dec. 28 with 17 points against Maryland. In the AAC tournament she scored 42 points, with 17 rebounds and 12 assists over three games.

Stewart was named The AAC Player of the Year, becoming the first Husky since Kerry Bascom in 1988-91 to win three-straight Player of the Year honors. Stewart has blocked a total of 115 shots this season, which ranks fourth in the nation. Stewart is UConn’s all-time leader in rejections (403) after passing Rebecca Lobo (396).

Stewart leads the team with 19.2 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. She's the only player in NCAA history to reach 300 blocks and 300 assists, while checking in as the seventh NCAA Division I women’s player with 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 200 assists, 200 steals and 200 blocks.

For the first time since facing Dayton on March 30, 2015 in the Elite Eight of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, the three Huskies scored 20 points or more each in UConn’s 97-51 victory over Duquesne in Monday’s second-round game. Jefferson and Tuck tallied 20 points apiece, while Stewart finished with a game-high 21 points.

The Huskies will battle Mississippi State for a spot in the Regional Final on Saturday, March 26 at 11:30 a.m. in Bridgeport, Conn. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN with radio coverage on the UConn/IMG Radio Network.