INDIANAPOLIS (USBWA) – For the season's ninth
honorees for games ending Sunday, January 30, the U.S. Basketball
Writers Association Ann Meyers Drysdale Women's National Player
of the Week goes to Michigan forward Naz Hillmon,
the organization's Tamika Catchings women's freshman player honor
goes to DePaul forward Aneesah Morrow, and the
USBWA women's team citation goes to Drexel.
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Hillmon, a 6-2 senior forward from Cleveland, Ohio, and past
USBWA honoree, averaged 26 points, 12 rebounds, and shot 79 percent
from the field to lead Michigan to wins against Purdue (79-66) and then-No.
22 Ohio State (77-58). Not only did the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year
notch her second 30-point double-double of the season against the
Boilermakers with 32 points and 12 rebounds, but she followed up
that performance with 20 points and 12 boards in a road win over
the Buckeyes earning her third weekly conference honor of the season.
Last week, she also became the Michigan career rebounding leader (935) in
the win over Ohio State, while leading the Wolverines to their first
season sweep of their arch-rival since the 2010-11 season. Though
the week considered ended Sunday, she added 21 points and five
rebounds in Michigan's 65-50 win over No. 5 Indiana on Monday and earlier
in the day coach Kim Barnes Arico's team moved to its highest ever
Associated Press ranking at No. 6.
Morrow, a 6-1 forward from Chicago, Ill., honored for the second
time this season, averaged 24.7 points and 19.7 rebounds in a 2-1
week for DePaul, and she also destroyed the Big East single-game
freshman (20) and standard (25) record for rebounds with 27 in
the 85-65 win at Seton Hall on Sunday. Both previous league records dated
back to the 1980s.
The nation's leading rebounder (13.4) tallied three double-doubles
last week, including a 30-point, 14-rebound outing in a last-second
loss to No. 10 UConn last Wednesday. The freshman became only the fourth player
in history to tally 30 points and double-digit rebounds against
the Huskies. The other three were Notre Dame's Jackie Young, Tennessee's
Candace Parker, and Louisville's Angel McCoughtry. On Monday, she
became the first Big East player to win three combo weekly player/freshman
honors in the same season and, with her 10th conference frosh award,
ties Villanova's Maddy Siegrist and former UConn great Maya Moore
for most in Big East history.
Drexel (16-2) kept the nation's second longest win streak alive
at 13, rallying from a 10-point deficit to win at Elon and then
taking a double overtime triumph at William & Mary in which
Keishana Washington scored 40 points and earned her second straight
Colonial Athletic Association player of the week honor for the reigning
conference champions.
Each week awards go to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Women's national
player, the organization's Tamika Catchings freshman player, and
the USBWA's women's national team of the week. The pool of candidates
is drawn from the weekly conference citations as well as at-large
additions involving an expanded governing panel focusing on women's
basketball, headed by vice-president Mel Greenberg.
Since the 1987-88 season, the USBWA has named a women's National
Player of the Year. For the 2012-13 season, the national and weekly
player award became named for Hall of Famer and former UCLA All-American
Ann Meyers Drysdale while this is the first season the national
and weekly freshman award is being given in the name of former Tennessee
all-American Tamika Catchings.
At the conclusion of the regular season, the USBWA will name
finalists for both individual awards, which is voted on by the entire
membership of the USBWA.
The winners of the 2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of
the Year and Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Year will
be announced and presented at the USBWA's annual awards event on
site at the 2022 NCAA Women's Final Four in Minneapolis.
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association was
formed in 1956 at the urging of then-NCAA Executive Director Walter
Byers. With some 900 members worldwide, it is one of the most influential
organizations in college basketball. It has selected a women's All-America
team since the 1996-97 season. For more information on the USBWA
and its award programs, contact executive director Malcolm Moran
at 814-574-1485.
2021-22 USBWA Women's Weekly Honors •
Week ending Dec. 5: Teisha Hyman, Syracuse (National); Shayeann Day-Wilson, Duke
(Freshman); Duke (Team) • Week ending Dec.
12: Maddy Siegrist, Villanova (National); Aneesah Morrow, DePaul (Freshman); Georgia
Tech (Team) • Week ending Dec. 19: Haley Jones,
Stanford (National); Laila Phelia, Michigan (Freshman); Michigan (Team) •
Week ending Dec. 26: Destanni Henderson, South Carolina
(National); Rori Harmon, Texas (Freshman); South Carolina (Team) •
Week ending Jan. 2: Ayoka Lee, Kansas State (National);
Kelbie Washington, Oklahoma (Freshman); Missouri (Team) •
Week ending Jan. 9: Jaylyn Sherrod, Colorado (National);
Alexis Markowski, Nebraska (Freshman); Colorado (Team) •
Week ending Jan. 16: Caitlin Clark, Iowa (National);
Aaliyah Collins, Chicago State (Freshman); Oklahoma and Oregon (Team) •
Week ending Jan. 23: Ayoka Lee, Kansas State (National);
Alberte Rimdal, Florida (Freshman); Ole Miss (Team) •
Week ending Jan. 30: Naz Hillmon, Michigan (National);
Aneesah Morrow, DePaul (Freshman); Drexel (Team) •
Week ending Feb. 6: Jasmine Dickey, Delaware (National);
Azzi Fudd, UConn (Freshman); Michigan (Team) •
Week ending Feb. 13: Maddy Siegrist, Villanova (National);
Aneesah Morrow, DePaul (Freshman); Villanova (Team) •
Week ending Feb. 20: Aliyah Boston, South Carolina (National);
Aneesah Morrow, DePaul (Freshman); North Carolina (Team) •
Week ending Feb. 27: Caitlin Clark, Iowa (National);
Aneesah Morrow, DePaul (Freshman); Stanford (Team) •
Week ending March 6: Dre'Una Edwards, Kentucky (National);
Kaitlyn Chen, Princeton (Freshman); Kentucky (Team)
• All-time USBWA Women's
National Weekly Honors (Since 2011-12)
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