Women's NCAA

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Name: Chucky Jeffery
College: Colorado
Role/Year: guard/senior
Season's current stats: 13.3ppg (team's leading scorer), 8.2rpg
Previously played (american) football

No, it's a girl, story here.

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This is the Naismith Award Early Season Watch List showing the top-50 players in the Div.I with their stats as at Jan. 26.
Top scorer is Elena Delle Donne (who is back in the game after her health issues), top rebounder Chiney Ogwumike (she's averaging a fine double-double in scoring and rebounding) and top passer is Angel Goodrich, a senior from Kansas. Only Frosh in the list is Breanna Stewart, while just two Soph are ranked, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Elizabeth Williams.

P.S: Chelsea Gray's rebounding figures are obviously wrong, her record is 5.8 rpg.

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Monster performance of Brittney Griner in Baylor's yesterday rout of Texas Tech, 90-60.
Points scored: 40 (on 17/25 FG shooting)
Rebounds: 15 (8 OR)
Blocks: 7
Ast: 4
PF: 1
TO: 0
It was the 4th 40-pt performance in Griner's career and her 51st. double-double.

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Jr PF Chiney Ogwumike reached her 20th double-double of the season leading yesterday Stanford over USC, with 26 pts + 15 reb.
She bettered the single season record reached last year by her older sister Nneka and her career record is now 50 (one less than Nneka) in just 3years.

Sr G/F Kristi Kingma, Washington, scored 35 pts with an amazing 11/17 3-pointers shooting in yesterday's win over Oregon. She set the new Pac-12 record for single game 3-pt scoring.

So PF Temi Fagbenle of Harvard, had 26 pts, 13 reb and 2 blocks with an impressive 11/14 scoring in a loosing effort vs Penn. Fagbenle, a 2011 HS super star, is playing her first season in the NCAA as she sat out her freshman year and has already played for Great Britain Sr NT at the 2012 Olympics.

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Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, Lauren Cara, Trumae Lucas and Kayla Miller in a funny shooting practice.

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Baylor's Britt Griner scored yesterday 25 pts in the game won against UConn, becoming the 8th player in the NCAA history to reach the 3000 mark.

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Chelsea Gray (Duke), one of the most talented juniors in college ball, will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury suffered last Sunday. Gray was averaging 13.1ppg, 5.6apg and 3.7spg and is a true inspiration for Duke play.

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22760&SPID=1846&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=206463895&DB_OEM_ID=4200

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Juniors showing big in the current season:

Alyssa Thomas, forward at Maryland, scored yesterday 30 pts and grabbed 12 rebounds while shooting 11/11 FT, she's leading ACC in rebounding and is second in scoring (Sr teammate Tianna Hawkins ranks first).

Center Kelsey Bone led Texas A&M over Ole Miss with 24 pts and a career-high 17 reb, her 13th double-double of the season.

Guard Maggie Lucas is currently leading Penn State with 19.9ppg with an excellent 49.3%FG from the 3-point lane.

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Yesterday's dazzling performances of some collegiate women:

Senior Skylar Diggins had a triple-double (17 pts and 10 reb & assists), 2nd of her career, in another win of #2 Notre Dame.

Junior Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford set her school record with 24 rebounds (plus 27 points), reaching her 52nd double-double.

Freshman Alexis Jones (18 year-old), a substitute of injured star Chelsea Gray, contributed to Duke's win at Maryland with career-high 15 pts and 9 assists, securing her team the ACC title.

Georgia Tech's Junior Tyaunna Marshall scored a career-best 37 pts (60% FG), the highest of any player this season in ACC.

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Player-of-the-year candidate Britt Griner moved past Maya Moore in career scoring to all-time 4th position with 3045 points.
She's already the first player ever having surpassed the 700 blocked shots mark.

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Baylor's Britt Griner scored yesterday her fifth triple-double (28 pts, 10 reb & 10 bs).

With 13 reb junior Chiney Ogwumike broke her sister Nneka season's rebounding record at Stanford with 389 (vs 376). In the process she also scored 28 pts on 12/17 shooting.
Stanford won over Washington State holding young ace Lia Galdeira (a native of Hawaii) to only 8 points, she's leading the nation's freshmen in scoring with 14.9ppg.

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Conference championships have started and yesterday was another big day for two juniors.

Chiney Ogwumike led Stanford scoring a double-double already at halftime, and finishing with 23 pts + 21 rebounds (this is a tournament record).

Maryland's Alyssia Thomas had the first triple-double in ACC tournament history with 32pts, 13 reb and 10 ast.

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Two Canadians showing big in the various championships tournaments.
Junior Natalie Achonwa of #2 Notre Dame scored a 20-double-double, while senior center Kayla Alexander tied her career high at Syracuse with 34 pts (and 15 reb). Both teams advanced to the semifinals of the final Big East tournament.

Teen freshman Alexis Jones, a sub of injured Chelsea Gray, led Duke to the ACC crown and was named MVP of the tournament. She scored 24 pts in the final game against UNC, the same as soph teammate Elizabeth Williams. Both players were also teammates in the 2011 U19 USA junior NT.

Senior Sugar Rodgers scored a Big East tournament high of 42 pts, breaking a previous record of 1992.

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Notre Dame defeated UConn 61-59 winning for the first time the final Big East Conference tournament. Next season ND will join ACC and other colleges too are expected to split within two years time.
Junior Kayla McBride was elected the tournament's most outstanding player for Notre Dame, that finished undefeated in all conference games.

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Interesting story concerning Britt Griner's blocked shots record.