Women's NCAA

[carlo]

In the NCAA Official Site there's an article titled Top-scoring freshmen, which shows twenty freshmen players leading their respective teams in scoring.
Though interesting, imo this is misleading in some ways, as several players belong to 2nd-tier colleges. Among good-level teams, worth to be mentioned are Diamond DeShields (UNC), Kelsey Plum (Wash), Aerial Powers (Mich St), Jessica Jackson (Ark), Leticia Romero (Kans St), Nia Coffey (Northw'rn) and few others.
But there's another point: excellent freshmen players like f.i. Kaela Davis, who is second in scoring at Geo Tech with 18.2ppg are af course not mentioned.
Btw, the national top-scoring freshman is currently Oregon's Chrishae Rowe with 22.3ppg, after her yesterday's (losing) effort of 39 pts, her career-high.

[carlo]

A fine surprise for Baylor comes from freshman fw Nina Davis, who is second in team's scoring with 13.8 ppg (after PoY candidate Odyssey Sims) and first in rpg (8.8). In yesterday win over Oklahoma she was 9/11 in FG and collected 14 reb.
A former Parade All-American, Davis was just ranked #52 in 2013 ESPN class.

[carlo]

Rutgers' guard Tyler Scaife is another freshman currently 2nd in her team's scoring with 13.4 ppg (she's preceeded by soph Kahleah Copper with 15.4). She has recently been named American Athletic Conference Rookie of the week for the third time.
Scaife was a highly rated 2013-class player (#9 overall by ESPN), who played in the McDonald's All-American game and was elected MVP at the HS All-America Game of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.

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[carlo]

Young Belgian PG Hind Ben Abdelkader (Fr at California) has left USA to return to Belgium and will likely play next Sunday for her former home team.
The 2011 U16 Fiba Europe MVP averaged just 4.9 ppg at Berkeley and probably never fitted in her new team.

[carlo]

Terrible freshmen Diamond DeShields and Allisha Gray score 30 and 24 pts to lead visitor UNC over Duke 89-78.
#3 Duke will drop several places after this new setback.
Among the top ranked teams just UConn and Notre Dame are unbeaten so far.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:10434325

[carlo]

PoY candidate Odyssey Sims scored 30+ points for the 11th time this season in yesterday's win of Baylor over Texas Tech.
She's the current national scoring leader with 30.2ppg.

[carlo]

Sr Fw Natasha Howard set a school record yesterday when she scored 40 pts in Florida State's triumph at Syracuse 83-59.
This is also the scoring record for ACC this season.
Howard was the overall #2 HS player in 2010 and was named co-MVP at the McDonald's All-American game that year.

[carlo]

Freshman Kaela Davis led Georgia Tech in a win over Virginia (95-76) with 27 pts on 10/19 FG shooting (5/9 threes) but with a negative record of 11 turnovers.

Another freshman, Kelsey Plum of Washington scored yesterday 25 pts on 10/16 FG shooting.

Plum currently leads UW in scoring with 20 ppg, whilst Davis is #2 at GaTech with 18.3.

[carlo]

Diamond DeShields unstoppable with 38 pts (and 5 threes) in UNC win at North Carolina State 88-82.

[carlo]

Overcoming injury-related adversities #7 Duke routed #8 Maryland 84-63 at home, with soph guard Alexis Jones scoring a career-high 5 threes.
Duke lost All-Am candidate senior guard Chelsea Gray to injury in January, while top 2013 HS prospect Rebecca Greenwell has still not played a single college game and will likely redshirt this season. Redshirt-freshman Amber Henson, after missing two collegiate seasons plays sparingly as she's still ailing from a 2012 knee surgery.
Duke has a tough conference schedule and will next meet ranked North Carolina State, Notre Dame and North Carolina.

[carlo]

High-scoring game between Washington and Oregon in Seattle.
Home team prevailed 108-100 with 38 pts by freshman Kelsey Plum. The Ducks were led by soph Jillian Alleyne with 30 pts (and 22 reb).

[carlo]

Another devastating injury for Duke, soph starting guard Alexis Jones is out for the season with torn ACL.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10513809/duke-blue-devils-lose-alexis-jones-season-due-torn-acl

[carlo]

Undefeated UConn and Notre Dame place 5 players within the 10 semifinalists for the 2014 Women's National Trophy.

In yesterday win of California vs Washington State 75-68, Junior F/C Reshanda Gray scored career-high 43 pts on 17/20 FG shooting and grabbed 16 reb, her 7th double-double of the season. Gray is a former US Basketball member having played in the 2010 U18 Fiba Americas and 2013 WUG winning teams.

[carlo]

Sophomore guard Sydney Moss scored a DivIII-record 63 pts. She currently leads DivIII in scoring average.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10536166/sydney-moss-daughter-randy-moss-sets-d-iii-record-63-points

As a HS senior she was ranked #50 nationally by ESPN in 2012 and was recruited by University of Florida.

[carlo]

Sr Chiney Ogwumike closed her final regular season at Stanford with a career-high 37 pts in a win against Wash State 84-64. Adding 12 reb she recorded her 22nd double-double on 30 games played this season.
She currently ranks 3rd in national scoring with 27 ppg and 8th in rpg with 12, with 62.2% FG shooting average.
Chiney will enter Pac-12 tournament 50 pts away from breaking Candice Wiggins' all-time scoring record.