UConn F Morgan Tuck (3) powers through two Creighton players for a basket at Gampel Pavilion on November 23, 2014.
From the USBWA:
ST. LOUIS (USBWA) –The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has selected Connecticut forward Morgan Tuck as its Ann Meyers Drysdale Women’s National Player of the Week for games ending the week of Sunday, Dec. 7. The USBWA’s weekly honor will be handed out each Tuesday through Feb. 17 this season.
As the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week, Tuck was nominated for the weekly award, which was chosen by Mel Greenberg, the USBWA coordinator for women’s basketball, from a list of Division I conference players of the week.
Tuck, a 6-2 redshirt sophomore from Boling Brook, Ill., scored 25 points, shooting 12-for-19 from the field in her one game for the Huskies in being the key reason for the win at Notre Dame in the annual Jimmy V women’s game. She also dealt three assists, blocked two shots, and grabbed two steals in having a career effort.
Since the 1987-88 season, the USBWA has named a National Player of the Year. At the Women’s NCAA Final Four in Denver, 2012, the organization announced going forward that the national and weekly player award has been named for Hall of Famer and former UCLA All-American Ann Meyers Drysdale. At the conclusion of the regular season, the USBWA will name finalists for the award, which is voted on by the entire membership of the USBWA. The winner of the 2015 Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Year will be announced and presented at the USBWA’s annual awards event in Tampa, site of the 2015 NCAA Women’s Final Four.
Several other women’s awards are also to be announced later this season associated with more famous names in women’s basketball history. Also in 2012 in Denver, it was also announced that former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, who was the female recipient of the Most Courageous Award for her battle against early onset dementia, Alzheimer type, would have that award named in her honor.
photo credit: ©2014 Ian Bethune
