Mackenzie Holmes Gets Spot on Wooden Award Late Season Top 20

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana ladies’s basketball senior ahead Mackenzie Holmes has earned a spot on the John R. Picket Award Late Season High 20 offered by Wendy’s, the Los Angeles Athletic Membership introduced Monday night.

The Gorham, Maine native is the group’s main scorer averaging 22 factors per recreation, which ranks seventh within the nation. Holmes additionally averages eight boards per recreation as a robust drive within the put up.

This season, Holmes has scored in double figures all 21 video games with 12 video games reaching 20 or extra factors and a pair with 30 or extra. Within the Hoosiers’ sole lack of the season to Michigan State, Holmes scored a career-high 32 factors. 

Her monstrous numbers continued as she turned the second participant in 20 years alongside Maya Moore to attain three straight 20-point video games versus AP High 25 ranked opponents in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio State.

Due to these performances, she’s now No. 10 on the Hoosiers’ all-time main scorers record with 1,668 profession factors.

The Picket Award Late Season High 20 record is chosen by nationwide faculty basketball specialists based mostly on the gamers’ performances to this point this season. The gamers on the record are thought-about to be the highest candidates for the John R. Picket Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months award offered by Wendy’s in April after the NCAA Event.

There will even be a Picket Award All-American Staff introduced the week of the Elite Eight spherical of the match. 

Up subsequent, Holmes and the Hoosiers will begin their highway recreation stretch at Minnesota on Wednesday adopted up by a visit to West Lafayette to face rival Purdue Sunday.

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