Boston, Staley Pick Up Naismith Awards

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina girls’s basketball head coach Daybreak Staley and senior Aliyah Boston picked up a pair of award from the Atlanta Tipoff Membership Wednesday afternoon with Staley repeating as Werner Ladder Naismith Girls’s Coach of the Yr and Boston going back-to-back as Naismith Girls’s Defensive Participant of the Yr.

Staley has led this Gamecock group to a 36-0 document and each the SEC Common-Season and Event championships. South Carolina’s 36 wins are a single-season program document, as its present 42-game win streak that dates again to the 2022 NCAA Event. The group has been ranked No. 1 in each nationwide polls each week of the season, simply the third program to try this. This system’s present 38-week run at No. within the AP Ballot is the second-longest streak within the historical past of that ballot. The Gamecocks’ 9 wins over ranked opponents are the second-most within the nation this season and their 13 highway wins are tied for probably the most within the nation. Seven totally different Gamecocks have led the group in scoring at the very least as soon as, together with 5 who got here off the bench to do it. South Carolina is again within the NCAA Last 4 for the fifth time within the final eight NCAA Tournaments, together with every of the final three.

The 2-time Naismith Defensive Participant of the Yr and four-time SEC Defensive Participant of the Yr, Boston continues to dominate on that finish of the courtroom. In accordance with Her Hoop Stats, she is sixth within the nation in participant defensive ranking. Her 2.0 blocks per recreation are third within the SEC total and twenty sixth within the nation, and she or he led the SEC with 2.25 blocks per convention recreation. Boston is the SEC’s lively blocked pictures chief with 329 in her profession, which is tied for sixth in league historical past.

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