NC State’s Aziaha James leads latest women’s basketball starting five

These women’s basketball players published big performances and were named this week at NCAA.com.

Ashley Hawkins, Gardner-Webb

Gardner-Webb Senior Guard Ashley Hawkins led Bulldogs to a couple of victory last week and average 29.0 points per game when Gardner-Webb pulled his winning lane to three straight.

In two important games, Hawkins may have played her best season. February 5 against UNC Asheville, The Long Beach, California, a native ended with 28 points on shooting 7 out of 12, crushed five assists and downloaded three rebounds while the 12-Z-13 on line like Gardner -Webb gouredged 79-72 . In winning Hawkins scored the last 14 points in a row for Bulldogs.

On the road in Charleston Southern on Saturday afternoon, Hawkins scored 30 points for shooting 11 from 21 years, released five more assists and withdrew three more rebounds when the Bulldogs completed the third direct victory, 64-51.

Hawkins continues to lead the Big South Conference in minutes of feature, scoring and assistance, average 19.2 points per game next to 5.0 assists per game, seeing the court for 36.1 minutes per competition.

Gardner-Webb, a total of 10-13 and 7-4 in Big South Play, will return to action on February 15, when the Bulldogs visit USC Upstate.

Aziaha James, NC State

Aziaha James was helpful in the NC State’s back last week over the top two of the top 25 rivals, on average 29.0 points per game at 64.9 % shooting, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.

James scored a 36-high career on just 19 shots (15 out of 19 of the field) against No. 10 Duke, while 27 of these points in the second half of the victory of 89-83 earned 27 of these points. She added six rebounds and one block and stolen. Her 36 points have been most for the NC state players since 1998 (Chasity Melvin vs. Louisiana Tech) and fifth most scored in the play by the Atlantic Coast Conference player this season. These 36 points were also equal to or this season was more equal to the scores of the team in four ACC games.

She watched it with her 11th 20-point game season with 22 points and on Sunday shot 9-Z-18 from the field in 97-74 victories in state No. 22 Florida. James added five rebounds, two assists and three theft.

This season, James average 18.0 points per game for 46.8 percentage shooting (159 out of 340) and 32.9 percent (47 out of 143) out of 3 points with 4.8 rebounds and 2.7 assistance per game. Its diameter of the score is the fifth best in ACC and is No. 20 on the list of all time in the state of NC with 1,375 career points.

Wolfpack, 19-4 and 11-1 in ACC, will be another Miami host (FL) 13 February.

Grace Larkins, South Dakota

Senior Guardian South Dakota Grace Larkins interrupted her own school record and in this process record Summit League for points in the game on Saturday in North Dakota scored 47 points for shooting 17 out of 27 and added 11 points in free throw line to break her school A record of 45 points in one game.

South Dakota came shortly against the state of Northern Dakota, 75-65 despite Larkins’ efforts. 47 points were most scored by the summit League player in one game because the previous record was 46.

Larkins also recorded double-double February against Oral Roberts, gained 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in failure 88-62.

On this week, Larkins on average on 30 points and 9.5 rebounds, and now the third in the division and scoring 24.8 points per game. Larkins closes in several career scoring and needs only 33 points to become the third player who becomes 2,000 career points in coyote uniform, 89 points to become the second in South Dakota’s history in scoring and 175 points to take became the leadership of all time. Sagittarius in the history of the school.

Larkins and The Coyotes, a total of 10-15 and 4-7 in the Summit, five games remain on their regular seasonal schedule, starting on February 12 at home against Kansas City.

Jakoriah Long, Tarleton State

Tarleton State Senior Guard Jakoriah Long scored 25 points last week in a back-to-back game when Texans stretched his winning lane for five direct games.

Over two wins against Seattle University and Utah Valley, long connected at 13 3-point goals, shoot 59.1 percent of the 3-point range and 53.6% of the floor.

Long Set and Tarleton State Division and Era Single Game Record program with seven 3-proofers in 77-46 victories over Seattle 6 February. On Saturday, the Encore had a performance against Utah Valley, hit six 3-pointers, and scored 25 points to lead Texans to win 68-61 from the arrival of Wolverines.

Long, who has now published three direct games by 20 or more points and became the first Texan in the era of Division I, who published two consecutive 25-point games. She is the first Texan since the 2013-14 season to publish the Back-to-Back with at least 25 points (Kiara Wright, February 5, 2014).

Tarleton State, a total of 16-9 and 7-3 at a western athletic conference, will go on the road this week and plays at the Grand Canyon 13 February. Grand Canyon is currently in the first place in the WAC ranking and won votes in the TOP 25 National Voting on Monday.

Laura Ziegler, Saint Joseph’s

Saint Joseph’s Junior Laura Ziegler made a 43 -points program against Loyole Chicago and average 35.0 points for the game when Hawks led last week to win.

Ziegler led Hawks to victory over Saint Louis and Loyola Chicago, recorded the dominant performance of his back, on 35.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 assistance per game, while shooting 61.2% of the field in the week.
The attacker week was emphasized by the best 43-point explosion against Loyole Chicago, breaking the record of Dale Hodges’ record 42 points against Temple (January 31, 1990), which cost 35 years. Ziegler ended 65.4 percent of the field after joining 17 of his 26 attempts, while joining all six attempts to win 83-45. The 43-point performance was the fourth in the history of the program that Hawk scored at least 40 points in the game, Hodges scored all three previous games. The output of Ziegler also ended up as the second scored player of the Atlantic 10 conference, most since 1987.

Ziegler opened its week 5 February with a 27-point, ten-time effort to collect the 17th double-double season in 69-49 victories over St. Louis. Ziegler added four assists, three blocks and theft in victory over Billikens.

Herlev, a Danish native was recently appointed to the list of USBWA players Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Year. Ziegler leads Hawks in scoring (18,7), reflection (11,6), assistance (4.3) and blocks (1.1) per game.

Saint Joseph’s, a total of 20-4 and 11-2 in Atlantic 10 Play, will return to action 13 February in Richmond.