I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I got some much needed R & R and ate way too much turkey. With all of the distractions, I kind of fell behind on the blog. Hopefully you were distracted as well and didn’t notice.
Just in time to capture some amazing Big Sky performances in week three of the season, I am happy to present the inaugural Big Sky Big Timer, my attempt at picking a player of the week. While I was busy gorging myself and avoiding family members, six of the Sky’s nine teams were celebrating their holidays with tournaments around the country. It was a tough decision, but I think one performance stood out.
Congratulations this week to Tonya Schnibbe of Weber State. Schnibbe, led the Wildcats to a third place finish in the University of Pittsburgh Thanksgiving tournament with 21 points and a school record 17 assists in an overtime win against Elon in the consolation final. She was 8-13 from the floor and added 2 steals. Against Youngstown State in the first game of the tournament, Schnibbe scored 11 points and dished out 9 assists. The junior also notched 10 points and 9 assists in Tuesday's win over NAIA Westminster College. Schnibbe’s solid work at point guard is one of the main reasons that Weber State is off to a surprising 3-2 start. Schnibbe’s 17 assists are 2 away from the Big Sky single game record set by Claire Faucher last season.
Honorable Mention Big Timers
Caitlyn Anderson (WSU)- scored a career high 28 points and notched 17 rebounds in OT win vs Elon in the Pittsburgh tournament. She was 4-6 for long range, including a three that put Weber ahead for good in OT. In the loss to Youngstown State, Anderson had 17 points and 8 rebounds. On Tuesday, Anderson scored a game high 24 points over Westminster College.
Oana Iacovita (ISU) -recorded back-to-back double-doubles with 18 points and 10 rebounds against Loyola Marymount and 13 points and 14 rebounds against North Dakota State at the Loyola Marymount Tournament. She hit 54% of her shots on the weekend.
Jenny Heringer (MSU)- scored 20 points in a win over Western Carolina, going 5-9 from behind the arc, including 3-4 in a 3 minute span as MSU took over the lead halfway through the second half. She added 8 rebounds and 3 assists.
Mandy Morales (UM)- averaged 17.3ppg in 3 games in Cancun. Hit game winner with 0.7 seconds left in OT to give UM the win over Illinois. She led the Griz in scoring in losses to #14 Maryland and South Dakota State.
Anne Phippard (MSU)- scored a career high 20 points in the Cats’ win over Western Carolina. She was 8-14 in her first start of the year and is now shooting a scorching 54% on the season. She also dished out 5 assists in the game.
Shout Outs
Kyla Evans (EWU)- 16 points, 4-5 from the arc in loss to Georgia. Only 1-7 in upset of UNLV.
Sade Cunningham (NAU)- 11 points, 5 steals, 4 assists, 4-9 in loss to Bradley, 14 points, 5 assists in loss to North Dakota.
Whitley Cox (UNC)- 22 points (18 in second half) in loss to San Fransisco, 12 points in win over Wazzu, but had 9 turnovers.
Atty Boyer (SAC)- 10 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists in loss to Portland, 15 points, 6 rebounds vs San Jose State.
Claire Faucher (PSU)- 10 points, 6 rebounds, 6 steals, 9 assists in win over Portland.
Kelsey Kahle (PSU)- 22 points in win over Portland.
4 comments:
Well done TW Courtside!!! It is obvious that you put in a ton of research to make this selection. Well done and keep up the good work!
Alright, Scanson led me here. Schnibbe? Schnibbe? There's no Schnibbe in basketball! Impressive versus Elon- a cosmetics manufacturer, but what about Westminster? Only 10-9 against a dog show? Besides, the assists must have been produced from the dude that did it at the Utah Jazz games all those years. Anyway, just giving you a hard time. Nice job and I look forward for more TW Courtside.
Ahh! I spent most of last night defending my pick to Scanson, now you too SID?! Where's the love? :)
Just in from the Big Sky office...Jenny Heringer and Anderson from Weeeeburrr State named BSC POWs. Hmmmm.
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