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NCAA Announces WBB Stats Leaders (4/3/07)
BILLINGS, MT – The NCAA has
compiled the final statistics for the 2006-2007 Division II
women’s basketball season. Montana State-Billings senior
forward Michelle Lieber and sophomore guard Alira Carpenter were
each ranked in the top 100 in the nation in three statistical
categories. As a team, the Yellowjackets received a top 100
ranking in seven categories.
Lieber (Gillette, WY) is the NCAA II field goal percentage
champion with a 68.1 percent average. She led the nation for
most of the season, at one point eclipsing the 70 percent mark
late in the year. Lieber also ranked 45th in the nation for
rebounding average at 9.1 per game and 56th for scoring average
at 17.2 points per game. For her senior season, Lieber was
voted as the Heartland Conference Player of the Year for the
second time, named to the Daktronics All-South Central Region
Second Team, and selected to the Division II Bulletin
All-America Honorable Mention Team.
Carpenter (Lewistown, MT) was ranked in the top 20 in the
country for the NCAA’s two 3-point shooting categories. The
first team all-conference guard ranked sixteenth in the nation
for 3-point field goal percentage at 42.5 percent and nineteenth
for 3-point field goals per game at 2.8. Carpenter also ranked
61st in NCAA Division II for scoring at 16.9 points per game.
In addition to Lieber and
Carpenter, sophomore guard
Kayla McPherson (Glendive, MT) had two top 100 rankings.
The sharp-shooting southpaw ranked 37th nationally for 3-point
field goal percentage at 39.8 percent and 89th in the nation for
3-pointers per game at 2.0. Carpenter and McPherson will enter
their junior campaigns ranked fifth and thirteenth respectively
for career 3-pointers at MSU Billings.
Carpenter and McPherson
combined for 4.8 of the Jackets’ 7.2 made 3-pointers per game in
2006-2007. As a team, MSUB ranked 22nd in NCAA II for made
3-pointers and fourteenth for 3-point field goal percentage at
36.9 percent. The Lady Jackets also ranked 36th nationally for
assists per game (16.1), 42nd for scoring average (72.4), 53rd
for field goal percentage (43.0), 68th for turnovers per game
(17.1), and 77th for scoring margin (+5.9).
MSU Billings finished the
2006-2007 season with a 22-10 overall record. They won the
Heartland Conference regular season title for the
second-straight year and captured the Heartland Conference
Tournament championship. The Lady Jackets qualified for the
NCAA Tournament for the tenth time in the last 14 seasons and
the eleventh time overall. |
