CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After leading
the UAlbany women’s basketball team to a 2-0 week, which also
capped off a perfect 16-0 America East slate, center Megan Craig and
forward Shereesha Richards swept the final America East weekly awards for the
2012-13 season. It is just the seventh unbeaten season in America
East history - and the first since the 2008-09 season.
Craig wraps up the season the same
way she started, as she was the first
Player of the Week of the season, and earned her
second for the final week of the season, as she averaged
16.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game. She shot 66.7
percent from the floor and 71.4 percent from the free throw line in wins
over New Hampshire and Stony Brook. Craig was third in the conference in scoring
for the week, second in field goal percentage and first in blocks. She led the
Great Danes back from their largest
halftime deficit of the season at New Hampshire, scoring 20 points on 9-of-14
shooting while adding five rebounds, one steal and one block. She followed that
with 13 points of 5-of-7 shooting along with three blocks in UAlbany’s
season-finale win over Stony Brook on Saturday.
Richards was named the
league's Rookie of the Week for a
conference-best seventh time
after averaging 11.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. She
shot a conference-best 71.4 percent from the floor, while also recording two
steals in each game. In a win on the road at New Hampshire, Richards was just
short of a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds, shooting 4-of-6 from
the floor. In the regular-season finale against Stony Brook at home, the rookie
totaled 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting, with five rebounds, and two steals.
Craig
and Richards, along with the
rest of the Great Danes, will look ahead to the weekend, as UAlbany hosts the
2013 America East Conference Championship
Tournament.
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