Valley Players Land on Hammon List

Editor: The following is part of a press release from herhoopstats.substack.com.

(Hopewell, NJ) – We are proud to announce the 25-player watch list for the 2024 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award presented by Her Hoop Stats. The Becky Hammon Award was first given out in 2020, with South Dakota’s Ciara Duffy being named the inaugural winner. FGCU’s Kierstan Bell won the award in 2021 and 2022, and Massachusetts’ Sam Breen won the most recent awardin 2023.

This year’s watch list includes representatives from 23 teams and 16 conferences. Gonzaga is the only team with multiple players on the watch list and becomes the first team to ever place three players on a single list. Three conferences – the Mountain West, Missouri Valley, and WCC – placed three players on the watch list.

Drake, Gonzaga, Princeton, and South Dakota have each now placed four different players on at least one watch list since the award’s inception, becoming the only teams to do so. Starr Jacobs becomes the first player to appear on a watch list for multiple teams (Arkansas Pine Bluff this season and UT Arlington last season).

The three MVC players making the Hammon List are Drake’s Katie Dinnebier, Murray State’s Katelyn Young and UNI’s Maya McDermott.  All three were named as Preseason All-MVC first-team selections on Tuesday morning.

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