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Hsu Named to USBWA All-America, National Player of the Year Watch List
2/27/2024 5:54:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Ranks among the NCAA elite in scoring and 3-pointers
INDIANAPOLIS – Columbia University senior Abbey Hsu has been selected as one of 40 standout women's college basketball players for the 2023-24 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and All-America Watch List. Members of the United States Basketball Writers Assocation's board of directors chose the players that will be considered as contenders for the National Player of the Year. Those players were announced on Tuesday.
The 40 honored players for Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and All-America consideration will be placed on the association's annual awards ballot, which will be distributed to members today. The ballot also includes the Tamika Catchings National Freshman Player of the Year Award, the Women's National Coach of the Year Award and the 15-woman USBWA All-America Team. Members will have until Sunday, March 10 to vote for all of the honors that are based on regular-season performance. Write-ins will be accepted on the ballot as well.
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award winner is to be announced at the NCAA Women's Final Four in Cleveland, from April 7-9. The formal presentation of the trophy will follow at the annual USBWA Awards Luncheon hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
Click here to view the complete All-America Watch List.
Averaging 20.8 points per game on the season, Hsu ranks No. 15 in the NCAA in scoring. She is also eighth in 3-pointers made per game (3.00) and top 20 in total threes (72). Hsu leads the Ivies in all of those categories, as well as 3-point percentage (.398), total points (500) and total field goals (179). She is also No. 4 in the Ivy League in rebounding (7.0), top 10 in shooting percentage (.450), top 10 in total blocks (14) and No. 12 in total steals (32).
Named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's College Player of the Year Award Midseason Watch List, Hsu now has 2,015 career points. She is within 100 of third place in Ivy League history (2,109), which belongs to Harvard's Hana Peljto (2000-04). Hsu averages 3.05 made threes per game in her career and is one of only two active players in the country who average at least 3.00 or more. The other is Iowa's Caitlin Clark (3.86).
ABOUT THE ANN MEYERS DRYSDALE AWARD
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award is presented annually to the women's national player of the year by the USBWA. Named for the legendary UCLA guard, the award was first presented in the 1987-88 season and formally named in Meyers Drysdale's honor in the 2011-12 season. Ann Meyers Drysdale played at UCLA from 1974-78, which pre-dates the USBWA All-America selections. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
ABOUT THE UNITED STATES BASKETBALL WRITERS ASSOCIATION
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association was formed in 1956 at the urging of then-NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers. With some 900 members worldwide, it is one of the most influential organizations in college basketball. It has selected a women's All-America team since the 1996-97 season. For more information on the USBWA and its award programs, contact executive director Malcolm Moran at 814-574-1485.
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The 40 honored players for Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and All-America consideration will be placed on the association's annual awards ballot, which will be distributed to members today. The ballot also includes the Tamika Catchings National Freshman Player of the Year Award, the Women's National Coach of the Year Award and the 15-woman USBWA All-America Team. Members will have until Sunday, March 10 to vote for all of the honors that are based on regular-season performance. Write-ins will be accepted on the ballot as well.
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award winner is to be announced at the NCAA Women's Final Four in Cleveland, from April 7-9. The formal presentation of the trophy will follow at the annual USBWA Awards Luncheon hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
Click here to view the complete All-America Watch List.
Averaging 20.8 points per game on the season, Hsu ranks No. 15 in the NCAA in scoring. She is also eighth in 3-pointers made per game (3.00) and top 20 in total threes (72). Hsu leads the Ivies in all of those categories, as well as 3-point percentage (.398), total points (500) and total field goals (179). She is also No. 4 in the Ivy League in rebounding (7.0), top 10 in shooting percentage (.450), top 10 in total blocks (14) and No. 12 in total steals (32).
Named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's College Player of the Year Award Midseason Watch List, Hsu now has 2,015 career points. She is within 100 of third place in Ivy League history (2,109), which belongs to Harvard's Hana Peljto (2000-04). Hsu averages 3.05 made threes per game in her career and is one of only two active players in the country who average at least 3.00 or more. The other is Iowa's Caitlin Clark (3.86).
ABOUT THE ANN MEYERS DRYSDALE AWARD
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award is presented annually to the women's national player of the year by the USBWA. Named for the legendary UCLA guard, the award was first presented in the 1987-88 season and formally named in Meyers Drysdale's honor in the 2011-12 season. Ann Meyers Drysdale played at UCLA from 1974-78, which pre-dates the USBWA All-America selections. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
ABOUT THE UNITED STATES BASKETBALL WRITERS ASSOCIATION
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association was formed in 1956 at the urging of then-NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers. With some 900 members worldwide, it is one of the most influential organizations in college basketball. It has selected a women's All-America team since the 1996-97 season. For more information on the USBWA and its award programs, contact executive director Malcolm Moran at 814-574-1485.
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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