A member of the WKU women’s basketball team is in the running for a national honor. Tashia Brown, one of the top candidates for C-USA Player of the Year, has been named one of the 10 finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2018 Cheryl Miller Award, presented annually to the top Division I small forward in the nation.
Brown is the first player in both WKU and C-USA history to be named a finalist for the prestigious award, named after the three-time Naismith Player of the Year and 1995 Hall of Fame inductee. The Lake Park, Ga., native is currently averaging 23.1 points per game, the best mark among all C-USA players and the sixth-best total nationally among Division I players.
Besides Brown, only one other finalist for the award, Gonzaga’s Jill Barta, hails from a non-Power 5 program.
One of the top scoring threats in Lady Topper Basketball history, Brown has already begun to put her name in the discussion as one of the all-time great players for the program. With 1,817 career points, she ranks seventh in school history in scoring and has already surpassed WKU Hall of Famers Clemette Haskins, ShaRae Mansfield and Kami Thomas in that category. The dangerous scorer is also on pace to become just the fourth 2,000-point scorer in WKU history and 10th in the C-USA record book.
(Courtesy WKU Athletics)