Tashia Brown has been named the C-USA Player of the Week for the fourth time this season as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon, matching the program record for the most Player of the Week awards by an individual in a single season. A single player has won four Player of the Week awards on three previous occasions for the Lady Toppers: Crystal Kelly did so in both 2006-07 and 2007-08 as a member of the Sun Belt, and Kendall Noble captured four weekly honors during her C-USA Player of the Year campaign in 2015-16. The award is also the fifth C-USA Player of the Week award of Brown’s career; she is one of just seven Lady Toppers to earn five or more awards in the category, joining Kelly (13), Chastity Gooch (7), Noble (6), Tandreia Green (6), ShaRae Mansfield (6) and Tiffany Porter-Talbert (5).
Brown ended her home career in E.A. Diddle Arena in style on Senior Night Friday evening against Charlotte, making a strong run at the school’s single-game scoring record before finishing with a career-best 38 points, tied for the fifth-best mark in program history. Brown knocked down 14 of her 29 field goal attempts, tied for the sixth-best single-game total in school history, and nearly outscored the 49ers by herself in the first half, tallying 24 points to Charlotte’s 26 over the first 20 minutes.
In the midst of one of the greatest individual seasons in Lady Topper Basketball history, the C-USA Player of the Year candidate is averaging 23.3 points per game, good for the sixth-best mark in the nation and the second-best in any season in WKU history, trailing only Crystal Kelly’s 24.1 average in 2006-07. Brown has moved into fourth place in school history with 1,961 career points and is just 39 points shy of becoming the fourth Lady Topper to reach 2,000 points.
(Courtesy WKU Athletics)