Senior Tashia Brown has been named a 2017-18 Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American as announced by the organization on Monday morning, becoming only the fifth Lady Topper in school history to achieve that prestigious feat. Brown, the 2018 C-USA Player of the Year, joins former Lady Toppers Gwen Doyle (1995), Leslie Johnson (1998), Crystal Kelly (2007) and Chastity Gooch (2015) to earn an Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America nod. The senior is the fourth player to pick up All-America honors under Michelle Clark-Heard: Gooch earned honorable mention accolades from the WBCA (2014 and 2015) and AP (2015), Alexis Govan was an honorable mention recipient from the WBCA (2015) and Kendall Noble received a Third Team CoSIDA Academic All-America nod in 2016.
A two-time First Team All-C-USA selection, Brown put together one of the top individual seasons in school history. The Lake Park, Ga., native averaged 22.5 points per game, the best among all C-USA players and eighth nationally among Division I players in the category. Brown scored 742 total points during the 2017-18 campaign, the third-most in a single season by a Lady Topper; in her 1,186 minutes on the court this season, Brown averaged one point every 96 seconds.
Brown reached double figures in scoring in all 33 games this season while tallying 20 or more points in 23 of those contests and 30 or more in another four. The senior fired her career-best single-game mark of 38 points on Senior Night against Charlotte on Feb. 23, closing her career inside E.A. Diddle Arena with a 53-4 home record over the last four seasons.
In addition to her single-season totals, Brown also joined historic company as just the fourth 2,000-point scorer in Lady Topper Basketball history. The senior finished her collegiate career on The Hill with 2,073 points, the third-best mark in program history, and joined Crystal Kelly, Lillie Mason and Tiffany Porter-Talbert as the only Lady Toppers to break the 2,000-point mark.
Brown is the school record holder with 1,859 attempted career field goals and the single-season record of 647 attempted field goals this year. Her 782 made field goals in her career rank fourth in program history, and Brown also ranks among the top 10 in program history in both made (454, fifth) and attempted (626, sixth) free throws.
(Courtesy WKU Athletics)