Junior point guard Sarah Miles garnered the Big East’s
Defensive Player of the Year award and was named to the conference’s
all-second team. Junior guard Liz Repella was named to the all-Big East
first team, junior guard/forward Korinne Campbell garnered all-Big East
honorable mention accolades and center Asya Bussie earned unanimous
all-Big East freshman team honors.
Miles, a San Antonio native, is the first West Virginia player to grab
the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award, with WVU becoming just
the sixth team to have a player earn the honor in the 14-year history of
the award. It is the fifth major award given to a Mountaineer since WVU
joined the league in 1995-96. Miles led the BIG EAST in steals (84) and
assists (182) during the regular season.
Repella, a Steubenville, Ohio, native, becomes the third Mountaineer in
school history to be named to the all-BIG EAST first team joining Meg Bulger (2005) and Olayinka Sanni (2007, 2008). Repella led the team in
scoring, averaging 14.1 points per contest. She also tallied seven
20-point games on the year.
Campbell, a Princeton, N.J., native, earned honorable mention honors
after finishing second on the team in scoring (11.3) and first in
rebounding (7.6). She led the team with six double-doubles and was
second on the team behind Repella with 21 double-figure scoring
efforts.
Bussie, a Randallstown, Md., native, becomes the fifth Mountaineer
named to the all-freshman team and first since Bulger in 2004. Bussie
leads the Big East in blocks per game at 2.1 per contest and her 64
blocks marked the most by a Mountaineer in a single season since 1986.
She is third on the team in scoring (10.5) and fourth in rebounding
(5.6). She also led the squad with 92 offensive rebounds.
The Mountaineers (26-4, 13-3) have completed their season and earned a
double-bye as a No. 2 seed in the Big East Championships that begin this
weekend in Hartford, Conn., at the XL Center. WVU will play either No. 7
DePaul, No. 10 Marquette or No. 15 Villanova in the quarterfinals on
Sunday, March 7, at 6 p.m. The contest will air on ESPNU with Justin
Kutcher and former Mountaineer All-American MegBulger on the call.
The game will also be broadcast on MSN-affiliated radio stations
with play-by-play announcer Travis Jones and color analyst Jay Jacobs on
the call.
Live stats will be available at BigEast.org