App State women's basketball graduate student Lainey Gosnell (Demorest, Ga./Habersham Central) was named to the 2020-21 Academic All-America Division I women's
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May 7, 2021 | 5:48 AM
BROOKINGS – South Dakota State basketball players Myah Selland and Matt Dentlinger have been named to their respective Academic All-District 6 teams by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Selland, a junior from Letcher, has a 3.97 grade point average in exercise science and community and public health. She led the Summit League in scoring at 19.2 points per game and was named Summit League Player of the Year.
Dentlinger, a senior from Arcadia, Iowa, receives this honor for the second straight season. All through his time at SDSU, Dentlinger has maintained a 4.0 GPA as a mechanical engineering major. Dentlinger shot 63 percent from the floor this past season while averaging 10.2 points per game.
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The Big Dance is here and women’s college basketball has had more depth and parity this year than perhaps any other season in recent memory. Here’s a look why each of the Top 8 teams has a shot at a national title, plus a look at the strongest and weakest teams in the 3 to 10-seed range. Stay tuned for our mid-major preview, which will take a look at the 11 through 16-seeds later in the week.
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Key players: Haley Jones, Kiana Williams, Lexie Hull, Cameron Brink, Fran Belibi
The Cardinal are steady and Williams has turned it up a notch lately she had 26 points in the Pac-12 championship win over UCLA. Stanford’s only losses this season were to Colorado and UCLA back-to-back and it hasn’t lost since Jan. 22. Jones hasn’t wowed us with her numbers, but she is as versatile and talented as any other sophomore in the country. The Cardinal lack one truly dominant post player, but Brink, a 6-foot-4 freshman forward, has become a start
Mar. 10—BROOKINGS — South Dakota State University's Myah Selland was named a finalist for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year award. The Letcher native is one of five finalists, including University of South Dakota's Hannah Sjerven, Maine's Blanca Millan, Florida Gulf Coast's Kierstan Bell and Cincinnati's Iimar'i Thomas. The winner will be announced in late March. The .
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