UAlbany Sweeps Final America East Weekly Women's Basketball Awards of the Season
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After
leading the UAlbany women's basketball team to a 2-0 week, which also capped off a
perfect 16-0 America East slate, center Megan Craig and forward
Shereesha Richards swept the final America East weekly awards for the 2012-13
season. It is just the seventh unbeaten season in America East history - and the first since the 2008-09 season.
Craig wraps up the season the same way she started, as she was the first Player of the Week of the season, and earned her second for the final week of the season, as she averaged 16.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per
game. She shot 66.7 percent from the floor and 71.4 percent from the free
throw line in wins over New Hampshire and Stony Brook. Craig was third in the conference in scoring for
the week, second in field goal percentage and first in blocks. She led the Great Danes
back from their largest halftime deficit of the season at New Hampshire,
scoring 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting while adding five rebounds, one steal and
one block. She followed that with 13 points of 5-of-7 shooting along with three
blocks in UAlbany's season-finale win over Stony Brook on Saturday.
Richards was named the league's Rookie of the Week for a conference-best seventh time after averaging 11.0 points and 7.0 rebounds
per game. She shot a conference-best 71.4 percent from the floor, while also
recording two steals in each game. In a win on the road at New Hampshire,
Richards was just short of a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds,
shooting 4-of-6 from the floor. In the regular-season finale against Stony
Brook at home, the rookie totaled 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting, with five rebounds,
and two steals.
Craig and Richards, along with the rest of the Great Danes, will look ahead to the weekend, as UAlbany hosts the 2013 America East Conference Championship Tournament.
