Maryland women’s basketball seniors Brionna Jones and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough made the ESPNW All-America second team on Friday.
The Terps are two of the 10 players recognized by ESPNW.
Jones, a center, averaged a double-double this season with 19.8 points and 10.8 rebounds. After leading the nation in shooting percentage as a junior, she is again atop the country this year, making 69.8 percent of her field goals. She totaled 73 points and 34 rebounds in Maryland’s three Big Ten tournament games last weekend, earning Most Outstanding Player recognition.
Walker-Kimbrough, a guard, scored 18.6 points and dished 3.7 assists per game this season. She shot 44.7 percent from three-point range, ranking eighth in the country, and is the most accurate three-point shooter in Maryland history for her career. Walker-Kimbrough was a third-team ESPNW All-American last season.
Jones is one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year, and is alongside Walker-Kimbrough on the 15-player Wooden Award National Ballot, also awarded to the best player in the country.
Three UConn players are on ESPNW’s First Team. Ohio State guard Kelsey Mitchell, a second-teamer, is the only other Big Ten player on the list.
Maryland went 30-2 this season, shared the Big Ten regular-season title with the Buckeyes and won the conference tournament last weekend.
The NCAA Tournament bracket will be released Monday night. ESPN Bracketologist Charlie Creme’s latest projection has the Terps as the No. 2 seed in the Lexington, Kentucky, region.
