BERKELEY – California junior Courtney Range is among the 50 women's basketball players earning early recognition on the Naismith Trophy Women's Watch List, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday.
The Naismith Trophy recognizes the top men's and women's basketball players of the year. The awards have become the most prestigious national honors in all of college basketball and are administered by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.
After averaging just 7 points per game in her first two seasons, Range's breakout junior campaign has seen her average 13.3 ppg and 6.4 rebounds per game. She led Cal to an upset of then-No. 8 Louisville with a double-double (19 points, 13 rebounds) in opening weekend on her way to her first career Pac-12 Player of the Week honor. The Manteca, Calif. product has scored in double figures in four of Cal's eight games this season.
Range is among the conference's top 20 for field goal percentage (No. 12) scoring (16) and rebounding (16).
Click here to see all 50 players on the Naismith Trophy Women's Watch List.
2015-16 TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Season, group and single-game tickets for the 2015-16 women's basketball season are now on sale. Season tickets start as low as $27 ($1.59 per game, 17 games) for youth and seniors and $84 ($4.94 per game, 17 games) for adult general admission tickets, while single-game tickets are available starting at $3 for youth and seniors and $8 for adults. For more information, call the Gold Standard Sales and Service line at (800) GO BEARS (462-3277) or visit the CalBears.com ticket page.
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Cal's one-of-a-kind multimedia fan site, ThisIsCalBasketball.com, is back for its fifth season and once again features an unprecedented look into the inner workings of the personalities behind the Cal women's basketball's roster. Visitors to ThisIsCalBasketball.com can get an in-depth look at the people behind the jerseys, from action and portrait photos to bio videos told in their teammates' own words. New to the site this year is The Challenge, a six-part reality show-style miniseries based on the Bears' Amazing Race-esque hunt around campus.
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