Tuesday, January 22, 2008

JASMINE GUNN NAMED SAC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

ROCK HILL, S.C. --- Tusculum College's Jasmine Gunn has been named the South Atlantic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week, league officials announced Tuesday. This marks the second straight week Gunn has earned this honor.

Gunn averaged 20 points per game to lead Tusculum to a pair of wins last week. The Pioneers (14-2, 4-0 SAC) are riding an 11-game winning streak, the longest active streak in the league and the second longest in school history.

Gunn, a 5-0 native of Nashville, Tenn., shot 60.9 percent from the floor and averaged 7.5 assists per game last week.

In Tusculum’s 114-59 rout of Converse, Gunn carded 17 points and nine assists in just 23 minutes of action. The Antioch High School standout shot 7-for-9 from the floor, hauled in six rebounds and recorded her first collegiate blocked shot.

In TC’s 79-74 South Atlantic Conference win over in-state foe Carson-Newman, Gunn led all scorers with 23 points, including an acrobatic lay-up in the final minute of the game to preserve the Pioneer win. She also dished out six assists and shot 9-for-11 from the free throw line as TC is off to its first 4-0 league start since joining the SAC in 1999.

Gunn is averaging 18.5 points per game in conference outings and was named the South Atlantic Conference player of the Week earlier this season.

The SAC Player of the Week is selected by a vote of the league’s sports information directors.

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