The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Basketball’s Booker earns pair of All-America honors
03.19.2024 | Women's Basketball
The Big 12 Co-Player of the Year and tournament Most Outstanding Player honored by The Sporting News and USBWA.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas women's basketball's Madison Booker was named a third team All-American by both Sporting News and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association on Tuesday.
Booker became the first freshman in the history of Big 12 women's basketball to be named the Big 12 Player of the Year. Booker was also selected by the conference head coaches as the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and a unanimous selection to the All-Big 12 First Team.
In the recent Big 12 Championship, Booker led Texas to the conference title and was named the tournament Most Outstanding Player. In the Big 12 tournament Booker averaged 21.3 points, four rebounds and five assists per game. She shot 50 percent from the field and had three turnovers in the entire tournament, including zero turnovers in the championship game.
In Big 12 play, Booker averaged 20.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists while shooting 48 percent from the field and 91.6 percent from the free-throw line.
Booker has scored in double figures in 23 straight games and has 13 games scoring 20 or more points. Against ranked opponents this season, Booker is averaging 21.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game.
Booker earned seven Big 12 weekly awards and three national weekly awards this season. On February 19, Booker was named both the Big 12 Player and Freshman of the Week, something that has only happened three other times in the last 15 years in the Big 12.
