The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Basketball’s Booker named TABC Player of the Year
05.16.2024 | Women's Basketball
Booker was a WBCA First Team All-American and winner of the Cheryl Miller Award in the 2023-24 season.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas women's basketball's Madison Booker has been named the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Women's Player of the Year.
Booker was named a WBCA First Team All-American and winner of the Cheryl Miller Small Forward of the Year Award this past season.
Booker helped Texas win 33 wins this season, their most in a season since the 1985-86 season. 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 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 set a UT freshman assist record with 185 assists and finished fourth on the UT freshman scoring list with 611 points. Booker scored in double figures in 32 games and had 14 games scoring 20 or more points. Against ranked opponents this season, Booker is averaged 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.
Rori Harmon earned TABC Player of the Year honors after the 2022-23 season. Vic Schaefer earned 2022 TABC Division I Coach of the Year honors. Texas associate head coach Elena Lovato was named the 2023 Division I Assistant Coach of the Year.
