April 9, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University women's basketball team finished its 2010-11 season with a banquet honoring the team Saturday afternoon at Leavy Center. The winners of various team awards were announced and the highlight video was debuted.
The squad had one of the most successful seasons in program history with an overall record of 24-11 and a mark of 9-7 in the BIG EAST. The Hoyas defeated five ranked teams this season and were ranked in both the AP and ESPN/USA Today Polls for the entire year, at one point reaching No. 11 on the AP Poll and No. 12 on the ESPN/USA Today Poll. The Blue & Gray finished the season with an RPI of 12, as well as being ranked 23rd and 14th on the AP and the ESPN/USA Today Polls, respectively.
GU tied for seventh in league play and earned its second-consecutive berth in the NCAA Tournament where the Hoyas advanced to the Sweet 16 for the second time in program history. Georgetown fell in the Round of 16 to Connecticut, 68-63, despite leading almost the entire game.
Sophomore Sugar Rodgers (Suffolk, Va./King's Fork) won three team awards including the Joe Lonardo Rebounding Award, the John Keyser Steals Award and the Dugan Family Points Award.
The sophomore shooting guard has been a huge part of the Hoya turnaround over the past two seasons and had an outstanding sophomore year. She led the squad in scoring averaging 18.7 ppg to also rank second in the conference. She was also proficient on the defensive end leading GU in steals with 90 and rebounds with 171 to average 4.9 rpg. Additionally, Rodgers was second on the team in assists with 85.
Rodgers scored in double figures in all games but two this season and led Georgetown in scoring 25 times as well as in rebounding ten times. As a sophomore she has already scored her 1,000th point and is the all-time leader for points in a season (653), three's in a season (96) and ranks among the top 15 on the all-time scoring list with 1,233.
The Suffolk, Va., native earned BIG EAST Player of the Week honors twice this season and was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on six occasions. Once again she was a First Team All-BIG EAST honoree on a unanimous decision in 2011. She was an AP and WBCA Honorable Mention All-American.
Keyser and the Dugan Family were all on hand to present the awards.
Junior forward Adria Crawford (Alexandria, Va./Thomas Edison) won the Abigail Dillon Mullan Scholar-Athlete Award. The award is given to the player with the highest GPA on the team. Crawford appeared in 34 games, starting in 33. She ranked second on the squad in rebounding averaging 4,9 rpg. Crawford also averaged 6.5 ppg to rank fifth on the squad. She is known as a player that does the little things including defending players much larger than her and taking charges. Crawford is a double major in sociology and theology.
The Nicole Arwood Assist Award was won by junior point guard Rubylee Wright (Latta, S.C./Latta). She led the team with 169 assists to set the new program record for assists in a season. Her career total increased to 367, landing her in seventh on the career assists list. Wright's career high was 11 assists in a win over No. 4 Tennessee, and she recorded eight assists in three other wins this season.
Senior captain Monica McNutt (Suitland, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross) won the Stephen Paluszek Family Hoya Award given to the player that is an MVP both on and off the court. McNutt started every game and was Honorable Mention All-BIG EAST award winner. She was Georgetown's second-leading scorer with 10.5 ppg including 72 3-pointers on the season. McNutt ranks 15th on the program's all-time scoring list with 1,166 points after hitting her 1,000 point earlier this season. She is also second all-time in 3-pointers with 209 to her credit.
In her career, McNutt appeared in 131 games in a Georgetown uniform giving her the program record for games played. She started 101-consecutive games as well as 111 in her final 112 contests on the Hilltop.
Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy and emcee Ryan Sakamoto recognized staff and supporters in attendance. Williams-Flournoy spoke on the two seniors, McNutt and manager Lauren Bryant. This was followed by the debut of the 2010-11 highlight video.
To give the closing, Williams-Flournoy invited McNutt to the dais to speak to her team one last time. McNutt thanked the team and staff for their support over four years and encouraged the squad to remember where it came from and not to get complacent. She spoke of how far the program has come and how much hard work it took to get to that level.
Georgetown graduates just one starter and returns 12 players next season. GU will add three freshmen in Taylor Brown, Brittany Horne and Jasmine Jackson.
