University of Tennessee Athletics
More Attention For Graves, Harrison
December 10, 2014 | Women's Basketball
NAISMITH TROPHY WOMEN'S CANDIDATES
ATLANTA - A pair of Tennessee women's basketball players have been named to their third awards watch list this season.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday the 2014-15 Naismith Trophy Women's 50 Watch List, and Lady Vol junior Bashaara Graves and senior Isabelle Harrison were among the players making the cut. They were previously announced as watch list members for the Wade Trophy and John R. Wooden Award.
Graves, a 6-foot-2 forward from Clarksville, Tenn. (Clarksville H.S.), has recorded double-doubles in five of eight games this season and is producing 12.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per contest. A second-time member of all three watch lists, she is shooting 51.5% from the field and 73.8% from the free throw line.
Harrison, meanwhile, is averaging 11.0 points and 7.7 rebounds in only three games. A first-time candidate for all three awards, she missed five games after spraining her right knee in the season-opener vs. Penn. In her second game back, she had 16 points, six rebounds and a pair of blocked shots in 22 minutes vs. Lipscomb on Sunday.
Founded during the 1956-57 season, the Atlanta Tipoff Club, an Atlanta Sports Council property, is committed to promoting the game of basketball and recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of those who make the game so exciting.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club administers the Naismith Awards, which have become the most prestigious national honors in all of college basketball. Named in honor of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball, the Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T recognizes the top Men's and Women's College Basketball Players of the Year.
Other Naismith Awards are presented to the Men's and Women's College Basketball Coaches of the Year, Boy's and Girl's high school basketball players and coaches of the year, high school scholar-athletes, basketball officials, student sections and overall contributors to the game.
The Naismith Trophy was first presented to UCLA's Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in 1969. Old Dominion's Anne Donovan won the inaugural Women's Naismith Trophy in 1983.
