INDIANAPOLIS – The playoff hunt and regular season is coming down to the wire as Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week honors were released on Monday.
Four teams have officially clinched postseason bids for the Great Midwest Championship bracket, including two more over the weekend.
Findlay and Cedarville both locked in their playoff spots with a pair of wins last week. The rest of the postseason seeding will get very interesting in the coming weeks with several teams very close to the .500 mark.
Hillsdale and Malone (leading the conference in scoring defense) have both been on a roll as well, entering the new week on respective five-game win streaks.
Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week
Quionche Carter
Walsh
Guard/Forward
Freshman
Southfield, MI (Wylie E. Groves HS)
Carter and the Cavaliers have realistic regular-season title dreams. Walsh is winners of six straight and after a double-digit win over first-place Kentucky Wesleyan, has to feel confident about moving into March.
The freshman swingman has been a big part of the success by the team and head coach Kate Bruce as she collected her second conference weekly honor of the season.
In her last two games, Carter averaged 20 points and pulled down 8.5 rebounds while shooting almost 52 percent from the field. She also averaged three steals on the defensive end of the floor and converted 11-of-14 tries at the free throw line.
Carter had an impressive double-double with 21 points and 12 rebounds against KWC, a tough, defensive-minded program. She was tough as nails on the other end as well with five steals.
She also had 19 points and five rebounds against Trevecca Nazarene on Thursday.
Carter remains the team’s leading scorer at nearly 17 points per game. She has started 23 of 24 games played as a rookie and enters this week as the second-leading scorer in the Great Midwest only behind Findlay’s Anna Hintz.
Carter is also second in the conference in field goal percentage (minimums required) only behind teammate Mayci Sales.