In a week loaded with standout performers, Davis & Elkins senior guard Aliyah Dukes (Clemson, SC/D.W. Daniel HS) was selected Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week on Monday.
Dukes has helped keep the Senators (11-15, 7-13 G-MAC) in the playoff hunt as winners of five straight, including a 3-0 record sported this past week against Concord, Trevecca and conference tourney qualifier Kentucky Wesleyan.
Dukes went off in a torrid three-game stretch by averaging 31 points, including a 43-point outburst with 11 three-point field goals made on Monday.
Her single-game scoring total matched Cedarville’s Raegan Ryan (43 vs. Urbana – Dec. 2014) for the second most points in conference history. Central State’s Demetria Nunley-Lash holds the all-time record with 45 vs. Kentucky Weselyan, also in 2014.
The 11 three-point baskets from deep also tied the single-game conference record after Cedarville’s Baylee Bennett was the original record holder vs. Trevecca earlier this season.
The lefty-shooting Dukes went on to score 23 against Trevecca and 27 more against Kentucky Wesleyan while shooting over 46 percent from deep on the week (18-of-39).
Dukes is the current league leader in scoring at 21.2 points per game and has led D&E in scoring for 19 of the team’s 26 games.
As a junior, Dukes averaged 7.7 points per game. Her increase in offensive production has included scoring in double figures for 23 games she has started in. Dukes has 15 games in which she has scored 20 or more points and two games where she has scored over 30.