Hampton Named MAC Defensive Player of the Year; Brett, Day Land on All-MAC Team

CLEVELAND, Ohio (BGSU Strategic Communications) – Three members of the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team were recognized on Tuesday morning (March 8), as the All-Mid-American Conference Team was announced. Elissa Brett, Allison Day and Nyla Hampton all earned league honors.

Brett was voted to the All-MAC First Team, while Day was named to the all-conference second team.

Hampton was named the MAC Defensive Player of the Year, while both Brett and Hampton made the MAC's All-Defensive Team.

Brett is the Falcons' first all-conference first-team selection in nine years, since both Jillian Halfhill and Alexis Rogers earned first-team honors in 2013-14.

Both Brett and Day have earned All-MAC accolades for the first time in their respective careers. Day, a graduate transfer, is in her first season with the Falcons.

Hampton is only the second player in school history to be named MAC Defensive Player of the Year, joining Lindsay Austin (2003-04).

Hampton has been named to the MAC All-Defensive Team for the third time in as many seasons at BG, while Brett earns that honor for the first time. Prior to this season, Hampton was the only player in program history to be named to the league's all-defensive squad, which has existed since 2015-16.

Brett, a native of Adelaide, Australia, leads the Falcons in scoring, with 14.5 points per game, and is second in rebounding, with 6.0 per contest. She has made 76 three-point field goals this winter, tied for the sixth-highest total in school history. In MAC games, Brett had 15.8 ppg and 5.9 rpg, and made 58 three-pointers, leading the league in triples made per game. She made 87.8% of her free-throw attempts, ranking third in the conference in MAC games. Brett has scored in double figures in 25 of this season's 30 games, and she also leads the Falcons with six 20-point games and 12 double-doubles this season. Brett ranks 19th in school history in career scoring and 13th in rebounding, with 1,237 points and 709 boards, and she ranks 12th with 159 three-pointers made.

Day, who hails from Russellville, Ohio (Eastern H.S.), is second on the team in scoring, with 12.9 ppg, and also has 4.6 rpg on the season. She is shooting 54.6% from the field, leading the MAC in field-goal percentage. Day shot a MAC-best 55.6% in conference games, and averaged 15.6 ppg and 5.2 rpg. Day has scored in double figures in 19 games, with five contests of 20 points or more. She scored a career-high 31 points in the Falcons' win over Toledo at the Stroh Center, and had a 27-point game in BG's victory against Miami. Day, who came to BG after a stellar four-year career at Loyola (Ill.), has career totals of 1,527 points and 782 rebounds.

Hampton, a native of Huber Heights, Ohio (Wayne H.S.), is averaging 11.0 ppg, and leads the Falcons in assists (3.47 apg) and steals (3.03 spg). She leads the entire league in both total steals (91) and steals per game, and is just one steal away from tying the BGSU single-season record. Hampton owns two of the top-five single-season steal totals in school history, and – in just her third season as a Falcon – she is just 11 steals shy of the school record. Hampton currently ranks eighth in the nation in total steals and 12th in the country in steals per game. As mentioned, she was the first player in school history named to the MAC's All-Defensive Team, and she has made that team in each of her three seasons as a Falcon. Hampton is on pace to shatter the BGSU career record for steals per game.

The Falcons are 25-5 overall, and BGSU finished MAC regular-season play with a 14-4 mark. BG, the number-two seed for the MAC Tournament, will face seventh-seeded Eastern Michigan in Wednesday's (March 8) quarterfinal round at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland.

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2022-23 MAC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL POSTSEASON AWARDS
MAC Coach of the Year – Tricia Cullop, Toledo
MAC Player of the Year – Quinesha Lockett, Senior, Guard, Toledo
MAC Defensive Player of the Year – Nyla Hampton, Junior, Guard, Bowling Green
MAC Freshman of the Year – Sydney Harris, Guard/Forward, Central Michigan
MAC Sixth Player of the Year – Janae Poisson, Graduate Student, Guard, Northern Illinois

All-MAC First Team
Quinesha Lockett, Senior, Guard, Toledo
A'Jah Davis, Senior, Forward, Northern Illinois
Anna Clephane, Senior, Guard/Forward, Ball State
Elissa Brett, Senior, Guard, Bowling Green
Reagan Bass, Sophomore, Forward, Akron

All-MAC Second Team
Yaya Felder, Sophomore, Guard, Ohio
Re'Shawna Stone, Graduate Student, Guard, Buffalo
Ally Becki, Sophomore, Guard, Ball State
Chelby Koker, Senior, Guard, Northern Illinois
Allison Day, Senior, Forward, Bowling Green

All-MAC Third Team
Katie Shumate, Senior, Guard, Kent State
Peyton Scott, Senior, Guard, Miami
Ivy Wolf, Sophomore, Guard, Miami
Sophia Wiard, Senior, Guard, Toledo
Sydney Harris, Freshman, Guard/Forward, Central Michigan

All-MAC Honorable Mention
Ce'Nara Skanes, Redshirt Junior, Forward, Eastern Michigan
Thelma Dis Augustsdottir, Graduate Student, Guard/Forward, Ball State
Taylor Williams, Redshirt Junior, Forward, Western Michigan
Lauren Ross, Redshirt Sophomore, Guard, Western Michigan
Lindsey Thall, Graduate Student, Forward, Kent State

MAC All-Freshman Team
Sydney Harris, Guard/Forward, Central Michigan
Corynne Hauser, Guard, Kent State
Bridget Utberg, Guard, Central Michigan
Olivia Smith, Guard, Eastern Michigan
Jaya McClure, Guard, Ohio

MAC All-Defensive Team
Nyla Hampton, Junior, Guard, Bowling Green
Dominique Camp, Senior, Guard, Akron
Khera Goss, Junior, Guard, Toledo
Taylor Williams, Redshirt Junior, Forward, Western Michigan
Elissa Brett, Senior, Guard, Bowling Green

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