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Savannah Smith Named to Preseason All-Big Sky Team
10/17/2018 11:39:00 AM | Women's Basketball
For the second straight season Savannah Smith preseason All-Big Sky honors
OGDEN, Utah – Basketball season is just a few weeks away and the Big Sky Conference announced its Preseason All-Conference women's team Tuesday afternoon. Reigning Big Sky MVP and Big Sky Tournament MVP Savannah Smith found herself on the preseason team for the second straight season.
Smith is coming off a 2017-18 season in which she helped guide the Bears to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, Big Sky Regular Season championship and Big Sky Tournament championship. Smith averaged 18.4 points per game to lead the team while also finding her open teammate plenty of times too with 3.8 assists a game. She connected on 32.1 percent of her 3-point attempts last year making 71 of them.
In Big Sky action last season, Smith upped her scoring average to 19.6 points a game, adding in 3.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals. That effort earned her Big Sky MVP honors.
During the Big Sky Tournament, she backed up the MVP award setting a new tournament record scoring 78 points over three games. Her best performance came in the championship game when she scored a career-high 34 points including hitting five of her six 3-point attempts to help UNC cruise past second-seed Idaho 91-69.
Idaho's Mikayla Ferenz was selected preseason MVP and joined on the team by teammate Taylor Pierce. Portland State's Ashley Bolston and Sidney Riely along with Idaho State's Grace Kenyon rounded out the Preseason All-Big Sky team.
The team was voted on by the conference's head coaches and media.
Season Schedule (Click here for full schedule)
Northern Colorado will be on the court inside Bank of Colorado Arena on Friday, November 2 when South Dakota School of Mines comes to town for a 7 pm tip-off. The regular season begins just four days later as first-year head coach Jenny Huth and the Bears travel to her alma mater Colorado for a 7 pm season opener on November 6. UNC's first regular season home game is set for Friday, November 16 at 7 pm when in-state foe Denver comes to Greeley.
The Big Sky season starts on December 29 when Sacramento State comes to Bank of Colorado Arena. The 20-game slate includes a rematch of the Big Sky Championship game twice, first in Moscow, Idaho on January 5 and then in Greeley on February 16. The 2019 Big Sky Tournament moves to Boise, Idaho this year over March 11-15.
Tickets on Sale Now
Season tickets for the 2018-19 Northern Colorado women's basketball season are available now starting at $60. For more information, visit UNCBears.com/Tickets or call 970.351.4849.
To stay up to date on all things UNC women's basketball, visit UNCBears.com and follow the team on Twitter at @UNCBearsWBB.
Smith is coming off a 2017-18 season in which she helped guide the Bears to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, Big Sky Regular Season championship and Big Sky Tournament championship. Smith averaged 18.4 points per game to lead the team while also finding her open teammate plenty of times too with 3.8 assists a game. She connected on 32.1 percent of her 3-point attempts last year making 71 of them.
In Big Sky action last season, Smith upped her scoring average to 19.6 points a game, adding in 3.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals. That effort earned her Big Sky MVP honors.
During the Big Sky Tournament, she backed up the MVP award setting a new tournament record scoring 78 points over three games. Her best performance came in the championship game when she scored a career-high 34 points including hitting five of her six 3-point attempts to help UNC cruise past second-seed Idaho 91-69.
Idaho's Mikayla Ferenz was selected preseason MVP and joined on the team by teammate Taylor Pierce. Portland State's Ashley Bolston and Sidney Riely along with Idaho State's Grace Kenyon rounded out the Preseason All-Big Sky team.
The team was voted on by the conference's head coaches and media.
Season Schedule (Click here for full schedule)
Northern Colorado will be on the court inside Bank of Colorado Arena on Friday, November 2 when South Dakota School of Mines comes to town for a 7 pm tip-off. The regular season begins just four days later as first-year head coach Jenny Huth and the Bears travel to her alma mater Colorado for a 7 pm season opener on November 6. UNC's first regular season home game is set for Friday, November 16 at 7 pm when in-state foe Denver comes to Greeley.
The Big Sky season starts on December 29 when Sacramento State comes to Bank of Colorado Arena. The 20-game slate includes a rematch of the Big Sky Championship game twice, first in Moscow, Idaho on January 5 and then in Greeley on February 16. The 2019 Big Sky Tournament moves to Boise, Idaho this year over March 11-15.
Tickets on Sale Now
Season tickets for the 2018-19 Northern Colorado women's basketball season are available now starting at $60. For more information, visit UNCBears.com/Tickets or call 970.351.4849.
To stay up to date on all things UNC women's basketball, visit UNCBears.com and follow the team on Twitter at @UNCBearsWBB.
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