Kennerson holds onto national lead in scoring
Published 10:21 pm Thursday, January 4, 2018
Joyce Kennerson’s 33-point game against Alabama State on Wednesday was enough to push the Texas Southern junior from Port Arthur back into the NCAA Division I scoring average lead.
She’ll stay there going into Saturday, at least, when Texas Southern hosts archrival Prairie View A&M at 5:30 p.m. That’s because Kelsey Mitchell, the Ohio State senior was the national scoring leader for much of the season, scored only 21 points Thursday in a 91-75 home win over Minnesota.
Kennerson averages 26.0 points this season, which is now 0.5 ahead of Mitchell. The margin was 0.2 at the start of Thursday.
However, Mitchell is closing in on some benchmarks for her career. She needs 39 points to reach 3,000 for her career and is 129 points shy of the Big Ten record.
Kennerson tied for sixth all-time in scoring at TSU on Wednesday.
Also Wednesday, New Orleans’ Randi Brown, the nation’s fifth-leading scorer, had 28 points in a loss at Lamar.
Ohio State will play at Michigan at 11 a.m. Sunday in an ESPN2-televised game.
— I.C. Murrell