WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Source: Kennerson is SWAC player of year
Published 10:18 pm Saturday, March 3, 2018
Texas Southern point guard Joyce Kennerson of Port Arthur has been named the SWAC women’s basketball player of the year, according to a source with knowledge of the honor.
The source is not identified because the SWAC has not officially announced its regular-season honors, but The News obtained a list of All-SWAC honorees that tabbed Kennerson its player of the year. She is the only Texas Southern player to make the All-SWAC teams.
Kennerson scored 22 points Thursday in a 66-60 win over Southern University but was held to 13 points and nine rebounds in a 54-52 loss at Alcorn State on Saturday in Lorman, Mississippi. That put Texas Southern at 18-11 and 13-5 in the SWAC, costing them a chance to tie Southern for its third straight SWAC regular-season title.
Texas Southern, the defending SWAC tournament champion, is second and will host seventh-seeded Alabama State on Tuesday in the first round. The winner will advance to the semifinals on Friday at Delmar Fieldhouse in Houston.
— I.C. Murrell
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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