UAPB Womens Hoops Brown Earns Pair Of SWAC Postseason Honors
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff women’s basketball player Khadijah Brown has been named as the Southwestern Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year and was also named as a second-team All-SWAC selection in league honors announced Tuesday.
Brown (6-3, R-Sr., Miami, Fla.) ranked eighth in the SWAC in scoring (15.2 ppg), fourth in rebounding (8.8 rpg), fourth in field goal percentage (50.9 %), 13th in free throw percentage (63.9%), and seventh in blocks (1.3 bpg).
Brown scored in double figures in 17 consecutive games to end the season, and 18 of 19 games overall. Brown had five games of 20 or more points, and recorded nine double-double games of at least 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Brown scored a career-high 26 points along with 10 rebounds on Feb. 13 vs. Southern, and scored 19 points with a career-high 16 rebounds at Alcorn on Jan. 18.
She concluded the season with back-to-back 20-point scoring games. Brown scored 20 points with seven rebounds and a career-high four steals, two blocks and two assists at Jackson State on March 1. In the season finale in this past Friday’s win at Mississippi Valley State, she scored 21 points and 10 rebounds.
