Three Terps Named to All-ACC Women's Basketball Team
2/26/2007 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 26, 2007
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today, that Maryland's Crystal Langhorne, Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver were all named to the All-ACC women's basketball team. Langhorne becomes only the third Terrapin to be selected to the first team twice, while Coleman makes a repeat on the second team. Toliver was voted to the third team.
It is the third-straight year the Terps have had multiple honorees and the seventh-straight with at least one Terp on the All-ACC team. There has also been a Terrapin on the first team for three-consecutive years, a first since 1992-94.
Junior Crystal Langhorne (Willilngboro, N.J.) earns All-ACC honors for the third-straight year. She was named to the second team as a freshman. She joins an elite company at Maryland, also becoming just the third player in school history with three All-ACC citations, along with other Terrapin greats Vicky Bullett (1987-89) and current teammate Shay Doron (Ramat Hasharon, Israel/Christ the King [N.Y.]) (2004-06).
Langhorne is threatening the NCAA field goal shooting record of 72.4 percent. She leads the nation at 72.5 percent, while also ranking in the top 10 in the league in scoring (14.9 ppg) and rebounding (8.1 rpg). Langhorne is among the top candidates for national player of the year honors. A preseason Associated Press All-American, she was named to the preseason watch lists for the Wade Trophy, the Naismith Award and the John R. Wooden Award, garnering a spot on the 20-player Midseason Wooden All-American team. Earning 47 of 55 first team votes, Langhorne is in the midst of a four-game double-doubles streak.
Sophomore Marissa Coleman (Cheltenham, Md./St. John's College [D.C.]) had four first-team votes and was a second team selection last year, en route to ACC Rookie of the Year nods. Coleman posted the first-ever triple-double in school history earlier this season, with a 15-point, 4-rebound and 10-assist performance against UC Santa Barbara in December. A versatile player who can play nearly every position on the floor, she ranks in the top 20 in the ACC in scoring (12.8 ppg), and is in the top 15 in rebounding (10th, 7.2 rpg), field goal percentage (12th, .490), assists per game (10th, 3.37 apg), free throw percentage (T3rd, .825), 3-point shooting (11th, .337) and assist-to-turnover ratio (8th, 1.26). Second on the team with seven double-doubles, three have come in the last four games. Coleman was also selected a Midseason Wooden All-American and was a preseason candidate for three national player of the year honors.
Coleman's classmate, Kristi Toliver (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) was named to the third team, garnering 50 points, including one first-team vote. Toliver boasts the second-best three-point shooting percentage in the country and the best in the ACC (48.5 percent). One of 11 finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, presented to the top point guard in the nation, she is 23rd in the ACC in scoring (11.9 ppg), 13th in overall shooting percentage (.486) and third in assists per game (4.70). She is also sixth with 2.13 three-pointers made per game and fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.50). Earlier this season at Clemson, Toliver broke the school record for three-point shooting percentage, going a perfect 6-for-6 in the game. Toliver entered the preseason a candidate for two national player of the year awards.
The Terps are headed to the ACC Tournament this weekend, after closing out the regular-season with a 26-4 overall record, 10-4 in the conference. Maryland clinched a No. 3 seed in the tournament after dominating Boston College, 76-70, earning a first-round bye. The Terps play the winner of the Georgia Tech-Miami game on Friday, March 2 at 8 p.m.
The All-Atlantic Coast Conference women's teams, as voted on by 55 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association:
First Team (votes)
Lindsey Harding, Duke (163)
Ivory Latta, North Carolina (162)
Crystal Langhorne, Maryland (157)
Alison Bales, Duke (125)
Erlana Larkins, North Carolina (125)
Second Team
Abby Waner, Duke (104)
Camille Little, North Carolina (89)
Lyndra Littles, Virginia (83)
Renee Taylor, Miami (78)
Marissa Coleman, Maryland (73)
Third Team
Alicia Gladden, Florida State (65)
Khadijah Whittington, NC State (65)
Kathrin Ress, Boston College (57)
Stephanie Higgs, Georgia Tech (51)
Kristi Toliver, Maryland (50)
Honorable Mention (15 or more votes)
Kirby Copeland, Virginia Tech (33)
Janie Mitchell, Georgia Tech (21)
Wanisha Smith, Duke (19)
Gillian Goring, NC State (17)
Yolanda Lavender, Wake Forest (17)
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