Langhorne Named ACC Women's Basketball Player of the Week
1/21/2008 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 21, 2008
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - After a historic week, Maryland's Crystal Langhorne was named the ACC's Women's Basketball Player of the Week for a school-record third time this season. She has been awarded the honor six times in her career, also a school record, and is the most among all active players in the league.
Senior Crystal Langhorne (Willingboro, N.J./Willingboro) led the Terrapins to a flawless 3-0 week, improving their league mark to 6-0, the best start to league play since 1992. For the week, she averaged 22.3 points and 12.7 rebounds per game. She shot 57.1 percent from the floor and made 76 percent of her free throws, almost 11 percent better than her season percentage.
Langhorne began the week helping Maryland post its fifth win over a ranked opponent this season, scoring 16 points and seven rebounds against 10th-ranked Duke. The 85-70 victory helped to snap a nine-game home losing streak to the Blue Devils.
In a tightly contested battle at Virginia in which the Terrapins won 74-62, Langhorne's third bucket of the game broke the Maryland scoring record, topping the 19-year old mark held by former Terrapin great Vicky Bullett. The senior post player went on to record a double-double, netting 20 points and grabbing a season-high 16 boards.
The Terps closed out the week with a heated game vs. Georgia Tech, where the Yellow Jackets went wire-to-wire with the Terps. Maryland won in double overtime, 99-95, as Langhorne scored nine of the team's combined 17 points in the extra periods to hold off GT. Recognized prior to the game for breaking the program's scoring record, she tallied 31 points, her sixth-career 30-point outing and three shy of her career high. She also had her second-straight double-double and seventh in nine games, grabbing 15 rebounds, including the 1,100th of her career.
Langhorne is now the school's scoring and rebounding leader, breaking the rebounding mark also held by Bullett in December. She ranks 16th all-time in the ACC in scoring (1,975) and is eighth in rebounding (1,102). Langhorne is also Maryland's career rebounding leader among men's and women's players.
Langhorne ranks third in the league in scoring in ACC-only games, averaging 20.8 ppg through six games. Her 12.3 rebounds per game in league contests is the best in the conference.
Maryland has had four players garner ACC Player of the Week nods seven times in 11 weeks of the season. Langhorne's three selections are the most for any player in the league. Junior Marissa Coleman (Cheltenham, Md./St. John's College [D.C.]) has received the nod twice, while senior Laura Harper (Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham) and junior Kristi Toliver (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) each earned the award once.
The fourth-ranked Terrapins, who are 22-1 on the season, take a short break before traveling to face third-ranked North Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 26 in Carmichael Auditorium. It will be the Terps' fourth top-10 matchup of he season. Both the Terrapins and the Tar Heels sit atop the ACC standings with both teams boasting undefeated league records. The game will be nationally televised on Fox Sports Net and on Comcast SportsNet in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area. The game can also be heard across the state on the Maryland Radio Network.
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