Thomas Named ACC Rookie of the Week
1/24/2011 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 24, 2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Freshman Alyssa Thomas of the No. 14 Maryland women's basketball team was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Rookie of the Week the league announced Monday. She earned the weekly honor for the fourth time this season.
Thomas has notched a double-double in her first five ACC games. In conference games, she is tied for No. 5 in scoring with 16.8 points per contest and leads all players with 11.8 rebounds per game. Her 5.2 offensive rebounds per conference matchup lead the league as well.
She leads all ACC rookies in scoring (13.8) and rebounding (7.7) in all games.
At Virginia on Friday, Thomas led all scorers with 18 points and 12 rebounds. She scored four points in overtime to help the Terrapins (16-3, 3-2 ACC) bring home the 77-75 win.
Against No. 10 North Carolina, Thomas scored a team-high 16 points and tied her career-high 13 rebounds. She went 6-for-6 at the free throw line. Five Terrapins scored in double figures in the 88-65 victory.
Thomas has started in 18 games for Maryland this season. She has scored in double-figures in 16 of those 18 games. She was named the ACC's Rookie of the Week the weeks of Nov. 29, Dec. 20 and Jan. 17.
Maryland will play host to Wake Forest (10-11, 1-4 ACC) Friday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Comcast Center. Maryland women's basketball will be teaming up with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Team Tyler Foundation at the Wake Forest game to share information on the disease and how to help. Parking is free on Friday in all lots surrounding Comcast Center.
The game will be shown on the regional sports network, which includes Comcast SportsNet, Fox Sports Net South, Fox Sports Net Florida, and New England Sports Network. Please check your local listings for more information.
Friday's matchup will also be broadcast on the Terrapin Sports Radio Network and can be heard on ESPN 1300 (Baltimore) and ESPN 980 (DC).
Leukemia survivors are invited to come to the game free of charge. To receive free admission, survivors can email umterps.com/awareness and enter the promotion code "awareness."
Team Tyler wristbands and T-shirts will be available for sale. Proceeds will benefit the Team Tyler Foundation, which was started by a group of former Maryland players from the 2006 NCAA Championship team including Marissa Coleman, Shay Doron, Laura Harper and Kristi Toliver, to bring awareness to leukemia and to help children fighting it.
Team Tyler was started in honor of head coach Brenda Frese's two-year old son, Tyler Thomas, who was diagnosed with leukemia in September 2010.
