Fisk College senior energy ahead Maya Buckhanon has been a driving pressure behind what’s shaping as much as be one other successful season beneath second-year coach Victoria Crawford.
The Talladega, Alabama native is averaging 24.7 factors and an NAIA-leading 14.9 rebounds per contest. She had been in a little bit of a scoring hunch earlier than exploding in her most up-to-date outing.
Within the Bulldogs’ 87-70 win over Southern College New Orleans on Saturday, the NAIA All-American dropped 60 factors on an environment friendly 24 of 38 from the ground and 12 of 16 from the foul line whereas additionally grabbing 19 rebounds.
The 60-point outburst set a college file for each males’s and ladies’s hoops and was probably the most factors scored within the NAIA since 1988 when Claflin’s Miriam Walker scored 62 in opposition to Dillard College on March 19, 1988.
Buckhanon’s 60-point was probably the most prolific particular person scoring effort of any NAIA participant within the twenty first century.
