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Following an incredible week that saw UMHB women’s basketball win a pair of key American Southwest Conference matchups in Abilene, UMHB’s Arieona Rosborough has been selected by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association as the D-III Women’s Player of the Week.
Arieona Rosborough scored the most points ever in a single game in program history as the No. 19/20 UMHB women’s basketball team rolled to a 108-96 victory at McMurry on Saturday.
The UMHB women’s basketball team extended its win streak to 13 games on Saturday afternoon against UT-Dallas as Arieona Rosborough scored her 1000th career point and Meagan Johnson tallied a career-high 19 points.
Arieona Rosborough came within a point of scoring the 1,000th point of her collegiate career on Thursday night, as she tallied 31 in a 72-61 Crusader victory. UMHB women’s basketball is now 12-1.
Back inside the Gallego Center, where she elevated the success of Sul Ross State women’s basketball as head coach from 2017-2022, UMHB head coach Katie Novak-Lenoir earned yet another victory in Alpine on Saturday afternoon.
UMHB avenged a first-quarter deficit in Brownwood on Thursday night, defeating Howard Payne 83-59, as the Crusaders dominated over the final three quarters. UMHB is now 8-1 overall and 4-0 in the ASC.
All-region honors from both the NABC and D3hoops.com rolled in for members of the UMHB men’s and women’s basketball teams on Tuesday.
The votes have been tallied, and it is now time to announce True To The Cru’s Players of the Week presented by our gold sponsor, and a proud supporter of Crusader athletics, Sacrifice Training.
After a week of voting, it is time to announce True To The Cru’s Basketball Players of the Year, which were voted on both by the media and the general public at the conclusion of phenomenal seasons for both the UMHB men’s and women’s basketball teams, who each went deep in the NCAA Tournament, making the tournament in the same year for the first time in school history.
BELTON- Reaching unprecedented success in the same season, three standouts from the UMHB men’s and women’s basketball teams were recognized nationally on Tuesday morning by D3hoops.com, named to the 2022 All-Region teams.