University of North Dakota head women’s basketball coach Gene Roebuck has been named the 2011-12 Great West Conference Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year as announced tonight at the GWC Tournament banquet. In addition, redshirt freshman center Emily Evers received the Great West Conference Sixth Woman Award and three Sioux were named all-conference.
This is the second time in three years that Roebuck, who led the Fighting Sioux to the 2011-12 GWC regular-season title with a league record of 9-1, has received the Great West’s top coaching honor. He received the league’s inaugural award in 2009-10 after the Sioux captured the first GWC championship. Now a 12-time coach of the year, this is Roebuck’s 25th and final season at the helm of the Sioux. He currently holds a phenomenal record of 712-158 overall and a 626-144 mark at North Dakota.
A native of Grand Forks, N.D., Evers is the second Sioux to receive the GWC Sixth Woman Award (Alys Seay, 2009-10) after averaging 6.4 ppg and 4.6 rpg off of the bench. A member of the 2011-12 GWC All-Newcomer Team, Evers is the only player on the UND roster to have played in and scored in each of the 29 games this season.
A two-time Great West Conference Player of the Week, a two-time College Sports Madness GWC Player of the Week, and the 2011-12 Great West Conference Preseason Player of the Year, sophomore center Allyssa Wall was named to the All-Great West Conference First Team. Wall, a North Sioux City, S.D., native ranks second in the league averaging 14.4 ppg and is averaging 7.6 rpg. She is shooting 51.3 percent from the field, 84.8 percent from the free throw line, and has posted an average of 1.6 bpg.
Earning a spot on this year’s All-Great West Conference Second Team was senior guard Charnay Mothershed and junior captain Nicole Smart.
Mothershed, a native of Phoenix, Ariz., is averaging 5.5 ppg and 4.0 rpg. She ranks second in the league averaging 4.1 apg and is listed fifth with a 1.6 assist/turnover ratio.
A two-time Great West Conference Player of the Week and a two-time College Sports Madness GWC Player of the Week, Smart leads the league shooting 92 percent from the free throw line and ranks seventh with a 36.2 shooting percentage from three-point range. She is averaging 10.8 ppg and 1.7 3ppg.
The top-ranked Fighting Sioux will have to await the outcome of Thursday’s night’s quarterfinal game between No. 4 Texas-Pan American and No. 5 Chicago State. The Sioux will face the winner on Friday night in the semifinals. Tipoff is slated for 7:30 p.m.
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