Indiana’s Grace Berger Named To Cheryl Miller Award Preseason Watch List

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Grace Berger Named To Cheryl Miller Award Preseason Watch List

 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.  – Junior guard Grace Berger has been named one of 20 candidates on the Cheryl Miller Award preseason watch list, announced on Wednesday by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

 

Berger returns after a stellar sophomore campaign where she also earned All-Big Ten First Team honors and was a WBCA All-American honorable mention selection. The Louisville, Ky. native increased her scoring nearly eight points from her freshman campaign, finishing as the team’s second leading scorer with 13.1 points per game. Berger also added 5.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and a team-high 1.4 steals per game while scoring in double digits 21 times. She shot 45.6 percent from the floor and 76.9 percent at the charity stripe in 2019-20. The 6-foot guard was also named to the All-Big Ten preseason team earlier today.

 

She joins Ali Patberg (Nancy Lieberman Award) and Nicole Cardaño-Hillary (Ann Meyers Drysdale Award) as other IU honorees on the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and WBCA preseason lists.

 

College basketball fans are encouraged to participate in Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies in each of the three rounds. In early February, the watch list of 20 players for the 2021 Cheryl Miller Award will be narrowed to just 10. In early March, five finalists will be presented to Ms. Miller and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee.

 

The winner of the 2021 Cheryl Miller Small Forward Award will be presented on Friday, April 9, 2021, along with the other four members of the Women’s Starting Five. Additional awards being presented include the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award, the Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard Award, the Katrina McClain Power Forward Award, and the Lisa Leslie Center Award, in addition to the Men’s Starting Five.

 

Previous winners of the Cheryl Miller Small Forward of the Year Award include Satou Sabally, Oregon (2020), Bridget Carleton, Iowa State (2019) and Gabby Williams, Connecticut (2018).

 

For more information on the 2021 Cheryl Miller Award and the latest updates, log onto www.hoophallawards.com and follow @hoophall and #MillerAward on Twitter and Instagram. Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies will go live on Friday, November 13.

 

 

2021 Cheryl Miller Award Candidates*

Taylor Soule Boston College
Summer Hemphill Buffalo
Evina Westbrook Connecticut
Aubrey Griffin Connecticut
Grace Berger Indiana
Ashley Joens Iowa State
Rhyne Howard Kentucky
Elizabeth Balogun Louisville
Angel Reese Maryland
Rickea Jackson Mississippi State
Erica Johnson Ohio
Erin Boley Oregon
Brea Beal South Carolina
Haley Jones Stanford
Mia Davis Temple
Rennia Davis Tennessee
Kayla Wells Texas A&M
Vivian Gray Texas Tech
Michaela Onyenwere UCLA
Ivana Raca Wake Forest

 

*Players can play their way onto and off of the list at any point in the 2020-21 season

 

About Cheryl Miller:

Cheryl Miller took women’s basketball to a new level, literally and figuratively. With her tremendous leaping ability, athletic dexterity and grace, Miller established a legacy throughout her high school and college career that is unparalleled. Playing for Riverside Polytechnic High School (CA), in 1982, Miller set the single game scoring record of 105 points. As a collegiate forward at the University of Southern California from 1982 to 1986, Miller helped bring women’s basketball to the forefront of American sports. In 1984, she led the Olympic team to gold averaging more than 16 points per game. Her superior athletic ability and engaging persona placed her among the elite in the world of college and professional athletics. In 1986, Sports Illustrated named Miller as the best male or female player in college basketball. In a spectacular career, Miller scored 3,018 total career points and was a four-time All-America. Miller was named Naismith Player of the Year three times and earned the Wade Trophy once. Miller was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2010. Since retiring from professional play, Miller has had a very successful career as a WNBA GM, professional and collegiate coach, and sportscaster for TNT, ESPN and NBC for the 1996 Olympics.

 

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