This Sunday, the NCAAW player of the Kansas State Wildcats strolled once morest the University of Oklahoma. Bigger than a basin, the circle seemed to have become his property and no one might stop Ayoka Lee from eating his opponents. Debrief.
The 60-point mark had already been equaled twice since the creation of the women’s college basketball championship (NCAAW): Cindy Brown did it in 1987, before being joined by Rachel Banham in 2016. This Sunday, Ayoka Lee became the first player to exceed this oh so symbolic bar of 60 points in NCAAW with 61 units deposited over the heads of the Oklahoma Sooners. The player broke this record with incredible cleanliness, namely 23/30 shooting. The perf’ is all the crazier since it’s not a 3-point crisis of skill. From the top of his 200 centimeters, Ayoka Lee literally destroyed the interior sector of the Sooners by scoring 22 of his 23 baskets in the racket. At the time of her exit, two minutes from the end of the match, she had scored as many points as the opposing team and finally finished 3 short units from the Sooners mark.
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The racket is his second home. With his tall stature, Ayoka Lee is the second tallest peak the Kansas program has ever seen (2m00). In 957 shots taken in her college career, the player has never shot from the parking lot. Why bother shooting from afar when you can smash your opponents and finish? Impressive under the circle, she takes her position with an almost unfair ease. Once the ball is in their hands, the opposing team can usually only see the damage. This explains his statistical line from the day before, without any loss of ball or assist. The performance feels like a lethal recital worthy of the most clinical surgeons (clinic, surgeon, lol). Paradoxically, the Kansas game was first built defensively since the Oklahoma team averaged 88 points per game. This Sunday, the girls opposite were limited to 64 units. The main person concerned also explained it in a post-match interview.
« During the training of the last two days, we worked only on the transition. Set up our defense first, and then know who is where, know our job, do it, communicate. And we executed it so well in this match. –Ayoka Lee
Clearly, the strategy worked. When asked how she felt regarding what she had just achieved, Ayoka Lee added that she found it “Crazy” and yet she thought “that it was just going to be a Sunday like any other”. The game sheet confirms that she did not have an ordinary Sunday. With her 25.5 points and 11 rebounds on average at 60% in the shoot, she is the second best scorer in the entire university championship behind Caitlin Clark (25.7 points). If we focus a lot on the offensive aspect, Ayoka is also a more than versatile player. She shines defensively with 3.5 blocks on average this season and is even capable, to a certain extent, of defending on the backs.
Such a player mixing power, size, skills and abnegation in defense is destined to go up in WNBA. She should appear in the 2022 draft and we can’t wait to see what she will be able to produce once she arrives in the Big League.
Source : NCAA.com, Sportsnaut
