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Meagan Cowher Earns Women's Hoops Ivy League Player of the Week Award
January 08, 2007 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League has announced Meagan Cowher as its Women's Basketball Player of the Week for the week ending Jan. 7. Cowher scored a combined 49 points in two games for the Tigers, who recorded back-to-back wins for the first time this season over Lafayette and Penn.
The honor is the first of the year for any Tiger. Cowher claimed three such plaudits a year ago on the way to being named First-Team All-Ivy League.
Cowher scored 27 on Jan. 3 at Lafayette in a 79-62 win, tying for the third-highest single-game total of her career. She also co-led all rebounders with eight boards. Jan. 6 at Penn, Cowher added 22 points and seven rebounds as Princeton began its Ivy League schedule with a 78-72 victory. The two contests were the fourth and fifth times this season Cowher has scored at least 20 points. She now has exactly 900 points for her career as the junior bids to become Princeton's 17th 1,000-point scorer.
Princeton's leading scorer with a 17.1 points per game average, Cowher has led the Tigers in scoring in 11 of 15 games and in rebounding in 9 of 15 contests. She ranks third in the Ivy League in scoring, fourth in rebounding at 7.4 boards per game, third in field goal percentage at a 47.6 percent clip and seventh in free-throw shooting at 73.6 percent.
Cowher and the Tigers will have two more games before breaking for finals, hosting Ivy League rivals Columbia and Cornell at Jadwin Gym Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.