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Rasheed Nabs Player of the Week Honors
February 15, 2010 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/15/10) - Freshman Niveen Rasheed of the Princeton women's basketball team was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 14 it was announced by the league office on Monday, Feb. 15.
Rasheed dominated the hard woods this weekend as Princeton swept Columbia and Cornell on the road by an average of 22.5 points. Rasheed posted back-to-back double-doubles scoring 45 points and 29 rebounds. Her stat line didn't end there as she added 11 assists and nine steals. She averaged 22.5 points and 14.5 rebounds while posting the best field goal percentage on the team, shooting 62.1 percent. She also shot 9 for 15 from the free throw line.
Rasheed matched her personal best in scoring against Columbia with 27 points going 10 for 15 from the floor. She was just one rebound shy of matching her career best, pulling down 14 rebounds. She posted a career-best seven assists while matching her personal best of five steals. Rasheed was given the task of defending the Ivy League's leading scorer Judie Lomax. Lomax averages over 19 points and 14 rebounds per game was limited to just 11 points and nine rebounds, while being forced into four personal fouls.
The Danville, Calif., native wasn't done yet. Against Cornell she recorded a double-double, her seventh of the season, in the first half scoring 14 points and 10 rebounds. She also had three assists and three steals during the first 20 minutes. Along with teammate Devona Allgood, the pair recorded all of Princeton's 20 points as the Tigers grabbed a 20-12 start. Rasheed finished out the game scoring 18 points, recording a personal-best 15 rebounds and had four assists and four steals apiece.
The freshman has helped Princeton to a 19-2 overall record and a 7-0 mark in the Ivy League. No team in Princeton history has ever started the Ivy League winning seven straight games. The Tigers remain just one of six teams in the nation with just two losses.