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Hofschild, Carman Headline Rams on Mountain West Preseason Awards
10/11/2023 9:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Hofschild and Carman pick up individual honors.
LAS VEGAS - Colorado State earned two of the four individual awards - Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year - and was picked preseason No. 2 in the Mountain West's preseason prognostications released on Wednesday ahead of Mountain West Media Days.
McKenna Hofschild, the 2022-23 Player of the Year, was selected as the league's preseason Player of the Year headed into 2023-24. Last season, the 5-foot-2 Hofschild was named an Associated Press All-American after averaging 20.6 points and 7.2 assists per game on 48.8 percent shooting. She became the only player in program history to record back-to-back 200+ assist seasons and was the first All-American for the program since Becky Hammon.
Jackie Carman, an incoming transfer from Wofford, started 87 games over her career including 32 last season. She posted 15.1 points per game on 39.4 percent shooting and scored in double figures 28 times. Carman set a Wofford record for consecutive double-digit scoring games at 16. A 1,000-point scorer at Wofford, Carman was also fifth in points scored (582) last season in the Southern Conference, third in three-point percentage (33.8), and fourth in threes made (66).Â
As a team, the Rams (244 points) were picked to finished second behind UNLV (283 points).Â
Colorado State tips off the 2023-24 season on Thursday, Nov. 2 with an exhibition game in Moby Arena vs. UC-Colorado Springs at 6:30 p.m. Season tickets, mini-plans, and single-game tickets are on-sale now at CSURams.com/Tickets.
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McKenna Hofschild, the 2022-23 Player of the Year, was selected as the league's preseason Player of the Year headed into 2023-24. Last season, the 5-foot-2 Hofschild was named an Associated Press All-American after averaging 20.6 points and 7.2 assists per game on 48.8 percent shooting. She became the only player in program history to record back-to-back 200+ assist seasons and was the first All-American for the program since Becky Hammon.
Jackie Carman, an incoming transfer from Wofford, started 87 games over her career including 32 last season. She posted 15.1 points per game on 39.4 percent shooting and scored in double figures 28 times. Carman set a Wofford record for consecutive double-digit scoring games at 16. A 1,000-point scorer at Wofford, Carman was also fifth in points scored (582) last season in the Southern Conference, third in three-point percentage (33.8), and fourth in threes made (66).Â
As a team, the Rams (244 points) were picked to finished second behind UNLV (283 points).Â
Colorado State tips off the 2023-24 season on Thursday, Nov. 2 with an exhibition game in Moby Arena vs. UC-Colorado Springs at 6:30 p.m. Season tickets, mini-plans, and single-game tickets are on-sale now at CSURams.com/Tickets.
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