Tuesday,
January 30, 2001
BLUE
HOSE RANKED IN NCAA DIVISION II NATIONAL STATISTICS
PC’s Leopard leads the nation in free throw percentage
CLINTON,
SC — Presbyterian College’s basketball teams rank
among the national leaders in this week’s NCAA Division II
statistics.
| The women’s basketball
team, led by junior wing Toni
Leopard (Ninety-Six, SC), currently leads the nation
(NCAA Division II) in free throw percentage at 91.5%. Leopard,
a former Ninety-Six High School standout, is second on the
team in scoring at 13.4 points per game and is one of two
players this season to surpass the 1,000-point plateau in
their career. In addition, senior
forward/center Rachel
Sloan (Greenville, SC) is 44th in NCAA Division II in
scoring at 17.8 points per game. The former Carolina Academy
standout is this week’s South Atlantic Conference Player of
the Week and moved into sixth place in SAC history in career
scoring at 1,713 points. |
|
On the men’s side, the
team ranks 11th in the nation in scoring defense allowing only
63.3 points per game. The Blue Hose leads the SAC in scoring
defense and rebound margin (+6.7).