Rutgers Womans Basketball Player Receives PLAYER OF THE YEAR, Is That Why IMUS Called Her A Ho?

Rutgers Womans Basketball Player Get PLAYER OF THE YEAR!

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Vaughn Named ALL-MET Woman’s Basketball Division I, PLAYER OF THE YEAR!

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Sophomore center Kia Vaughn (Bronx, N.Y.) was named the All-Met Division I Women's College Basketball Player of the Year by the National Invitation Tournament and the Met Basketball Writers Association. Vaughn received the award at the annual banquet held on Tuesday night at the Giants Stadium Club.

1. The player of the year award is the eighth for the Rutgers program in the last 12 seasons, and the fifth-straight as former Scarlet Knight Cappie Pondexter earned the honor for four-straight seasons. Junior forward Essence Carson (Paterson, N.J.) joined Vaughn, earning first team honors for her contributions to the 2007 BIG EAST Championship squad.

Vaughn finished the year averaging 12.8 points per game to go along with 9.3 boards per contest, which ranked her third in the BIG EAST and 41st nationally. She blocked 92 shots during the season, the second-best single-season mark in Scarlet Knight history. Her average of 2.6 blocks per game ranked her 17th in the country.

The only player to start and play in all of RU's contests this year, Vaughn has 15 career double-doubles, 12 during her sophomore campaign, including a 20 point, 10 rebound effort in the national title game against Tennessee.

Carson closed out the season second on the team in scoring with 12.3 rebounds per game to go along with 6.3 boards per outing. She scored in double-digits 25 times this season, including a 10-game double-digit scoring streak that ended against UConn (Feb. 6). At the 2007 BIG EAST tournament, she was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year for the second-straight season.

The Scarlet Knights made their second-ever appearance in the Final Four, the first during the 2000 season, as head coach C. Vivian Stringer became the first head coach –male or female- to lead three different teams to the Final Four (Cheney State, 1982; Iowa, 1993; Rutgers, 2000) RU advanced to the championship game for the first time in school history. In 2007, Rutgers won 22 of 26 games, including winning its first-ever BIG EAST Championship tournament title.