Big 12 regular season co-champions Baylor and West Virginia swept the individual honors in highlighting the 2013-14 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Conference Women’s Basketball Awards.
Mike Carey earned his first Big 12 Coach of the Year award in West Virginia’s second season as a Conference member. Senior guard Taylor Palmer was selected for the Sixth Man Award.
Baylor senior guard Odyssey Sims garnered both Big 12 Player and Defensive Player of the Year while her teammate forward Nina Davis was named Big 12 Freshman of the Year. The honors were voted on by the league’s head coaches who are not allowed to vote for their own players.
WVU is 271-144 under the direction of Carey, who is in his 13th season at the helm of the program. He guided this year’s Mountaineer team to a share of its first Big 12 title with a 16-2 conference record and the squad is currently 27-3 overall. West Virginia enters the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship on a 10-game win streak and is 5-1 this season against Top 25 opponents.
Sims leads the nation in scoring with 29.6 points and has registered four 40-point outings. She is also averaging 4.6 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 2.0 steals. Sims is currently fifth in the Big 12 in career points with 2,366 and 10th in career assists with 612. She has connected on .453 percent of her field goal attempts this season, including .421 from beyond the arc. Sims has been named Big 12 Player of the Week seven times as a senior.
Davis is the Big 12’s top rebounder with 9.0 per game and most accurate shooter with a .596 field goal percentage. She is second on the Lady Bears and ninth in the Conference in scoring with 14.3 points and has 10 double-doubles, good for second in the league. She has started 25 of 30 games in her rookie season and earned seven Big 12 Freshman of the Week awards.
As the first player off the bench, Palmer averages 10.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in 21.7 minutes of action for West Virginia. She is second on the team in three-pointers made (49) and recorded her 1,000-career point earlier in the season. Her 1.6 three-pointers per game rank 10th in the Big 12 and her .778 free-throw percentage is also 10th.
2013-14 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Awards
Coach of the Year: Mike Carey, West Virginia
Player of the Year: Odyssey Sims, Baylor **
Freshman of the Year: Nina Davis, Baylor
Defensive Player of the Year: Odyssey Sims, Baylor
Sixth Man Award: Taylor Palmer, West Virginia
All-Big 12 First Team (all honors listed alphabetical by school)
Player School Pos Ht Cl Hometown
Nina Davis Baylor F 5-11 Fr Memphis, Tenn.
Odyssey Sims ^~!** Baylor G 5-8 Sr Irving, Texas
Hallie Christofferson ^ Iowa State F 6-3 Sr Hamlin, Iowa
Chelsea Gardner Kansas F 6-3 Jr DeSoto, Texas
Aaryn Ellenberg ^~** Oklahoma G 5-7 Sr Las Vegas, Nev.
Tiffany Bias %+** Oklahoma State G 5-6 Sr Andover, Kan.
Zahna Medley TCU G 5-6 So Springfield, Ill.
Nneka Enemkpali Texas F 6-1 Jr Pflugerville, Texas
Asya Bussie West Virginia C 6-4 Sr Randallstown, Md.
Bria Holmes ** West Virginia G 6-1 So New Haven, Conn.
All-Big 12 Second Team
Player School Pos Ht Cl Hometown
Nikki Moody Iowa State G 5-8 Jr Euless, Texas
Leticia Romero Kansas State G 5-8 Fr Las Palmas, Spain
Morgan Hook Oklahoma G 5-10 Sr Lowell, Ark.
Imani McGee-Stafford Texas C 6-7 So Los Angeles, Calif.
Amber Battle Texas Tech G 5-9 Jr Albuquerque, N.M.
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Niya Johnson (Baylor), Makenzie Robertson (Baylor), Natalie Knight (Kansas), Sharane Campbell (Oklahoma), Nicole Griffin (Oklahoma), Liz Donohoe (Oklahoma State), Brittney Martin (Oklahoma State), Chassidy Fussell (Texas)
Big 12 All-Defensive Team
Player School Pos Ht Cl Hometown
Odyssey Sims Baylor G 5-8 Sr Irving, Texas
Tiffany Bias Oklahoma State G 5-6 Sr Andover, Kan.
Latricia Lovings TCU C 6-3 Sr Fort Worth, Texas
Asya Bussie West Virginia C 6-4 Sr Randallstown, Md.
Jess Harlee West Virginia F 6-1 Sr Bel Air, Md.
Big 12 All-Freshman Team
Player School Pos Ht Hometown
Nina Davis ** Baylor F 5-11 Memphis, Tenn.
Jadda Buckley Iowa State G 5-8 Mason City, Iowa
Seanna Johnson Iowa State G 5-10 Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Leticia Romero ** Kansas State G 5-8 Las Palmas, Spain
Roshunda Johnson Oklahoma State G 5-7 Little Rock, Ark.
** Unanimous First Team Selection (coaches cannot vote for own players, unanimous denotes voted first team by other nine coaches)
^ 2012-13 All-Big 12 First Team Selection
% 2012-13 All-Big 12 Second Team Selection
~ 2011-12 All-Big 12 First Team Selection
+ 2011-12 All Big 12 Second Team Selection
! 2010-11 All-Big 12 First Team Selection
— Big 12 Press Release —