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Colorado State senior guard Hannah Tvrdy has been named the Mountain West Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. The conference announced Tvrdy’s honor on Monday.
This marks the first weekly conference honor of Tvrdy’s career. The native of Seward, Neb., is the second Ram to receive a weekly honor from the conference this season, as CSU junior forward Annie Brady was recognized by the Mountain West on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017. Only New Mexico (three players) has been recognized more often by the conference this season.
Last week, Tvrdy averaged 22 points per game on 19-for-31 shooting (.613), along with 9.5 rebounds, two assists and two steals per game. Included in those performances was a career-best 28-point outing in the Rams’ 72-43 win over San Diego State on Wednesday. Tvrdy shot 12-for-18 in that performance, and added 10 rebounds for her third double-double of 2017-18. Defensively, she added four steals.
Colorado State led SDSU by six at halftime, but it was a Tvrdy offensive outburst in the third quarter that put the game on ice. In that quarter, Tvrdy went 8-for-10 from the floor, pouring in 18 points to give the Rams a 65-38 lead heading to the fourth.
Tvrdy led CSU offensively once against in the Rams’ 74-71 overtime win over New Mexico, scoring 16 points on 7-for-13 shooting with nine boards and a trio of assists. Her late-game heroics lifted the team once again, as she buried the go-ahead three-pointer with less than a minute remaining in extra time to give the Rams the win.
The Colorado State women’s basketball team returns to the road this week for Mountain West matchups at Wyoming and Nevada. The Rams take on the Cowgirls at 6:30 p.m. MT on Wednesday, and face the Wolf Pack at 3 p.m. MT/2 p.m. PT.
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