Simmons Named to BIG EAST Honor Roll
2/10/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 10, 2014
NEW YORK - Seton Hall University redshirt junior point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons (Newark, N.J.) was selected to the BIG EAST Women's Basketball Weekly Honor Roll for a third time this season Monday it was announced by the league office. Simmons led the Pirates offensively in both of their BIG EAST games last week, averaging 17.5 ppg.
In a narrow 62-60 midweek loss at Marquette last Wednesday night Simmons posted her fifth 20-point game of the season, shooting 7-for-11 from the field and 6-for-6 from the free-throw line, also tallying a team-high six assists.
The big offensive performance carried some added significance as Simmons eclipsed 900-career points in the process. She currently leads all active Seton Hall players with 923 career points, and needs just 75 more to move up to No. 20 on the program's all-time scoring ranks.
Simmons also scored 15 points in a 62-57 setback to Villanova University on Sunday afternoon in Walsh Gymnasium, notching her 17th-straight double-figure scoring game in the process. For the week she scored her 17.5 ppg on 52.2 percent shooting (12-for-23) from the field while averaging 35.5 minutes per game; Simmons also went 11-for-13 (84.6 percent) at the free-throw line.
For the season Simmons ranks sixth in the BIG EAST, averaging 16.0 ppg, and leads the conference with 5.7 assists per game. Against league foes her offensive numbers are even more impressive, where her 17.0 ppg rank fifth in the conference and she is also second with a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
With her impressive junior campaign Simmons is steadily climbing up a number of Seton Hall's career and single-season top-10 lists. Her 126 assists this season represent a career-high and rank eighth in program history. She has also cracked the top-10 in career assists with 320 over her two-plus seasons.
Free throw shooting is the other category Simmons is leaving a lasting impression in the record books. Her 137 free throws this year rank second in program history and she trails only Jasmine Crew's 167 makes from the stripe in 2011-12. With 292 free throws in her career Simmons has moved up to sixth-place all-time.
Seton Hall will play a pair of BIG EAST road games this week as the Pirates travel to Georgetown University on Wednesday night and face DePaul in the Windy City on Saturday afternoon. Tipoff against Georgetown at McDonough Arena is scheduled for 8 p.m.
BIG EAST Player of the Week
Andrea White - Georgetown, Forward
BIG EAST Freshman of the Week
Natalie Butler - Georgetown, Center
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll
Lauren Burford - Villanova, Forward
Mariss Janning - Creighton, Guard
Daress McClung - Butler, Guard/Forward
Jasmine Penny - DePaul, Forward
Ka-Deidre Simmons - Seton Hall, Guard
