LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The Mountain West on Monday named University of New Mexico senior Antiesha Brown to the All-Conference Team.
Brown, a senior from Clovis, N.M., is the first Lobos to make the team since Caroline Durbin in 2011-12.
Brown is averaging 14.6 points per game to rank eighth in the MW (and 15.1 points per game in conference play). She is also averaging 4.1 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals. She ranks third in the Mountain West in free-throw shooting with an 82.7 percent average) and second in the league in field-goal percentage (among those players who qualify with five field goals made per game) with an average of 43.5 percent.
Brown, who has scored in double figures in 11 consecutive games, became the 19th player to score 1,000 points during her Lobo career against Fresno State on Feb. 28. She currently ranks 18th with 1,033 career points.
Brown also earned All-Defensive Team honors, giving her four career MW postseason awards. She was an honorable-mention All-MW selection in 2013-14 and the MW Sixth Player of the Year in 2012-13.
Coach Yvonne Sanchez, whose Lobos were picked to finish ninth, earned Mountain West Coach of the Year honors. She is the second Lobo coach to win the award; Don Flanagan won his only Coach of the Year Award in 2004-05.
Freshman Cherise Beynon made the All-Freshman Team, the first Lobo to earn a newcomer-type award since Dionne Marsh in 2004-05.
The Lobos, the No. 2 seed in the Mountain West Tournament, will play in Tuesday’s 7 p.m. quarterfinals against the winner of the No. 7-seed San Diego State-No. 10-seed Nevada game tonight.