Wake Forest Athletics
Dearica Hamby Named ACC Player of the Week
2/9/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
By Erika Carrubba, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeWBB)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest senior forward Dearica Hamby collected her second ACC Player of the Week honor of the season on Monday.
Hamby is the Co-ACC Player of the Week along with Florida State's Adut Bulgak. Hamby averaged 20.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game in two contests last week. She posted back-to-back doubles-doubles and against No. 15 Duke and NC State to take home her second league honor this season.
Hamby recorded her 14th double-double of the season with 18 points and 10 rebounds against No. 15 Duke. She followed that performance with 23 points and 13 rebounds for her 15th double-double at NC State. With 23 points in the game she moved up to fifth place on Wake Forest's all-time scoring list with 1,637 career points, passing Tracy Connor who scored 1,619 points from 1993-97. Chelsea Douglas is ahead of Hamby in fourth place with 1,656 points from 2010-14.
This is the third career ACC Player of the Week honor for Hamby. She also earned the honor on Dec. 1, 2014 and Jan. 27, 2014.
Hamby is the first Demon Deacon to earn ACC Player of the Week honors twice in one season since Amy Privette in 1986-87. Privette holds the record for most ACC Player of the Week nods by a Demon Deacon with four.
