Conti Earns First Career Weekly Honor
1/18/2021 3:30:00 PM | Women's Basketball
The senior point guard posted a career-high 29 points on Thursday at Notre Dame, and tallied a game-high tying 18 at Virginia Tech on Sunday afternoon.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Wake Forest women's basketball senior guard Gina Conti was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Co-Player of the Week, as announced by the league office Monday afternoon.
This is Wake Forest's second consecutive week with an ACC weekly honor, as Ivana Raca claimed this accolade one week ago.
Conti recorded a career-best performance at Notre Dame last Thursday as she scored 29 points and knocked down 8-of-12 threes in the game. Both tallies were career bests and her eight triples was just one short of the school record held by Elisa Penna (Feb. 18, 2018 at NC State) and Chelsea Douglas (Dec. 29, 2013 vs. Florida International). Also, she scored 26 points in the second half of that contest, which was the highest tally by a Demon Deacon in half since Dearica Hamby had 27 in the second half against Montana on Nov. 29, 2014.
The Grove City, Ohio native followed that effort with a game-high tying 18 points in the Demon Deacons win over Virginia Tech on Sunday afternoon. Overall for the week, Conti averaged 23.5 ppg., 3.5 rpg., 2.5 apg., and 1.5 spg. Additionally, she finished the week shooting 60 percent from the field and 62.5 percent from behind the three-point arc, which was higher than any other nominee that played in multiple games.
The victory over the Hokies marked the Demon Deacons first road conference win this season.
Conti is now just four assists away from moving into fifth in Wake Forest history in career assists. She needs 94 to move into first. Additionally, Conti is currently tied for fourth in program history in assist-to-turnover ratio.
NEXT UP
The Deacs return home, hosting Georgia Tech on Thursday, Jan. 21, in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It marks the first of four consecutive home contests.
The game will tip off at 6 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
