ATLANTA – Drake University women's basketball junior
Becca Hittner (Urbandale, Iowa) is an all-region finalist for the 2019 Women's Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division I Coaches' All-America team, the WBCA announced last week. The selection committee will select the 10-member WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches' All-America team from 52 all-region candidates.
Hittner, who is a region 4 finalist, is the first WBCA all-region nominee for Drake since Lizzy Wendell in 2017. Hittner, who has been named the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year each of the last two seasons, is the first Bulldog to be named the conference player of the year twice since Drake legend Wanda Ford in 1985 and 1986.
This year, Hittner, who was the MVC's top scorer last season, averaged a league-best 19.7 points per game while her name is found among the MVC leaders in several other statistical categories, including three-point percentage (40.4, 4th), field goal percentage (46.9, 7th), free throw percentage (82.1, 6th) and rebounding (5.2, 15th). Hittner recorded a league-best 15 20-point plus scoring games, a league-high four 30-point plus scoring games and scored in double digits in 32-of-34 games. She was named to the All-MVC First Team for the third-consecutive season and joins Wendell as the only Bulldogs to earn All-MVC First Team honors in each of their first three seasons. Hittner made 76 three-pointers, which tied for fifth most in a season in school history.
Her 1,565 career points are accompanied by 98 steals, 188 three-pointers, 221 assists and 503 rebounds while shooting a program-leading 44.2 percent from three (leads all active NCAA players), 48.7 percent from the floor and 83.5 percent from the free throw line (3rd all-time at Drake). Her points total and career scoring average of 16.1 rank 17
th and seventh, respectively, going into her final season.
An excellent student, Hittner, who holds a 3.96 GPA in marketing, was selected to the Google Cloud (CoSIDA) Academic All-American Third Team, to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team and was named MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Week during the regular season.
Region 4
| Name |
School |
| Kenisha Bell |
University of Minnesota |
| Allazia Blockton |
Marquette University |
| Kaila Charles |
University of Maryland |
| Mart'e Grays |
DePaul University |
| Megan Gustafson |
University of Iowa |
| Natisha Hiedeman |
Marquette University |
| Becca Hittner |
Drake University |
| Teniya Page |
Penn State University |
| Hallie Thome |
University of Michigan |
