ATLANTA - For the second consecutive season, Drake University women's basketball senior Becca Hittner is a Women's Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division I All-Region Finalist, the WBCA announced Wednesday, March 25. Hittner is the first Drake player to earn multiple WBCA All-Region honors.
 
The selection committee will select the 10-member WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches' All-America team from 52 candidates. The 2020 WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches' All-America team will be announced Thursday, April 2. Hittner garnered WBCA All-American Honorable Mention honors in 2019.
 
This past season, Hittner was named the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for the third consecutive year, becoming just third MVC player to win the top award three times.
 
Hittner led the Valley in scoring for third-straight season averaging 18.9 points per game in 2019-20. Her free throws made (160), three-point total (70) and three-point percentage of 41.2 were tops in the MVC. Hittner's shooting percentage of 45.4 ranked fourth while her career-high rebounding average of 6.4 per game was ninth. She upped her numbers in league play, averaging a league-best 21.1 points per game to go with 7.2 rebounds.
 
She recorded a career-high six double-doubles, scored in double figures in 28-of-30 games and tallied a league-leading three 30-plus and 12 20-plus scoring performances this year.
 
Hittner's career totals in several statistical categories rank among the all-time leaders in Drake and MVC history. She scored 2,133 career points, which ranks sixth at Drake and seventh in the MVC. Hittner's school-record 43.4 career three-point percentage is seventh in conference history and her 258 career three-pointers is second in school history and T-11^th all-time in the Valley.
 
In addition to being named MVC Player of the Year for the third-straight season, Hittner collected several league and national honors in recognition for her outstanding final season as a Bulldog. She was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team and to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team. In addition, she was named to the All-MVC First Team for the fourth-straight season. Hittner is just the eighth MVC player and fourth Drake player to be picked to the All-MVC First Team four times.
 
The WBCA selection committee uses an equation to determine an equitable number of finalists from each region. The number of NCAA Division I institutions in each region is divided by the number of NCAA Division I institutions overall to determine a percentage for each region. This percentage is then multiplied by 52 (the total number of desired finalists) to get the number of finalists for each region.
 
WBCA All-Region 4

Name	School
Grace Berger	Indiana University
Kaila Charles	University of Maryland
Kathleen Doyle	University of Iowa
Arella Guirantes	Rutgers University
Naz HIllmon	University of Michigan
Becca Hittner	Drake University
Dorka Juhasz	Ohio State University
Ali Patberg	Indiana University
Lindsey Pulliam	Northwestern University
Chante Stonewall	DePaul University