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Feb. 4 C-USA Women's Basketball Player of the Week
 

 
 
 
Tye Jackson, Houston
 
Tye Jackson, Houston
 
 

Feb. 4, 2008

IRVING, Texas - - After recording the fourth triple double in Conference USA women's basketball history, Houston's Tye Jackson has been named this week's C-USA Women's Basketball Player of the Week. Halfway through the league schedule, she has the Cougars in second-place in the C-USA standings at 7-1.

Tye Jackson, Houston
5-10, Senior, Guard, Houston, Texas

Jackson averaged almost a triple double over the weekend as Houston ran its winning streak to seven games and matched the best C-USA start in program history. The Cougars have achieved a 7-1 mark in C-USA play for the third time in school history.

Jackson tallied the fourth triple-double in Conference USA and Cougar history with 11 points, a career-best 16 rebounds and 12 assists in an 80-76 overtime win at UAB.

Against Memphis, she recorded 11 points, seven assists and six rebounds.

Through eight league games, she has averaged 9.5 ppg, 7.0 rpg and 7.1 apg.

She recently became the third player in school history to surpass 1,000-career points with 300 career assists.

This is Jackson's first weekly honor this season and the third of her career.

2007-08 C-USA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
N12 Valeriya Berezhynska, Rice
N20 Maudess Fulton, Rice & Crystal McFadden, UAB
N26 Janielle Dodds, SMU
D3 Delisha Wills, SMU
D10 LaToya Terry, East Carolina & Pauline Love, Southern Miss
D17 Casey Baker, Marshall
D24 Crystal McFadden, UAB
D30 Kizzy Hart, Marshall
J7 Twiggy McIntrye, Houston
J14 Diamond Rogers, UAB & Jareica Hughes, UTEP
J21 Twiggy McIntrye, Houston
J28 Larrissa Williams, Tulsa
F4 Tye Jackson, Houston

 

 

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