Utah junior forward Alissa Pili has been named as a semifinalist for the 2023 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year award.
Pili is one of two players from Pac-12 schools on the list, joined by Stanford’s Cameron Brink.
The award’s four finalists will be announced on Tuesday, March 21. The Fan Vote to help narrow the list down to the final honoree will open Tuesday, March 21, and close Tuesday, March 28. The fan vote will account for?five percent of the overall final vote. The 2023 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s Player of the Year will be awarded on Wednesday, March 29 during the Women’s Final Four.
Pili is the Pac-12 Player of the Year and is the leading scorer for the Utes, who are ranked No. 8 in this week’s AP poll. The Utes have a 25-4 overall record on the season and sit at No. 10 in the nation in winning percentage. Pili leads the Pac-12 in scoring at 20.3 points per game and ranks 18th nationally. Her shooting percentage of 59.9-percent is second in the Pac-12 and ranks 18th nationally.
The junior from Anchorage, Alaska (Dimond High School) has a streak of scoring 20 or more points in six consecutive games starting with her 27-point performance against Arizona on January 15 and ending with her season high of 30 points against Oregon on February 5. She is the first Ute to do so since 2009-10. Her back-to-back 28-point games in early December were the first consecutive games of 28 or more points by a Utah player since 2014, and she was the first Ute to do so in two road games since at least 1999-2000.
Pili recently topped the 1,000-career-point mark, bringing 795 points from USC (2019-22) before her transfer to Utah prior to the 2022-23 season.
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