Tusculum’s Ashli Oliver Named Women’s Basketball Player Of The Week

ROCK HILL, S.C. - Tusculum College's Ashli Oliver has been named the South Atlantic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week, league officials announced today.

Junior guard Ashli Oliver averaged 21 points per game in leading the Tusculum College women's basketball team to a pair of South Atlantic Conference road wins. Oliver, a native of Kokomo, Ind., shot 52 percent from the floor, including 11-of-23 from three-point territory (48 percent).

In Tusculum's 82-67 road win at Lincoln Memorial, Oliver poured in 20 points, including five-three pointers. She followed that effort with 22 points in TC's 89-73 win at Catawba. In that game, the 2007 All-SAC standout went 6-for-12 from beyond the arc, including five treys in the opening half.

Oliver was perfect in her five free throw attempts, while averaging 2.5 rebounds per contest.

Oliver leads the SAC in three-point field goals made per game and her 257 career 3-pointers are second all-time in South Atlantic Conference history (13 shy of the all-time career mark).

Tusculum's 19-3 record matches the best start to a season in school history (through 22 games).

The win is Oliver's first of the season and the second of her career, having previously won the award on November 27, 2006. She is the second Tusculum player to win the award this season, with Jasmine Gunn's three wins earlier this year. A TC player has won the award four of the last five weeks.

The South Atlantic Conference Player of the Week is determined by a vote of the sports information directors of the league.