ROCK HILL, S.C. – For the seventh time in her career, Braelyn Wykle was named the South Atlantic Conference Varsity Gems Women's Basketball Player of the Week after an eye-popping week on the hardwood last week announced by the league on Monday.
In a pair of games against Mars Hill and Anderson, the guard averaged 37.5 points per game going 25-for-45 from the field and going 14-for-23 from long range matching the school record for triples in a game in both games making seven apiece. She went 11-for-12 at the charity stripe adding four steals, six assists, two rebounds and a block.
The week started with a 31-point outburst over 39 minutes in a road game against the Lions going 11-for-20 from the floor making seven of 10 from long range.
Wykle capped the week by leading the club to an 81-75 victory over Anderson scoring a career-high 44 points, 32 coming in the first half, while rewriting record books from the program to the nation over 40 minutes on the floor.
The Greeneville, Tenn. native joined Lisa Stogner (1980-84) as the only two players in school history to score 2,000 points for a career becoming the sixth SAC player, the first since 2011, and sixth active Division II player to crest the mark for a career.
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She ranks fourth in SAC history in converted triples. Among active Division II players, Wykle is 21st player among all three divisions to score 2,000 points with 15 being at the top level. She has the eighth-most trifectas among active Division II athletes.
The guard became the 15th player in league history to score at least 40 points in a game and the first Lady Eagle since Haris Price had 44 at Lenoir-Rhyne on Feb. 2, 2019, a span 116 games and 1,480 days ago. The 44 points were three shy of both the SAC and school record while it was good for the fourth-most by a Division II player for the year.
Overall, the junior went 14-for-25 from the field going 7-for-13 from the charity strip and sinking all nine foul shots. It was the fifth time in her career that she drilled a program-record tying seven triples.
With a surge in scoring in the second semester, Wykle has moved into seventh nationally in scoring with 21.7 points per game, third in free-throw percentage at 92 percent, seventh in three-point efficiency at 45.7 percent, 13th in made threes with 69 and made field goals with 181.
Carson-Newman returns home to action on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. visiting Tusculum with broadcast coverage airing at 5:15 with "The AEC Countdown to Tip-Off" on the Eagle Sports Network.
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