AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Longhorns senior point guard Rori Harmon is one of the top point guards in the country, and she has the nomination to prove it.
Harmon is one of five finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, given to the most outstanding point guard in NCAA Division I women’s basketball for the past 26 years by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Harmon is fourth in the country with 189 assists and sixth in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.15 (189 assists, 60 turnovers). She’s the only player in Texas program history to score at least 1,200 points and have 600 assists. She’s second on the all-time assists list at Texas with 690.
The other finalists are:
- Georgia Amoore, Kentucky
- Paige Bueckers, UConn
- Olivia Miles, Notre Dame
- Kiki Rice, UCLA
Harmon is also on the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award watchlist.
Texas (29-2, 15-1 SEC) won a share of the Southeastern Conference championship in their first year in the conference but will be the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament due to a coin flip. South Carolina and Texas finished SEC play 15-1, and the Gamecocks won the toss to be the top seed.
