Sports News: Spring 2004

Thursday, March 11, 2004

KIM HUGHES & MORAVIAN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SQUAD CONTINUE TO BE RANKED IN NCAA STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Senior guard Kim Hughes (Manasquan, NJ/St. Rose HS) is ranked individually, and the Moravian College women’s basketball team is also ranked nationally in the tenth NCAA Division III basketball statistical rankings released by the NCAA on Wednesday.

Hughes, who helped the Greyhounds to 19-10 record this season, is ranked 18th in the country in free throw percentage at 85.0 percent (68 of 80).

The Moravian women are ranked eighth in the nation as a team in free throw percentage, making 74.7 percent of their free throws (569 of 772). The Greyhounds have the best single game performance of the season at the charity stripe this year and in the history of the NCAA with a 35-for-35 performance versus Susquehanna University on December 7, 2003. Moravian made 193 more free throws than its opponents this season, and the squad made just 22 fewer free throws than its opponents attempted this winter.

Moravian finished out the season as the Commonwealth Conference Runner-Up and an Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Southern Semifinalist.