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.
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