JMU Women Win CAA Tourney In Dominating Fashion

Kenny Brooks and the ladies followed up a dominating CAA regular season, with a dominating tourney championship today. The Dukes defeated Delaware by the score of 70-45. And it wasn’t really that close. Despite an uncharacteristically poor 3 point shooting day, JMU cruised. The outcome was never really in doubt after JMU used a 21-5 run to get out to a 28-12 leave. That was pretty much all she wrote.

Jazmon Gwathmey led the way with 20 points and 14 boards. Kirby Burkholder, Nikki Newman, and Toia Giggetts also reached double figures in scoring. Gwathmey was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and was joined on the all tournament first team by Birkholder and Newman.

We understand women’s basketball isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Kenny Brooks has built a team that might just convince some of the doubters to jump on the bandwagon though. The Dukes play an exciting brand of basketball and are about as unselfish a team you’ll find playing basketball this month. And we’re talking both guys and girls.

The win earns the team a spot in the dance. Brooks and the team will find out who they’re playing tomorrow night. Hopefully they get a decent seed, because they’re a team capable of making some noise and going on a run.