Bucknell University Athletics
Bison Women's Basketball Player Molly Creamer Named Patriot League Player of the Week
1/7/2002 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 7, 2002
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Junior Molly Creamer (Mendham, N.J./West Morris Mendham), a member of the Bucknell University women's basketball team, has been named the Patriot League Player of the Week for the week ending January 6.
Creamer was instrumental in a 2-0 week for the Orange and Blue, tallying 27 points in a 59-56 win over the University of California in the title game of the Nassau Knockout on January 5. The 5-10 guard also scored 17 points and handed out seven assists in the opening round 73-44 victory over Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne.
Against IPFW, the junior led all scorers at the break with 13 points and seven assists. With the Bison holding a 21-point advantage at halftime, Creamer only played 10 minutes in the second half, finishing the contest with a game-best 17 markers and tying her season-high with the seven helpers.
Creamer led all scorers with 27 points on 10-of-20 shooting in the victory over the Golden Bears. She entered halftime with just seven points, but came out to shoot 7-of-10 from the floor, 1-of-1 from three-point territory and 5-of-5 from the free throw line in the second half for 20 points. Her two made free throws with 21 seconds remaining helped to seal the tournament title, Bucknell's first in ten years.
With two three-pointers on the weekend, Creamer moved into a tie for second place on the Bucknell all-time career trey's list with 90. She needs just eight more to become Bucknell's all-time leader. In addition, the guard handed out 10 assists in the two games, increasing her career total of helpers to 302 and making her only the third female in school history to score over 1,000 points and hand out over 300 assists.
She is leading the team and is second in the Patriot League in scoring with 19.7 points per game, and her 1,264 career points place her sixth on the Bucknell all-time list.
The Bison are currently 7-6 overall and open Patriot League play on Wednesday. The Orange and Blue host Lafayette in Davis Gymnasium on January 9 at 5:15 p.m. to kick off their second season.
