Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Molly Creamer Named Kodak/WBCA All-America Honorable Mention
3/24/2003 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 24, 2003
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell women's basketball player Molly Creamer (Mendham, N.J./West Morris Mendham) has been named a finalist for the 2003 NCAA Division I Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Women's Basketball Team, the WBCA announced recently. Creamer earned Honorable Mention accolades for Region 1, and is automatically eligible for the national 10-member team.
WBCA member coaches of the Kodak/WBCA All-America Selection Committee in each of the eight WBCA geographical regions select the Kodak/WBCA All-American Team.
Creamer becomes the first Bucknell or Patriot League player to earn Honorable Mention recognition from the WBCA and Kodak.
With her third-straight Patriot League Player of the Year selection this season, Creamer gives Bucknell only its third player of the year honor in the 13-year history of the league, all belonging to her. The 5-10 guard continued her assault on the Bucknell and Patriot League record books in her senior season, becoming both the conference and school's all-time leading scorer (men or women) throughout the course of the year. Creamer, who spent a large part of the regular-season as the nation's leading scorer, finished her final season ranked second in the country at 27.1 points per game, a new PL single-season record (former record: 26.1 - Amy O'Brien, Holy Cross, 1998). Ending the year with 759 points, she became just the second player in league history, and the first Bison, to score over 700 points in a single-season, and just missed O'Brien's single-season record of 782. Her playmaking abilities often overlooked because she is such a scoring threat, Creamer also led the Patriot League in assists (6.0) for the third-straight year. Only one other player in NCAA history, Anja Bordt (St. Mary's, 1989-91, West Coast Conference), has led her conference in both scoring and assists three-straight years.
On February 21, 2003, the co-captain broke her own school and conference single-game scoring record with 44 points on 16-of-21 shooting at Lafayette. In that contest, Creamer scored 31 of Bucknell's 36 second-half points, including the final 29 for the team, on her way to setting an Allan P. Kirby Sports Center scoring record. In January, she also set a new women's single-game scoring record in Colgate's Cotterell Court with 37 against the Raiders.
This season, Creamer scored at least 20 points in 23 of 28 games, breaking her own record for 20-point games in a single-season, set last year (18). She tallied over 30 in 11 games, also a school record, and the point guard reached 40 points on two occasions, tying the Bucknell standard for a single-season. Creamer leaves Bucknell with her name in the top-3 on all but three all-time career lists, and as the holder of 16 school records. She has also broken or had a share of 19 Patriot League records. With 2,462 career points, Creamer stands in 33rd on the NCAA all-time scoring list and is only the 47th player in NCAA history to record over 2,400 career points.
Bucknell finished the 2002-03 season with a 13-15 overall record, ending the season with a loss to Holy Cross, 66-63, in the semifinals of the Patriot League Championship Tournament.
The NCAA Division I Kodak/WBCA Honorable Mentions are listed below by region:
| The 2003 NCAA Division I Kodak/WBCA Honorable Mentions | |||||
| Region | Name | Institution | Yr. | Pos. | Ht. |
| Region 1 | Jennifer Butler | University of Massachusetts | Sr. | G | 6-3 |
| ? | Becky Gottstein | Boston College | Sr. | F/P | 6-1 |
| ? | Tamara James | University of Miami | Fr. | G/F | 5-9 |
| ? | Trish Juhline | Villanova University | Sr. | G | 5-10 |
| ? | Cappie Pondester | Rutgers University | So. | G | 5-9 |
| ? | Diana Taurasi | University of Connecticut | Jr. | G | 6-0 |
| ? | Molly Creamer | Bucknell University | Sr. | G | 5-10 |
| Region 2 | Gunto Basko | Siena College | Sr. | F | 6-0 |
| ? | Alana Beard | Duke University | Jr. | G | 5-11 |
| ? | Coretta Brown | University of North Carolina | Sr. | G | 5-8 |
| ? | Chrissy Floyd | Clemson University | Sr. | G | 5-9 |
| ? | Sonja Mallory | Georgia Institute of Technology | Sr. | C | 6-5 |
| ? | Iciss Tillis | Duke University | Jr. | F | 6-4 |
| Region 3 | Chantelle Anderson | Vanderbilt University | Sr. | C | 6-6 |
| ? | Seimone Augustus | Louisiana State University | Fr. | G/F | 6-1 |
| ? | Gwen Jackson | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Sr. | F | 6-2 |
| ? | Kara Lawson | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Sr. | G | 5-8 |
| ? | Jocelyn Penn | University of South Carolina | Sr. | F | 6-0 |
| ? | LaToya Thomas | Mississippi State University | Sr. | F | 6-2 |
| Region 4 | Tamara Bowie | Ball State University | Sr. | F | 6-0 |
| ? | Heather Cusick | Miami University (Ohio) | Sr. | G | 5-8 |
| ? | Chandi Jones | University of Houston | Jr. | G | 6-0 |
| ? | Kristin Koetsier | Western Michigan University | Jr. | P | 6-3 |
| ? | Teana McKiver | Tulane University | Sr. | C | 6-3 |
| ? | Debbie Merrill | University of Cincinnati | Sr. | C | 6-3 |
| Region 5 | Nicole Ohlde | Kansas State University | Jr. | C/F | 6-4 |
| ? | Jia Perkins | Texas Tech University | Jr. | G | 5-8 |
| ? | Plenette Pierson | Texas Tech University | Sr. | F | 6-2 |
| ? | Stacy Stephens | University of Texas | Jr. | P | 6-1 |
| ? | Kendra Wecker | Kansas State University | So. | F | 5-11 |
| ? | Lindsey Wilson | Iowa State University | So. | G | 5-9 |
| Region 6 | Carla Bennett | Drake University | Sr. | C | 6-3 |
| ? | Courtney Coleman | Ohio State University | Sr. | F | 6-2 |
| ? | Jennie Lillis | University of Iowa | Jr. | F | 6-1 |
| ? | Kelly Mazzante | Penn State University | Jr. | G | 6-0 |
| ? | Lindsey Whalen | University of Minnesota | Jr. | G | 5-8 |
| ? | Shereka Wright | Purdue University | Jr. | F | 5-10 |
| Region 7 | Ashley Augsberger | Colorado State University | Sr. | F | 6-1 |
| ? | Carrie Bacon | University of Wyoming | Sr. | F | 6-0 |
| ? | Allison Curtain | The University of Tulsa | Sr. | G | 5-11 |
| ? | Cheryl Ford | Louisiana Tech University | Sr. | C | 6-3 |
| ? | Constance Jinks | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Sr. | G | 5-7 |
| ? | Kim Smith | University of Utah | Fr. | F | 6-1 |
| Region 8 | Michelle Greco | University of California, Los Angeles | Sr. | G | 5-9 |
| ? | Ebony Hoffman | University of Southern California | Jr. | F/C | 6-2 |
| ? | Giuliana Mendiola | University of Washington | Jr. | G | 5-11 |
| ? | Shawntinice Polk | University of Arizona | Fr. | C | 6-5 |
| ? | Nichole Powell | Stanford University | Jr. | G/F | 6-2 |
| ? | Lindsay Taylor | University of California, Santa Barbara | Jr. | C | 6-6 |
The NCAA Division I Kodak/WBCA All-America Women's Basketball Team will be announced at the Kodak Press Conference prior to WBCA's "Night of All-Stars" on April 4th at 4:00 p.m. at Georgia Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, Ga.
