Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Hoops Star Molly Creamer Picked 10th Overall in WNBA Draft
4/25/2003 8:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
April 25, 2003
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell women's basketball standout Molly Creamer (Mendham, N.J./West Morris Mendham) has accomplished yet another first for the Bison program. The 5-10 guard was selected 10th overall by the New York Liberty in the WNBA draft, held Friday, April 25, in Secaucus, N.J., becoming the first women's basketball player in school or Patriot League history to get drafted into the professional league. She was just the second guard chosen, after Tennessee's Kara Lawson was the fifth pick by the Detroit Shock.
Creamer will join the team for the preseason training camp, which begins on May 1, and vie for the opportunity to play in the first preseason game at the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday, May 6. The regular-season of the WNBA opens on May 22, with the Liberty playing its first regular-season game on Saturday, May 31 at Cleveland.
Creamer, the all-time leading scorer in Bucknell and Patriot League history, last month was named a 2003 NCAA Division I Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America, and an Associated Press All-America.
With her third-straight Patriot League Player of the Year selection this season, Creamer gave 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's 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.
