TicketsMarch 4, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. - University of Cincinnati senior guard Kahla Roudebush (Noblesville, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) was named to the all-BIG EAST second team on Thursday (March 4), the conference announced on the eve of the 2010 BIG EAST Championship.
Roudebush earns the honor for the second straight season and becomes the first UC women's basketball player to earn multiple all-BIG EAST honors.
The fifth-year senior, who led the Bearcats and ranked 13th in the BIG EAST in scoring at 13.6 points per game, ranks in the Top 10 in school history in eight statistical categories. She is 10th in career scoring - having moved past Debbie Merrill in UC's last outing against Marquette on March 1 - with 1,425 points. She also ranks in the Top 10 in career free throw percentage (6th, .778), field goal attempts (10th, 1,165), games played (10th, 116), and minutes played (7th, 3,537).
Roudebush is second in school history in three-point percentage (.377) and third in both threes made (194) and threes attempted (515). She has led the Bearcats in scoring in each of the last three seasons and has rarely come off the floor. Over the last three seasons (87 games), she has averaged 37.0 minutes per contest, including playing 38.5 minutes per game in 2008-09, which led the BIG EAST and ranked No. 8 in the nation.
Roudebush has been even more productive in BIG EAST play this season, averaging 15.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and shooting .403 from beyond the three-point arc and .828 from the free throw line. She averaged 38.8 minutes per game in conference play, being on the floor for 620 of a possible 655 minutes.
A three-time BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll recipient in 2009-10, Roudebush is just the second UC player to earn all-BIG EAST honors, following guard Treasure Humphries, who was named to the second team following the 2005-06 season.
The Bearcats open the 2010 BIG EAST Championship on March 5 at 8 p.m. against USF in the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.