Mikayla Blakes of Vanderbilt women's basketball was named the USBWA Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Year, the organization announced Tuesday. Blakes will be honored at the Final Four.

He is the sixth Blue Devil to earn National Freshman of the Year honors from the USBWA and fifth to take home the Wayman Tisdale Award, which began in 2011. Flagg, who turned 18 years old in ...

S. Basketball Writers Association. Blakes becomes the first Vanderbilt women’s basketball player to win the USBWA’s national freshman of the year award, as well as the first Commodore to win ...

Blakes was named the 2024-25 Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). She’s the first Vanderbilt player to win the awards and first ...

This isn’t the first USBWA freshman award in the program ... were named to the USBWA’s Ann Meyers-Drysdale National Player of ...

Paige Bueckers is playing her final college season with the UConn Huskies. While she has yet to win a national championship, she has already had a decorated college career. Bueckers was named the ...