10  Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir
	Class: RS Sophomore Hometown: Springfield, Mass. High School: New Leadership Charter Height: 5-4 Position: Guard Experience: 1L Honors: C-USA Academic Honor Roll (2009-2010, 2010-2011), C-USA Academic Medalist (2009-2010); Tiger 3.0 Club (2009, 2010), Dean's List (Fall 2009)

2010-2011: Played in all 34 games as a freshman, with one start at Southern Miss...Had her best scoring night of the year in the road win at Indiana, finishing with 15 points and four steals while shooting 6-for-9 from the field in Memphis' first win over a Big 10 school since Nov. 30, 2002...She would tie her career high of four steals in a win at Marshall (1/27/11)...Scored double-digit points three times, including the career-high 15 at Indiana...Also scored 12 in the win at Tulsa and 11 in a loss to UAB...Led the team in free-throw percentage, shooting 78.7 percent (48-for-61)...Also had a career-high four rebounds in the win at Tulsa...Will enter 2011-2012 with a seven-consecutive game scoring streak intact...Averaged 3.9 points and 1.3 rebounds per game in 12.3 minutes a night...Also added 40 assists on the season and 28 steals...Named to the Conference USA Academic Honor Roll both semesters...Honored by the United States Basketball Writers Association as the female recipient of the "Most Courageous" Award at the 2011 NCAA Final Four.

2009-2010 (Freshman): Tore her ACL in the pre-season and missed the entire 2009-2010 season...Redshirted the season, so she will have four years of eligibility when she returns to the court for 2010-2011...Named to the Dean's List and the Tiger 3.0 Club in the fall and the C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll following the spring semester...Also named a C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medalist following the spring semester.

Prep: Was a 2009 graduate of New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, Mass...Named the 2009 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year and the Western Massachusetts Player of the Year by MassLive.com following her senior season...Was also named to the Boston Globe All-Dream Team as one on the top five players in the state...Broke the Massachusetts scoring record (boys and girls) by scoring 3,070 career points since starting varsity basketball as a eighth grader...Broke Rebecca Lobo's state scoring record in January of her senior season...Was a starter all five seasons at New Leadership, and averaged 42.0 points a game in her final prep campaign...Was named to the ESPN High School National Honor Roll as one of 50 players who had special individual performances or careers that contributed to team success...Participated in the Michael T. White All-America Game in Atlanta...Was a first team All-Scholastic honoree as well at New Leadership and graduated first in her class...Was coached in high school by John Williams and played AAU ball with the Springfield Sparks under coaches Tony Motley and Anthony Willis...Will compete with her arms, legs and head covered in accordance with her Islamic faith at Memphis...Has already appeared in Sports Illustrated, SLAM Magazine and on ESPN coming in to her freshman campaign...Choose Memphis over Boston College and Louisville.

Personal: Born Nov. 11, 1990 in Springfield, Mass., also the home of basketball...Daughter of Tariq and Alooah Abdul-Qaadir...Her brother, Yusuf Abdul-Ali also played college basketball at Bentley College, helping his team to the NCAA Division II Final Four two different times...Plans on majoring in biology and plans on possibly attending physical therapy school.

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