03/27/2012 Pastner, McFerrin Have Contracts ExtendedTigers basketball coaches' contracts extended on Tuesday. 03/27/2012 Pastner, McFerrin Have Contracts ExtendedTigers basketball coaches' contracts extended on Tuesday. 03/17/2012 Tigers Season Comes to End in 82-65 Loss at Missouri StateMemphis unable to rally back in road loss in WNIT Second Round. 03/16/2012 Women's Basketball Heading on the Road for WNIT Second RoundTigers play at Missouri State Saturday at 7 p.m. 03/15/2012 Lee Records Double-Double as Memphis Rallies Past Chattanooga in WNITTigers advance to play at Missouri State on Saturday. 2011-2012 (Junior): Named to the Conference USA Second Team All-Conference after finishing as Memphis' second-leading scorer and rebounder as a junior...Averaged 13.5 points and 8.3 rebounds per game...Passed the 1,000 career point mark in a road win at Rice...Knocked down 53 three-point field goals to lead the team, which ranks 8th in Memphis single season history...Her 171 three-point attempts ranks sixth in the single season record book and she capped her junior career with 112 career triples, making her just the eighth player in Memphis history to have 100 or more career threes...Played in all 33 games, with 32 starts (her lone missed start was stepping aside for one of the five seniors on Memphis' senior day)...Also added a career-best 53 steals, 15 blocks and 81 assists...Scored a career-high 29 points in Memphis' WNIT loss at Missouri State, also adding a career-high eight steals...Set a school record by posting seven consecutive double-doubles during the season...Finished with 10 double-doubles this season, giving her 11 for her career...Scored double-digit points in 26 of 33 games and scored 20 or more points four times...Had double-digit rebounds 12 times, including a career-best 19 rebounds in a win over UAB...She had a career-best 14 defensive rebounds in that same UAB game to help Memphis get its first series sweep from the Blazers since 2003-04. 2010-2011 (Sophomore): Played in 32 of 34 games for Memphis, with six starts....Missed the first two games of the season against Missouri and Grambling State due to injury...Was the team's third-leading scorer with 9.9 points a night, adding 4.2 rebounds...Finished second on the team with 36 three-point field goals made and 102 three-point field goal attempts...Ranked fourth on the team with 133 total rebounds, including 50 offensive...Scored double-digit points in 17 games...Was held scoreless for the first time in her collegiate career in the loss at Ohio, her only scoreless outing of the season (0-for-2 from the field)...After scoring single digit or no points in seven of Memphis' first 10 games, scored double-digits in five of the next seven games, including a career-best 26 point effort in a win over Marshall at FedExForum to open conference play....Was 11-for-14 from the field in the win over Marshall, including 4-for-5 from three-point range...Would score 20 or more points two times on the season, including a 20-point effort in the win over Southern Miss at FedExForum in a televised victory...Was 8-for-11 in that win over USM, including 4-for-5 from three-point range...Would score double-digit points in nine of the last 13 games, including four of the five games Brittany Carter missed with an injury...Dickson stepped up to try to fill the offensive void caused by Carter's absence by averaging 12.2 points per game in that five-game stretch while drawing double coverage...Struggled in the opening rounds of the Conference USA tournament, going 6-for-18 from the floor, but was 7-for-12 from the field in the semifinal loss to UCF, finishing with 15 points, and 6-for-11 from the field in the WNIT loss to Alabama to finish the year with back-to-back double-digit outings...Handed out a career-high four assists in a win over UCF in the fieldhouse, also finishing with 12 points in that game...Will enter her junior season with 619 career points, 381 shy of the 1,000 point benchmark (she scored 302 points as a freshman and 317 as a sophomore). 2009-2010 (Freshman): Voted to the C-USA All-Freshman Team after finishing second on the team in scoring with 9.2 points per game and playing in 33 of 34 Tiger games, with 10 starts...Also ranked third on the team with 23 three-point field goals made and ranked fourth with 4.7 rebounds per game....Opened her collegiate career in style with a 20-point effort in a loss to Indiana in the season opener...Added a career-best 24 points three nights later in a win over UT Martin...Scored 20 or more points in two games and scored double-digit points in 15 games, including seven straight games late in C-USA play and the early rounds of the WBI tournament...Had a career-best 15 rebounds in a loss at Tulane and had her first career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds in the win over UMKC in the opening round of the WBI tournament...Finished fifth on the team with 33 steals on the season, including a trio of three-steal games...Also added six blocks on the season, three of them in the road game at Appalachian State in the WBI Championship game...Named to the C-USA Academic Honor Roll following the spring semester for having a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher. Prep: Was a 2009 graduate of Greeneville High School in Greeneville, Tenn., and is one of two Tennessee natives signed by Melissa McFerrin during the early signing period...Was a four-year starter at Greeneville, earning All-County honors four times...Averaged 21.3 points per game in her senior campaign and wrapped her prep career with school records in points (2,415) and rebounds (1,146) while playing under head coach Stacia Crumbley...Was named the Greene County Female Player of the Year by the Greeneville Sun...Was named a Class AAA Miss Basketball Finalist as a junior, after helping her squad to a 32-4 record and the State 3A Tournament, where her squad lost to fellow Tiger newcomer Ashley Robinson's Millington Central squad in the quarterfinals...Was also a two-time All-State selection by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association...Hit the game-winning bucket as a freshman in the sectional tournament to send her team to state...Played AAU ball with the Tennessee Flight under coaches Tom and Matt Insell...Her AAU team won the Nike National Championship in Augusta, Georgia in 2008...Was also recruited by College of Charleston, Eastern Kentucky and Western Carolina Personal: Born Feb. 18, 1991...Daughter of Demetress Dickson... |
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