For the second straight season, Northwestern point guard Ashley Deary has been named the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year, as voted by the conference’s coaches.
Deary averaged 3.86 steals per game this season, extending her conference record for career steals to 423.
Deary has been a force on the defensive end ever since arriving in Evanston, averaging over two steals per game as a freshman, over three steals per game as a sophomore and over four steals per game as a junior. The 5-foot-4 senior out of Flower Mound, Texas is also averaging 10.