INDIANAPOLIS (USBWA) – For the season's 14th U.S. Basketball Writers Association Ann Meyers Drysdale Women's National Player of the Week and the organization's Tamika Catchings women's freshman player honor, Coastal Carolina guard DJ Williams is national player while Columbia guard Abbey Hsu been chosen for the freshman citation after each helped their teams go unbeaten ending the week of Sunday, Feb. 16.
As the Sun Belt player and Ivy League freshman weekly winners, both were nominated for the awards, which were chosen by Mel Greenberg, the USBWA coordinator for women's basketball, primarily from a pair of lists of Division I conference players and freshmen players of the week.