by By Mario Bravante, arkansasrazorbacks.com
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Chelsea Dungee (Cherokee) and Destiny Slocum were both placed on the Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List and the Wade Watch List, the Atlanta Tip-Off Club and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Announced today. Arkansas is one of six programs with at least two players on the Wade Watch List, joining South Carolina, Connecticut, Mississippi State, Stanford and UCLA, and is one of 10 schools with two players on the Naismith Trophy Watch List, joining all five aforementioned schools along with Baylor, Louisville, Oregon State, Syracuse and Arizona. There are 50 players on the Naismith Trophy Watch List, and 33 on the Wade Watch List.
This will be Dungee’s second straight season landing on both preseason watch lists, and with good reason. The redshirt senior guard led the team in scoring (16.9 PPG), field goals made (171) and free throws made (146) during her encore season on the Hill. Dungee is closing in on several statistical milestones at Arkansas, including Arkansas’ all-time scoring title and all-time free throws made record. Dungee needs just 530 points to break Bettye Fiscus’ program-record 2,073 points, and she has scored at least 540 points in each of her previous two seasons on the Hill. She needs to make only 51 free throws to break Fiscus’ record in that category, and has made over 145 in each of her first two Arkansas campaigns.
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