by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
February 27, 2024
Congratulations are so as!
Dyaisha Honest, who performs for the Syracuse College girls’s basketball group, has simply surpassed WNBA participant Brittney Griner to enter fifth place on the ladies’s NCAA profession scoring checklist.
Honest, who entered the sport needing solely 4 factors to overhaul Griner on the top-five scoring checklist, did so whereas beating Virginia in an 85-79 win on Sunday, Feb. 25. She took over Griner’s place within the second quarter. In scoring 23 factors, she is now the fifth top-scoring girls’s participant in NCAA historical past.
Griner had 3,283 factors throughout her collegiate profession at Baylor when she performed there from 2009 via 2013. Honest wants 91 factors to tie with the fourth-place chief, Jackie Stiles, who has 3,393. After Stiles is Kelsey Mitchell, who has 3,402 factors, the highest two girls scorers in NCAA historical past are Kelsey Plum (3,527) and Caitlin Clark (3,617).
Honest’s final common season sport with Syracuse is on Thursday, Feb. 29, towards North Carolina State; after that, the playoffs start.
After the sport, she spoke about reaching the feat as a younger woman from the northern metropolis.
“Coming from Rochester, it’s not the simplest place, you realize, to get from, to get out of it,” Honest stated. “To start out from there and have the ability to show everybody that doubted me earlier than I received right here, to show them unsuitable and to get right here, and be part of the tradition of what Coach Jack instills in her gamers has made me understand that over time. There’s all the time mild on the opposite aspect, and it doesn’t matter what, in case you preserve working, you’ll attain it.”
After the subsequent sport, she will nonetheless add to her whole when the playoffs begin.
The Orange is ranked at quantity 17, and Honest will have the ability to add to her whole in the course of the ACC Event.
Relying on how far they advance in that event, there’s additionally the season-ending NCAA Event. So, scoring greater than 100 factors will get her to the quantity three spot.