ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Three UNM Women’s Basketball players earned Mountain West all-conference honors on Sunday. Viané Cumber was named to the All-Mountain West Team for the first time in her collegiate career, Destinee Hooks earned all-conference honorable mention and Joana Magalhães earned a spot on the all-freshman team.
Cumber led the conference in three-pointers per game and in three-point field goal percentage at 35.9%. She also finished with 47 three-pointers in conference play, which was eight more than the next best MW player. Cumber also broke a program record for career three-pointers this season, as she hit her 240th career three in Tuesday’s regular season finale.
“Incredibly proud, she is a great kid, a hard worker, and she is one of the smartest players that I have ever coached. You know, we talk about getting what you deserve and I think she is getting what she deserves,” said UNM Head Coach Mike Bradbury. “It’s just like a true testament to like hard work and fighting through adversity, people not believing in you, kind of losing confidence in yourself. Just going through every emotion possible and coming out on the right side,” said Viané Cumber.
UNM Women’s Basketball will open Mountain West Tournament play on Monday and the #5 Lobos will match-up against #4 San Diego State. This marks the forth consecutive year where the Lobos have opened up with the Aztecs. “They are a good team, they are well coached, you know they got the better of us the past couple of times that we have played over there, and I think we got the better of them the time before that. So, we got to go play a really good game against a really good team,” said Bradbury.
UNM plays SDSU on Monday at 3:30 p.m., that game will be shown on the Mountain West Network.