Despite having her season and career prematurely come to a close due to a torn left ACL suffered on Jan. 25, Iowa women’s basketball senior guard Taylor McCabe was given the Big Ten’s Sportsmanship Award as part of the conference’s All-Big Ten honors announcement on Tuesday, March 3.
The award is presented by the conference to one member of each program who distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior on and off the court.
Prior to her season-ending injury, the 5-foot-9 native of Fremont, Nebraska, was a steady starter, 3-point specialist, and superb defender for the Hawkeyes squad, who finished the regular season with a record of 24-5 and 15-3 in the Big Ten.
In her 20 games started and played this season, McCabe averaged 8.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game, shooting 37.8% overall and 37.4% from 3-point range.
In her four years at Iowa, McCabe finishes with averages of 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per contest on 40.4% shooting, 40.7% 3-point shooting, and 80.8% accuracy from the free-throw line through 105 games with the Hawkeyes program.
McCabe’s Iowa career concludes with her ranking among the top 3-point shooters in program history, slotting in at 11th with 172 made 3-pointers and tied for first in 3-point field goal percentage in school history with Kristi Smith (.407).
McCabe is set to graduate this May with a civil engineering degree and has indicated that she will pursue a graduate assistant position in women’s basketball to help her earn a postgraduate degree.
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