Cards' Guard Moe Kinard Flies Away With Weekly Honor
FRISCO, Texas – Lamar’s Moe Kinard is the Southland Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, league officials announced Monday afternoon. All Southland weekly awards are presented by
MidSouth Bank.
The Cardinal guard picks up her first weekly honor of the season after averaging 30 minutes and a stellar 25.7 points per contest. Kinard exploded on the offensive end shooting 43.8 percent from the field and 54.2 percent from the beyond the arc over the course of Lamar’s three games.
Women’s Basketball Player of the Week – Moe Kinard, Lamar – Sr. – Guard – New Iberia, La.
Kinard set a Lamar and Southland Conference record after registering 13 three-pointers and 58 points in a 117-110 loss to University of Denver at the Denver Classic over the weekend (Nov. 23). The 58 points stand as a career-high for the senior and also serves as the NCAA’s highest single-game scoring performance of the season. Kinard’s 13 triples also set a new NCAA single-game record. She is the first Lamar player to score 50-plus points in a single contest. The senior has hit at least one three-pointer in each of her last 12 appearances dating back to the 2017-18 season. The Cardinals finished the week with a 1-2 record after besting Letourneau 104-27 and falling to Ohio 87-62. For her efforts, the senior was named the Most Valuable Player at the Denver Holiday Classic.
Honorable Mention: Dominique Golightly, Abilene Christian.
Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school’s sports information director. Voting for one’s own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.