Brown & Freeman Receive All-Mid-American Conference Honors
March 10, 2020 | Women's Basketball
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Two members of the Ball State women's basketball team received post-season All-Mid-American Conference honors Tuesday when the league office announced its annual post-season awards. Junior forward Oshlynn Brown was named First Team All-MAC, while freshman guard Sydney Freeman was selected to the MAC All-Freshman Team.
This is the first time in Brown's three years with the Cardinals that she has garnered First Team All-MAC honors. As a freshman, Brown was named the MAC's Sixth Player of the Year and earned a slot on the MAC All-Freshman squad. As a sophomore, she was named an All-MAC Honorable Mention.
This season, Brown earned MAC West Division Player of the Week accolades four times. She also reached the 1,000-point plateau at Eastern Michigan (Feb. 22), making her the 28th member to join the program's elite club. Brown currently ranks 14th nationally in defensive rebounds and is 15th among all NCAA Division I players with her 16 double-doubles. Brown turned in a career-high 29-point performance in an overtime win at Bowling Green (Jan. 8) and has reached double-digits 22 times this season. For her career, Brown has 1,081 points, 829 rebounds, 33 double-doubles, 40 double-digit rebounding performances and 58 double-digit scoring games.
Freeman becomes the sixth player under eighth-year head coach Brady Sallee to receive MAC All-Freshman Team honors, joining the likes of Nathalie Fontaine (2012-13), Moriah Monaco (2014-15), Carmen Grande (2015-16), Oshlynn Brown (2016-17) and Thelma Dis Agustsdottir (2018-19). Freeman started 29 of the Cardinals' 30 games this season at the point guard position as a true freshman.
She recently had a career-best 18-point performance in Ball State's upset victory over MAC Regular Season Champion Central Michigan (Feb. 29). Freeman, who has scored in double figures 13 times this year, ranks first on the team with 94 assists and third on the squad in scoring averaging at 10.1 points per game.
By virtue of earning the No. 2 seed, the Ball State women's basketball team advanced straight to the quarterfinals of the 2020 Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Tournament and will battle No. 7 seed Eastern Michigan Wednesday at approximately 5 p.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
