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WVU Women’s Basketball Star Preseason All-Big 12, Team Learns Media Prediction

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WVU Women's Basketball JJ Quinerly

On Thursday, the WVU women’s basketball team learned what the media thinks of their chances this season and guard JJ Quinerly earned a spot on the Preseason All-Big 12 Team as a unanimous selection.

West Virginia was predicted to finish fifth and received one first place vote in the preseason media poll. Quinerly also was selected to the preseason team before the 2023-24 season. She lived up to last year’s preseason honors by being named first team all-conference at the conclusion of the regular season.

From the press release….

During her junior campaign, Quinerly broke onto the national scene earning honorable mention All-American honors and becoming an Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Finalist, a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalist Player and to the WBCA Player of the Year Watchlist.

Additionally, Quinerly racked up a career-high 19.8 points per game while adding 97 steals. She finished with 20 or more points in a game 16 times and hit double figures in 32 games.

A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Quinerly has averaged 14.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.4 steals per game for her career. Her steals per game ranks inside the program’s top 10 at No. 7 and her 231 total steals are No. 8.

Quinerly became the fourth Mountaineer to be named to the league’s All-Freshman Team three seasons ago, joining Bria Holmes (2013), Tynice Martin (2016) and Madisen Smith (2019).

K-State was selected as the favorite in the league’s preseason poll for the first time in program history while Ayoka Lee is the Conference’s Preseason Player of the Year. Lee and Iowa State’s Audi Crooks join Quinerly as unanimous selections to the team.

2024-25 league action is set to commence Saturday, Dec. 21 as this year marks the Conference’s first with 16 members. The regular season will be followed by the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship, which will take place in Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center for the second consecutive season.

The current league members combined to go 8-0 in their first game of the 2024 NCAA Tournament while 15 of the 16 teams finished the 2023-24 season in the top 101 of the NET rankings. Four Big 12 teams are ranked in the top 16 of ESPN’s Women’s Basketball Way-Too-Early Top 25, tied for the most of any league.

For a related story, find the full WVU women’s basketball 2024-35 schedule at WV Sports Now.