Syracuse, N.Y. -- – Tiana Mangakahia has been named the Air Combat Command women’s basketeer of the week for the third time this season.

The junior guard began her week by gushing in seventeen points against No. four Notre Dame, dead the half, to travel with seven assists and 4 steals within the Orange’s solely loss of the week.

She came back in their second game with forty four points on 16-of-20 (.800) shooting from the sphere together with eight assists and 3 steals to steer SU past Everglade State State, 94-88.

She rounded out her the week by rating her one,000th career purpose in Sunday’s 76-59 win at Beantown faculty, wherever she light-emitting diode the team with twenty seven points. Mangakahia joined twenty seven former Syracuse players that have surpassed the career milestone and have become the quickest to try to to thus in only sixty games.

Mangakahia averaged over fifty five % from the sphere and was 6-for-12 from behind the arc. the highest penalty free throw shooter within the conference additionally maintained a ninety.9% mark from the road over the three-game stretch.

The 18th-ranked Orange are headed to urban center, N.C., for the Air Combat Command Tournament. SU secured the No. five seed and a primary spherical bye for the third time in six years. The Orange can play the winner of Virginia/Boston faculty at eleven a.m. Thursday on RSN.