KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Maya Buckhanon of Fisk (Tenn.) has been named the NAIA Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Buckhanon was selected based on their performances from February 12 - 18 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents)/unaffiliated group nominees.

Players of the week are announced weekly throughout the regular season on Tuesdays on naia.org, Instagram and Twitter.

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NAIA Women's Basketball Player of the Week 

Maya Buckhanon, Fisk (Tenn.) - SR - Power Forward

• On Thursday at Dillard, she scored 37 points on 12-of-20 shooting from the field, 13-of 19 from the free throw line in her team's 68-62 win.
• Against SUNO, she scored her 1,000th career point in two seasons at Fisk early in the second quarter.
• She then went on the break the school record by any Fisk player, scoring 60 points, and also grabbed 19 rebounds. 
• The 60-point effort was two short of the NAIA record and is the highest of any NAIA Women's player in the 21st century.

For a full archive of the 2023-24 NAIA Women's Basketball Players of the Week, click HERE