She is one of the most versatile players in college basketball, ranking 32nd nationally in steals and 25th in three-point field goal percentage to go along with her top-15 ranking in rebounding and number-one ranking in scoring. No other women's player ranks nationally in the top 35 of four different major statistical categories.

It's true that stats don't tell the whole story. In fact, in Feaster's case, they don't even begin to tell the story.

Feaster dominates games, scoring and rebounding seemingly at will. Defensively, she is all over the court, denying the pass into the low post as well as pressuring the ball on the perimeter.

She is just as likely to bully her way to the basket for a lay-up while drawing a foul as she is to spot up for a three-pointer and bury a shot in her opponent's face. She is, in nearly all respects, awesome to watch. But the AP voters would never know of her PTP-ness--as Dickie V would say--because they have not watched her play in person day in and day out.

Some will continue to argue that she is such a force only because she plays against low-quality opposition. Once again, this claim underestimates the talent in the Ivy League.

There are and have always been plenty of excellent players in the Ivies, many of whom have gone on to professional careers with the very players who graduate from Tennessee and UConn. What makes Feaster's accomplishments more impressive is the fact that she stands out so definitively from everyone around her.

Feaster has been so dominant, in fact, that this year, for the first time in recent memory, the ballot for Ivy League Player of the Year has only one name on it--Allison Feaster. No one else has approached her caliber of play.

And those who claim she cannot perform equally well against teams from the best conferences need only look at the facts. In last year's first-round game of the NCAA Tournament, Feaster scored 16 points and recorded five steals against the fourth-ranked North Carolina Tarheels.

This season, in games against Maryland (ACC) and South Carolina (SEC), Feaster scored 28 and 30 points, respectively. She also collected 13 rebounds against the Terrapins and 10 against the Lady Gamecocks.

I am not saying that Allison Feaster deserves to be voted the Player of the Year in women's college basketball; I don't think she does. That honor should go to Chamique Holdsclaw of Tennessee or Dominique Canty of Alabama.

But Feaster at least deserves the honor of having her name placed on the ballot for consideration alongside the rest of the game's greatest players. It's about time the college basketball experts stopped scoffing at the Ivy League and started recognizing talent.