FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY: KATIE BENZAN
On a team full of talented guards, Benzan has proven she’s the one Delaney-Smith can count on—so much so that last weekend against Penn and Princeton the guard played a full forty minutes in both contests.
Benzan leads the Crimson in scoring and assists with 13.6 points and a conference-leading 4.1 assists per game while shooting 40 percent from the field. She has also put up a team-best 21 points in double figures this season.
The freshman has also established herself as a threat from deep. She ranks first in the Ivy League in three pointers made per game at 2.9 while shooting .395 from long range.
Before earning the end-of-season All-Ivy honor, Benzan nabbed six Ivy Rookie of the Week honors, along with earning the Player of the Week honor on Jan. 2.
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY: SIYANI CHAMBERS
After taking a voluntary leave of absence to preserve his last year of eligibility following an ACL injury during the summer of 2015, Chambers has come back in spectacular fashion. Despite the emergence of Aiken, the co-captain has continued to lead the Crimson. Always among the most emphatic of the Crimson squad, Chambers is no stranger to the success as this is his fourth All-Ivy selection.
“We go as [Siyani] goes,” Amaker said. “And I’m proud of what he’s been able to accomplish coming back off a season ending knee injury and to be voted first team all league his final year, really neat things going on for our basketball team and certainly an opportunity to continue that this weekend.”
Coming into what will be his last weekend of Ivy League basketball, the senior sits at second in all time assists and 7th in all-time in three point field goals among Harvard players.
The Minnesota native has earned All-Ivy honors in each of his four seasons in Cambridge, landing a spot on the first team in his freshman and senior campaigns and on the second team his sophomore and junior years.
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY: DESTINY NUNLEY
Despite only playing limited minutes behind standout forward AnnMarie Healy last season, Nunley has become a force to be reckoned with this season.
Nunley comes in averaging 11.4 points and a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game, good for fourth best in the Ivy League. On a guard heavy squad, the Crimson has looked to Nunley for production on both ends of the floor—the senior has added nearly two blocks a game while shooting over 40 percent from the field.
As the Crimson take on a substantially tall Princeton squad tomorrow, all eyes will be on Nunley for the Crimson. While even the 6’1’’ Texas native will be outsized by the Tigers’ frontcourt, Nunley is confident in her and her teammates’ ability to evade the struggles of a size differential.
“You throw a shot fake, you throw her off her feet, you just have to put your smart cap on and put some IQ in your head and play around that,” Nunley said.
—Staff writer Troy Boccelli can be reached at troy.boccelli@thecrimson.com.