Murphy Garners D3hoops.com First Team Great Lakes All-Region Award

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) – Junior Lisa Murphy (McLean, Va./McLean) of the Carnegie Mellon University women's basketball team was named to the D3hoops.com Great Lakes All-Region First Team on Monday, March 14 after leading the Tartans to the best season in school history. The honor is Murphy's third from D3hoops.com and her first selection to the first team.

Throughout the season, Murphy dominated opponents and was rewarded for her play on six occasions by D3hoops.com on the Team of the Week. She also garnered University Athletic Association (UAA) Co-Player of the Year, nine UAA Athlete of the Week awards and was recognized twice as the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Division III Women's National Player of the Week.

Murphy finished the year with a school season record scoring average of 23.5 points per game while shooting an NCAA Division III record 75.2 percent. She also finished with 10.7 rebounds a game to record her second straight season with an average of more than 20 points and 10 rebounds.

In the Tartans' NCAA second round win against Ohio Northern University, Murphy became the all-time scoring leader in Carnegie Mellon women's basketball history and now has 1,625 points.

The Tartans finished the year with a 21-7 record, tying the school record for wins in a season. They also won two NCAA games for the first time in program history, finishing as one of the top 16 teams in the country.

Players chosen to the D3hoops.com All-Region team are eligible for All-American selection. The women's selections will be announced in the week following the Division III women's semifinals which is on March 19.

This is the 15th year D3hoops.com has named an All-Region team and this year's All-America team will be the 19th annual All-Ameircan selections. The D3hoops.com All-American teams, along with those of the respective coaches' associations, are the only ones recognized in the NCAA record book.