Tonie Morgan Selected to Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Midseason List
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tonie Morgan has been named to the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Midseason List, it was announced by the Naismith Hall of Fame on Monday.
The point guard, who has started and played all 23 games this season, is averaging 14.7 points per game, 8.57 assists per game, 3.5 rebounds per game and 1.17 steals per game.
No other player in the nation is averaging as many points and assists per game.
Morgan is first in the nation in assists (197) and second in assists per game (8.6). Morgan also is 10th in the nation in assist-turnover ratio (2.7).
The senior needs 16 more assists to tie the single-season school record for assists, which All-American Georgia Amoore set last season through 31 games (213).
Morgan dishes out the ball in volume.
She has logged eight games with at least 10 assists this season. That is the most games with at least 10 assists in a single season by a Southeastern Conference player since Texas A&M’s Curtyce Knox in 2016-17 (15).
Moreover, she is the first player in program history to have five games with at least 12 assists. Four of those five games were in league action, which are the most by an SEC player in SEC regular-season games since at least 2002-03.
The Wildcat has three games with at least 11 assists and zero turnovers this season, which is the most 10+ assists and 0 turnover games in the nation this season.
She is the first SEC player to have three games with at least 10 assists and 0 turnovers in a single season since at least 2002-03. She is tied for the second-most games in a single-season with at least 10 assists and 0 turnovers by any DI women’s player since 2002-03 (Baylor’s Niya Johnson had six such games in 2014-15).
Morgan’s 16-assist and 0-turnover game against USC Upstate took the crown. Her 16 assists are tied for the nation’s game high through Feb. 2, while she also tied the 43-year-old, single-game school record set by Patty Jo Hedges in 1982.
The Wildcat has 665 career assists, which is ranked third among all active players in all divisions, while the two players ahead of her are in their fifth years. Her 5.6 career assists per game are fifth among all active players in all divisions.
While Morgan spent the first handful of games directing the offense and looking for others’ shots first this season, she has since eased into a dynamic scoring threat.
Over the last 17 games (since at No. 21/19 Louisville), she is averaging a team-lead 16.5 points per game on 50.8 percent shooting from the field and 48.4 percent from the arc (15-of-31).
Through just the SEC schedule (nine games) as of Feb. 2, she is averaging a team-lead 17.3 ppg, which is eighth in the league.
Overall in 2025-26, she has led the team in scoring on a team-lead nine occasions, including five 20+ point games.
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