North Carolina State University Athletics
Key Named to ACC All-Defensive Team
2/28/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 28, 2006
Junior Ashley Key earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference Defensive team accolades for the second-straight season, becoming the first player in NC State history to do so. She is just one of three players in Wolfpack history to earn such a distinction of All-Defensive Player. She finished the regular season leading the Pack in scoring for conference games with 11.8 ppg, while averaging 4.50 assists per game in ACC games only. She has recorded six double figure scoring games in the last seven games and seven of the last nine. Key has 17 double figure scoring games total, second behind Stansbury. Additionally, the Atlanta native has posted nine games with six or more assists and six of those she dished out seven assists. She ranks eighth in the ACC for all games in assist:turnover ratio (1.47) and 15th in minutes per game (29.33 mpg). In ACC games only she is fifth in ACC for assists per game (4.50 apg), ninth for free throw percentage (82.7 percent), seventh for assist:turnover ratio (1.29) and 14th for minutes per game (31.86). NC State now has 52 All-ACC recipients.
The Wolfpack will take on Clemson in the 2006 ACC Tournament on Thursday, March 2, at 4 p.m. in Greensboro, N.C.
2005-06 ACC All-Defensive Team
La'Tangela Atkinson (North Carolina)
Alicia Gladden (Florida State)
Lindsey Harding (Duke)
Ashley Key (NC State)
Aja Parham (Boston College)
2005-06 ACC Defensive Player of the Year
Lindsey Harding (Duke)
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