Hardy, Griffin Earn First-Team All-Big 12 Honors

Lincoln - Kiera Hardy and Kelsey Griffin became the first Nebraska women’s basketball teammates in school history to share spots on the first-team All-Big 12 Conference squad, while Chelsea Aubry added honorable-mention accolades when the league coaches announced their yearly honors on Friday, March 2.

Hardy became just the third Husker in history to earn three consecutive first-team all-conference honors, joining 1993 Wade Trophy winner Karen Jennings and 1988 Big Eight Player-of-the-Year Maurtice Ivy. Griffin became just the fourth sophomore in school history to earn first-team all-conference honors, joining Hardy, Jennings and Ivy.

Nebraska’s career three-point leader, Hardy ranks fourth all-time in scoring for the Huskers with 1,891 points entering the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship. She needs 85 more points to catch Amy Stephens (1986-89) in the No. 3 spot with 1,976. Hardy’s 262 career three-pointers rank seventh in Big 12 history, trailing active Big 12 leader Erin Higgins from Oklahoma by just one. Former Kansas State shooter Kristin Rethman sits in fifth place with 266.

As a senior, the 5-6 guard from Kansas City, Mo., has led the Huskers with 15.8 points per game to rank sixth in the Big 12 in scoring. She also ranks second in the league with 2.20 three-pointers made per contest and seventh in the league in three-point shooting at 36.9 percent. She also ranks 14th in the conference with 2.63 assists per game.

Griffin, a 6-2 forward from Eagle River, Alaska, provided the Huskers with one of the most dominant presences in the Big 12 by ranking seventh in the league in scoring at 15.1 points per game and sixth in the Big 12 in rebounding with 8.4 boards per contest. Her 54.9 field goal percentage also ranks fifth in the conference. She has produced 10 double-doubles on the season.

With 252 rebounds on the season, Griffin needs just five more to crack Nebraska’s single-season top-10 list in total rebounds. Her total already ranks as the fourth-highest total by a sophomore in school history.

Aubry, a 6-2 senior forward from Kitchener, Ontario, closed the regular season ranked second in the Big 12 with her 43.7 three-point field goal percentage. A three-year captain at Nebraska, Aubry has averaged 8.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in 2006-07.