NEW YORK – The BIG EAST announced annual women's basketball awards on Wednesday with regular-season champion and tournament top seed DePaul taking home two major awards. Senior guard Chanise Jenkins became the second Blue Demon in a row to claim BIG EAST Player of the Year plaudits, while Doug Bruno was selected BIG EAST Coach of the Year for the second time in three years. Marquette's Allazia Blockton became the first Golden Eagle to be voted BIG EAST Freshman of the Year just days after breaking the conference's rookie scoring record.
Additional individual award winners were BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year Aliyyah Handford of St.