With a new-look roster around her, sophomore McKayla Williams found an opportunity to carve a role for herself. A top 100 player in her high school class, she played limited minutes in an abbreviated season, averaging 4 minutes in 20 games played. With Abby O’Connor and Cierra Walker earning starting roles and minutes, Williams needed to find a way to find the court off of the bench with an elevated skillset: her defense.
The lockdown perimeter defender averaged 12.8 minutes this year and played in all 34 games. In those minutes she averaged 1.9 points, 2.1 rebounds, .