Megan Gustafson has been flat out dominant this year leading the NCAA in points per game and shooting percentage, and double-doubles while finishing third in the NCAA in rebounds per game for an Iowa women’s basketball team that just advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1993.
While many Iowa basketball fans expected her to win a few postseason awards, after news broke that she was not a unanimous All-American, there was a little bit of pessimism in her ability to take home National Player of the Year honors. It seemed for a second that mainstream media couldn’t get behind the idea that a small-town, lightly recruited girl from Wisconsin playing for an Iowa basketball team that is not one of the main women’s basketball powerhouses.