Former Maryland women’s basketball forwards Brionna Jones and Alyssa Thomas were both given AP WNBA Awards for their performances for the No. 2-seed Connecticut Sun this season.
Thomas was named the AP Comeback Player of the Year after coming back from a torn Achilles tendon and becoming a key piece during the Sun’s regular season. She led the team in minutes per game with 32.1 and started every game. She put up 13.4 points and 8.2 rebounds per game while leading her team in assists with 6.1 per game and steals with 1.7 per game.
A force to be reckoned with inside and on the defensive end, her steals numbers were the second-best in the WNBA this season after being sidelined with a serious injury most of last season.