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2019-20 Women's Basketball Roster

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4 Alexis Brown

  • Position G
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Madison, Ga.
  • Highschool Morgan County HS

Biography

AWARDS AND HONORS
2019-20 Sun Belt Conference Academic Commissioner's List
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (12/3/19)
Second-Team All-Sun Belt Conference (2018-19)
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (1/21/19)
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (12/18/18)

SENIOR (2019-20)
Played in all 30 games, starting 22, for the Eagles as a senior ... Averaged 11.4 points and 4.7 rebounds per game ... Hit a team-best 43 three-pointers, shooting 36.8% from three-point range ... Also shot 87.4 percent from the free throw line (83-of-95), ranking second in the Sun Belt Conference and 17th in NCAA Division I ... Became the 24th player in Georgia Southern history to record 1,000 collegiate points with her 19 points at Wofford on Dec. 1 ... Finished her Georgia Southern career with 1,275 points, ranking 13th all-time on the Eagle women's basketball scoring chart ... Earned her third career Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week honor on Dec. 3 for her 19.5 ppg and 9.5 rpg output in wins at Winthrop and Wofford, also going a perfect 15-of-15 from the free throw line ... Scored a season-high 23 points twice, against Troy (Jan. 16) and at UT Arlington (2/29) ... Registered 17 games of double digit scoring ... Ranked 19th in the Sun Belt in scoring and 11th in three-point baskets made (1.43) ... Ends her Georgia Southern career as the all-time leader in free throw percentage (80.6%, 282-350) and three-point percentage (37.1%, 167-450) ... Also ranks tied for second all-time in three-point baskets made (167) and tied for eighth in steals (170) ... Her 114 career games played are tied for 17th all-time at Georgia Southern ... Earned President's List honors for Spring 2020 by carrying a perfect 4.0 GPA.

JUNIOR (2018-19)

Started all 29 games as a junior for the Eagles ... Averaged 17.4 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, ranking second in the Sun Belt Conference and 78th in NCAA Division I ... Earned second-team All-Sun Belt Conference honors ... Tallied 506 points, the most for a Georgia Southern women's basketball player in more than 25 years (533 points, Gwen Thomas, 1991-92) ... Scored in double figures in 27 of 29 games this season, including 10 games of 20 or more points and a pair of 30+ point performances - a career-high 34 points vs. Troy on Jan. 19 and 31 points in a 65-55 Eagle win at Texas State on Jan. 26 ... Her two 30+ point games were the first 30+ outputs for an Eagle since Anna Claire Knight had 31 at Davidson on Feb. 14, 2014 ... Tied the Georgia Southern single-game three-point record by hitting 8-of-10 threes vs. Troy ... Two-time Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week honoree this season (Dec. 18, Jan. 21) .... Collected three double-doubles on the season ...  Ranked fourth in the Sun Belt Conference in steals (2.0 ppg), fifth in three-point baskets made (2.2 3pt per game), fifth in minutes played (33.1 mpg) and sixth in free throw percentage (82.0%) ... Ranked 85th nationally in free throw percentage (114-of-139, 82.0%) ... Needs just 67 points to become 24th 1,000 point scorer in Georgia Southern women's basketball history in 2019-20.

SOPHOMORE (2017-18)
Played 26 games, starting 22, for the Eagles as a sophomore ... Averaged 24.4 minutes a game ...Led the team in scoring average at 9.0 points per game ... Reached double digit scoring in 12 games, including notching a season-high 18 in the Eagles' 75-45 win over UL Monroe on 2/8 ... Matched that season high with 18 against South Alabama on 3/1 ... Registered a career-high six steals vs. Coastal Carolina on 1/11 ... Became one of just eight Georgia Southern women's basketball players to shoot 100% from the line in a game, hitting 10-of-10 shots from the charity stripe vs. Arkansas State on 1/4.

FRESHMAN (2016-17)
Worked her way into the starting five in 2016-17, playing in 29 games with 13 starts for the Eagles ... Averaged 17.0 minutes per game during her freshman campaign ... Averaged 6.7 points per game while shooting 45% from field goal range and an impressive 47.6% from long range (30/63 3 PT), which led the team ... Season high 22 points vs UL Monroe (2/04) ... Was tied for second on the team in steals (30) ... Added 30 assists (1.3 per game) and 63 rebounds (2.2 per game). 

HIGH SCHOOL
Brown was a four-time letterwinner at Morgan County High School under the guidance of head coach Joshua Reeves ... Was a four-time All-State honoree ... Was named to the All-State Second-Team following both her freshman and sophomore years and was a first-team selection as a junior and senior ... Was a four-time All-Region First-Team honoree and was named the Region Player of the Year as a senior ... As a senior, averaged 17.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game and eclipsed the 1,000 career points mark ... Led her team to the GHSA AAA State Championship with a record of 28-2 as a senior.

PERSONAL
Born Alexis Renee Brown on February 10, 1998 in Augusta, Ga. ... Daughter of Tameka McMurray-Ford and Markeith Ford ... Has three siblings, Tookie, Keuna and Marcus; brother, Tookie, plays basketball for Georgia Southern's men's team.

MAJOR
Sport Management

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2016-17Freshman

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    2017-18Sophomore

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    2018-19Junior

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    2019-20Senior

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