Burton, Gaines-Burns, Cash earn All-NCAC recognition in Women’s Basketball

| 2024 All-NCAC Women's Basketball Team | 

SPRINGFIELD — Wittenberg juniors Riane Burton (Houston, Texas/Cypress Ranch), Jazmyn Gaines-Burns (Bladensburg, Md./Elizabeth Seton) and Taryn Cash (Cincinnati, Ohio/Princeton) earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors in women's basketball for the 2023-24 season through balloting by the league's head coaches.

Burton and Gaines-Burns were named to the All-NCAC First Team, and Cash was a Third Team selection.

This marks the second career All-Conference honor for both Gaines-Burns and Cash, who were First and Third Team picks, respectively, last season.

In 23 games this season, Burton averaged 14.1 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 25.8 minutes per game. She averaged 16.1 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 12 conference games and closed the year with an NCAC-best .571 field goal percentage while ranking second in the conference in rebounding and fifth in scoring.

Gaines-Burns averaged 12.1 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 25.4 minutes per game over 26 games. She averaged 12.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 14 conference games and finished 11th in the NCAC in scoring average.

Cash averaged 8.3 points, 4 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 25.5 minutes per game in 26 games. She averaged 10.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 6.1 assists in 14 conference games and closed the year ranked second in the NCAC in assists per game. Her 134 total assists on the year marked a program record for assists in a season, breaking the old best of 118 set by Delaney Williams in 2021-22. Her career assist total of 265 ranks fifth in program history.

The Tigers posted a 19-7 overall record this year and earned a share of the NCAC regular season championship for the second straight season with an 11-3 conference mark under second-year head coach Melissa Kolbe.