The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

LASHANN Higgs heads into her senior season in a leadership role for the Texas Longhorns as the programme will be featured in five nationally televised games on the ESPN network.

The Texas women’s basketball team will have three national television appearances on ESPN2 this season.

Texas and Tennessee will meet on Sunday, December 9, in Austin. The Longhorns will face West Virginia on the road on Sunday, January 6. Texas will then host Baylor on Monday, February 4.

Higgs is one of three seniors on the Longhorns roster for the upcoming 2018-19 season.

She enters her senior season 36 points away from becoming the 44th player in programme history to reach 1,000 career points.

She comes off a season where she claimed All-Big 12 Second Team, Big 12 All-Defensive Team, USWBA National Player of the Week and Big 12 Player of the Week honours.

As a junior, she started 35 games and averaged 12.8 points per game, which ranked third on the team, 3.3 rebounds per game and was third on the squad with 1.4 steals per game. She scored in double figures on 21 occasions, including four 20-plus point performances. And Higgs was named the USBWA National Player of the Week and the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week after leading Texas to a pair of comeback wins against Oklahoma State and Kansas State.

During the two-game stretch, she averaged 28.0 points per game, shot 74.1 per cent from the field, connected on 80 per cent of her shots from beyond the arc and made 92.3 per cent (12-of-13) of her free throws. She also led the steals with 2.5 per game and added 2.0 assists per game and 2.5 rebounds per game in an average of 30.5 minutes per game.

Higgs scored a career-high 30 points and helped Texas overcome a six-point deficit with 3:43 remaining to defeat No. 20/23 Oklahoma State.

In her sophomore season, Higgs - the Harbour Island native - averaged eight points, three rebounds, 1.5 assists and one steal in just over 17 minutes per game. She built upon the numbers from her freshman season when she averaged 7.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game in 13.2 minutes.