Wright State Raiders News: Guard Alexis Hutchison named to Horizon League First Team

By Annie Walker

Alexis Hutchison WSU guard drives up court (photo by Joseph Craven, courtesy WSU Athletics).

3/4/2024

 

INDIANAPOLIS/DAYTON – Wright State women’s basketball’s Alexis Hutchison has been named a Horizon League first team selection, the league office announced Monday.

The graduate guard started all 31 regular season contests for the Raiders, averaging 19.1 points per game, tops in the Horizon League and is a Top 35 mark nationally. She’s averaging 34.9 minutes per game with 1,082 total minutes played, both the best in the Horizon League and a Top 100 mark nationally. Hutchison is shooting 41.3 percent from the floor, No. 9 in the Horizon League, while shooting 31.4 percent from three-point range with 59 made triples. Her 521 total field goal attempts are ranked No. 9 nationally, with her 215 field goals made No. 22 in the country entering the postseason. She’s averaging 3.2 assists per night, Top 5 in the Horizon, with multiple assists in 26 games and has five or more assists seven games.

Hutchison has scored double digits in 27 of 31 contests with 20 or more points 15 times this year, which is tops in the Horizon. She has added three games with 30-plus points, also the most in the Horizon, along with two of the top three single game scoring marks in the HL this season. In Horizon League action, she tallied double digit scoring outputs in 18 of the 20 contests, with 20-plus points in 10 of those games. She scored a career-high 37 points in the Dec. 18 five-point loss at West Virginia, while she had 34 points at Milwaukee on Jan. 26 and 32 points in a win over Eastern Illinois on Dec. 9.

Hutchison and Wright State open play Thursday in the 2024 Barbasol Horizon League Championship with a home quarterfinal matchup against Milwaukee with a 5:30 p.m. tipoff. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and tickets are on sale now.

 

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