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Indiana women’s basketball center Mackenzie Holmes named to USBWA All-American Second Team

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Indiana women's basketball center Mackenzie Holmes was named to the USBWA All-American Second Team on Tuesday. (Rich Janzaruk/Herald-Times-USA TODAY NETWORK)

Indiana women’s basketball center Mackenzie Holmes was named to the USBWA All-American Second Team on Tuesday following another terrific season.

Holmes, in her final year with Indiana, averaged 20.0 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. She shot 66.7 percent from the field on the year — the best in the nation.

Holmes became the Indiana women’s basketball all-time leading scorer and winningest player this season.

This is the second year she has received All-American honors from USBWA.

Below is the full release.

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INDIANAPOLIS – Graduate student forward Mackenzie Holmes has been named to the 2023-24 United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) All-America second team, announced by the organization on Tuesday.  

Holmes earns her second-straight All-America honors from the organization, as she was a first team selection in 2022-23. A unanimous All-Big Ten First Team and All-Big Ten Defensive team selection this season, the Gorham, Maine native leads Indiana (and second in the Big Ten) in scoring with 20.0 points, 6.9 rebounds and shooting a nation’s-best 66.7 percent from the floor in 29 games. She has scored in double figures in 27 of those 29 outings including 16 20-point games and two 30-point efforts along with a team-high six double-doubles. Nationally, Holmes also ranks 14th in field goals made (238) and 22nd in points per game.

The honor is her seventh All-American accolade in her Indiana career, earning two USWBA All-American nods (2023, 2024), two AP All-American selections (2021, 2023), two WBCA All-American honors (2022, 2023) and The Athletic All-American honors (2023).

 Holmes and the Hoosiers will be a No. 4 seed in the upcoming 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, which begins on Saturday inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. They will face off against 13-seed Fairfield (31-1) at 1:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

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