George Washington University Athletics
Jones Named WNBA's Most Improved Player
9/12/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Sept. 12, 2017
WASHINGTON - George Washington women's basketball alumna Jonquel Jones capped off an impressive second professional season by taking home a major end-of-season award when she was named the WNBA's Most Improved Player on Sunday evening.
Jones received 32 of 40 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters after a record-setting sophomore season that included her first All-Star Game appearance and a playoff appearance for the Connecticut Sun.
Jonquel Jones: By The Numbers
- 403 - WNBA single-season record for total rebounds
- 280 - WNBA single-season record for total defensive rebounds
- 11.9 - WNBA single-season record for rebounding average
- 15.4 - points per game, which led team and ranked 15th in WNBA for regular season
- +8.6 - Jones' increase in scoring average from 2016 to 2017
- +8.2 - Jones' increase in rebounding average from 2016 to 2017
- 28 - double-figure scoring games in the regular season
- 23 - regular-season games with at least 10 rebounds
- 20 - regular-season double-doubles
- 10 - games with 20 or more points
- 3 - 20-rebound games in 2017, the second player in league history to accomplish the feat.
- 2 - times honored as WNBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week
- 1 - times honored as WNBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Month (July)
- 1 - 20-point, 20-rebound game, the 13th player in league history to do so.
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