Moriah Murray is the very best three-point shooter within the nation via the primary month(ish) of the 2024-25 ladies’s school basketball season and he or she doesn’t present indicators of slowing down. Penn State’s sophomore(ish) guard makes greater than she misses.
If there was to be a Caitlin Clark of 2024, primarily based solely on triples, Mo Murray can be her. You wish to see her get her the ball in area!
Murray initially enrolled at Drexel out of Dunmore Excessive College in Pennsylvania however didn’t play in a single sport for the Dragons. She transferred as much as the Large Ten midway via her true freshman 12 months and was compelled to sit down. As a sophomore, the 5-foot-8 fireballer shot 35.3% from three-point vary in simply 12.5 minutes per sport.
Her tempo has solely elevated with extra taking part in time in 12 months three! Murray — as a person — is at the moment hitting extra triples per sport than ~25% of Division I.
Bucknell — 28 factors
Canisius — 8 factors
Duquesne — 26 factors
Niagara — 17 factors
Monmouth — 23 factors
Marshall — 6 factors
Georgia — 24 factors
Drexel — 9 factors
Murray takes roughly 13 pictures per sport (11 from deep) and hits six of them (5 from deep). She went 0-5 from three in opposition to the Griffins, 2-10 in opposition to the Thundering Herd, and 1-2 in opposition to her authentic college. Sadly, an undisclosed leg harm compelled her to go away Wednesday’s sport early, however the Nittany Lions did escape with a victory over the Dragons in extra time.
Moriah Murray knocks down a fairly ???? @PennStateWBB#B1GWBBall on @BigTenPlus ???? pic.twitter.com/5TaAfuJg9z
— Large Ten Girls’s Basketball (@B1Gwbball) November 27, 2024
I digress. Murray is must-see tv if/when she will get again on the school basketball court docket!
MO’S NOT MESSING AROUND
✔️ @WBCA1981 Most Excellent Participant ✔️ 24 PTS & 7 REB✔️ Drained seven three-pointers (fourth time this season) #LionMentality | @murray_moriah pic.twitter.com/3meeXNa3Wr
— Penn State Girls’s Basketball (@PennStateWBB) November 24, 2024
I might think about bestowing the nickname “this 12 months’s Caitlin Clark” upon Moriah Murray primarily based solely on her three-point capturing. Nonetheless, we’ll by no means see one other Caitlin Clark and Moriah Murray is a really completely different participant. With that being mentioned… it’s nonetheless enjoyable to check their stats.
Murray is making 6.6 of 10.6 her three-point pictures per sport with out these three outliers. Clark made 5.6 of her 13.6 three-point pictures per sport final season. Simply saying!
The tempo at which Mo Murray is capturing (and hitting) has been exceptional to this point. We should hope her harm shouldn’t be that severe so she will be able to maintain chucking up triples at a (roughly) Caitlin Clark price!!
