MINNEAPOLIS — After a season-long campaign, South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston won the 2022 Naismith Trophy for women’s National Player of the Year.
Boston was given the award in a ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis ahead of the Gamecocks’ Final Four game against fellow No. 1-seed Louisville on Friday at Target Center. She’s the first Gamecock to win the honor since A’ja Wilson did so in 2018.
South Carolina swept the annual Naismith honors. Boston also won the Naismith women’s Defensive Player of the Year honor, while Dawn Staley was named Naismith women’s college Coach of the Year.
