Prize named after Nancy Lieberman

The Nancy Lieberman Prize ( Eng. Nancy Lieberman Award ) is an annual award given by the James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to the best point guard in student women's basketball. The award is named after Nancy Lieberman , who plays for the Old Dominion Monarchs in the past, who set the women's NBA record as part of the Phoenix Mercury team, becoming the oldest player in the league, was included in the Hall of Fame in 1996. This award is analogous to the Bob Cousy prize in student men's basketball. The trophy was established by the American sports organization Rotary Club of Detroit and first presented to Sue Bird from the University of Connecticut in the 1999/2000 season .

Prize named after Nancy Lieberman
original name	Nancy lieberman award
A country	USA
Type of	Reward
To whom is handed	The best point guard in student women's basketball
Who is awarded by	Rotary Club of Detroit (2000—2013) Basketball Hall of Fame (2014—)
Statistics
Establishment Date	2000
First award	2000 Sue Bird , CT
Last award	2019 Sabrina Ionescu , Oregon
Site	nancy-lieberman-award

The award is given to a player who is an example for all others, showing leadership skills, game vision and ball skills on the basketball court, thereby embodying all the qualities of Nancy Lieberman in the arena. The selection of nominees, the number of which is constantly changing, is carried out by voting among sports observers throughout the country. The winner will be announced at the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, and the awards ceremony will take place next Wednesday at the Detroit Sports Club through the Rotary Club of Detroit. Starting in 2014, when the winner was Odissie Sims from the University of Baylor , the prize is awarded to the Basketball Hall of Fame, which appoints a special commission, which in turn selects the winner from among the contenders.

Five players, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi , Skylar Diggins , Moraya Jefferson and Sabrina Ionescu received this prize several times, and Bird won it three times. Basketball players of Connecticut University, who lead by a very large margin (8 times), the University of Notre Dame and the University of Oregon (2 times) became the winners of this nomination more often than others. In addition, the Connecticut Huskis players almost always (7 times), when they won this award, won the NCAA championship title , with the exception of the 2000/2001 season , when the basketball players of Notre Dame Fighting Irish became the winners. The current holder of this award is Sabrina Ionescu of the University of Oregon.