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male Athlete-of-the-Year. Kix went on to be a 15-year head coach at Maine, being named the America East Coachof-the-Year four times. ���Being an athlete, that���s why Drey made it, you���re strong,��� Versyp said. ���It���s that mental toughness. She���s going for her third national championship. She won it as a player, she won it as a coach and this is her (winning it) as an amazing person. She���s more of an amazing person than she was a player or coach and she���s going to get it done. ���We���ll battle and win. Prayers have been answered with a lot of different situations. national rankings AP Top 25 USA Today Coaches The team needs her and (Dec. 24) Poll she needs them. The powStanford (24) (Dec. 24) er of family, the power of Connecticut (14) 1. Stanford (26) Baylor (2) 2. Connecticut (4) love, the power of laughter Duke 3. Baylor (1) is very important. She���s a Notre Dame 4. Duke fighter.��� Georgia 5. Notre Dame 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Kentucky 8. California 9. Maryland 10. Penn State 11. PURDUE 12. Louisville 13. Tennessee 14. Oklahoma State 15. Dayton 16. North Carolina 17. UCLA 18. 18. Oklahoma 19. South Carolina 20. Texas 21. Florida State 22. Kansas 23. Colorado 24. Texas A&M 25. Arkansas Other receiving votes: Nebraska, Iowa State, Miami (Fla.), Ohio State, West Virginia, Vanderbilt, Duquesne, Michigan State, Michigan, Syracuse, Villanova, Iowa, Toledo, UTEP, Utah 6. Kentucky 7. Georgia 8. California 9. Maryland 10. Penn State 11. PURDUE 12. Louisville 13. Oklahoma State 14. Dayton 15. Tennessee 16. South Carolina 17. Oklahoma 18. UCLA 19. Nebraska 20. Kansas 21. Texas 22. Texas A&M 23. North Carolina 24. Ohio State 25. Florida State Other receiving votes: West Virginia, Colorado, Miami (Fla.), Iowa State, Syracuse, Arkansas, St. John���s, UTEP, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, Duquesne, DePaul, Toledo, Gonzaga, Villanova Poston Still Sidelined Purdue is hoping it can get wing Chantel Poston back as soon as possible. But that might not be soon enough for her to see the start of Big Ten play on Wednesday at Illinois. That had been the goal when Poston had knee surgery following an injury vs. UConn in late November, but she���s seemed to fall behind that timeline. ���I have no idea,��� Versyp said when asked when the senior would return. ���It���s on her. ��� It���ll be five weeks (post-injury) next week, Manuel Wins Weekly Award Taylor Manuel earned Big Ten co-Freshman of the Week honors Dec. 10 by averaging a team-high 14 points in wins at IPFW and Tennessee-Martin. The forward shot 71.4 percent from the field, and averaged 3.5 rebounds in only 15 minutes per game. The St. Louis native scored 12 points in 12 minutes, connecting on 5-of-6 field goals in Purdue���s victory at IPFW. In the win at UT-Martin, Tom Campbell Manuel tied Sam Ostarello for Courtney Moses scored 19 points for the team-high scoring honors with Boilermakers, helping Purdue to a win over a season-high 16 points. She IUPUI. made 5-of-8 shots and 6-of-8 free but she hasn���t been able to get throws, recorded five rebounds through a practice (yet).��� and two blocked shots in 18 minPoston was averaging about utes of action. six points and two rebounds per game when she was injured. But Boilers Helping Others she���s capable of putting up douPurdue���s Boiler Crunch drive ble-figure points, is an above-av- helped collect more than 5,000 erage defender and probably the boxes of cereal for Food Finders Boilermakers��� most athletic player. Food Bank. ���Chantel is a big missing piece The drive, which benefited for us right now,��� Versyp said. the organization���s backpack pro���We���ve talked about it, that it���s gram for underprivileged children starting to show here or there. in the community, received a do���But we���ve done a great job nation of 360 cases (or 4,308 boxwithout Chantel the last month es of cereal) from General Mills. and that���s how we go forward.��� The donation was presented to Food Finders at halftime of the Boilermakers��� win over IUPUI on Dec. 21. Purdue Continues Streak The following is a look at Purdue���s last three games: No. 13 Purdue 78, IUPUI 53 Dec. 21 �����Mackey Arena Although Purdue at times looked a bit disjointed, particularly when forced into a half-court offense, the Boilermakers��� transition game was more than enough to carry them to an easy win. The victory, the Boilermakers��� sixth straight, provided a final tune-up before the meat of their season, with Notre Dame and the Big Ten following the holiday break. Against the Jaguars, the No. 13 Boilermakers (11-1) couldn���t be stopped when they were on the run, scoring repeatedly when beating the visitors down the floor. ���We hit the posts a couple times running down the floor,��� said Courtney Moses, who scored a team-high 18 points. ���That was really good. We had (21) assists, so we were sharing the ball. When we got out and ran, we scored or were able to get to the foul line.��� GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 15��� ������ 33