{"id":223162,"date":"2025-10-14T04:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223162\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:34:20","slug":"mm-10-13-former-maryland-womens-basketball-star-alyssa-thomas-named-to-all-wnba-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223162\/","title":{"rendered":"MM 10.13: Former Maryland women\u2019s basketball star Alyssa Thomas named to All-WNBA first team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Maryland women\u2019s basketball player and current Phoenix Mercury star was named first team All-WNBA on Friday, the league announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This marks Thomas\u2019 third straight All-WNBA first team selection, and fourth overall. Thomas and the Mercury fell in WNBA Finals to the Las Vegas Aces Friday, but Thomas still recorded a triple-double of 17 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past season, Thomas averaged 15.4 points, a career-high 9.2 assists and 8.8 rebounds. Her 357 total assists passed Caitlin Clark\u2019s single-season record for most assists in a season. Thomas also set a new WNBA mark for triple-doubles in a season with eight, surpassing her own record of six that she set in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Maryland wide recievers Tai Felton and Jeshaun Jones were in attendance for Maryland football\u2019s game against Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Maryland football wide receiver Stefon Diggs won ESPN\u2019s Week 5 Himmy Award Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dominique Foxworth will be back in College Park for Homecoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Maryland women\u2019s basketball player and current Phoenix Mercury star was named first team All-WNBA on Friday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,125305,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-223162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-the-maryland-minute","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}