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Mountain West Conference Names Women's Basketball Players of the Week
BYU's Mallary Carling and Utah's Morgan Warburton earn the honors
Feb. 4, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - BYU senior Mallary Carling and Utah junior Morgan Warburton have been named the Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Co-Players of the Week. In both games last week, Carling led BYU in scoring. The Vineyard, Utah, native scored 24 points against Air Force and added another 20 against No. 15/16 Wyoming for a 22.0 average on the week. She shot 60.7 percent from field (17-of-28), went 2-for-2 from the charity stripe, and made 8-of-12 treys (.667). Carling also averaged 3.5 boards, contributed three assists and had four steals to earn her first weekly honor of the season. Warburton led the Utes to two victories last week as well, besting both nationally-ranked Wyoming and Colorado State. She hit a game-winning three-pointer with three seconds left in the game against Wyoming, finishing with 18 points on 7-for-15 shooting to hand the Cowgirls just their second loss of the season. A Helper, Utah, product, Warburton also had a career-high 12 rebounds to tally her first double-double of the season. She went on to score another 18 points against the Rams, on 7-for-11 shooting, scoring nearly half of the team's three-pointers in going 4-for-5 from beyond the arc. Warburton shot 53.8 percent from the field (14-for-26) and shot a team-best 6-for-9 (.667) from three-point range while leading her team with a 10.0 rebound-per-game average. This marks both Carling's and Warburton's first weekly honors of the season.
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