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Message: [QUOTE="#12in21, post: 4953071, member: 10763"] Nika finishes her career virtually atop every UConn wcbb assist category. Her 686 career assists surpass the previous record holder, Moriah Jefferson by 27 assists. Nika did that in 131 games, 24 fewer than Moriah's 155 game career. She is the all-time career assist/game leader at 5.24 (surpassing previous leader, Jill Brumbaugh (5.06 1884-88). Her career assist percentage of 26.6 is also the record in that category. She has had the most double digit assist games (17), is the only player to have four (4) back to back double digit asset games and of players that have thirteen or more assists in a game she is peerless at five (5), four other players have one each. She also holds the record for most assists in a game at fifteen (15). In terms of single season assist records, she sits at the top two seasons (284 in 22-23 and 253 in 23-24) surpassing Sue Bird's 21 year standing record of 231. She is the leader in assist percentage 32.9 (2022-23) also holding third place 29.6 (2023-24) just being Diane Taurasi's mark of 29.7 (2003-04). She has the highest assist/per game rate of 7.9 (2022-23) and also the second highest at 6.5 (2023-24). Nika holds the record for both single season total minutes and min/g at 36.6 (2022-23) and led her team in both categories her junior and senior seasons. She was named the BE DPOY twice (2021-22 & 2022-23). She finished her senior season having the most career starts of anyone on the roster and as the recognized floor general on both offense and defense as acknowledged by her coach and teammates. I think it is safe to say that there has been no more impactful UConn player, unquestionably so during her junior and senior seasons, that will not be on the wall of honor. It is rather fitting that that would be the case for Nika as she has always contended that she has never been the star of her team at any level but she has always worked her butt off to be the best teammate she can possibly be doing all the little things that make her team better. In her final pregame press conference (I believe) she referred to herself as a role player when she anticipated that those would be the ones whose contributions would be very impactful in the upcoming game against Iowa. It turns out there was no truer statement and what she did in that game was a fitting example of Nika Mühl at her best. As Geno alluded to in his final post game presser response, Nika had a special way of touching every single person in their program and as he has said numerous times in the past that she is simply unique. Not a bad college career for a kid from Croatia who started playing b-ball in middle school! [ATTACH type="full"]99025[/ATTACH][ATTACH]99025[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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