DePaulia
The
Age of To’Morrow’
Volume #106 | Issue #12| Jan. 31, 2022 | depauliaonline.com
BEN ZEBROWSKI | THE DEPAULIA
DePaul freshman forward Aneesah Morrow is averaging 20.8 points and 12.8 rebounds per game. On Sunday, at Seton Hall, she set the new Big East record for rebounds in a game with 26.
Aneesah Morrow has taken over the Big East — one rebound at a time By Lawrence Kreymer Editor-in-Chief
Aneesah Morrow rarely talks trash during a basketball game. No matter the situation or the opponent, she won’t commit her attention to talking to the other team. The goal? To win. “If you pay attention, most of the time I don’t talk,” she said. Will other players talk smack to her? Possibly. But most other players are also not putting up 20.8 points and 12.8 rebounds per game in their freshman season. But will her family talk some trash during pick-up games? Most definitely. “My mother, like, when we play, all the time and she talks stuff,” Morrow said. “But that’s how my family is, so you have to get used to it.” Morrow, who is 6’1”, is letting her game speak for her as she continues to dominate any opponent that is put in front of her. Entering Wednesday’s game with No. 10 UConn, the freshman forward from Chicago put up 12 consecutive double-doubles — the longest streak in the nation. But she had yet to face an opponent like the Huskies, who present a matchup nightmare in the post with multiple players taller than 6-foot-1. No problem. Morrow still went on to put on a clinic inside the paint against UConn, going for 30 points and 14 rebounds. She was only the fourth player in the previous 20 years to score at least 30
points and grab at least 10 rebounds in a game versus the Huskies, per ESPN’s Stats and Information. DePaul ended up losing the game by two, 80-78, via a game-winning layup from UConn’s Caroline Ducharme. And, yet, after the game, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma — who is the winningest coach in women’s college basketball history — only had positive things to say about Morrow. “I don’t think that there’s another player in our league like that,” he said. “I don’t think that there’s another player in our league that plays like she plays.” Not bad for a freshman to hear that from a Hall of Fame coach. In the midst of that performance, Morrow didn’t feel the need to talk back to some of the UConn’s players — even if some of them might have been chirping the other way. “I feel like [Wednesday’s] game was the most I ever talked, and all I said was ‘Andone,’” Morrow recalled. The numbers are speaking for themselves, and the awards and recognition that Morrow is racking up on a weekly basis are speaking even louder. “I just feel like it just shows all the work I’m putting in, and my determination for the things that I’m going to accomplish,” she said.
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MADDY MAES | THE DEPAULIA
Aneesah Morrow looks to get past a Georgetown defender on Jan. 16 at Wintrust Arena.
DONALD CROCKER | THE DEPAULIA
Aneesah Morrow gets by her St. John’s defender on Jan. 28 at Wintrust Arena.