BU’s Greenberg named Kodak basketball All-American
Women’s standout is first BU player ever selected to elite 10-member team  

Binghamton University women’s basketball player Bess Greenberg (Vestal/Vestal) has reached the highest level of Division II basketball, chalking up yet another milestone in her remarkable collegiate career. Greenberg was among 10 Division II basketball players named Tuesday to the 2000 NCAA Division II Kodak All-America Women’s Basketball Team. She will be honored at the WBCA National Convention, March 29-April 2 in Philadelphia — in conjunction with the Women’s Final Four.

The national recognition is the first for any BU men’s or women’s player in 54 years of basketball at the University. Greenberg (1999) and Jennifer Gaeta (1993, 1994) previously earned honorable mention All-America status. She was the lone athlete selected from a talented Northeast Region that included prominent programs such as St. Rose and Bentley (Mass.).

With 278 teams playing women’s Division II basketball across the country, Greenberg’s selection to the 10-member team essentially means she was among the top one percent of nearly 3,500 athletes in the nation. Given Greenberg’s performance against Division I programs Tennessee Chattanooga, Army and Colgate, she may have received consideration at that level as well. In the three games against top-level competition, Greenberg averaged 20 points per game, including 33 against a Chattanooga team that went 26-5 and advanced to the Women’s NIT.

Greenberg, who just last week was named first team Academic All-American, led the Bearcats to a record-breaking 27-2 season, capped with the program’s first-ever ECAC Championship. She averaged 21.3 points per game on 53% shooting, and ranks among the nation’s top-10 in both scoring and three-point field goal percentage (49.1%). Already the program’s all-time scoring leader, Greenberg will carry 1,486 points into her senior season next November.

She scored in double figures 25 of 27 games, including 12 straight to end the season. During that closing stretch, Greenberg averaged 24 points, 5.8 assists and 2.4 steals.

The Bearcats, ranked 17th in the most recent WBCA poll, will await their final national ranking, which will be released one week from today, following the conclusion of the NCAA Division II tournament.