Zellous named All-American

Throughout her four years on the Pitt women’s basketball team, Shavonte Zellous helped the… Throughout her four years on the Pitt women’s basketball team, Shavonte Zellous helped the Panthers to their first NCAA Tournament and first Sweet 16 appearance. Now she can add another first for the women’s program to her resume.

The senior guard was named to the Associated Press All-America third team Tuesday. She is the first Panther to earn All-American honors.

Zellous, a unanimous selection to the all-Big East first team this year, finished second in the conference and sixth in the nation in scoring, averaging 22.6 points per game. Final Four-bound Louisville’s Angel McCoughtry led the Big East, scoring 23.5 points a game.

A sure-fire first-round pick in next week’s WNBA Draft, Zellous concludes her career at Pitt as the school’s third all-time leading scorer with 2,251 points, including 747 points this year, which makes her the first Pitt basketball player, men’s or woman’s, to score more than 700 points in a season. She’s also the first men’s or woman’s player in Pitt history to score more than 600 points in three separate seasons and just the ninth in Big East history.

Zellous led the Panthers with 18 points in their Sweet 16 loss to Oklahoma, 70-59, on Sunday.