Graduate student Khadija Faye’s name will stand among the most decorated Pitt women’s basketball players of all-time after she was named Tuesday first-team All-ACC.
Faye, a 6-foot-4 center, joins Liatu King (2024) and Brianna Kiesel (2015) as the only Pitt women named first-team All-ACC in basketball. Previously, six players — Jennifer Bruce, Jonna Huemrich, Lorri Johnson, Pam Miklasevich, Marcedes Walker and Shavonte Zellous — were named first-team All-Big East.
A transfer from Texas who also played at Texas Tech, Faye leads the ACC in double-doubles (16) and is averaging 19.2 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.5 blocks. She is the first ACC player since Dolores Bootz (Georgia Tech, 1987-1988) to reach those milestones. Faye, a native of Senegal, has scored 20 or more points in Pitt’s past seven games.
The No. 15-seeded Panthers (13-18, 5-13) will play No. 10 Virginia at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the ACC Tournament at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. Pitt’s victory total is the most since 2016-17, and its five wins in the ACC rank second-most all-time.
