Women's Basketball | 11/25/2024 2:00:00 PM

After leading Utah Tech to a hard-fought split of two road games last week, Utah Tech junior guards Chardonnay Hartley and Aaliyah Ibarra combined to sweep the Western Athletic Conference women's basketball weekly awards on Monday.
 
Hartley (5-3; Harlem, N.Y./Bishop Loughlin Memorial HS/Longwood/Niagara) was named WAC Player of the Week after averaging 17.0 points on 34.5 percent shooting (10-29), including 35.7 percent (5-14) from the perimeter. She also averaged 7.5 assists, 4.0 rebounds, and 1.5 steals in her two starts. 
 
The junior guard, who scored 17 points in both games last week, dished out a game-high seven assists, and had four rebounds and two steals in the loss at Houston Christian last Thursday night.
 
Hartley, who begins this week ranked third in the NCAA Division I ranks in assists (49/8.1 apg) and is the WAC's leading scorer (18.5 ppg), tallied a game-high eight dimes, along with four boards and one steal in the Blazers' 79-69 road win at McNeese State this past Saturday afternoon. 
 
Ibarra (5-8; Las Vegas, Nev./Centennial HS/College of Southern Nevada) earned WAC Newcomer of the Week accolades after she averaged 19.5 points on 52.0 percent shooting (13-25), including 40.0 percent (6-15) from the perimeter off the bench in Utah Tech's two-game split last week. She also averaged 3.0 rebounds and 1.5 steals. 
 
After scoring three points with three rebounds and two steals in the loss at HCU, the junior came back in a big way in Utah Tech's win at McNeese State on Saturday. 
 
Ibarra poured in a career-high 36 points off the bench, including 18 second-quarter points, to go with three rebounds and one steal. She was a perfect 6-of-6 from the floor in that second quarter blitz with four 3-pointers, along with a 2-for-2 effort at the foul line.

In all, Ibarra hit on 12 of her 20 total shot attempts on the afternoon, including 5-of-11 from the perimeter, and went 7-of-9 at the charity stripe.

Ibarra's 36-point day tied for the fifth-most points scored by a Trailblazer in a single game in the program's NCAA era, and were the second-most points scored by a Trailblazer in a game during the team's current Division I era (38, Breaunna Gillen vs. UT Arlington; 2/24/24).
 
Utah Tech (3-3/0-0 WAC) returns to the Burns Arena for a two-game Thanksgiving weekend homestand, which starts with a match-up against new Big-12 member Colorado this Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. (MT).