Brittany Brewer Explained

Brittany Brewer
League:WNBA
Position:Power forward
Height Ft:6
Height In:5
Weight Lb:182
Nationality:American
Birth Date:6 November 1997
Birth Place:Abilene, Texas
High School:Wylie (Abilene, Texas)
College:Texas Tech (2016–2020)
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:2020
Draft Round:2
Draft Pick:17
Draft Team:Atlanta Dream
Career Start:2020
Team1:Atlanta Dream
Highlights:

Brittany Brewer (born November 6, 1997) is an American professional basketball player. She played in college for the Texas Tech Lady Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. Brewer is the 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year.[1] She was also selected as a First-team Academic All-American in 2019.[2]

College career

Brewer started 17 games in each of her freshman and sophomore seasons with the Lady Raiders. In the 2018–19 season, she started all 31 games as a junior and added 3-point shootings to her repertoire; averaging 34.3% on 99 attempts while attempting none in her prior two years. In the 2019–20 season, Brewer once again started all 29 games as a senior and averaged a double-double of 16.6 ppg and 10.3 rpg.

During her senior year, she also tied the NCAA Division I women's single-game record for blocked shots, recording 16 as part of a triple-double in the Lady Raiders' 83–38 rout of Louisiana–Monroe on December 22, 2019.[3]

Professional career

Brewer was selected with the fifth pick in the second round, 17th overall, of the 2020 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream.

Career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left; | 2016–17| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech| 31 || 17 || 22.3 || .452 || .000 || .604 || 5.7 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 1.7 || 1.5 || 5.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech| 30 || 17 || 20.2 || .490 || .000 || .531 || 5.0 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 1.3 || 2.4 || 9.5|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech| 31 || 31 || 31.0 || .528 || .343 || .692 || 9.1 || 1.2 || 0.7 || 2.3 || 2.5 || 16.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20*| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech| 29 || 29 || 31.5 || .509 || .243 || .675 || 10.3 || 0.9 || 0.7 || 4.4 || 2.5 || 16.6|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 121 || 94 || 26.2 || .495 || .146 || .625 || 7.5 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 2.4 || 2.3 || 12.1

Source: texastech.com[4]

WNBA

Regular season

|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta| 5 || 0 || 6.6 || .667 ||  - ||  - || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.6 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.8

Source: basketball-reference.com[5]

Personal life

Brittany Brewer is the daughter of Jacob and Melanie Brewer. She has four siblings: Brianna, Brooklyn, Joy and Josh. Brewer majored in Community, Family and Addiction Sciences at Texas Tech.

Notes and References

  1. 2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Teams Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . en . March 9, 2020 . April 17, 2020.
  2. 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 11, 2019 . April 17, 2020.
  3. News: Brewer nets first triple-double in 22 years as Lady Raiders roll to 10th straight win before holiday break . Carlos . Silva Jr. . . December 22, 2019 . March 24, 2020.
  4. Web site: Brittany Brewer - Women's Basketball. Texas Tech Red Raiders. en. April 17, 2020.
  5. Web site: Brittany Brewer WNBA stats. Basketball Reference. 14 September 2020.