CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Preseason accolades continue to roll in for Illinois women’s basketball senior Makira Cook, as the point guard has been named to the 2023-24 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Women’s Player of the Year Watch List.
The Cincinnati, Ohio, native has also earned a spot on the WBCA Nancy Lieberman Top-20 Point Guards Preseason Watch List as well as both the Coaches and Media Preseason All-Big Ten Teams ahead of the 2023-24 season.
Cook is a senior in her second campaign at Illinois and fourth season under Shauna Green. She averaged a team-best 18.3 points per game and dished out 125 assists (4.2/game) while starting all 30 games she appeared in during the 2022-23 season. The guard tallied a 41.4 field goal percentage and shot 34.2% from behind the arc. Her free-throw percentage of 86.6 marked the fifth-best single-season rate in…
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