We talk all the time about how tough it is to hit 50-40-90 splits, but what about 50-50-100?
Only two players in women’s college basketball—averaging double digits—have done it through the first month of the season: UConn’s Azzi Fudd and Wyoming’s Malene Pedersen. Keeping a perfect free throw percentage over a full season? Probably impossible. But the efficiency they’re showing is insane.
Fudd is putting up (19.7) points per game on 51.0% shooting from the floor, 55.1% from three, and she’s 11-for-11 from the line. Her most efficient game so far came against Utah, where she recorded 24 points, 9-of-11 shooting, 4-for-4 from three, and 100% from the free throw line. That’s the most threes she’s ever made in a game without missing one—she had previously hit 3-for-3 in the 2022 NCAA Tournament as a freshman. She’s also the only player in the country top 5 in both threes made per game and three-point percentage.
Pedersen isn’t far behind. She’s averaging (18.0) points per game, shooting 52.7% from the floor, 53.6% from deep, and is perfect from the line on 15 attempts. The Aabyhøj native has hit at least 50% from three in each of Wyoming’s first six games. A few days ago, she dropped 25 points, making all 11 of her free throws, to help the Cowgirls beat South Dakota. She sits eighth in the nation in three-point percentage.