Mercury Player Wins Big 12 Player Of The Year

The Big 12 is a special conference, and today, teams like TCU, Texas Tech and Baylor are flourishing. Iowa State is having a solid season, and its star Audi Crooks is second in scoring. That includes all conferences, and the only player who averages more is Mikayla Blakes. The conference has had some talented players, and some of them have won Big 12 Player of the Year. That is a prestigious award, and Tamecka Dixon made history as she won the first-ever award. Since then, others have followed in her footsteps. Some of those players have ties to the Phoenix Mercury, and the first was Nicole Ohlde. She won the award twice, and while she started her WNBA career with the Minnesota Lynx, she joined the Mercury a few years later. Ohlde was traded to Phoenix, and the Mercury sent Kelly Miller and LaToya Sanders to Minnesota. When she came to Phoenix, Ohlde won a championship. That was the year the Mercury beat the Indiana Fever to win it all. Since Ohlde's Player of the Year win, other Mercury players won it, as B