FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The nation's leading scorer, Fairfield University Women's Basketball Road Runner Meghan Andersen was named one of five players for the Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week award. Andersen's 32.5 scoring average led the entire nation during the season's opening week and was highlighted by a career-high 35-point explosion in the win over Villanova. Andersen was also selected as the MAAC Player of the Week.
 
"While this may come as a surprise to many, there are no surprises in our locker room that Meg is one of the best players in the country," Head Coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis said. "She is an incredibly hard worker and has grown her game in so many ways over the last few years.  She keeps adding ways to impact the game, and has done so with a growth mindset both as a basketball player and as an emerging voice as an upperclassman on our team.  This is only the beginning for Meg and her teammates!"
 
Andersen is the only player in the country to record back-to-back 30-point games in her first two games and only the second Stag all-time to achieve that feat. In just three years, she has tallied four different 30-point contests, the only Stag in program history to reach that mark.
 
She started her season with a career-high 35-point outing at Villanova which included the 1,000th point of her career. She tied Fairfield's all-time leading scorer Gail Strumpf-Cheney as the second-fastest Stag to reach the milestone needing just 67 career games.
 
She followed that performance with another historic game, setting a women's basketball Mahoney Arena record with 30 points in Fairfield's win over reigning Patriot League Champions Lehigh. She drilled six 3-pointers in the victory, as she went 6-for-10 from behind the arc.
 
Her 32.5 scoring average was the most by any Division I player in the season's opening week and her 4.5 3-pointers per game ranks her third in the country. She also leads the conference with a .605 field goal percentage while also shooting .563 from behind the 3-point arc.
 
Andersen's performance helped the Stags win both of their games to start the season and improve their overall mark to 61-7 since the start of 2024.
 
Fairfield will now head to Las Vegas, Nev., to take part in the inaugural WBCA Challenge where they will face South Florida (Thursday) and North Carolina (Saturday). Both games are scheduled for 6pm EST.