COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – For the third time this season, Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior forward
Alisha Little (Aurora, Colo./University of Northern Colorado) took home both the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week award as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.
Little, who has now been recognized as an RMAC Player of the Week four times this season, swept both the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week accolades on Nov. 18 and Dec. 2 and was named the Offensive Player of the Week on Dec. 16. Little has earned 18 Player of the Week honors from the RMAC in her career as along with sweeping the award three times, she has earned 11 Defensive Player of the Week honors and four Offensive Player of the Week honors.
The two-time All-American forward and the reigning RMAC Defensive Player of the Year sweeps both of this week's Player of the Week honors after averaging 28.7 points, 14.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 4.3 steals and 6.3 blocks per game en route to helping the ThunderWolves to post home wins over Regis (80-72) and Colorado Christian (66-63) and at UCCS (74-66) to open the 2025 calendar year. This week's Player of the Week accolade includes games played from Dec. 30-Jan. 12. In all three of those games, Little recorded double-doubles, including capping the stretch of game with a triple-double last Saturday at UCCS.
Little opened the three-game stretch against Regis by recording 30 points, 13 rebounds, four steals and five blocked shots, before tallying 28 points, a season-high 15 rebounds, a career-high tying eight steals, five assists and three blocked shots against Colorado Christian and then scoring 28 points, pulling down 14 rebounds and blocking a single-game school record 11 shots in recording her first career triple-double and the Pack's first triple-double since Janiya Davis against UCCS in 2019 in the win over the Mountain Lions. The 11 blocked shots was also tied for the third-most in a women's game in the state of Colorado history.
In addition, Little shot 46 percent from the field, was 4-for-14 from the 3-point line and was 28-for-36 (77.8 percent) from the free throw line in those three game. She also added a total of eight assists and pulled down 34 defensive boards. In those three games, she recorded 86 points, 42 rebounds, 19 blocks and 13 steals.
On the season, Little leads the RMAC in scoring (24.1 points per game), blocks (4.1 blocks per game) and double-doubles (11) and is second in rebounding (10.8 per game), and third in steals (2.9 per game) and is fifth in field goal percentage (46.3 percent). In addition, she leads Division II women's basketball in blocks per game (4.1), total blocks (57), double-doubles (11) and is third in points per game (24.1) and fifth in total points scored (338) and is third in total free throw attempts (121). She is one three players this season in Division II to record a triple-double.
Additionally, Little is the No. 2 all-time scorer in women's basketball in the state of Colorado history as she has tallied 2,236 points and is 504 points shy of Becky Hammon's (Colorado State, 1995-99) all-time state record of 2,740 points. Little is also third in state history in rebounding with 1,201 boards and is 66 boards shy of Holly Roberts' (MSU Denver, 1989-93) state record of 1,267 rebounds and is the state's all-time leader in blocked shots with 377. Little is also sixth on CSU Pueblo's career scoring chart with 1,416 points and holds the school's all-time record for blocked shots (247) and is tied for the school's career mark for double-doubles (40). Little, who has recorded 61 career double-doubles, is one of two active NCAA women's basketball players with 2,000 career points, 1,000 career rebounds and 300 career blocked shots. The other player is Kansas State's Ayoka Lee, who has scored 2,469 points, pulled down 1,224 rebounds and has blocked 343 shots.
Little and her Pack teammates (11-3 overall, 6-0 RMAC) will look to extend its nine-game win streak this coming week as they play back-to-back RMAC road games on Thursday, Jan. 16 at Colorado School of Mines and on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Regis. The Mines game will tip-off at 5:30 p.m. in Golden, Colo., while the Regis game will tip-off at 3 p.m. in Denver.
