Western Kentucky’s women’s basketball team landed a pair of First Team All-Conference USA honors for the fourth straight season as Tashia Brown and Ivy Brown earned the accolades, the conference office announced Monday.

In addition, both Browns were named to the C-USA All-Defensive Team, and WKU’s Raneem Elgedawy earned a spot on the C-USA All-Freshman Team.

The Lady Toppers have accomplished the feat in each of their four seasons as a C-USA member, and both Tashia and Ivy Brown have now been chosen to the first team twice, with the former also earning the honor in 2016 and the latter in 2017. Tashia Brown also earned a second team nod in 2017 and is the 12th player in Lady Topper Basketball history to earn all-conference honors in three or more seasons.

Elgedawy, who won four Freshman of the Week awards, is the first Lady Topper to be named to the C-USA All-Freshman Team since Tashia Brown after the 2014-15 campaign.

Tashia Brown leads all C-USA players and ranks sixth among all Division I players with 22.9 points per game this season. She reached double figures in all 29 regular-season games this season, including a career-best 38 points against Charlotte on Feb. 23.

Tashia Brown ranks fourth all-time in scoring at WKU and 10th in the history of C-USA with 1,994 career points. The Lake Park, Ga., native is poised to become the fourth Lady Topper in program history with 2,000 points, joining WKU Hall of Famers Crystal Kelly, Lillie Mason and Tiffany Porter-Talbert. In addition to her scoring, Brown has also collected a career-best three double-doubles this season and is averaging career-best marks in rebounding, assists and steals per game in 2017-18.

Ivy Brown emerged as a nightly double-double threat in 2017-18 with a C-USA-best 15, and her 33 career double-doubles rank sixth in program history. The 2014 Miss Kentucky Basketball leads all C-USA players with 9.8 rebounds per game this season and ranks second in the conference with 2.5 steals and 1.6 blocks per outing.

Ivy Brown has also established herself as one of the top 3-point shooters in the conference, ranking fifth in the league by knocking down 42.1 percent (56-of-133) of her shots from beyond the arc. She bookended her regular season with career-best 31-point games at Iowa (Nov. 11) and UTEP (March 3).

Elgedawy started all 29 games for WKU and is averaging 8.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game with five double-doubles, the most in a single season by a WKU freshman since Crystal Kelly in 2004-05.

The only freshman ranked in the top 15 in C-USA in rebounding this season, Elgedawy also leads all freshmen in the league with her 48.1 percent shooting mark from the field and ranks second with 1.2 blocks per game. In one of the top performances by any WKU player this season, Elgedawy hauled down 23 rebounds against FIU on Jan. 11 – the most by a freshman and third-most overall in a single game in school history.

Elgedawy and the Browns will lead the Lady Toppers into this week’s C-USA Tournament at The Star in Frisco, Texas, as the No. 2 seed. WKU (21-8, 12-4 C-USA) is set to take on the winner of Wednesday’s Florida Atlantic-UTSA bout on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. (CT).{&end}