STEPHENVILLE, Texas – Following a commanding season-opening win and great efforts at Texas Tech and New Mexico, the Western Athletic Conference rewarded the Tarleton State women's basketball team with one of its two weekly honors.
 
The WAC announced on Monday that Texan forward Andjela Bigovic was named the WAC Women's Basketball Newcomer of the Week after the first week of games from Nov. 6-12.
 
Bigovic, a transfer from Cochise College, averaged 10.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.3 blocks across three games this past week.
 
Her best game was on Sunday at New Mexico, where she posted 12 points, 16 rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks. It marked Tarleton State's first double-double of the season. Her 16 rebounds are the most in a game by a Texan in over six years, last accomplished by Mackenzie Hailey vs. Western New Mexico on Feb. 4, 2017. It's the tied-13th most amount of rebounds in a game at the NCAA Division I level this season.
 
Bigovic tallied multiple blocks in each of the three games. She leads the team in both rebounding (8.3 RPG) and blocks (2.3 BPG), and is second in assists at 3.3 APG.
 
Tarleton went 1-2 on the week, with a 106-38 win vs. Howard Payne, a close 70-63 road loss at Texas Tech, and a close 64-55 road loss at New Mexico.
 
The WAC's Newcomer of the Week award is one of two weekly awards the conference will distribute all season. The other, the WAC WBB Player of the Week honor, was distributed to Utah Tech's Breaunna Gillen this week.
 
2023-24 Tarleton State WBB WAC weekly awards:
Week 1 (Nov. 6-12) – Andjela Bigovic, Newcomer of the Week