Ahead of the start of the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament on Wednesday in Kansas City, the league has released its 2025-26 yearly honors. Under first-year head coach Becky Burke, the Wildcats were mostly absent from list of honors, though one player did do enough to garner some attention from the conference. Arizona Women’s Basketball guard Noelani Cornfield earned Big 12 Honorable Mention honors following her final collegiate season.
Arizona’s floor general appeared in 25 games for the Wildcats this season, making 20 starts. The graduate student from Gowanda, NY averaged 14.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 6.9 assists per game. She led the Wildcats with 191 assists on the season and ranks second in the Big 12 and sixth in the nation in assists per game. Cornfield also averaged 2.6 steals per game, while shooting 41.4% from the field and 81.9% from the free throw line.
She scored in double figures in 22 games this season and recorded six 20-point performances on the year, including back-to-back careers high against ASU (24) and Colorado (25). Her 12-assist game against UC Irvine are the most by a Wildcat since Aari McDonald dished out 14 against Prairie View A&M in 2019. She is also the first player with double digit assists in back-to-back games in over 20 years, and is believed to be the only player in program history with consecutive double figure assist games.
The 15-seed Arizona Wildcats will take on the 10-seed Arizona State Sun Devils in the first round of the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament. The game tips off on Wednesday, March 4, at 4:30 PM MST on ESPN+.