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HOPEWELL, N.J. (April 2, 2025) — Her Hoop Stats is proud to announce that Harvard senior guard Harmoni Turner has been named the 2025 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year presented by Her Hoop Stats. The award, which is in its sixth season, recognizes the best mid-major player in the country.
Turner had arguably the best season by a Harvard player in program history this season, averaging 22.5 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 2.8 steals per game. She recorded two 40-point games, the only two in Crimson history. Add in a 38-point outing against Maine, and Turner’s senior season accounts for three of the top five single-game scoring performances in Harvard history.
No game better exemplified Turner’s season than her 44-point, seven-rebound showing against Princeton in the Ivy League semifinal. Turner propelled the Crimson into the Ivy Madness title game and all but assured that Harvard was off the bubble should they need to make the NCAA Tournament as an at-large bid.
In that title game, Turner erased all concern about the bubble as she tallied 24 points, four assists, and three steals to lift the Crimson to their first Ivy League championship since 2008 and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007.
In addition to her single-game scoring, Turner is all over Harvard’s career leaderboards, ranking third in points (2,032), sixth in assists (405), and second in steals (269), all while not even cracking the program’s top 10 for total games played.
To be eligible for this award, players must compete in one of the 26 conferences deemed to be “mid-major.” The following conferences are considered high-major for the purposes of this award and thus ineligible: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, and SEC. Additionally, players from Oregon State and Washington State were ineligible this year as membership in the Pac-12 Conference evolves.
The 25-player preseason watch list was announced in October, and 15 midseason watch list members were announced in January. The 10 semifinalists were announced in February, with the five finalists announced in March.
Hammon was a three-time All-American at Colorado State and led the Rams to the Sweet 16 in 1999, the program’s only appearance to date. She was signed by the New York Liberty in 1999 and traded to the San Antonio Stars in 2007, where she played the rest of her career. Hammon retired in 2014 as a six-time All-Star and a two-time All-WNBA First Team honoree. In 2016, she was named one of the top 20 players in WNBA history and was recently named to the W25.
Hammon became the second female coach in NBA history when she began coaching for the San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Additionally, Hammon is the only woman to be a head coach in the NBA Summer League and the only woman to be a member of an NBA All-Star coaching staff. Currently, Hammon is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces and won the 2022 and 2023 WNBA Championships.
Her Hoop Stats was founded in 2017 to unlock better insight about women’s basketball at all levels. We began as a statistics site focused on providing consistent, reliable, and easy-to-access data about women’s basketball for both mobile and desktop environments. Her Hoop Stats has expanded to become a leading independent voice in the women’s game providing content through our newsletter, podcast network, YouTube channel, and social media accounts (Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram).
