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Samantha McComb

Class: Senior Hometown: Farmington Hills, Mich. High School: North Farmington

Height: 5-8 Position: G Birthdate: 05/29/1983

2003-04: Co-captain ... Led the Wildcats in scoring with 11.2 ppg despite missing 11 games due to injury ... Scored a career-high 22 points at Dayton on 11/26/03 and matched that twice, vs. Eastern Michigan on 12/6/03 and at UIC on 12/18/04 ... Scored in double-digits eight times as a junior and led the Wildcats in scoring seven of 17 games played (Dayton, Drexel, Eastern Michigan, UIC, Purdue, Michigan, Minnesota) ... Recorded a career-high seven assists in season opener vs. Creighton ... Grabbed a season-high seven boards in NU's win over Indiana on 2/12/04 ... Selected to the All-Tournament team at the Mildred and Roger L. White Invitational ... Named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District V Second Team ... Selected as Northwestern's Hilton Garden Inn Athlete of the Week on 12/1/03 and 2/16/04.

2002-03: Ended regular season second on team with 69 assists, 37 in conference games ... Second on team in scoring at 10.4 points per game ... Grabbed a career-high eight rebounds at Iowa (1/16/03) ... Third on team with 85 total rebounds ... Team's leading scorer in four contests, including a career-high 21 points against then-No. 24 DePaul (1/4/03) ... Hit four three-pointers in two games as a sophomore ... Tied a career high with six assists in season's first game vs. UIC (11/22/02) ... Led team in minutes played per game (34.2), playing all 40 minutes in two games ... Named to the All-Tournament team at the Mildred & Roger L. White Invitational ... Drained 48 of team's 138 total made shots from behind the three-point line ... In the Big Ten stats, ended season eighth in three-point field goals made (46) and fifth in three-point field goal percentage (.348) ... Made a three-point basket in 22 of NU's 27 games and 13-of-16 Big Ten games ... Reached double figures in 15-of-26 games.

2001-02: One of four freshmen to start at least 13 games throughout the year ... Had a career-high 18 points and scored her 100th career point vs. Minnesota (2/10/02) ... In that game, hit 5-of-9 three-point attempts, tying teammate Melissa Culver for 10th on NU's single-game record list ... Led a second-half comeback vs. Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament, hitting three second-half 3-pointers and four for the game ... Scored 107 of her 141 total points during Big Ten play ... Started 18 games during the season ... Led team in scoring against Michigan State (1/27/02) with 15 points ... Dished out a season-high six assists against Iowa State (12/8/01) ... Made 24-of-29 free throws for an .828 percentage ... Averaged 23.3 minutes per game.

High School: Four-year varsity letterwinner, three-year captain in basketball ... Selected to the USA Today All-USA honorable mention team in 1999 ... Three-time Western Lakes Athletic Association all-conference selection ... Voted as team MVP sophomore through senior seasons ... Two-time Detroit News first-team All-State selection ... Voted first team All-Metro Detroit ... First team All-North in 1998 and 1999 ... Detroit Free Press first team All-North in 1999 ... Oakland Press first team All-County in 1998 ... Two-time Oakland County Dream Team selection ... Observer/Eccentric first-team All-Area selection her sophomore and junior seasons ... Played for the Detroit Shock AAU team ... In her nine years of AAU play, finished as state runner-up twice and made two national tournament appearances ... Received AAU All-Michigan honors in 1998 ... All-time leading scorer at North Farmington, tallying 1,792 points ... Led team in points scored, assists, steals, and blocks all four years of varsity basketball ... Led team in rebounds in three of those years ... Also a four-year letterwinner and team captain in softball ... Selected as a Division I All-State shortstop ... National Honor Society member ... Four-year honor roll student.

Personal: Born Samantha Lynn McComb on 5/27/83 ... Daughter of Cliff and Pam McComb ... Chose Northwestern over Michigan State, Michigan and Western Michigan ... Communication Sciences and Disorders major.

McComb's Career Highs

• Points: 21 at DePaul (1/4/03)
  
• Rebounds: 8 at Iowa (1/16/03)
• Assists: 6 (two times), most recently vs. Ill.-Chicago (11/22/02)
  
• Steals: 4 vs. Morehead State, 12/20/02
  
• 3-Point Baskets: 5 vs. Minnesota (2/10/02)
  

McComb's Career Stats