University of Memphis Athletics
100 Years of Memphis Basketball, Women’s All-Centennial Team Selected
Feb 26, 2020 | Women's Basketball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The University of Memphis athletics department has celebrated the centennial of Memphis basketball for both the men's and women's teams throughout the 2019-20 season.
In late January, fans voted for an entire month on their top 10 All-Centennial teams for both men's and women's basketball.
The Memphis women's basketball All-Centennial team is as follows:
Kitty Allen
1993-97
Allen was a four-year letterwinner for the women's basketball team from 1993-97. Upon graduation she ranked ninth in school history in career scoring with 1,823 points and fifth with 152 career 3-point field goals made. She is currently 10th all-time in scoring and seventh in career 3-point field goals.
Heading in to her sophomore campaign, Allen was named a Street & Smith's preseason All-America honoree, and she responded with a second-straight season with a 16.1 per game scoring average, adding 4.6 rebounds per game. She helped the 1994-95 Tigers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1986-87, a feat Memphis would accomplish in each of the next two seasons with Allen an integral part of the Memphis offense.
Memphis posted an 81-38 overall record and appeared in three-straight NCAA tournaments, defeating No. 21 USC in 1995 to advance to the second round.
Betty Booker
1976-80
Booker arrived on the Memphis campus in the fall of 1976 to play for coach Mary Lou Johns. She started every game as a freshman and averaged 20.2 points per contest in leading her team to a 27-9 record.
She finished her career scoring 2,835 points, which remains the school record 40 years after she last played a game. She averaged more than 20 points per game during her career and totaled 308 assists and 360 steals.
Booker scored a career-high 41 points against Middle Tennessee State and had 40 points against Central Missouri State. Her 1,203 field goals made remains a career record as does her 20.7 career scoring average. Her name appears 23 times in the Lady Tiger basketball record book.
Brittany Carter
2008-12
Carter ranks 15th in scoring in just three seasons at Memphis with 1,437 points. She also added 422 rebounds, 163 steals, 44 blocks and 181 assists in her three seasons. Carter appeared in 93 career games with 79 starts.
She holds the school's single-game scoring record of 49 points against Sacramento State at the University of Washington tournament during her sophomore season.
Carter became the first Tiger to earn three all-conference postseason awards since Tamika Whitmore from 1997-99. Carter scored in double figures in 71 games, including 20 or more points 25 times and 30 or more points four times.
Kim Duppins-Stanton
1978-82
Duppins-Stanton came to the University of Memphis in 1978 under former head coach Mary Lou Johns.
She is one of just three players in school history to score more than 1,000 points and have more than 1,000 rebounds.
She scored 553 points during her senior season and finished her career with 1,835 points and 1,163 rebounds. She ranks as the ninth all-time leading scorer in Memphis women's basketball history and third in rebounding.
Duppins, who scored a career high 33 points against Vanderbilt in 1982, had her jersey retired in 1982.
LaTonya Johnson
1994-98
The women's basketball program's first-ever WNBA draft pick, Johnson still ranks among the Memphis career leaders in scoring, free throws made, free throws attempted, and 3-point field goals made. She remains one of just two women's basketball players in school history to take a team to the NCAA Tournament all four years of her career.
Johnson earned multiple honors from the Great Midwest Conference, being named the league Newcomer of the Year and earning all-newcomer team and all-conference honors. She helped the Tigers to the finals of the Great Midwest Conference tournament and to the NCAA Second Round with a 74-72 win over Southern California in the first round.
She was named Basketball Times All-American honorable mention twice and helped the Tigers to an exciting overtime victory in the C-USA championship game for the first of two league titles, while earning Tournament MVP her senior year.
She was drafted by the Utah Starzz in the third round of the 1998 WNBA Draft.
Keeta Matthews
1992-96
Matthews ranks fifth in double-doubles (36), fifth in career scoring (2,133 points), fifth in rebounds (926) and fifth in steals (283). The Memphis native also held the school record for career free throws made (551) and attempted (766).
A three-time Great Midwest first-team selection her freshman through junior seasons, Matthews helped the Lady Tigers rebound to two NCAA Tournament appearances her junior and senior seasons.
Matthews was named The Great Midwest Conference Newcomer of the Year and the All-Tournament team.
In the first year in Conference USA, 1995-96 she earned tournament MVP honors leading the Tigers to the C-USA championship while advancing to the NCAA Tournament.
Linda McKinnie
1977-82
One of the most-renowned players in women's Tiger basketball history, McKinnie was the first Lady Tiger to score more than 2,000 points in her career. A graduate of Bolivar Central High School, McKinnie came to Memphis in 1977 to play for head coach Mary Lou Johns.
Her career at Memphis would become legendary. A four-year letter winner, McKinnie scored 503 points as a freshman. She increased her average to 14.5 points per game as a sophomore and by her senior season was scoring 18.2 points per contest. She is currently the seventh leading scorer in Lady Tiger history and third in career field goals made. Her name appears in the record book 17 times and her retired jersey hangs in the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
Linda Street
1976-80
Linda Street was the first women's Tiger basketball player over 6-feet tall. Street came to the University in the fall of 1976 and lettered four years for head coach Mary Lou Johns.
Despite missing the 1979-80 season with a knee injury, she came back and finished her career with 2,147 points and 1,453 rebounds. She is still the school's fourth all-time leading scorer and the all-time leading rebounder.
Street averaged 15.7 points during her career and led the Lady Tigers to an overall record of 102-36 during her four seasons. The Lady Tigers also appeared in the AIAW Tournament in 1977-78.
Regina Street
1981-85
Regina Street, like her sister Linda, set, and still holds, numerous women's basketball records lettering from 1981-85.
She scored more than 2,000 points in her career and holds the records for the highest field goal percentage in a season (62.7) and career (58.8) and the single-season rebounding average at 12.3 boards per game.
Street also set the season and career marks for blocked shots with 102 in a season and 313 in her career. Her 40-point effort against Cincinnati still stands as one of the top five performances in women's basketball history. Street's 2,043 career points rank sixth on the all-time scoring list. Street helped her team to two NCAA appearances and one NIT bid.
Tamika Whitmore
1995-99
Whitmore, a native of Tupelo, Miss., is one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball at the University of Memphis. The two-time Conference USA Player of the Year and three-time All-American scored 2,488 points during her career and was credited with 952 rebounds.
She was named to five different All-America teams including the Associated Press, Women's Basketball Journal, Basketball Writers Association, Kodak and the Women's Basketball News Service during her playing career. She ranks second all-time in scoring with her 2,488 points, including a career-high 45 points in the third round of the WNIT.
Whitmore averaged a career-best 26.3 points as a senior while pulling down 8.4 rebounds. She was a Top 10 finalist for the Naismith Player of the Year Award in 1999 after her 26.3 point scoring average led the nation.
She was drafted by the WNBA's New York Liberty following her senior year and played 11 professional seasons for New York, Los Angeles, Indiana and Connecticut, while competing simultaneously for international teams in Spain, France, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic.
In late January, fans voted for an entire month on their top 10 All-Centennial teams for both men's and women's basketball.
The Memphis women's basketball All-Centennial team is as follows:
Kitty Allen
1993-97
Allen was a four-year letterwinner for the women's basketball team from 1993-97. Upon graduation she ranked ninth in school history in career scoring with 1,823 points and fifth with 152 career 3-point field goals made. She is currently 10th all-time in scoring and seventh in career 3-point field goals.
Heading in to her sophomore campaign, Allen was named a Street & Smith's preseason All-America honoree, and she responded with a second-straight season with a 16.1 per game scoring average, adding 4.6 rebounds per game. She helped the 1994-95 Tigers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1986-87, a feat Memphis would accomplish in each of the next two seasons with Allen an integral part of the Memphis offense.
Memphis posted an 81-38 overall record and appeared in three-straight NCAA tournaments, defeating No. 21 USC in 1995 to advance to the second round.
Betty Booker
1976-80
Booker arrived on the Memphis campus in the fall of 1976 to play for coach Mary Lou Johns. She started every game as a freshman and averaged 20.2 points per contest in leading her team to a 27-9 record.
She finished her career scoring 2,835 points, which remains the school record 40 years after she last played a game. She averaged more than 20 points per game during her career and totaled 308 assists and 360 steals.
Booker scored a career-high 41 points against Middle Tennessee State and had 40 points against Central Missouri State. Her 1,203 field goals made remains a career record as does her 20.7 career scoring average. Her name appears 23 times in the Lady Tiger basketball record book.
Brittany Carter
2008-12
Carter ranks 15th in scoring in just three seasons at Memphis with 1,437 points. She also added 422 rebounds, 163 steals, 44 blocks and 181 assists in her three seasons. Carter appeared in 93 career games with 79 starts.
She holds the school's single-game scoring record of 49 points against Sacramento State at the University of Washington tournament during her sophomore season.
Carter became the first Tiger to earn three all-conference postseason awards since Tamika Whitmore from 1997-99. Carter scored in double figures in 71 games, including 20 or more points 25 times and 30 or more points four times.
Kim Duppins-Stanton
1978-82
Duppins-Stanton came to the University of Memphis in 1978 under former head coach Mary Lou Johns.
She is one of just three players in school history to score more than 1,000 points and have more than 1,000 rebounds.
She scored 553 points during her senior season and finished her career with 1,835 points and 1,163 rebounds. She ranks as the ninth all-time leading scorer in Memphis women's basketball history and third in rebounding.
Duppins, who scored a career high 33 points against Vanderbilt in 1982, had her jersey retired in 1982.
LaTonya Johnson
1994-98
The women's basketball program's first-ever WNBA draft pick, Johnson still ranks among the Memphis career leaders in scoring, free throws made, free throws attempted, and 3-point field goals made. She remains one of just two women's basketball players in school history to take a team to the NCAA Tournament all four years of her career.
Johnson earned multiple honors from the Great Midwest Conference, being named the league Newcomer of the Year and earning all-newcomer team and all-conference honors. She helped the Tigers to the finals of the Great Midwest Conference tournament and to the NCAA Second Round with a 74-72 win over Southern California in the first round.
She was named Basketball Times All-American honorable mention twice and helped the Tigers to an exciting overtime victory in the C-USA championship game for the first of two league titles, while earning Tournament MVP her senior year.
She was drafted by the Utah Starzz in the third round of the 1998 WNBA Draft.
Keeta Matthews
1992-96
Matthews ranks fifth in double-doubles (36), fifth in career scoring (2,133 points), fifth in rebounds (926) and fifth in steals (283). The Memphis native also held the school record for career free throws made (551) and attempted (766).
A three-time Great Midwest first-team selection her freshman through junior seasons, Matthews helped the Lady Tigers rebound to two NCAA Tournament appearances her junior and senior seasons.
Matthews was named The Great Midwest Conference Newcomer of the Year and the All-Tournament team.
In the first year in Conference USA, 1995-96 she earned tournament MVP honors leading the Tigers to the C-USA championship while advancing to the NCAA Tournament.
Linda McKinnie
1977-82
One of the most-renowned players in women's Tiger basketball history, McKinnie was the first Lady Tiger to score more than 2,000 points in her career. A graduate of Bolivar Central High School, McKinnie came to Memphis in 1977 to play for head coach Mary Lou Johns.
Her career at Memphis would become legendary. A four-year letter winner, McKinnie scored 503 points as a freshman. She increased her average to 14.5 points per game as a sophomore and by her senior season was scoring 18.2 points per contest. She is currently the seventh leading scorer in Lady Tiger history and third in career field goals made. Her name appears in the record book 17 times and her retired jersey hangs in the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
Linda Street
1976-80
Linda Street was the first women's Tiger basketball player over 6-feet tall. Street came to the University in the fall of 1976 and lettered four years for head coach Mary Lou Johns.
Despite missing the 1979-80 season with a knee injury, she came back and finished her career with 2,147 points and 1,453 rebounds. She is still the school's fourth all-time leading scorer and the all-time leading rebounder.
Street averaged 15.7 points during her career and led the Lady Tigers to an overall record of 102-36 during her four seasons. The Lady Tigers also appeared in the AIAW Tournament in 1977-78.
Regina Street
1981-85
Regina Street, like her sister Linda, set, and still holds, numerous women's basketball records lettering from 1981-85.
She scored more than 2,000 points in her career and holds the records for the highest field goal percentage in a season (62.7) and career (58.8) and the single-season rebounding average at 12.3 boards per game.
Street also set the season and career marks for blocked shots with 102 in a season and 313 in her career. Her 40-point effort against Cincinnati still stands as one of the top five performances in women's basketball history. Street's 2,043 career points rank sixth on the all-time scoring list. Street helped her team to two NCAA appearances and one NIT bid.
Tamika Whitmore
1995-99
Whitmore, a native of Tupelo, Miss., is one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball at the University of Memphis. The two-time Conference USA Player of the Year and three-time All-American scored 2,488 points during her career and was credited with 952 rebounds.
She was named to five different All-America teams including the Associated Press, Women's Basketball Journal, Basketball Writers Association, Kodak and the Women's Basketball News Service during her playing career. She ranks second all-time in scoring with her 2,488 points, including a career-high 45 points in the third round of the WNIT.
Whitmore averaged a career-best 26.3 points as a senior while pulling down 8.4 rebounds. She was a Top 10 finalist for the Naismith Player of the Year Award in 1999 after her 26.3 point scoring average led the nation.
She was drafted by the WNBA's New York Liberty following her senior year and played 11 professional seasons for New York, Los Angeles, Indiana and Connecticut, while competing simultaneously for international teams in Spain, France, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic.
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