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Jasmine Dickey Is Becoming A Double-Double Machine
2/14/2020 11:23:00 AM | Women's Basketball
In her sophomore season for Delaware women's basketball, Jasmine Dickey has blossomed into a double-double machine.
Through 22 games, she has 10 double-doubles, the most in the Colonial Athletic Association, among the top 50 players in Division I, and double her own total from her freshman campaign.
Normally players that rack up huge amounts of both points and rebounds are bigs; either centers or power forwards. But as a 5-foot-10 wing player, Dickey breaks that mold. The Baltimore native actually started her basketball career as a post player, where being undersized helped her develop a knack for being aggressive.
"I used to play with guys all the time, and I think that actually made me tougher," Dickey said. "Getting into high school and everybody being bigger than me, having to take on that role and do way more attacking the basket."
While she doesn't have the tallest frame, she makes up for it with her supreme athleticism. A long wingspan and a muscular build, combined with a relentless pursuit on the glass, mean that Dickey regularly beats out bigger players for boards and earns her team extra possessions.
Dickey is the Blue Hens' top rebounder, but her athleticism and drive also set her apart as Delaware's best defender too.
"Most of the time she's guarding the best player on the team," Delaware assistant coach Sarah Jenkins said. "Super long, super quick, great speed. Her ability to get up and down the floor, her ability to move laterally helps. She's just a really focused and committed kid. When you give her a task, she takes it personally and she tries to fulfill that task to the best of her ability, every single time."
For Delaware, who likes to press and get easy transition buckets, this skill set fits perfectly.
"We've been pressing a lot more than we have in the past this year, just with the addition of Tee [Johnson] and we've got Paris [McBride] and Jasmine with Samone [DeFreese]," Jenkins said. "Just having her, along with them, gives us the ability to press a little bit more effectively."
Beyond just pure athleticism, Dickey is committed to becoming a better basketball player. The proof is in the numbers, as she has improved in nearly every statistical category from her freshman season. She's scoring 12.4 points per game (up from 7.9 in 2018-19), grabbing 9.2 rebounds (up from 8.3) and dishing 2.1 assists (up from 0.8), while having improved her shooting percentages in every category.
"She's one of the hardest workers on our team," Jenkins said.
"It's just in me not to settle for anything less," Dickey said. "Give 110% every day. And it pushes my teammates also."
Of course, life is about balance, and Dickey injects a fun-loving energy into the Blue Hens too. Jenkins describes her as "a joker."
"I feel like my energy rubs off on everybody else," Dickey said. "If I'm smiling, happy, screaming and yelling and doing everything possible, then I feel like everybody gets engaged and it helps everybody in the long run."
A jokester in practice and a fierce competitor during games, Dickey has also found balance in her life outside of basketball and a busy academic schedule. She does pencil sketches and writes poems to relax, and loves driving her Mazda.
"I'm in love with my car," Dickey laughs.
For the Delaware coaches, the most exciting thing about their sophomore star is how much potential she has to improve even more. She's still working on her transition from a post player to a guard, and is constantly in the Bob Carpenter Center practice gyms working on her jump shot. And while she's a great player now, the excitement is in seeing what her next level will be.
"Every day that kid is in the gym with me or by herself working to improve her shot," Jenkins said. "And she still has a long way to go with her shot, but it's improved drastically from when she first got here. That's just the kind of effort that she puts into the things that she does."
Through 22 games, she has 10 double-doubles, the most in the Colonial Athletic Association, among the top 50 players in Division I, and double her own total from her freshman campaign.
Normally players that rack up huge amounts of both points and rebounds are bigs; either centers or power forwards. But as a 5-foot-10 wing player, Dickey breaks that mold. The Baltimore native actually started her basketball career as a post player, where being undersized helped her develop a knack for being aggressive.
"I used to play with guys all the time, and I think that actually made me tougher," Dickey said. "Getting into high school and everybody being bigger than me, having to take on that role and do way more attacking the basket."
While she doesn't have the tallest frame, she makes up for it with her supreme athleticism. A long wingspan and a muscular build, combined with a relentless pursuit on the glass, mean that Dickey regularly beats out bigger players for boards and earns her team extra possessions.
Dickey is the Blue Hens' top rebounder, but her athleticism and drive also set her apart as Delaware's best defender too.
"Most of the time she's guarding the best player on the team," Delaware assistant coach Sarah Jenkins said. "Super long, super quick, great speed. Her ability to get up and down the floor, her ability to move laterally helps. She's just a really focused and committed kid. When you give her a task, she takes it personally and she tries to fulfill that task to the best of her ability, every single time."
For Delaware, who likes to press and get easy transition buckets, this skill set fits perfectly.
"We've been pressing a lot more than we have in the past this year, just with the addition of Tee [Johnson] and we've got Paris [McBride] and Jasmine with Samone [DeFreese]," Jenkins said. "Just having her, along with them, gives us the ability to press a little bit more effectively."
Beyond just pure athleticism, Dickey is committed to becoming a better basketball player. The proof is in the numbers, as she has improved in nearly every statistical category from her freshman season. She's scoring 12.4 points per game (up from 7.9 in 2018-19), grabbing 9.2 rebounds (up from 8.3) and dishing 2.1 assists (up from 0.8), while having improved her shooting percentages in every category.
"She's one of the hardest workers on our team," Jenkins said.
"It's just in me not to settle for anything less," Dickey said. "Give 110% every day. And it pushes my teammates also."
Of course, life is about balance, and Dickey injects a fun-loving energy into the Blue Hens too. Jenkins describes her as "a joker."
"I feel like my energy rubs off on everybody else," Dickey said. "If I'm smiling, happy, screaming and yelling and doing everything possible, then I feel like everybody gets engaged and it helps everybody in the long run."
A jokester in practice and a fierce competitor during games, Dickey has also found balance in her life outside of basketball and a busy academic schedule. She does pencil sketches and writes poems to relax, and loves driving her Mazda.
"I'm in love with my car," Dickey laughs.
For the Delaware coaches, the most exciting thing about their sophomore star is how much potential she has to improve even more. She's still working on her transition from a post player to a guard, and is constantly in the Bob Carpenter Center practice gyms working on her jump shot. And while she's a great player now, the excitement is in seeing what her next level will be.
"Every day that kid is in the gym with me or by herself working to improve her shot," Jenkins said. "And she still has a long way to go with her shot, but it's improved drastically from when she first got here. That's just the kind of effort that she puts into the things that she does."
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