Cal senior center Kristine Anigwe capped off her regular season career on Sunday with an 80-58 win over Washington State for the Golden Bears.
In that win, Anigwe filled up the stat sheet for her 30th consecutive double-double of the season and did so in dominant fashion with a ridiculous 32 points and 30 rebounds. Her 30 boards set a new Cal record, breaking the previous mark of 27, and tied the Pac-12’s conference record for most rebounds in a women’s game.
The highlights from the performance don’t exactly jump out at you, but as you can see Anigwe is simply more physically dominant than anyone else on the floor and uses great positioning to box out for rebounds and get in scoring position on the block.
In her last regular season game, @KristineAnigwe finishes with 32 points and 30 rebounds tying the #Pac12WBB single-game rebounding record.
She earns the @OpusBank #12Best moment. #Pac12WBB | @CalWBBall pic.twitter.com/cxYhapk0Wq
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) March 3, 2019
As far as being a rare feat, 30 point-30 rebound games are about as rare as it gets at any level of basketball (particularly in the modern era where pace and space are such a focus). At the women’s college basketball level, it’s the first time a player has had a 30/30 game in more than 15 years, per Cal.
At the NBA level, there have been two such performances since 1983, with Dwight Howard accomplishing it last year and Kevin Love having a 30/30 night in 2010. In men’s college basketball, it’s been done once since 2010, as Kendall Gray of Delaware State did it in 2015. That puts Anigwe in rare air, and it’s a performance that is truly awe inspiring.
