PEORIA, Ill. ? Senior guard Erika Nelson earned honorable mention All-Missouri Valley Conference recognition as the league announced its annual all-conference selections Wednesday. Nelson, who also earned honorable mention MVC Scholar-Athlete honors, is the first Bradley player to earn all-conference recognition since Dena Williams was a first-team All-Valley pick in 2004-05.

Nelson leads the Bradley women's basketball team in scoring at 13.6 points per game and is second in the MVC with 70 three pointers on the year. Her 70 trey's is the third-best season total in school history and is the most by a Bradley player since Michelle Nason made 87 three-pointers in 1994-95. She is tied for 10th in the MVC in scoring and is sixth in the Valley in three-point field goal percentage, shooting 40 percent from beyond the three-point arc.

The first Bradley player since Genny Mueller in 2003-04 to earn all-conference and MVC Scholar-Athlete honors in the same season, Nelson's 393 points on the season is the most by a Brave since Sara Bailey scored 487 points in 2001-02 and she enters this week's State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament with a chance to become the first player in program history to score 400 points as a senior since Heather Best in 1998-99.

She entered the year with a career scoring average of 4.9 points per game and made 24 three-pointers in her first three years. Nelson now ranks 10th in school history with 94 career three-pointers and also ranks among Bradley's career top 10 in three-point field goal percentage (.382) and free throw percentage (.773).

Bradley (11-18 overall, 7-11 MVC) finished seventh in the regular-season Valley race and will face #10 seed Missouri State Thursday at 8:35 p.m. in the first round of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa.