LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Prior to the start of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Mountain West Championship, the conference announced its postseason all-conference awards with Nevada junior guard Da'Ja Hamilton earning an All-Mountain West honor.
 
This is the first all-conference honor of Hamilton's career and the first outright all-conference selection for Nevada since Jade Redmon was named All-MW in 2019.
 
Hamilton posted a career season in 2020-21 and established herself as one of the top players in the Mountain West in helping lead the Wolf Pack to its first winning record in the regular season since 2013-14. Through the regular season she is averaging a career-high 14.5 points per game, good for seventh-best in the conference. Hamilton leads the Wolf Pack with 15 games in double figures in the team's 21 games played, including a career-high 32 points in a thrilling win at UNLV where she hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 1.3 seconds on the clock. Her 32 points in that game at UNLV is the third-most scored by a Mountain West player in a single game this season.
 
Hamilton has been phenomenal from the free throw line this season, hitting 78.9 percent which is fifth-best in the league. She is shooting 39 percent from the field, which ranks ninth in the conference, and her assists per game average of 2.86 also ranks in the top 10 in the league. Her rebounding average of 4.1 rebounds per game and her 60 assists this season are both single-season career highs for the California native. In the regular season finale at Air Force, Hamilton led the Pack with 17 points and fell just one rebound shy of recording the first double-double of her career.
 
Nevada will begin its run in the Mountain West Championship with a quarterfinals contest against the No. 4 seed Fresno State this Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.