PUERTO RICO – Recent Quinnipiac women's basketball graduate Adily Martucci (Waterford, Connecticut) is now a member of the Puerto Rican Women's National Team, the Puerto Rico Basketball Federation announced on Monday. Martucci made the 12-woman roster after tryouts were held over this past weekend.
Martucci's new team, the Puerto Rican National squad, will spend the next few weeks training for the 2017 Women's Centrobasket Championship, a five-day tournament hosted by St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands (July 12-16). They will compete against national teams from the Bahamas, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico and the Virgin Islands for one of three qualifying slots to the FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2017 (Aug. 6-13) held in Argentina.Martucci wrapped up a historic five-year career as a Bobcat wherein she won three conference titles (one during her redshirt 2012-13 season), while she played a starring role in the program's historic run to the Sweet 16 this past season.
Within her career, Martucci finished with 961 career points including 122 made three-pointers which ranks eighth all-time at Quinnipiac. She played in more games (135) than any Bobcat in program history while she enjoyed a career year in 2016-17 that included new single-season career highs in scoring, rebounding, steals, three-pointers made, free throw shooting and minutes.
Named the 2017 MAAC Tournament MVP, she led all Bobcats in scoring with 16.3 PPG (43.2 FG%, 100 FT%) while morphing into a workhorse on the defensive end (113 minutes played out of a possible 120) to led her team to the conference title.
Her role then shined within the NCAA Tournament with a signature moment coming in the NCAA First Round win over Marquette wherein she denied the Golden Eagles' Natisha Hiedeman's potential game-tying jumper with 20 seconds remaining. Following that thriller, Martucci again came up huge in the NCAA Second Round win at Miami as she finished with nine points but none bigger than her corner three-pointer with 59 seconds left that gave the Bobcats a four-point lead and enough cushion to close the game with free throws down the stretch.
A 2016-17 All-MAAC Second Team selection, Martucci averaged 10.4 points (39.8 FG%, 34.7 3FG%, 90.9 FT%), 2.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.7 steals in 26.3 minutes per game. She led the team with 20 double digit scoring games while also ripping off a streak of seven straight 10+ point outings towards the end of the regular season all the way through the MAAC Tournament.