The Greensboro College women's basketball team posted the best year in program history. The Pride finished 2005-06 with a 22-8 record, the most wins by a Pride women's team. For the second straight year, GC captured the USA South regular season title, won the conference tournament and advanced to the NCAA second round.

Staci Humphrey led The Pride. The conference most valuable player averaged 23 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. The junior guard finished in the nation's top 8 in both scoring and assists. Humphrey posted 682 points, 190 assists and 96 three-point baskets--all single season program records. She was named GC's first ever women's basketball All-American and was a first team all-South region selection.

Senior post player Sirlena Moore also recorded impressive statistics for the green and white. Moore (13 PPG and 10 RPG) recorded double-doubles in 13 games.

Greensboro led the USA South in nearly every statistical category. Perhaps most impressive was GC's average scoring margin of plus 12.8 points each game. The Pride recorded 18 wins by 9 or more points and bested the opposition by 14 or more points 15 times this year. 

GC Head Coach Jason Tuggle again earned the conference coach of the year honors. Yet this season's work may be his best at Greensboro College.

The Pride started three freshmen--who all played 25 or more minutes each game--and returned just one starter from last year's championship club. Forward Katie Freeman scored 6 points and grabbed 5 boards per game. Jamie Motsinger and Mary Porter (8.6 PPG) played in the back court. Motsinger (7.8 PPG), who joined Moore and Humphrey on the USAS all-tournament team, scored in double digits in six of GC's last seven contests. She tallied a career high 22 points in Greensboro's 74-65 win over Ferrum in the conference title game.

"Our freshmen stepped up and made play after play," said Tuggle after the USA South championship game. "We didn't rely on one person, and we spread the ball around. Our defense also made the plays when we had to. I'm really proud of this group and what they've accomplished."

Greensboro drew Moravian College in the first round of the NCAAs. Led by Humphrey and Moore, The Pride bested MC 93-80. The victory was the first ever in the postseason for Pride women's hoops. One day later, however, GC's tournament run came to a close after a 75-61 defeat to 2004-05 finalist Randolph-Macon College, who subsequently advanced to the Elite Eight.