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Cheyenne East’s Ky Buell signs with Western Nebraska

By World Exposure News Services, 04/26/20, 8:00AM CDT

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Cheyenne East guard Ky Buell will continue her basketball career at Western Nebraska in Scottsbluff.

The 5-foot-6 guard averaged a 4A-best 21.3 points per game to help the Lady Thunderbirds go 22-3 and win the East Regional tournament this season. That 21 point mark was tops in 4A and included a 40-point game vs. Scottsbluff this past season, plus two, 33-point games vs. Natrona and Thunder Basin. Buell made 72 three-pointers this season and shot 82 percent from the free-throw line.

Buell also was second in the state in assists per game (4.4) and tied for fifth in steals (3.1). She also averaged 5.4 rebounds.

This years all-state nod is the fourth of her career. She earned all-state honors during her junior season at East, and during her freshman and sophomore campaigns at Rock Springs. She also led 4A in scoring during her two seasons at Rock Springs.

Ky ended up being ranked in the top 5 in scoring in the history of girls basketball in Wyoming,  was voted Class 4A girls basketball player of the year by the Wyoming Coaches Association and Maxpreps' Wyoming Player of the Year.

Western Nebraska women's basketball is coming off a 28-2 record this season, a No. 3 ranking in the World Exposure's NJCAA polls, and was a 7th seed at the  NJCAA national tournament.

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