Statistically speaking, Fatima Adams is the best player to ever play for the Blinn women's basketball team in its 36-year history. 

The sophomore post, who helped lead the Buccaneers to back-to-back trips to the NJCAA national tournament, holds the record in four of the program's major categories: single-season points scored (804), career points scored (1,292), single-season rebounds (389) and career rebounds (709)

This season, she was named the third first-team All-American in program history.

"She's the best player in junior college, I really believe that," Blinn coach Jeff Jenkins said, who's coached the Bucs for 12 seasons. "We won a lot of close games this year because we had Fatima."

Adams averaged 23 points and 11.1 rebounds per game this season, including 23 20-point games, six 30-point performances and one 40-point showing.

"It's just incredible," Adams said. "I've got great coaches who pushed me every day and never let up. It made me want to work harder."

Adams played in 71 games in her career at Blinn and started in all but two. She averaged 18.2 points and 10 rebounds per game.

Her 1,292 career points surpassed Sallie Routt's 1,136 points set in 1985-87.

Her 709 career rebounds shattered the program's previous record of 599 set by Amaka Uzomah in 2005-07.

"She had a lot of good players around her, but every night she came to play," Jenkins said. "Her teammates did a great job finding her, but she can flat out put the ball in the hole like nobody I've ever seen at this level."

In three games at the national tournament, Adams averaged 25 points per game—against Baton Rouge Community College in the opening round she shot 75.3 percent from the field. In the Region XIV Conference Tournament against Tyler Junior College, Adams scored a game-best 33 points.

And when the Bucs had to squeak out a win in overtime against Kilgore on Dec. 7, Adams was clutch with a career-best 43 points as Blinn edged out the 92-88 victory.

"Every team's game plan was to stop Fatima, which made her even more special because you can't," Jenkins said. "You might be able to slow her down, but that means limiting her to 16-20 points. She's so dangerous because she can score in so many different ways."

Coming out of Bryan Rudder High School, Adams never imagined she'd turn into arguably the best junior college player in the nation.

"I don't know where it came from," she said. "I was out of shape and could hardly make it through a five-minute workout. But coach Jenkins and coach Green pushed me and helped me become the player I am."

"She has so much room to grow," Jenkins said. "She's only 50 percent of the player she can be."