The all-time leading scorer in Winnipeg Wesmen women's basketball is going into the Basketball Manitoba Hall of Fame.
 
Uzoma Asagwara, who played five seasons with the Wesmen women's team in the early 2000s and was a multiple conference and national all-star, was announced as one of the inductees in the 2026 Hall of Fame class at a press conference Tuesday at the Duckworth Centre. 
 
Asagwara, who scored 1,758 points over 101 Canada West games in their career, helped the Wesmen to three straight medals at the national tournament from 2002 to 2005 and earned two all-Canadian honours, four all-Canada West and was a national tournament all-star in 2005 when the Wesmen went 31-7 overall and finished second in the country. 
 
All told, Asagwara won more than 130 games overall in a Wesmen uniform and they ended their career with a senior season for the ages. Asagwara averaged better than 28 points per game in 2005-06, scoring in double digits in every game and scoring at least 30 five times, including a career-high 39 against UBC in December 2005. 
 
Asagwara, who twice led the nation in scoring, still holds three of the top 10 single-game scoring performances in Wesmen history, and their 17.4 points per game is second all-time among those who played five seasons for the Wesmen. It is the fifth-highest points per game average in program history 
 
Now a long-serving MLA of Union Station and the province's Health Minister and Deputy Premier, Asagwara went on to represent Canada with the senior national team at the 2007 Pan-Am Games in Brazil.