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ABBY Bishop fulfilled all predictions - rarely has there been a stronger MVP favourite - today when the WNBL declared its 2014-15 award-winners in Canberra.

You'll recall last year Basketball Australia decided it might be a wickedly clever idea to start presenting awards at REGULAR SEASON games - yes, before the season had even ended - rather than go through the pomp and ceremony of an actual awards night/day/lunch/brunch/breakfast.

Oh how we laughed and laughed... (BA Chairman Scott Derwin take a bow for your role in another thigh-slapping idea.)

This year, with the 400-strong Opals squad gathered in Canberra, someone came up with the slightly better idea of actually acknowledging the winners of the league's most prestigious individual accomplishments.

Abby's sweep of the MVP, leading scorer, top rebounder and an All Star Five berth accurately reflected how she reigned over the WNBL in 2014-15.

She became the fourth South Australian-BORN winner of the MVP. If you can get the other three without looking it up somewhere, the team here at B.O.T.I. will be duly impressed.

(If not, the other three are at the end of this story.)

Tess Madgen, Kelsey Griffin, Penny Taylor and Cayla Francis completed the All Star Five, Griffin also recognised as this season's Best Defensive Player.

That's an email to send her old college coach, she said.

Lauren Scherf won the Rookie of the Year accolade while another rookie, Shannon Seebohm, stole the show after being named Coach of the Year.

(Meanwhile, in case you - like most of Australia missed it, you know, the NBL's "NBA-style award announcements" - the men's league ran all of its winners again at its website. You know. Just in case.

THE other South Australian-BORN winners of the WNBL MVP are Michelle Griffiths (nee Brogan) in 1998, Jo Metcalfe (nee Moyle) in 1991 and Julie Nykiel in 1984-88.

Interestingly, like Bishop, none of them won it for Adelaide Lightning. Brogan won at Sydney Flames, Metcalfe at Melbourne Tigers and Nykiel at Noarlunga City Tigers.

Lightning has had two MVP winners and both won twice, Rachael Sporn in 1996-97 and Suzy Batkovic in 2012-13. Both were born interstate.