MOREHEAD, Ky. – If Miranda Crockett could have an out-of-body experience just long enough to fill in as an opposing coach, charged with giving players a scouting report on herself, what might she tell those players?

"I guess I shoot the 15-(footer)-or-in shot (well)," Crockett said slowly, almost as if she's giving away a small secret. "Crashing the boards as much as possible. So I would tell them to box me out. And stay on my tail, I guess."

No doubt such instructions have been passed along many times.

Yet, Crockett consistently thrives as a key cog in the Morehead State women's basketball game.

Note that in January of this year in her junior campaign, Crockett already has eclipsed 1,000 career points, only the 25th player in school history to do so. She passed that milestone en route to a 12-point game in a 59-56 victory at Southeast Missouri.

Reaching the 1,000 plateau felt like an occurrence in any other game, she said. After all, she was expecting the record to come.

"But I would have to be grateful, I guess, to be able to say that I've made such a huge accomplishment and made history," she said. "My name will be on the records here at Morehead State forever, so that's a good feeling."

Crockett is multi-dimensional, though, doing so much more than just score.

She's been a starter since day one of her arrival from Martinsville, Va.

She played three seasons for Franklin County High School in Rocky Mount, Va. But when her mother, Deborah, retired from teaching and moved, Crockett transferred to Carlisle School in Martinsville for her senior season. (Deborah, by the way, played college ball for Norfolk State.)

That was good news for Morehead State head coach Greg Todd, who was making an unusual pursuit by recruiting this particular 5-foot-8 guard. He was glad to see her get her hands on the ball more often.

"Typically, you do not recruit guards who can't shoot three-pointers or even have any type of three-point range," Todd said. "So that made it a little unique. But, as a staff, when we watched her in the summer, we loved her upside. And you could tell how much basketball meant to her.

"She had a beautiful pull-up game. So it was sort of like, 'Well, if we play her at the three position, we like to play up-tempo. We'll sacrifice the three-ball for being a high-percentage shooter.'"

The tradeoff has worked well. Crockett has shot only two three-pointers as an Eagle, missing once in each of her first two seasons.

Meanwhile, she contributed 13.0 points and 6.6 rebounds while starting all 30 games as a freshman, leading MSU with 106 assists.

As a sophomore, starting 30 of 31 games after giving her starting role up to a teammate on senior day, Crockett averaged 11.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 29.3 minutes per game. She led the Eagles with 53 steals.

"She just doesn't take possessions off," Todd said.

A convergent media major, Crockett says Morehead has been everything she expected when she committed.

"It was my dream to play Division I basketball. So that was one thing that drove me to choose here, with my other options," she said. "And when I came on my visit, I kind of just fell in love with the environment and the people. … It's home away from home."

The Eagles (14-7, 5-3 Ohio Valley Conference) are coming off a 53-51 win over Tennessee Tech. Crockett put up a double-double of 13 points and 12 rebounds. She leads MSU with 15.1 points and 34.2 minutes per game, while adding 6.2 rebounds and shooting 48.3 percent from the field. Add to that 47 assists and 45 steals.

All from a 1,000-point producer.

"A very nice milestone, 1,000 points," Todd said. "Not a lot of those in anyone's history, so it puts you in the book. And to do it as a junior puts you in an even smaller class that I would expect her, (if) she stays healthy, to pull up and keep moving up. But she does more than just score, I think. She's probably one of our best defenders on the perimeter. She'll get several rebounds in games; good offensive rebounder. So in games, if they key on her, she can get a high assist total. And gets quite a few steals. Just sort of fills up the stat sheet."

The stat sheet Crockett has at her forefront now, though, belongs to the team.

Morehead State wants to improve on last season, when it finished 21-10 and ended the season with back-to-back losses -- a first-round OVC Tournament game against Eastern Kentucky, followed by the Eagles' first-ever Women's National Invitation Tournament appearance, against Middle Tennessee State.

"I think that this year we have a very good team and our chemistry's good, and everyone's working hard towards the same goal," Crockett said. "I think that, come tournament time, we definitely have a great chance to do something that's never been done here before."

Just as happened last year, Morehead has been hurt by a significant injury.

Last year, leading scorer Brianna McQueen had her season cut short when she tore cartilage in her right knee about two weeks before post-season play opened.

This time, several players have been unavailable due to season-ending injury.

Crockett thinks the Eagles are better prepared to deal with adversity this season.

"I think we learned a lot when we lost a player last season," she said. "People had to step up. A lot of people had to fill their role as a whole and just up their game a little bit. So I think this year that it takes all of us to win and it takes the team as a whole to accomplish things, and we can't count on just one person to produce or to do everything."

The next test for the Eagles will come Thursday, when they visit Murray State (6-12, 2-5 OVC) at 4 p.m. ET.