{"id":490903,"date":"2025-12-23T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/490903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:23:14","slug":"otega-oweh-wins-sec-co-player-of-the-week-for-performance-vs-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/490903\/","title":{"rendered":"Otega Oweh wins SEC Co-Player of the Week for performance vs. St. John’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jayden Quaintance and Jaland Lowe may have stolen the spotlight in Kentucky\u2019s win over St. John\u2019s, but Otega Oweh<\/a> is the one taking home some hardware. Oweh was named<\/a> SEC Co-Player of the Week for his performance vs. the Red Storm. The senior guard had a game-high 20 points, five rebounds, and three steals in the 78-66 win, Kentucky\u2019s first over a ranked opponent this season.<\/p>\n

With Lowe running the show and Quaintance manning the paint, Oweh could focus on being Oweh, bullying his way to the rim and going 8-9 from the free-throw line. In the second half, he was +12 in 17 minutes, looking every bit the Preseason SEC Player of the Year. His three steals make it seven games in a row with one or more, the longest stretch of his career. On defense, Oweh helped hold the Red Storm to a season-low 33.3% from the field. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a unique player,\u201d\u00a0Mark Pope<\/a>\u00a0said of Oweh postgame. \u201cWhen he does what he does, he has such a massive impact on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys follow his fight,\u201d Pope added. \u201cWhen he\u2019s physical, our team seems to be physical. When he\u2019s cutting hard, they cut hard. When he\u2019s talking, our team talks. It\u2019s a big burden for him to carry, but he\u2019s kinda working in that direction where he\u2019s understanding and embracing it a little bit more.\u00a0He\u2019s a bellwether for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oweh has scored in double figures in all 12 games this season, and 20+ points in two of the last three. He leads the team in scoring (14.5 points per game) and steals (21). This is his (and UK\u2019s) first SEC Player of the Week honor of the season. He shares it with Tennessee\u2019s Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayden Quaintance and Jaland Lowe may have stolen the spotlight in Kentucky\u2019s win over St. John\u2019s, but Otega…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,2339],"class_list":{"0":"post-490903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-otega-oweh-22-blair-academy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115768865932887919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}