By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
The Associated Press national player of the week in women\u2019s basketball for Week 13 of the season:<\/p>\n
Sarah Strong, UConn<\/p>\n
The sophomore forward<\/a> won the award for the second consecutive week after helping the top-ranked Huskies rout Xavier<\/a> and Tennessee<\/a>. She averaged 25.5 points, 3.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Huskies. Strong shot 62.5% from the field and made all eight of her free throw attempts.<\/p>\n Runner-up<\/p>\n Kara Dunn<\/a>, Southern California. The senior guard had a double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds in a win over then-No. 8 Iowa<\/a>. The 25 points was her seventh straight game scoring 20 or more points. That streak was snapped in the next game, a 32-point win over Rutgers where she had 18 points. Dunn has more than 1,500 points in her career now.<\/p>\n Honorable mention<\/p>\n Ehis Etute<\/a>, Oregon; Hannah Hidalgo<\/a>, Notre Dame; Cotie McMahon<\/a>, No. 13 Mississippi.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on<\/p>\n Montana State sophomore guard Taylee Chirrick<\/a> averaged 21.5 points, 9,5 rebounds and eight steals while shooting 59% from the field and 88% from the free throw line in a pair of wins. She logged her second triple-double of the month against Portland State with 31 points, 12 rebounds and 11 steals. It was the fourth 30-plus point triple-double in Division I women\u2019s basketball history with rebounds and steals and the first with less than 28 minutes played.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP mobile app). AP women\u2019s college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press The Associated Press national player of the week in women\u2019s basketball for Week 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,325,2679,231,772,1544,66,6107],"class_list":{"0":"post-580406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uconn-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116008857360571044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580406","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=580406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}