The Associated Press announced its national players of the week in men’s and women’s basketball for Week 17 of the season. On the men’s basketball side:<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-4 freshman guard is the first player to earn AP national player of the week honors twice this season after a stellar two-game stretch. Burries led the Wildcats to at least a share of the Big 12 regular-season title by averaging 22.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists. He scored 24 points with four assists in an 87-80 win at Baylor<\/a>. He followed up with 20 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and no turnovers in an 84-61 win over No. 14 Kansas. Burries was named player of the week in Week 13 and gives Arizona<\/a> three player of the week honors after fellow freshman Koa Peat<\/a> earned it the opening week of the season.<\/p>\n Runner-up<\/p>\n Mikey Lewis<\/a>, No. 21 Saint Mary\u2019s. The 6-3 sophomore had 31 points, five rebounds, four assists and a steal in Saturday\u2019s 70-59 win over No. 12 Gonzaga to give the Gaels a share of the West Coast Conference regular-season crown. He made 10 of 21 shots from the floor and 7 of 13 from 3 in the game. Lewis also had 21 points and seven assists in Wednesday\u2019s win against Santa Clara<\/a> to help the Gaels close the week on an eight-game win streak.<\/p>\n Honorable mention<\/p>\n Latrell Wrightsell<\/a> Jr., Alabama<\/a>; Nick Martinelli<\/a>, Northwestern<\/a>; Seth Trimble<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on<\/p>\n Ty Harper<\/a>, Oral Roberts. The 6-3 guard scored 47 points in a win over Denver<\/a> on Thursday. Harper made 12 of 24 shots from the floor, and hit all 21 of his free throws to break the Summit League<\/a> record. He followed with 27 points in a win at Kansas City<\/a> on Thursday. The senior leads ORU<\/a> with 17.9 points per game heading into this week’s Summit League tournament.<\/p>\n And on the women’s side:<\/p>\n Mikayla Blakes, Iowa<\/p>\n The sophomore guard led No. 5 Vanderbilt to wins over Alabama and Tennessee last week, averaging 34.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists. She is the first SEC<\/a> player in the past 26 years to have scored 30 or more points in a dozen games. She had 34 points against Tennessee and 35 against Alabama.<\/p>\n Runner-up<\/p>\n Olivia Olson, No. 8 Michigan<\/a>. She led the Wolverines to wins over then-No. 13 Ohio State<\/a> and 14th-ranked Maryland<\/a>. Olson, a sophomore, had a career-high 31 points, including the game-winning layup in overtime, in the victory over the Buckeyes. She also had nine rebounds and four assists in that win. She followed that up with a 28-point effort against the Terrapins.<\/p>\n Honorable mention<\/p>\n Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame; Marta Suarez, No. 10 TCU; Riley Weiss, Columbia.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on<\/p>\n Marquette junior guard Skylar Forbes averaged 21.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in wins over Providence and Xavier. She had 24 in a road win over Providence, two off her career high. She scored 12 of her 19 points in the first half of a win over Xavier.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press announced its national players of the week in men’s and women’s basketball for Week 17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7998,1982,7,2399,52247,217,46334,33409,17397,62207,27218,14182,1043,231,772,1544,15660,1770,13058,783,35138,10413,11977,7148,34350,9346,83192,20705,6135],"class_list":{"0":"post-637197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-arizona-wildcats","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-baylor-bears","12":"tag-brayden-burries","13":"tag-college-basketball","14":"tag-columbia-lions","15":"tag-denver-pioneers","16":"tag-iona-gaels","17":"tag-kansas-city-roos","18":"tag-koa-peat","19":"tag-marquette-golden-eagles","20":"tag-michigan-wolverines","21":"tag-ncaa","22":"tag-ncaa-basketball","23":"tag-ncaab","24":"tag-nick-martinelli","25":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","26":"tag-northwestern-wildcats","27":"tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","28":"tag-oral-roberts-golden-eagles","29":"tag-saint-marys-gaels","30":"tag-santa-clara-broncos","31":"tag-seth-trimble","32":"tag-summit-league","33":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","34":"tag-ty-harper","35":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores","36":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637197","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=637197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}