B1G Ten Women and Men’s Players of the Week

November 19, 2024 Broadcast, College 0

 

UCLA and Michigan Earn Big Ten Weekly Women’s Basketball Awards

Bruins’ Betts and Wolverines’ Holloway capture weekly honors

 

Player of the Week

Lauren Betts, UCLA

Jr. – Center – Centennial, Colo. – Grandview

  • Averaged 18.5 points and 12.0 rebounds in UCLA’s two-win week
  • Scored 17 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished four assists against Pepperdine, finishing 7-for-9 from the field
  • Had a 20-point, 12-rebound performance versus Arkansas
  • Earns her first Big Ten Player of the Week award
  • Last UCLA Player of the Week: Lauren Betts (Nov. 18, 2024)

 

Big Ten Women’s Basketball Weekly Honor Roll

JuJu Watkins, USC: Tied for No. 2 in NCAA DI history for fastest player to 1,000 career points (38 games) and became USC’s fastest to achieve the feat in the Trojans’ win over Santa Clara

Destiny Adams, RU: Recorded 28 points and 11 rebounds in a victory over Iona

Gracie Merkle, PSU: Averaged 22.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks during Penn State’s 2-0 week

 

Freshman of the Week

Mila Holloway, Michigan

Guard – Charlotte, N.C. – Legacy Early College

  • Notched a pair of double-figure scoring games as Michigan picked up two wins
  • Scored a career-high 21 points with eight assists, five steals and two boards against Central Michigan
  • Dropped 16 points, three rebounds, two assists and a steal versus Oakland
  • Collects her first Big Ten Freshman of the Week laurel
  • Last Michigan Freshman of the Week: Syla Swords (Nov. 11, 2024)

 

2024-25 Big Ten Players of the Week

Nov. 11

P: Destiny Adams, Sr., RU

F: Syla Swords, MICH

 

Nov. 18

P: Lauren Betts, Jr., UCLA

F: Mila Holloway, MICH

Wisconsin, Rutgers Score Men’s Basketball Weekly Accolades
Badgers’ Tonje, Scarlet Knights’ Harper net Big Ten weekly honors
 
ROSEMONT, Ill. (Nov. 18, 2024) – The Big Ten Conference has announced its Men’s Basketball Players of the Week for the week of November 11-17, 2024.
Player of the Week
John Tonje, Wisconsin
G – Grad. – 6-7 – North Omaha, Neb. – Omaha Central
  • Scored a career-high 41 points in Wisconsin’s 103-88 win over No. 9 Arizona on Friday, second most points in program history
  • Broke the Wisconsin single-game record for made free throws, finishing with a 21-for-22 clip at the line
  • The only player over the last 30 years to score 40 points and make 20 free throws in a game vs an AP Top 25 opponent.
  • Garners his first Player of the Week award
  • Last Wisconsin Player of the Week: Johnny Davis (Feb. 21, 2022)
 
Freshman of the Week
Dylan Harper, Rutgers
G – 6-6 – Franklin Lakes, N.J. – Don Bosco Prep
  • Averaged 22.0 points, 5.5 rebounds. 3.5 assists, and 1.0 blocked shots as Rutgers tallied a pair of wins
  • Became the second Scarlet Knight in Rutgers history to score 20-plus points in the first three games of his freshman year, the first player to do it since Phil Sellers in 1972
  • Earns his first Freshman of the Week award
  • Last Rutgers Freshman of the Week: Ron Harper Jr. (March 4, 2019)
 

2024-25 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Players of the Week

Nov. 18

P: John Tonje, WIS
F: Dylan Harper, RUT
 
Nov. 11
P: Nick Martinelli, NU
F: Will Riley, ILL

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