The Big Ten Conference has announced this week’s Men’s Basketball Player Week for the week of Feb. 13-19.

Penn State Scores Men’s Basketball Weekly Accolade

Pickett claims Big Ten weekly honor

 

(ROSEMONT, Ill. – Feb. 20, 2023) – The Big Ten Conference has announced this week’s Men’s Basketball Player Week for the week of Feb. 13-19.

 

Player of the Week
Jalen Pickett, Penn State
G – Sr. – 6-4 – Rochester, N.Y. – Aquinas – Major: Broadcast Journalism

• Averaged 36.5 points per game on 65.0 percent shooting to go with 8.0 assists in leading Penn State to a pair of wins last week.
• Set a Bryce Jordan Center record with 41 points on 15-for-20 shooting, including his 2,000th career point, in a 93-81 win over Illinois
• Paired 32 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in the Nittany Lions‘ 76-69 victory over Minnesota, becoming the only Big Ten player in the last 20 years to tally 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in a conference game.
• Per OptaSTATS, Pickett, LeBron James and Steph Curry are the only three players in Division I or the NBA in the last 25 years to have had a 2-game span with 70+ points, 15+ assists, 10+ rebounds, 65.0+ FG% and 90.0+ FT%
• Garners his second career Player of the Week award.
• Last Penn State Player of the Week: Jalen Pickett (Dec. 27, 2022)

 

2022-23 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Players of the Week

Nov. 14
P: Hunter Dickinson, Jr., MICH
F: Jett Howard, MICH

 

Nov. 21
P: Terence Shannon Jr., Sr., ILL
F: Braden Smith, PUR

 

Nov. 28
P: Zach Edey, Jr., PUR
F: Fletcher Loyer, PUR

 

Dec. 5
P: Zach Edey, Jr., PUR
P: Kris Murray, Sr., IOWA
F: Fletcher Loyer, PUR

 

Dec. 12
P: Zach Edey, Jr., PUR
F: Dug McDaniel, MICH

 

Dec. 19

P: Filip Rebraca, IOWA

F: Brice Sensabaugh, OSU

 

Dec. 27

P: Jalen Pickett, PSU

F: Brice Sensabaugh, OSU

 

Jan. 3

P: Hunter Dickinson, MICH

F: Brice Sensabaugh, OHU

 

Jan. 9

P: Zach Edey, PUR

F: Jalen Hood-Schifino, IND

 

Jan. 17

P: Fletcher Loyer, PUR

P: Cam Spencer, RUT

F: Fletcher Loyer, PUR

 

Jan. 23

P: Trayce Jackson-Davis, IND

F: Brice Sensabaugh, OSU

 

Jan. 30

P: Zach Edey, PUR

P: Trayce Jackson-Davis, IND

F: Jalen Hood Schifino, IND

 

Feb. 6

P: Zach Edey, PUR

P: Trayce Jackson-Davis, IND

F: Jayden Epps, ILL

 

Feb. 13

P: Boo Buie, NU

P: Trayce Jackson-Davis, IND

F: Jalen Hood-Schifino, IND

 

Feb. 20

P: Jalen Pickett, PSU

F: No nominees

 

 

Big Ten Conference (bigten.org) is an association of world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching, and public service. Founded in 1896, Big Ten Conference has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in the lives of students competing in intercollegiate athletics and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness, and competitiveness. The broad-based programs of the 14 Big Ten Conference institutions will provide over $200 million in direct financial support to more than 9,800 students for more than 11,000 participation opportunities on 350 teams in 42 different sports. Big Ten Conference sponsors 28 official conference sports, 14 for men and 14 for women, including the addition of men’s ice hockey and men’s and women’s lacrosse since 2013.