Red Storm Looming
Player of the Week: , Saint John’s Red Storm This could have been the entire starting lineup, honestly. The Red Storm continued their dominance at home during a Sunday matinee against UConn (a team that refers to MSG as “Storrs North”), with a wire-to-wire dominant win. UConn couldn’t weather the storm at all, and Ejiofor…
Pack Leader
Player of the Week: , UConn A career-high 38 points from McNeeley that leads to one big question: how did this guy play on the same team as Cooper Flagg? I mean it seems unfair in retrospect that the two most lethal scoring freshmen were on the same high school roster. McNeeley has been the…
Solo Ball, Team Player
Player of the Week: , UConn Another huge win for the Huskies this week who seem to be figuring it out at exactly the right time… just when you think they’re down and out, they get right back up. Solo Ball (best name in the sport by the way) had a cold-blooded performance on the…
Sky High Jamiya
Player of the Week: , Creighton Blue Jays Creighton has proven to be the kryptonite of the UConn Huskies over the past few seasons, which showed in their win at Gampel on Saturday, ending the Huskies 24 game home winning streak. Jamiya Neal was excellent for the Jays; flashing all sorts of timely scoring prowess…
Storm on the Horizon
Player of the Week: Jr., Saint John’s Red Storm The Storm haven’t been talked about a lot in national media, Marquette and UConn steal most of the spotlight from the conference, but they’ve been great this year, and RJ Luis has been an excellent (and very draftable) player for them. Luis is more of an…Fly, Eagles, Fly
Player of the Week: , Marquette Golden Eagles Jones was recently ranked number two in the power rankings for NPOY by Bleacher Report’s college basketball page, and he made a statement to prove them right against Wisconsin. The 6’5 senior was absolutely clinical in the second half of a huge win last Saturday in Marquette’s…
Spreading His Wings
Player of the Week: , Creighton Blue Jays The Blue Jays have been one of the more confusing teams in college basketball this season. Head scratching losses and gutsy, excellent wins have both been happening frequently this year, as they’re 9-5 now with a win over number one Kansas and a loss to a pretty…
Liam McFlurry
Player of the Week: , UConn 5 star does as 5 stars do. McNeeley has been a monumental freshman playmaker for the Huskies this season, and over the last 2 weeks has shown why him and Cooper Flagg were the most dynamic and destructive senior duo in high school hoops last year. It started with…
Fly, Eagles, Fly
Player of the Week: , Marquette Golden Eagles Jones was recently ranked number two in the power rankings for NPOY by Bleacher Report’s college basketball page, and he made a statement to prove them right against Wisconsin. The 6’5 senior was absolutely clinical in the second half of a huge win last Saturday in Marquette’s…
Villanova’s Wrecking Ball
Player of the Week , Villanova Wildcats There’s not much left to say about the burly, 255 pound forward’s start to the year for the Wildcats. He’s having one of the best starts for a Nova player in a number seasons, putting himself in the NPOY conversation. He’s become one of the most dominant offensive…
Focused Golden Eagle
Player of the Week: , Marquette Golden Eagles Last week, I made some power rankings about the best players in the conference, who might win what, etc. I said, in that article, that Kam Jones is absolutely a bucket getter but his scoring numbers will start to come down after a hot first week against…
Mercy Rule
Player of the Week , Creighton Blue Jays Kalkbrenner is having a statistically marvelous start to the year. In three games thus far, he’s missed 3 shots from the field and 2 free throws. He’s averaging 30 points per game. Now, again, putting up better statistics than prime Shaq is not going to be sustainable.…
Lights, Kam, Action
Player of the Week (Marquette) Kam Jones has been nothing short of impressive over his last three games. The junior guard scored back-to-back 34-point games in which he displayed an impressive showing from deep. In a recent game against DePaul, Jones went a superb 8-for-10 from 3-point range while shooting 80 percent from the field.…
Newton’s Theory of Repeatability
Player of the Week (UConn) For the second time this season, Tristen Newton is my player of the week and for good reason. On Saturday against No. 4 Marquette, Newton had a near triple-double performance, notching 15 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. The all-around playmaking ability of the crafty guard has been a huge…
Cool Customer
Player of the Week (Marquette) Consistency is key in college basketball, and Tyler Kolek has been about as consistent as one can be as of late for the surging Marquette Golden Eagles. Kolek produced back-to-back 27-point and seven rebound performances in his last two games — a pretty wild statline. On Saturday against St. John’s,…
UConn Streaking
Player of the Week (UConn) Cam Spencer had one of the more consistent weeks for UConn as it extended its win streak to 11. Spencer had 23 points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals on Saturday against St. John’s. On Wednesday against Butler, the senior guard followed up the performance with 20 points and…
Newton, Apple of UConn Eyes
Player of the Week: (UConn) Tristen Newtown has shown a ton of grit and heart for UConn throughout its winning streak. The guard for the nations No. 1 team scored 25 points against Villanova, followed by 22 points, four rebounds and four assists in 22 minutes against Xavier on Sunday. Despite a rough shooting performance…
Ring the Alarm
Player of the Week (Creighton) Ryan Kalkbrenner has been a workhorse all year for Creighton, but even more so as of late. In the triple overtime victory over Seton Hall, Kalkbrenner logged 54 minutes, 28 points, nine rebounds and an astounding seven blocks. Just three days later, the 7-foot-1 senior added 16 points and nine…