AP Player Of The Week: Antonio Reeves Of Kentucky Shines In Pair Of Wins – News18

The Associated Press nationwide participant of the week in males’s basketball for Week 18 of the season:

The senior guard from Chicago had 27 factors and 7 rebounds in main the Wildcats to a win over then-No. 4 Tennessee final week, serving to to earn Reeves the ultimate AP males’s participant of the week honor for the 2023-24 season. He additionally had 20 factors, six rebounds and 4 assists as Kentucky rolled previous Vanderbilt, and his seven straight video games of at the very least 20 factors are essentially the most by a Wildcat participant since Jamal Murray went 12 straight through the 2015-16 season. Ninth-ranked Kentucky is the No. 2 seed for the SEC Tournament and can play Ole Miss or Texas A&M within the quarterfinals on Thursday night time in Nashville.

Zach Edey, Purdue. The reigning AP participant of the yr completed the common season with a pair of huge performances. The 7-foot-4 Edey had 28 factors and eight rebounds in a win over then-No. 12 Illinois, then had 25 factors and 14 rebounds whereas serving to the third-ranked Boilermakers beat Wisconsin on Sunday. Purdue is the No. 1 seed within the Big Ten Tournament.

Cormac Ryan, North Carolina; L.J. Cryer, Houston; DaRon Holmes II, Dayton.

PJ Haggerty, Tulsa. The switch from TCU had a profession-excessive 32 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists in main the Golden Hurricane to an upset of No. 24 South Florida final week. Haggerty has scored in double-figures in 25 consecutive video games. Tulsa performs East Carolina within the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference tourney on Thursday.

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AP voters: Aaron Beard, Cliff Brunt, Gary B. Graves, Beth Harris, Mike Marot, John Marshall, Eric Olson, Dave Skretta, Teresa M. Walker.

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AP faculty basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

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