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Unless Villanova has a freshman who will be a first round NBA draft choice. Just saying...........
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Individual awards are nice.
I think that UCONN has built a TEAM first mentality and believe that the players just want to see the wins keep coming. To be part of the last team standing in April is much more meaningful than a weekly award in January which means someone had two good or great games in a row - season long consistency is much better.
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Xavier’s Olivari Named Player of the Week
Xavier guard Quincy Olivari has been named BIG EAST Player of the Week and for a sixth time this season Connecticut guard Stephon Castle had been chosen BIG EAST Freshman of the Week. Olivari’s week included a 43-point performance and Castle helped the Huskies to a 2-0 week.
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castle continues to dominate the freshman of the week honors and tristen gets an honor role nod as well. honestly thought there was a chance castle got player of the week this week as well, but olivari certainly deserves it as well.
Stephon Castle, UConn, G, Fr. – Castle wins Freshman honors for the sixth time this season and the fifth time in the last six weeks. In a 2-0 week, Castle recorded consecutive career scoring highs with 20 points in a 74-65 win over Providence and 21 points in a 77-64 victory at St. John’s. For the two games, he shot 53.8 percent from the floor and 66.7 percent from 3-point range.
Tristen Newton, UConn, G, Gr. – Recorded two double-doubles in a 2-0 week. Averaged 17.0 points, 10.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists. In a win over St. John’s (77-64), had 18 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
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updated tracker. dre davis from seton hall gets his first nod.
| Player | Team | POTW | FOTW | Honor Role |
| Pierre Brooks | Butler | 1 | ||
| Jahmyl Telfort | Butler | 3 | ||
| Jalen Thomas | Butler | 1 | ||
| DJ Davis | Butler | 1 | ||
| Trey Alexander | Creighton | 2 | 2 | |
| Baylor Scheierman | Creighton | 1 | 1 | |
| Ryan Kalkbrenner | Creighton | 2 | ||
| Chico Carter | DePaul | 1 | ||
| Rowan Brumbaugh | Georgetown | 1 | ||
| Dontrez Styles | Georgetown | 1 | ||
| Jayden Epps | Georgetown | 1 | ||
| Kam Jones | Marquette | 1 | ||
| Tyler Kolek | Marquette | 1 | 4 | |
| Oso Ighodaro | Marquette | 2 | ||
| Sean Jones | Marquette | 1 | ||
| Devin Carter | PeeCee | 1 | 4 | |
| Bryce Hopkins | PeeCee | 3 | ||
| Rich Barron | PeeCee | 1 | ||
| Kadary Richmond | Seton Hall | 2 | 3 | |
| Al-Amir Dawes | Seton Hall | 1 | 1 | |
| Dre Davis | Seton Hall | 1 | ||
| Isaiah Coleman | Seton Hall | 2 | ||
| Joel Soriano | St. John's | 5 | ||
| Brady Dunlap | St. John's | 1 | ||
| Daniss Jenkins | St. John's | 1 | ||
| Donovan Clingan | UConn | 2 | ||
| Stephon Castle | UConn | 6 | ||
| Alex Karaban | UConn | 4 | ||
| Tristen Newton | UConn | 1 | 4 | |
| Solomon Ball | UConn | 1 | ||
| Eric Dixon | Villanova | 1 | 3 | |
| Tyler Burton | Villanova | 1 | ||
| Desmond Claude | Xavier | 3 | ||
| Lazar Djokovic | Xavier | 1 | ||
| Quincy Olivari | Xavier | 1 | 3 |
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Preseason it was Garwey Dual from Providence but he’s had a miserable year. Not much else in the BE this year
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For my money, it's Isaiah Coleman but I could see the argument for Swain. Swain's 7/6/5 game against Georgetown is probably the most complete game by a non-UConn freshman this year, which feels crazy to say. Coleman has a lot more upside as a scorer but has also had quite a few no-shows this year.
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Most underrated player in the country based on these honors. Talk to UConn fans, Hurley, and opposing coaches and they know. Non UConn college basketball fans I know Cam is the first player they bring up from UConn.
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Does the media vote for these honors ?
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I think it's the coaches.
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If it is the coaches, then they should be asked why he’s not getting the votes that he deserves.
It would be nice to see who votes and whom they vote for each week. May be telling as to why he hasn’t even made HM.
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Tristen Newton was just named to the Top 20 Watch List for the Wooden Award. If he's not first team Big East that would be highway robbery. Kolek and Scheierman are the only other Big East players on there.
The wildest part of his omission is he is at the top of every other coaches scout. It’s not like the people voting for this don’t think he’s important and one of the highest priority guys to contain.
I get him not getting it this week - didn’t play great against providence so it cancelled out his great day on Saturday, but he’s had plenty of consistent weeks where he comes up big multiple games in a row.
Also, only 1 UConn POW by this point in the year is pretty wild.
Pitino gets nervous whenever cams are around. Could be recording- he wants no evidence.
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So 5 Huskies on that list, with 18 total awards, and none of them are Spencer (and one of them is Solo Ball???)... Chalk it up to balance, I guess.
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Probably already noted, but due to how the scoring (rarely a repeat points leader in a given week), assists, rebounds etc. are spread throughout our starting 5, it's hard to get a UConn player with the top weekly BE stats. As someone pointed out, PoV votes for UConn players probably get carved up between 2 or more players each week resulting in them not even making honorable mention.
Being Team of the Week is what counts most.
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Leader at the turn: Stephon Castle (UConn): For the most part, the races for Conference Freshman of the Year are still pretty close and open to debate. This is not the case in the Big East. After dealing with injury issues early in the season, Castle is leading all Big East freshmen in scoring (11.7 points per game), rebounds (4.7) and assists (3.3). Not only that, he’s got a comfortable lead in each category.
The race is not even close. Castle is doing it on a Huskies team that has a very real shot at repeating as National Champions. Some five-star prospects don’t live up to the advance billing but Castle has been all of that and then more.
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The race is not even close. Castle is doing it on a Huskies team that has a very real shot at repeating as National Champions. Some five-star prospects don’t live up to the advance billing but Castle has been all of that and then more.
Daily Dish: Projecting the Power Six Freshman of the Year races down the homestretch of college hoops
We've reached the home stretch of the college season, which freshmen are taking charge in each of the power conferences?
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I said this in another thread, we potentially have four players who cud get first team big east. I’ll be shocked if cam, newton , clingan and Karaban aren’t at least on 1st, second or third team
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