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Co-Players from Sunday
Angel Reese, LSU
Reese recorded two double-doubles at Vanderbilt and told MSU to move into a tie with Sylvia Fowles for the LSU single-season record with 27 doubles. He recorded his fifth 20/20 game of the season against MSU. With LSU’s record 28 rebounds on Jan. 5 and 26 rebounds against MSU on Saturday, Reese is the first SEC player in the NCAA era with 26+ rebounds in multiple games in his career. He finished the regular season leading the SEC in scoring (23.7 ppg) and rebounding (16.0 rpg).
Aliyah Boston, South Carolina
Boston, was the team’s leading scorer as the Gamecocks captured their seventh SEC Regular Season Championship and became the fourth team in SEC history to finish the regular season undefeated. He celebrated Senior Day against Georgia with his fourth 20-point game and 18th double-double of the season. Boston posted 11 of 25 points in the first quarter on 4-of-5 shooting in the period and closed the game with 10 points in the fourth quarter to hold off any Georgia comeback. At Tennessee, he scored the first four points of the game to set the tone early and blocked four shots, including three in the second half to help the Gamecocks take a halftime lead.
Freshman from Sunday
Janiah Barker, Texas A&M
Barker averaged 16.5 points with 4.0 rebounds and shot 57.1% from the field and perfect 100% from beyond the arc this week, all while coming off the bench. He scored 16 points against Kentucky, helping the Aggies past the Wildcats, 74-67, in A&M’s home finale on Thursday. Barker scored another 17 points and grabbed six rebounds on the road against Arkansas. Barker led all rookies this week with at least seven points per game and became the league’s only rookie to average a double-double in the final week of the regular season.
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