SEC Co-Players of the Week – Mississippi State guard Lamar Peters, a 6-foot, 185-pound junior from New Orleans, La., and Tennessee guard Admiral Schofield, a 6-foot-6, 241-pound senior from Zion, Ill., were named SEC Co-Players of the Week. Peters racked up 27.5 points and 5.0 assists per game as Mississippi State stretched its winning streak to five consecutive games with wins over Clemson and McNeese State. Peters canned 62.1 percent of his shots fueled by 16 three-pointers. He set a program single-game record with eight treys against McNeese State only to equal it four days later versus Clemson. Schofield posted the best game of his career as he rallied the seventh-ranked Vols to a 76-73 win over No. 1 Gonzaga in Phoenix, finishing with a career-high 30 points to go along with six rebounds. Ending the game on an 11-5 run, the senior guard was responsible for Tennessee’s final 11 points during the final 3:17 of play while knocking down three of his career-high six treys. After scoring just five points in the first half, Schofield erupted after halftime to drop 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting with five threes.
SEC Freshman of the Week – Alabama guard Kira Lewis Jr., a 6-foot-3, 167-pound freshman from Meridianville, Ala., averaged 19.5 points and 4.5 3s made per game while shooting 60 percent from the beyond the arc (9-of-15) against Georgia State and Arizona. Lewis Jr. went 6-of-12 from the field and hit five three-pointers (5-of-10) on his way to 19 points against Georgia State. He followed that performance by recording his team-best fourth 20-point game of the year in a three-point win over Arizona. He capped the performance by draining a game-clinching 3-pointer with 13 seconds left to seal the victory over the Wildcats.