(Big-12) Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji and K-State’s Nijel Pack share the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honors.
In Kansas’ two come-from-behind road wins, Agbaji averaged 19.5 points and 6.0 rebounds. In the win at Oklahoma, he left the game in the first half with a wrist injury when he collided with the scorer’s table. His 10 points for the game came in the final 5:25. Kansas trailed 52-50 when Agbaji scored eight straight for KU with his eighth tying the game at 58. He then made a basket to put KU up 62-60 and later made the assist that led to what would be the game-winning three-pointer by Christian Braun. At Kansas State, the senior guard tied his career-high with 29 points. He scored seven of Kansas’ final nine points, including the go-ahead field goal with nine seconds remaining. Agbaji later iced the victory making two free throws with 1.1 seconds left.
Pack averaged 25.5 points on 57.6 percent shooting, including 58.8 percent from 3-point range, in splitting games at No. 23/22 Texas and at home against No. 7/7 Kansas. After helping the Wildcats hand the Longhorns their first home loss with 16 points, he followed that with a near-historic effort against the Jayhawks, scoring a career-high 35 points on 12-of-18 field goals, including 8-of-12 from 3-point range.
K-State’s Ayoka Lee earned her fourth Big 12 Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honor after her NCAA-record 61-point outburst against No. 14 Oklahoma. The Wildcats’ Jaelyn Glenn captured her first Big 12 Women’s Basketball Freshman of the Week honor, giving K-State its second sweep of Big 12 weekly honors this season, as voted on by a five-person media panel.
