Calling game and dropping 41? Yeah, that will earn you Big 12 Player of the Week.
The first #Big12MBB player to score 4️⃣0️⃣ points in over two years.
Congrats to Austin Reaves on earning Big 12 Player of the Week!
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— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_MBBall) March 9, 2020
Reaves averaged 27.0 points on 51.6%, 7.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.0 blocks, and 1.0 steals in Oklahoma’s games against Texas and TCU.
Reaves willed the Sooners to victory on Saturday scoring 41 points and bringing Oklahoma back from an 18-point halftime deficit, the largest halftime deficit to result in a road win in Big 12 history.
The honor comes less than 24 hours after Reaves was named to the Big 12 All-Newcomer Team and was named an All-12 Honorable Mention.
On the season, Reaves is sixth in Big 12 scoring averaging 14.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game.
Reaves’ performance on Saturday was the sixth 40-point output by a Sooner in the Lon Kruger era. Trae Young had four such performances in 2018 and Buddy Hield had a 44-point outburst in 2016.
With the win on Saturday, Oklahoma finishes third in the Big 12 regular season, giving them the No. 3-seed in the Big 12 Tournament. The Sooners face 6-seeded West Virginia at 8 p.m. CT on Thursday on either ESPN or ESPN2.
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