The Associated Press announced its national players of the week in men’s and women’s basketball for Week 3 of the season. On the women’s basketball side:<\/p>\n
Azzi Fudd, UConn<\/p>\n
The graduate guard averaged 27.5 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 58% from the field in wins over No. 6 Michigan<\/a> and Utah last week. She had a season-high 31 points against the Wolverines, including scoring 13 points in the fourth quarter. Fudd also hit four free throws down the stretch to secure the 72-69 victory.<\/p>\n Runner-up<\/p>\n Nunu Agara, Stanford<\/a>. The junior forward averaged a double-double with 20 points 10 rebounds in the Cardinal’s two victories. She had 24 points, going 10 of 10 from the field against Lehigh and then followed that up with a career-best 16 rebound effort against UC Davis.<\/p>\n Honorable mention<\/p>\n Aaliyah Collins<\/a>, High Point, Clara Strack<\/a>, No. 16 Kentucky, Syla Swords<\/a>, No. 6 Michigan.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on<\/p>\n Richmond<\/a> forward Maggie Doogan<\/a> led the Spiders to two strong wins, including a come-from-behind victory over Navy where she had 17 points. She nearly had a triple-double against Temple with 31 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists while hitting six 3-pointers.<\/p>\n And for men’s basketball:<\/p>\n The 6-foot-4 junior guard had a huge week, averaging 31.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.0 assists in three games.<\/p>\n The Big 12 player of the week started with 31 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Tulsa, becoming the first Wildcats player to post a 30\/10 double-double since freshman star Michael Beasley in 2008. He followed with 37 points, seven rebounds and eight assists in a win over Mississippi State<\/a> to start the Hall of Fame Classic.<\/p>\n He closed with 27 points, six rebounds and seven assists in a loss to Nebraska<\/a> in the Classic’s championship game.<\/p>\n He made 34 of 59 shots (.576) for the week and is the first Kansas State player to open a season with six straight games of 20 or more points, making him the nation’s leading scorer (28.0) as of Monday’s games.<\/p>\n Runner-up (tie)<\/p>\n Utah State’s<\/a> M.J. Collins Jr. and SMU’s<\/a> B.J. Edwards.<\/p>\n Collins, a 6-4 senior, had 40 points in a win over Davidson<\/a> to help the Aggies win the Lowcountry bracket of the Charleston Classic. In 28 minutes, he made 14 of 19 shots, 8 of 12 3-pointers and all four of his free throws. That marked one of two 40-point games in Division I last week, coming after the Mountain West<\/a> player of the week had 21 points to open the tournament with a win against Tulane.<\/p>\n Edwards, a 6-3 senior, had 24 points, 13 assists and 10 steals in a win against Arkansas State, marking only the second triple-double in Atlantic Coast Conference history involving 10 steals. The ACC player of the week made 9 of 13 shots and 3 of 6 3-pointers and had five rebounds with just two turnovers while playing 34 minutes. The 13 assists were tied for the most in Division I last week, while he’s the only player all year to reach 10 steals. Edwards also had 11 points, nine assists and five rebounds in a win against Arkansas-Pine Bluff<\/a>.<\/p>\n Honorable mention<\/p>\n Michael Ajayi<\/a>, Butler<\/a>; Jaden Bradley<\/a>, No. 2 Arizona<\/a>; Labaron Philon Jr., No. 8 Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on<\/p>\n Myron “MJ” Amey Jr., Loyola Marymount<\/a>. The 6-2 redshirt senior was West Coast Conference player of the week in helping the Lions start 6-0 before Monday’s loss to Florida Atlantic<\/a> in the Sunshine Slam. He had 29 points and five rebounds while making 6 of 7 3-pointers in last week’s comeback from 14 down to beat UCSB<\/a> in overtime. He’s leading the team in scoring (16.1) and shooting 41.2% from behind the arc.<\/p>\n FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press announced its national players of the week in men’s and women’s basketball for Week 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-308180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}