DALLAS, Texas – UTEP graduate guard Ivane Tensaie has been named the Conference USA Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday. <\/p>\n
Tensaie earns the honor after delivering an efficient shooting week, while leading the Miners to a pair of victories and a 6-0 start.<\/p>\n
Tensaie averaged 22.5 points per game while shooting 65 percent from three-point range during UTEP\u2019s 2-0 week. She went a combined 13-of-20 from beyond the arc, providing a major spark in UTEP\u2019s undefeated week.<\/p>\n
She opened the week with 19 points on 5-of-8 three-point shooting in UTEP\u2019s road win at Kansas City on Nov. 25, helping the Miners improve to 1-0 away from home. <\/p>\n
Tensaie followed that performance with a season-best 26 points in the Nov. 29 victory over Denver, knocking down 8-of-12 threes to set a UTEP single-game record for three-pointers made. <\/p>\n
Her eight threes surpassed her own previous mark of seven set last season.<\/p>\n
The award marks the second straight week a Miner has earned CUSA Player of the Week honors, coming one week after Mary Moses Amaniyo received the recognition. <\/p>\n
It is UTEP\u2019s first set of back-to-back CUSA Player of the Week selections since the 2013\u201314 season, when Kayla Thornton earned the award on Jan. 27 and Feb. 3, 2014.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
UTEP returns to the Don Haskins Center on Wednesday to host Texas A&M\u2013Corpus Christi (Dec. 3) before heading back on the road for two challenging nonconference matchups at TCU (Dec. 6) and BYU (Dec. 13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS, Texas – UTEP graduate guard Ivane Tensaie has been named the Conference USA Player of the Week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-72564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}