{"id":80946,"date":"2025-12-08T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80946\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:00:09","slug":"lsc-recognizes-pusateri-with-weekly-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80946\/","title":{"rendered":"LSC Recognizes Pusateri With Weekly Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     RICHARDSON, Texas (December 8, 2025) &#8211; Lubbock Christian University junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/antonio-pusateri\/4928\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4928\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Pusateri<\/a> was named the Lone Star Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth time this season that a Chaparral has been recognized with a weekly LSC award, including\u00a0the second time for one to claim DPOW honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pusateri pulled down 18 defensive rebounds, blocked four shots and averaged a double double to help lead the No. 4-ranked Chaps to a pair of conference wins over UT Permian Basin and Angelo State. Pusateri, who averaged 15 points and 2.5 assists per game and also had a steal, led a unit that allowed just 60.5 points per game and 40.7 percent shooting. Against UTPB, The California native\u00a0registered his league-leading fourth double double of the year (19 points, 12 boards).<\/p>\n<p>Overall this season, Pusateri\u00a0is averaging 13.5 points on 55.8 percent shooting. His 9.4 rebounds per game leads the Lone Star Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chaps have started the season 8-0 overall for their best start since 2021. They will next be on the court at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Oklahoma City, taking on Oklahoma Christian.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; RICHARDSON, Texas (December 8, 2025) &#8211; Lubbock Christian University junior forward Antonio Pusateri was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-80946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80946","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=80946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}