New Newcomers are Emerging

Rhymes Heating & Cooling ‘Hot Players of the Week’

(St. Louis, MO) – New newcomers are emerging in the ‘twin Valleys’. Team success usually leads individual accolades. Each of our ‘Rhymes Heating & Cooling Hot Players of the Week’ award winners helped their individual teams to a pair of wins.

There are two, brand new ‘Newcomers of the Week‘.

Missouri Valley Conference

Tulio Da Silva exploded on to the MVC scene with a pair 20-point games. The 6’8 junior scored 21 points in the Bears’ win over Indiana State and was even better against Bradley. The Brazilian native scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in MSU’s victory over Bradley.

In four Valley games, Da Silva is fourth in the league both in scoring (16.5 ppg) and rebounding (8.0). Da Silva is this week’s ‘Player of the Week‘ and ‘Newcomer of the Week‘.

Ohio Valley Conference

Ja Morant is the talk of college basketball and is running away with the OVC’s ‘Player of the Year‘ honors. This week he earned his fifth ‘Player of the Week‘ award by leading Murray State (13-2, 4-0) to a pair of victories. The 6’4 sophomore averaged 21.5 points and 16 assists in the Racer wins. His 18 assists against UT Martin were an MSU record.

Austin Peay’s Jabari McGhee is evidence that new newcomers are emerging. The 6’7 forward helped the Governors to a pair of wins by averaging 11.5 points and 8.5 rebounds. APSU (12-5, 4-0) is one of three undefeated OVC squads. McGhee is the seventh different first year player to be named ‘Newcomer of the Week‘ and the first time for a member of the Austin Peay squad.

Nick Muszynski in now a three-time winner of the OVC’s ‘Freshman of the Week‘ award. The Belmont center leads the league in blocked shots (2.47 per game) and last week contributed 34 points and 18 rebounds to the Bruins’ twin victories. Belmont (12-3, 3-1) knocked off Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky.