Banks, Polk Share Final Men's Player-of-the-Week Honor

Feb. 28, 2005

Cedrick Banks
UIC
Guard
Senior
Chicago, Ill.

Brandon Polk
Butler
Forward
Junior
Wichita, Kan.



Cedrick Banks of UIC and Brandon Polk of Butler have been named the Horizon League Co-Players of the Week for Feb. 28.


Banks, a senior guard, averaged 35.5 points per game, including a career-high 39 in an 81-68 win over Wright State Feb. 23, as the Flames went 1-1 last week. Against the Raiders, he was 15-of-27 from the field, including 8-of-16 from three-point range. Banks then netted a game-high 28 points with five rebounds in an 86-82 loss at Butler Feb. 26. For the week, he shot 54 percent (25-of-46) from the floor and 46 percent (13-of-28) from beyond the arc.


In addition, Banks surpassed the 2,000-point mark with his first basket against Butler and broke Kenny Williams' (1990-94) school record of 2,025 points later in the game.


Polk, a junior forward, averaged 25.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in leading Butler to a 2-0 record for the week. He scored a career-high 24 points in a 79-59 victory at Youngstown State Feb. 23 and then bettered that mark with 27 points in the Bulldogs' 86-82 win over UIC Feb. 26 when he was 10-of-14 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line. The League leader in field-goal percentage (.586), he was 20-of-31 from the floor for a 65 percent rate last week.

Drew Burleson
Wright State, Sophomore, Forward, Wheelersburg, Ohio