INDIANAPOLIS -- Oakland junior guard Kay Felder (Detroit, Mich./Pershing) has been named the Horizon League Men’s Basketball Player of the Week, while Cleveland State freshman guard Rob Edwards (Detroit, Mich./Cass Tech) has been named the Horizon League Freshman of the Week.
Felder scored a career-high 38 points in leading Oakland to a 97-83 win at Washington on Saturday to grab Player of the Week honors. The junior guard was 14-of-27 from the field and 8-of-11 from the foul line, while also passing out nine assists. He scored 25 points in the first half as the Golden Grizzlies opened up a 55-35 lead over the Huskies at intermission.
The win was Oakland’s first over a power-five opponent on the road since 2010.
For the season, Felder ranks second in all of NCAA DI with a scoring average of 25.9 points per game and leads the country with an average of 8.9 assists per game. He is one of five players in the nation to rank in the top-50 in both scoring and assists per game average, but the only player to rank in the top-10 in both categories.
Felder’s Player of the Week nod is the third this season for the Horizon League’s Preseason Player of the Year in six weeks. The record for Player of the Week selections in a single season is six set by Green Bay’s Keifer Sykes in the 2013-14 season. The junior has five career Player of the Week honors. Sykes has the most in Horizon League history with 11.
Oakland (7-3) has won four consecutive games and returns to action on Tuesday night when it faces top-ranked Michigan State. The game will be played at the Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Detroit Pistons, and will be televised by ESPNU with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.
Edwards captured his second Freshman of the Week honor this season after helping lead the Vikings to two wins last week. On Saturday, he scored 15 points and had three rebounds in CSU’s 67-65 win over Belmont. He hit 6-of-8 shots from the field in the win, including 3-of-4 from three-point range. For the week, Edwards hit 8-of-14 field goal attempts and pulled down five rebounds, had three assists and two steals.
Cleveland State (4-7) is back in action on Wednesday night when it hosts Bowling Green.
Top Performers for the Week:
Jalen Billups, Northern Kentucky (Sr., F) - Billups recorded his second double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds in NKU’s win over SEMO on Saturday. Earlier in the week, Billups had 16 points and six rebounds in the Norse game at Michigan. For the week, Billups shot 13-of-19 (68.4%) from the field.
Demonte Flannigan, Cleveland State (Jr., F) - Flannigan averaged 13.0 points and 5.5 rebounds to help CSU to a pair of wins last week. He scored 16 points with eight rebounds and three blocks and made the game-winning shot on a left-handed hook shot with 1.8 seconds to play in the 67-65 win over Belmont on Saturday. He had 10 points and three rebounds in the win at Loyola on Wednesday night.
Chris Jenkins, Detroit (Jr., G) - Jenkins tallied a career-high 26 points in the Titans 95-89 win over UCF on Saturday. He added 10 rebounds to post his third double-double of the year and fourth of his career. He also had three steals and two assists in the victory.
Carrington Love, Green Bay (Sr., G) - Love averaged 22 points per game in two Phoenix wins last week. He had 29 points, four assists and one steal in GB’s win over Pacific on and had 15 points, four steals and 1 assist in less than 20 minutes of action in GB’s blowout win over UW-Superior. For the week, Love shot 62.5% (15-of-24) from the field.
Alec Peters, Valparaiso (Jr., F) - Peters recorded his third double-double of the season, finishing with 19 points and 10 rebounds in Valpo’s 74-45 win over Missouri State on Saturday.
Matt Tiby, Milwaukee (Sr., F) - Tiby finished with a career-high 31 points and matched his career-best with 17 rebounds in UWM’s double overtime loss to South Dakota on Thursday. During the contest, he eclipsed the 1,000 career point mark, becoming the 26th player in Milwaukee history to reach that total.
Sidney Umede, Youngstown State (So., F) - Umede scored a career-high 21 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field in YSU’s 99-58 win over Geneva. He added five rebounds and four steals in the victory. On Saturday at Michigan, Umede scored seven points, had five rebounds and two assists.
JT Yoho, Wright State (Sr., F) - Yoho added a spark off-the-bench for the Raiders this week, averaging 16.5 points in two WSU wins. He led the Raiders with 22 points in WSU’s 83-47 win over Bowling Green. He had five assists and six rebounds in the win over Charleston Southern on Thursday.
Top Freshmen for the Week:
Anthony Brown, Green Bay (Fr., G) - Brown had eight points, five steals and four rebounds in 35 minutes of play in two Green Bay wins last week.
Mark Hughes, Wright State (Fr., G) - Hughes scored 10 points in the win over Charleston Southern on Thursday. In two games last week, he added six rebounds, three steals, one block and one assist.
Dominique Matthews, UIC (Fr., G) - Matthews scored a career-high 20 points versus Illinois State on Wednesday. He added a career-high four assists and matched his career-high with five rebounds against the Redbirds. In two games last week, he averaged 13.5 points per game.
Drew McDonald, Northern Kentucky (Fr., F/C) - McDonald scored nine points, grabbed eight points and had two assists and two steals in 15 minutes of action in the Norse win over SEMO on Saturday night.
Josh McFolley, Detroit (Fr., G) - McFolley hit four three-pointers to finish with 12 points in Detroit’s 95-89 win over UCF on Saturday. He also tied his season-high with three steals.
Men’s Basketball Player of the Week:
Nov. 9: Carrington Love, Green Bay
Nov. 16: Kay Felder, Oakland
Nov. 23: Bobby Hain, Youngstown State
Nov. 30: Jordan Fouse, Green Bay
Dec. 7: Kay Felder, Oakland/Jordan Johnson, Milwaukee
Dec. 14; Kay Felder, Oakland
Men’s Basketball Freshman of the Week:
Nov. 9: Dikembe Dixson, UIC
Nov. 16: Josh McFolley, Detroit
Nov. 23: Rob Edwards, Cleveland State
Nov. 30: Josh McFolley, Detroit
Dec. 7: Dikembe Dixson, UIC
Dec. 14: Rob Edwards, Cleveland State
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