Ole Miss senior guard Marshall Henderson was named Monday the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week.
The 6-foot-2, 177-pounder from Hurst, Texas, averaged 22 points, 3.5 assists, two rebounds, and two steals in wins against LSU and at South Carolina.
Texas A&M’s Davonte Fitzgerald was named SEC Freshman of the Week.
Henderson scored 25 points — 6 of 12 from 3-point arc — and had a career-high seven assists in his Wednesday against LSU in his first action since returning from a two-game suspension to open league play. Henderson scored 19 points after halftime and hit a crucial 3-pointer in overtime that gave the Rebels a lead they didn’t relinquish.
On Saturday, Henderson scored 19 points, including 16 in the second half, as Ole Miss overcame a 10-point halftime deficit and win at South Carolina for the first time since 2001.
Henderson is averaging 19.2 points per game, which leads the team and is second in the SEC behind Auburn’s Chris Denson (19.5 ppg.). Henderson is shooting 36.1 percent from the field, 38.3 percent (62 treys) from 3-point range, and is averaging 1.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. He leads the SEC and ranks second in the nation averaging 4.43 3-pointers per game. Henderson has hit a 3-pointer in a school record 50-straight games, and is nine points shy of becoming the fourth player in school history to score 1,000 points in just two seasons.
Henderson and Ole Miss (12-5, 3-1 SEC) will return to action at 8 p.m. Wednesday (CSS) when they take on Vanderbilt (9-7, 1-3) at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn.
Vanderbilt beat Missouri 78-75 and lost at LSU 81-58 last week. The Commodores are down to seven scholarship players (nine overall) after Josh Henderson was lost for the season with a knee injury Dec. 5 against Marshall and Eric McClellan was dismissed from the team.
Texas A&M’s Davonte Fitzgerald, a 6-foot-7, 201-pound freshman forward from Atlanta, Ga., was named SEC Freshman of the Week after averaging 16.5 points on nearly 60 percent shooting from the field and 3.5 rebounds against South Carolina and Mississippi State.
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