TCU’s Lauren Heard averaged more than 31 points a game last week. The Big 12 noticed.
Lauren Heard has been among the bright spots for TCU women’s basketball this season. The senior guard closed the regular season in impressive fashion, averaging 31.3 points over a three-game stretch.
Those performances were recognized Tuesday as the Big 12 named Heard the conference’s player of the week for the final week.
It’s the first award for Heard this season and the third in her career.
Heard scored 35 points at K-State; 31 points at Oklahoma; and 28 points against Texas on Sunday. Against OU, Heard also had 11 steals and was a rebound shy of a triple-double. Against Texas, she had 10 rebounds to go along with her 28 points.
TCU (9-14, 4-14 Big 12) faces Kansas in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament on Thursday in Kansas City. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m. at Municipal Auditorium.
TCU and KU split the season series.
Men’s All-Big 12 AP team
The TCU men’s basketball team didn’t have any representatives on the Associated Press’ All-Big 12 teams.
The first team included unanimous choices of Baylor’s Jared Butler and Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham. Other selections were West Virginia’s Derek Culver, Texas Tech’s Mac McClung and Oklahoma’s Austin Reaves. The second team featured Texas’ Andrew Jones, West Virginia’s Miles McBride, Kansas’ David McCormack, Baylor’s Davion Mitchell and Baylor’s MaCio Teague.
Baylor’s Scott Drew earned coach of the year honors, while Butler was the player of the year and Cunningham was the newcomer of the year.
S-T ballot
Yours truly votes on the AP All-Big 12 team. Here were my selections:
First team: Butler, Cunningham, Mitchell, Culver and Reaves.
Second team: McClung, Jones, McCormack, Baylor’s Mark Vital and Kansas’ Marcus Garrett.
Coach of the year: Drew
Player of the year: Butler
Newcomer of the year: Cunningham.
This story was originally published March 9, 2021 at 3:07 PM.
