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DENVER - Seattle U junior guard Brendan Westendorf has been named Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 25-31. This is his first-ever WAC Player of the Week honor.
The Auburn, Wash., native averaged 17.0 points on 51.9 percent shooting, 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3.0 steals as the Redhawks picked up a pair of wins, just their second and third road wins of the season, including a victory at Grand Canyon, a team that was riding a NCAA-best 12-game winning streak. On Thursday, Westendorf tied his season high with 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field, including 2-of-4 from beyond the arc and 4-of-5 from the free throw line. He also collected six rebounds, five assists, three steals and a blocked shot as the Redhawks defeated Utah Valley. Two nights later, he led Seattle U with 14 points as it handed Grand Canyon its first conference loss of the season. Westendorf also added seven rebounds, four assists and three steals in the two-point victory. He entered the week averaging 11.6 points and 38.9 shooting, 5.0 rebounds and 1.47 steals per game.
Other nominees included: CSU Bakersfield's Damiyne Durham of averaged 12.0 points and 3.5 three-pointers per game as the Roadrunners went 1-1 on the week ... Fred Sims Jr. of Chicago State finished with 26 points, two rebounds an assist and a steal in a loss at Missouri-Kansas City ... Grand Canyon's Grandy Glaze averaged 20.0 points and 12.5 rebounds as the Lopes went 1-1 on the week ... LaVell Boyd of Missouri-Kansas City finished with 22 points and seven rebounds in a win over Chicago State ... NM State's Pascal Siakam finished with 24 points, 16 rebounds, three blocks, three steals and two assists in a rout of UT Rio Grande Valley ... Shaquille Hines of UT Rio Grande Valley scored a career-high 30 points on 66.7 percent shooting to go with three rebounds, two assists and two steals in a loss to NM State ... Utah Valley's Ivory Young averaged 16.5 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists on the week.