Hield Named Big 12 Player of the Week

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma men's basketball player Buddy Hield is this season's first recipient of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week award, the conference announced Monday.

The junior guard from Freeport, Bahamas, set a school record and tied the Big 12 standard for most 3-pointers in a game without a miss by going 7 for 7 in Sunday's season-opening 78-53 win over Southeastern Louisiana. Hield shattered the previous school mark of six 3-pointers without a miss that was shared by five players.

The 6-4, 212-pounder, who was a preseason third-team All-American by The Sporting News, finished with a game-high 25 points and added seven rebounds and a pair of assists in 28 minutes of work. His seven treys were the most by a Sooner in four seasons.

The Big 12 Player of the Week award was the first of Hield's career. Iowa State's Bryce Dejean-Jones was named the league's newcomer of the week.

The 19th-ranked Sooners travel to Omaha, Neb., for their first road game of the season Wednesday against Creighton. The 7 p.m. CT contest will be played at the 18,320-seat CenturyLink Center and will be televised by FOX Sports 1.

Hield Named to Wooden Award Watch List
Moments after being named this season's first recipient of the Big 12 Player of the Week award, Buddy Hield was named to the John R. Wooden Award's 50-player watch list Monday by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. The watch list was chosen following a poll of national college basketball analysts.

Hield is one of 10 Big 12 Conference players on the Wooden Award watch list, the most candidates of any league.

A preseason All-Big 12 Team member and a preseason third-team All-American by The Sporting News, Hield is coming off a sophomore campaign in which he averaged a team-high 16.5 points per game and tied for the Big 12 lead with his 3.5 3-pointers per conference outing. He shot .386 from behind the 3-point line and his 90 treys ranked as the sixth most in OU single-season history.

The Wooden Award National Advisory Board will select 25 players for the midseason list in early January. The leading candidates will be further pared to 20 in early February. Fifteen players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA will be placed on the ballot and submitted to voters prior to the NCAA Tournament and voting will take into account play during the opening rounds of the tournament. The Wooden Award All American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament.

Wooden Award Preseason Watch List
Cliff Alexander, Kansas
Brandon Ashley, Arizona
Ron Baker, Wichita State
Ryan Boatright, Connecticut
Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia
Willie Cauley-Stein, Kentucky
Branden Dawson, Michigan State
Sam Dekker, Wisconsin
Perry Ellis, Kansas
Yogi Ferrell, Indiana
Marcus Foster, Kansas State
Michael Frazier, Florida
Treveon Graham, VCU
Jerian Grant, Notre Dame
Olivier Hanlan, Boston College
Montrezl Harrell, Louisville
Aaron Harrison, Kentucky
Andrew Harrison, Kentucky
Tyler Haws, BYU
Buddy Hield, Oklahoma
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Arizona
R.J. Hunter, Georgia State
Stanley Johnson, Arizona
Tyus Jones, Duke
Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin
Caris LeVert, Michigan
Jordan Mickey, LSU
Nic Moore, SMU
Georges Niang, Iowa State
Jahlil Okafor, Duke
Kelly Oubre, Kansas
Marcus Paige, North Carolina
Kevin Pangos, Gonzaga
Terran Petteway, Nebraska
Bobby Portis, Arkansas
Chasson Randle, Stanford
Terry Rozier, Louisville
Wesley Saunders, Harvard
Josh Scott, Colorado
Wayne Selden, Kansas
D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera, Georgetown
Juwan Staten, West Virginia
Keifer Sykes, Green Bay
Isaiah Taylor, Texas
Karl-Anthony Towns, Kentucky
Myles Turner, Texas
Fred VanVleet, Wichita State
Dez Wells, Maryland
Delon Wright, Utah
Joseph Young, Oregon

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