Four-Straight Double-Double Outings Earn Wecker Big 12 Player of the Week Honors
Feb 28, 2005 | Women's Basketball
DALLAS Kansas State’s Kendra Wecker was named Big 12 Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for games played from Feb. 21-27, the league office announced Monday.
Wecker received her third player of the week honor of the season and the ninth of her career, seven as player of the week and two as rookie of the week. Players are nominated by each school’s sports information office and voted on by a panel of media who cover Big 12 women’s basketball.
Wecker, a 5-foot-11 senior All-American forward, turned in back-to-back double-double performances in victories over Nebraska (94-69) on Feb. 23 and Kansas (73-46) on Feb. 26. She registered 18 points and 13 rebounds against the Huskers and a game-high 21 points and 13 rebounds versus the Jayhawks. Wecker also added a season-high seven assists against Nebraska, three short of recording a triple-double. She now has 49 double-doubles, five behind Big 12 Conference career double-doubles leader Angie Welle of Iowa State (54).
Her 21 points against KU moved her past Oklahoma’s Phylesha Whaley for second-place on the Big 12’s all-time scoring chart (2,203) as she is now 38 points shy of tying former teammate Nicole Ohlde (2,241) as the league’s all-time leading scorer. Wecker has scored 20 or more points 12 times this year and has posted four-straight double-double outings for a conference-leading 14 on the season. For the week, she averaged 19.5 points, 13.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 0.5 blocks and 1.0 steals per game. Wecker became only the second women’s basketball player in K-State history to have her jersey retired in a ceremony following her final home game last Saturday in Bramlage Coliseum.
2004-05 BIG 12 CONFERENCE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Nov. 22 - Sophia Young, Baylor
Nov. 29 - Kendra Wecker, Kansas State
Dec. 6 - Dionnah Jackson, Oklahoma
Dec. 13 - Alesha Robertson, Texas Tech
Dec. 20 - Anne O’Neil, Iowa State
Jan. 3 - Kendra Wecker, Kansas State
Jan. 10 - Sophia Young, Baylor
Jan. 17 - Kiera Hardy, Nebraska
Jan. 24 - Nina Norman, Texas
Jan. 31 - Tiffany Jackson, Texas
Feb. 7 - Sophia Young, Baylor
Feb. 14 - Dionnah Jackson, Oklahoma
Feb. 21 - Steffanie Blackmon, Baylor
Feb. 28 - Kendra Wecker, Kansas State
