COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Barrs, Garth repeat as players of week
Published 4:13 pm Monday, March 4, 2019
Chastadie Barrs’ rule in the Southland Conference has been extended to a third straight week.
Nick Garth’s rule will last a second.
Barrs and Garth repeated as the conference’s women’s and men’s basketball players of the week, the Southland announced Monday. Barrs has received the honor for the seventh time this season to set a Southland record, and Garth has been honored for the third time.
Barrs’ award comes five days after she broke the NCAA Division I record for career steals in a road win at Houston Baptist. Now with 632 steals (the old record was 624), she averaged 7.5 steals, 14.5 points, 9 assists and 8.5 rebounds and recorded two double-doubles in the past two games (Lamar also beat Stephen F. Austin to win a share of the conference on Saturday).
Megan Herbert of Central Arkansas had won the weekly award six times during the 2011-12 campaign.
Garth shot 57.9 percent from three-point range and averaged 24 points and 6.5 assists in home wins over HBU and SFA. He had a high of 28 against HBU, making 7 of 10 three-point baskets in the process.
**CORRECTED to reflect correct number of weekly awards for Garth this season**
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