Baylor, Texas Collect Week 7 Honors
Baylor guard Juicy Landrum and Texas center Charli Collier shared Big 12 Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors, while Longhorn guard Celeste Taylor took home Freshman of the Week. A five-person media panel selects the weekly award winners.
Landrum set NCAA, Big 12 and Baylor single-game records with 14 3-point field goals versus Arkansas State. Her performance was just the 16th 40-point performance in school history and tied for 11th best. Her 42 points was a career high, nearly doubling her previous best of 23 points at TCU last season. Landrum's 14 threes helped Baylor (15) set a team single-game record for 3-pointers in a contest.
Collier averaged a squad-best 15.0 points and 17.5 rebounds in a pair of wins last week for the Longhorns against Ohio and No. 1 Stanford. In the win against top-ranked Stanford, the sophomore led the Longhorns with a game-high 20 points and game-high and career-high 19 rebounds in 37 minutes of play. In the win against Ohio, Collier totaled a game-high 16 rebounds to complement 10 points in 25 minutes of play.
Taylor averaged 13.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in wins over Ohio and top-ranked Stanford. The freshman led the team with three blocks on the week and tied for the team lead with four steals. In the win against Ohio, she scored a career-high 17 points to lead the Longhorns and contributed nine rebounds. In the upset victory against Stanford, Taylor totaled 10 points with a pair of three-pointers, brought down two rebounds and came up with two steals.
Landrum picked up her first honor this season and second in her career, while Collier and Taylor are first-time honorees.
2019 BIG 12 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK – WEEK 7 AWARDS
Players of the Week
Juicy Landrum, G, Sr., Baylor
Charli Collier, C, So., Texas
Freshman of the Week
Celeste Taylor, G, Fr., Texas