Iowa State’s Milan Momcilovic (player) and Baylor’s Tounde Yessoufou (newcomer) headlined Big 12 men’s basketball weekly awards for games ending December 7. Houston’s Kingston Flemings, Oklahoma State’s Parsa Fallah and Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson rounded out the Conference’s weekly Starting Five.
Momcilovic scored a game-high 20 points in the Cyclones’ 81-58 trashing of then-No. 1 Purdue, tying the largest road margin of victory against the No. 1 team in the history of the AP Poll. The junior from Pewaukee, Wisc. went 8-of-17 from the field in the game which represented Purdue’s largest margin of defeat inside Mackey Arena for a non-conference game. The forward hit eight consecutive 3-pointers and scored 27 points in Iowa State’s 132-68 win over Alcorn State, as the team set a Big 12 single-game record with 22 3-pointers. For the week, he averaged 23.5 points and 3.5 steals to earn his first Big 12 weekly award.
Yessoufou averaged 24.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals for the Bears, shooting 63.3 percent from the field in two games. In the 110-88 win over Sacramento State, the guard from Cotonou, Benin scored 27 points with six rebounds and four steals in just 27 minutes of game time. At Memphis, the freshman posted the third 20+ point game of his season, dropping 22 while making a career-best four 3-pointers. It is his first career weekly award.
Flemings scored 21 points while adding five assists and eight steals in the Cougars’ 82-67 win over Florida State at Toyota Center. Fallah averaged 24.5 points over two games, as the Cowboys ran their record to 9-0, highlighted by a 25-point, six-rebound performance against Grand Canyon at the Mortgage Matchup Center. Anderson dropped 27 points with five rebounds and 10 assists as Texas Tech knocked LSU from the ranks of the unbeaten with an 82-58 win at Dickies Arena.
Big 12 Player of the Week
Nov. 10 – Koa Peat, Arizona & Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
Nov. 17 – Kingston Flemings, Houston
Nov. 24 – P.J. Haggerty, K-State
Dec. 1 – Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State
Dec. 8 – Milan Momcilovic, Iowa State
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week
Nov. 10 – Koa Peat, Arizona
Nov. 17 – Kingston Flemings, Houston
Nov. 24 – Koa Peat, Arizona
Dec. 1 – Moe Odum, Arizona State
Dec. 8 – Tounde Yessoufou, Baylor
Big 12 Starting Five:
Tounde Yessoufou, Baylor (newcomer)
Kingston Flemings, Houston
Milan Momcilovic, Iowa State (player)
Parsa Fallah, Oklahoma State
Christian Anderson, Texas Tech