Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson (player) and Arizona’s Brayden Burries (newcomer) earned Big 12 men’s basketball weekly awards for the week ending March 1, after leading their squads to 2-0 weeks.
 
Anderson averaged 22.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 7.0 assists in a pair of wins to capture his third player of the week honor of the season. In the 80-68 win over Cincinnati, Anderson scored 31 points to go along with a career-high 11 rebounds and seven assists. The sophomore from Atlanta had 14 points and seven assists as the Red Raiders defeated then-No. 4 Iowa State, 82-73. In the span since the injury to his teammate JT Toppin, the guard is tied for 10^th among all power conference players with 22.0 points per game, to go along with his full-season average of a Big 12-leading 7.7 assists.
 
Burries led Arizona to at least a share of the Big 12 regular season title by averaging 22.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists. The freshman from San Bernardino, California scored 24 points with four assists at Baylor, securing an 87-80 win. The guard followed up with 20 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and no turnovers in the 84-61 win over No. 14 Kansas, which put the Wildcats on the precipice of an outright regular season title. It is his second Big 12 Newcomer of the Week award.
 
The pair is joined on the Big 12 Starting Five, which honors strong performances across the Conference, by Baylor’s Cameron Carr, Cincinnati’s Moustapha Thiam and Texas Tech’s Donovan Atwell. Carr scored 26 points in both games this week, including a 20-point first half in the 87-86 win over UCF. Thiam averaged 22.5 points and 12.5 rebounds, including a 24-point, 15-rebound outing in a 91-68 win over Oklahoma State that boosted the Bearcats’ at-large candidacy. Atwell was 10-of-19 from beyond the arc, while averaging 15.0 points per game in the two Red Raider wins.

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
Dec. 15 – Melvin Council Jr., Kansas
Dec. 22 – Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
Dec. 30 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Jan. 5 – JT Toppin, Texas Tech 
Jan. 12 – Richie Saunders, BYU
Jan. 19 – JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Jan. 26 – JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Feb. 2 – Brayden Burries, Arizona
Feb. 9 – Flory Bidunga, Kansas
Feb. 16 – JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Feb. 23 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Mar. 2 – Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
 
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
Dec. 15 – Melvin Council Jr., Kansas
Dec. 22 – LeJuan Watts, Texas Tech
Dec. 30 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Jan. 5 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Jan. 12 – Honor Huff, West Virginia
Jan. 19 – Darryn Peterson, Kansas
Jan. 26 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Feb. 2 – Brayden Burries, Arizona
Feb. 9 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Feb. 16 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Feb. 23 – AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Mar. 2 – Brayden Burries, Arizona
 
Big 12 Starting Five:
Brayden Burries, Arizona (newcomer)
Cameron Carr, Baylor
Moustapha Thiam, Cincinnati
Christian Anderson, Texas Tech (player)
Donovan Atwell, Texas Tech