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OU Basketball: Oklahoma's Raegan Beers Lands National Accolade

Thanks to Beers' record-setting week, the Sooners collected two SEC blowout victories last week.
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Oklahoma center Raegan Beers
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By OU Media Relations

NORMAN – Oklahoma center Raegan Beers was named the Naismith Trophy Player of the Week on Monday afternoon after an historic week that powered the Sooners to two crucial wins in SEC play.

The junior from Littleton, CO, became the first Sooner since Courtney Paris in 2007 to record consecutive 30-point games. 

She averaged 30.0 points on 85.2 percent  shooting, 10.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game on the week, leading Oklahoma to a 20-point victory over Vanderbilt and a 40-point road win at Arkansas.

That marked OU's largest margin of victory in a conference game in over a decade.

Against Vanderbilt, Beers set a new career high with 30 points, converting 11-of-13 field goals, while adding a season-high 14 rebounds, four assists and two blocks. 

In OU's matchup in Fayetteville on Sunday, she matched that career high by shooting 12-of-14 from the field, including a career-high three 3-pointers, and added seven rebounds, one assist and one block.

Beers’ performance against Vanderbilt made her the first SEC player since Angel Reese in 2022 to compile 30 points, 14 rebounds, four assists and two blocks in a single game.

Beers, a finalist for the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Award, is also on the midyear watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Year, Wooden Award and Wade Trophy. 

The honor marked her fourth player of the week accolade this season after sweeping the SEC, Associated Press and USBWA awards on November 12. Her November accolades made her the first Sooner since Paris to collect a national player of the week honor, and Monday’s selection made her the first in program history to secure multiple national weekly honors in the same season.

Beers leads the Sooners (21-6), who rose to No. 13 in Monday’s AP Top 25 poll, into the final week of the regular season, where Oklahoma takes on Florida on Thursday before returning to Norman for senior day against No. 20 Alabama on Sunday.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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