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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Senior Lands Big 12 Honor

After two big-time performances in two Sooners victories last week, Skylar Vann brought home her second conference player of the week honor.
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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Senior Lands Big 12 Honor
OU Basketball: Oklahoma Senior Lands Big 12 Honor

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By OU Media Relations

After a week in which she averaged 20.0 points and 9.0 rebounds, Oklahoma senior forward Skylar Vann was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday.

Vann's strong week earned her the accolade for the second time in her career, and her first since Jan. 17, 2022). Oklahoma (13-6, 7-1 Big 12) has now produced a conference player of the week in each of the last five seasons.

In a win over then-No. 10 Texas in Austin, Vann posted a 19-point, 12-rebound double-double, the 10th of her career, to power OU past the Longhorns, 91-87. The senior added a pair of assists, along with a block and a steal. She shot 7-of-9 from the floor, making all six of her shots from inside the 3-point arc and was a perfect 4-of-4 from the free throw line. 

On Sunday, she followed that performance with 21 points and seven rebounds to guide Oklahoma over Kansas. She scored a pair of clutch buckets down the stretch to help put the game out of reach and push Oklahoma to 7-1 in the Big 12 for the first time since 2014-15.

Vann was the only player in the league this week to average 20 points and nine rebounds per game while shooting 60 percent or better.

Vann and the Sooners, who are receiving votes in Monday's AP Top 25 poll, return to the floor on Wednesday night when No. 2 Kansas State (20-1, 9-0 Big 12) comes to Norman. Tip is set for 6 p.m. on ESPN+.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. 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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