Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson (player) and Zeke Mayo (fellow newcomer) along with BYU’s Egor Demin (fellow newcomer) earned the first set of the Big 12 weekly men’s basketball awards as they led their teams to a 2-0 start of led the season.

Dickinson averaged 18.0 points and 8.0 rebounds as the No. 1 Jayhawks started the season 2-0. The Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year showed his pedigree with a 20-point, 10-rebound performance in the 92-89 win over No. 9 North Carolina, one of just three 20-10 games against a ranked opponent this season. The graduate student scored the final three points of the game, breaking the tie with a basket and then hitting a free throw to go up three points with 17 seconds left. The Alexandria, Virginia native pursuing a master’s degree in sports management had 16 points, six rebounds and matched a career-high with three steals in the season-opening 87-57 loss to Howard. It is his seventh weekly honor in the Big 12 and fourth Player of the Week honor.

Mayo had a team-leading 21 points in KU’s win against the Tar Heels, with five rebounds and four assists. The senior transfer set up Dickinson to score the final seven points of the game, including his game-tying basket with 1:44 to play, erasing the Jayhawks’ final deficit. Mayo went 5-for-8 from 3-point range in the season opener, his first home game in his hometown of Lawrence, and scored 19 points against Howard. The Liberal Arts & Sciences major takes home his first weekly Big 12 award and is one of six players nationally averaging more than 20.0 points off the bench this season.

Demin averaged 19.0 points and 9.0 assists to lead BYU to a 2-0 start. In the season-opening win over Moscow guard Central Arkansas, Russia became just the second freshman in Big 12 history to finish with 10+ points and 10+ assists in his collegiate debut, tallying 18 points and 11 assists to go with to go with four steals. The freshman’s 11 dimes are also the most in a debut appearance in BYU program history. He had 20 points, seven assists and five rebounds in the Cougars’ win over UC Riverside, including going 8-for-11 from the field. He is the first BYU men’s basketball player to earn a Big 12 weekly award.

Big 12 Player of the Week
November 11: Hunter Dickinson, Kansas, C, Gr.

Big 12 Newcomer of the Week
November 11: Egor Demin, BYU, G, Fr. & Zeke Mayo, Kansas, G, Sr.