SEC Basketball's Players of the Week announced after upset-filled Saturday

Following another terrific and turbulent week of conference play across the SEC, the league has announced the Players of the Week honoring stars on South Carolina and Texas A&M.

Starting with the Aggies, A&M guard Tyrece Radford has come home with the SEC Player of the Week award after he led the way in a pair of wins at Missouri and home against Tennessee. In the upset victory over the Volunteers, he was particularly superb adding 27 points, five rebounds and five assists to aid the team’s best win of the season.

With that victory, Buzz Williams’ group is looking much better in the NCAA Tournament picture. We know the Aggie head coach has no interest in talking brackets at the moment, but after some rocky moments in the early months, for the third straight year, A&M appears to be ironing out some flaws and coming together at the right time in February.

With those wins this past week, Texas A&M advanced to 6-4 in SEC play, a good mark considering the strength of the conference on the hardwood this season, but even more impressive when you consider they began 0-2 and have since won six of eight, nipping Kentucky, Florida and Tennessee in the process.

The other award-winner this week is South Carolina rookie Collin Murray-Boyles, who’s been a revelation the last couple of weeks. He had scored more than 11 points just once all season before rolling off three straight games of 16 points, 16 points and then 31 points in the win over the weekend vs. Vanderbilt, where he shot 14-17 from the field.

If his emergence is here to stay, well, then that’s just one more wrinkle for a South Carolina lineup that already poses a lot of threats. On the year, he’s now averaging 8.9 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. However, that scoring figure jumps in to double-digits when it comes strictly to conference play.

Since their own 2-2 start in league play, South Carolina is absolutely rolling, now having won seven straight games to advance to an absurd 21-3 on the season, which absolutely nobody outside out of the Gamecock locker room dreamed was possible for Lamont Paris in year two given out his first season played out.

But good on Paris and South Carolina, who is in the middle of their best regular season of the last 12+ years.