OU women's basketball: Raegan Beers named SEC Player of the Week
Raegan Beers is off to a hot start for the Sooners.
The Oregon State transfer center was named the SEC Player of the Week on Tuesday, after dominant performances against Southern and Virginia. She was also named the AP women’s basketball player of the week.
Against Southern, Beers totaled 21 points, 14 rebounds and two blocks. And against Virginia, she had 26 points, 14 rebounds and two blocks. OU won both games by a combined 76 points. The Sooners are now ranked No. 9.
Beers was widely considered the best player in the transfer portal and so far, she’s proving why.
“I think what makes her special is she knows the game,” head coach Jennie Baranczyk said about Beers after the Virginia game. “She knows herself. I don’t even think she’s really tapped in yet, and it took her a little bit to fit in with the team, because she’s such a culture, chemistry person, so everybody on the team loves her.”
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So far, Beers has fit in perfectly with the Sooners. She’s a big reason why they’re top 10 team for the first time since 2010.
“We knew that she would obviously help us on the interior,” Baranczyk said. “And yet I don’t think we knew if she could play the pace that we wanted to play, right? We knew that she could, but you got to see her run, you got to see her lead the break and some of those things. She can stretch the floor. But I think what she brings is a great leadership. It’s less about what she can necessarily do at the basket — we’re still trying to navigate everything that we can do with her. I think what the team has really gotten to see is that we’re not changing everything. We’re still running the same system. She just looks different in it.”
