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Tennessee's Chaz Lanier named SEC co-Player of the Week

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Chaz Lanier, Tennessee Basketball | Andrew Ferguson, Tennessee Athletics
Chaz Lanier, Tennessee Basketball | Andrew Ferguson, Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee Basketball has the SEC Player of the Week for the second straight week, with Chaz Lanier sharing the honors with Kentucky’s Koby Brea on Monday. Lanier last week combined to score 54 points in wins over Norfolk State and Arkansas. 

Lanier scored a season-high 29 points as he made his SEC debut in Tennessee 76-52 win over Arkansas on Saturday afternoon at Food City Center. He had 24 points in a win over Norfolk State on Tuesday. 

Brea scored a 46 points in wins over 45 points in wins over Brown and Florida, with 23 against Brown on Tuesday and 22 against Florida on Saturday.

Zakai Zeigler was last week’s SEC Player of the Week

It’s the second conference player of the week award for Lanier. He also won it on November 25 after scoring 51 total points and going 13-for-22 from the 3-point line in wins over Virginia and Baylor in the Baha Mar Championship.

Last week point guard Zakai Zeigler was named the league’s player of the week after 17 points and 15 assists in a win over Middle Tennessee State on December 23.

Lanier leads the SEC in scoring at 20.3 points per game, ahead Texas guard Tre Johnson (19.0), and in 3-point shots made per game at 4.0. Lanier is second in the league in 3-point percentage, with his 46.7% trailing only Brea at 52.3%, and second in field goals made per game, with his 7.1 behind Auburn forward Johni Broome’s 7.6.

Lanier is second nationally in 3-pointer made per game and 14th nationally in scoring. 

Chaz Lanier has scored 20 or more points in seven games

The 29 points Lanier scored against Arkansas gave him seven games with 20 or more points, all within Tennessee’s last 10 games. He has scored 20 or more in all but one game against power-conference opponents, with the exception being 19 points at Louisville. 

Lanier has made four or more 3-pointers in a game nine times in 14 games this season. He made a season-high seven against Baylor, had six against Virginia and again last week against Norfolk State and had five last week against both Arkansas and Middle Tennessee State. 

He made four against Miami, Gardner-Webb, UT Martin and Syracuse.

Lanier has scored 17 or more points in 12 of the 14 games this season. He had 13 against Montana on November 13 and five against Austin Peay on November 17. The Austin Peay game was the only game Lanier did not make a three this season, going 0-for-3 from three and 1-for-6 from the field.

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