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ST. LOUIS (USBWA) – The U.S. Basketball Writers Association
has selected Duke guard Jon Scheyer as its Oscar
Robertson National Player of the Week for games ending the week
of Sunday, Dec. 20. The USBWA's weekly honor is presented by
Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and will be handed out
each Tuesday through Feb. 23 this season.
As
the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, Scheyer was nominated for
the weekly award, which was chosen by a representative of the USBWA
board of directors from a list of Division I conference players
of the week.
Scheyer, a 6-5 senior from Northbrook, Ill., averaged 28
points, 6.5 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 1.5 steals in wins over
Gardner-Webb and 15th-ranked Gonzaga. He shot 64 percent (16-25)
from the field, 69.2 percent (9-13) from three-point range and
93.8 percent (15-16) from the foul line for the week.
Scheyer recorded a career-high 36 points to go along with
eight rebounds and a career-best nine assists in last Tuesday's
113-68 win over Gardner-Webb. He was 11-13 from the field,
including 7-9 from three-point range. He then closed out the
week with a 20-point, five-rebound, eight-assist performance in
Duke's 76-41 win over Gonzaga in New York's Madison Square
Garden on Saturday.
This is the first season that the USBWA has selected a national
player of the week. The weekly Oscar Robertson National Player of
the Week is added to the Oscar Robertson Trophy watch list, which
will be released at mid-season.
Since the 1958-59 season, the USBWA has named a National Player
of the Year. In 1998, the award was named in honor of the University
of Cincinnati Hall of Famer and two-time USBWA Player of the Year
Oscar Robertson. It is the nation's oldest award and the only one
named after a former player.
 At the conclusion of the regular season, the USBWA will name
finalists for the award, which is voted on by the entire membership
of the USBWA. The winner of the 2010 Oscar Robertson Trophy will
be announced and presented by its namesake, Oscar Robertson, at
the USBWA's annual awards breakfast on Fri., April 2 in Indianapolis,
site of the 2010 NCAA Men's Final Four.
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association was formed in
1956 at the urging of then-NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers.
With some 900 members worldwide, it is one of the most influential
organizations in college basketball. It has selected an All-America
team since the 1956-57 season. For more information on the USBWA
and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, contact executive director Joe Mitch
at 314-421-0339.
Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, the most comprehensive
college basketball publication in the world, returns for its 29th
season, bigger and better in 2009-10. Blue Ribbon – long-known as
"The Bible of College Basketball" – gives its readers the most thorough,
up-to-date and timely evaluations of every Division I team in the
country. For more information about Blue Ribbon Yearbooks, visit
blueribbonyearbookonline.com.
2009-10 Oscar Robertson National Players of the Week
• Week of Dec. 13: Gordon Hayward, Butler
• Week of Dec. 20: Jon Scheyer, Duke
• Week of Dec. 27: Devin Ebanks, West Virginia
• Week of Jan. 3: Jimmer Fredette, BYU
• Week of Jan. 10: Luke Harangody, Notre Dame
• Week of Jan. 17: Damion James, Texas
• Week of Jan. 24: Adrian Oliver, San Jose State
• Week of Jan. 31: Devan Downey, South Carolina
• Week of Feb. 7: Denis Clemente, Kansas State
• Week of Feb. 14: Jerome Randle, California
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