ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Junior forward Anna Miller became the third different Drake player to take home the MVC Player of the Week award this season, the league announced this afternoon.

Miller averaged a double-double of 20.0 points and 15.5 rebounds to go along with four blocks as Drake swept a pivotal weekly slate. In Thursday’s win over Missouri State, Miller scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while dishing out two assists. She topped that performance on Sunday with a 21-point, 19-rebound effort in a thrilling win over UNI. 11 of her boards against the Panthers came in a massive second half.

Her lines were good enough for her 11th and 12th double-doubles of the season. She has also logged nine double-doubles in MVC play this year.

The Rochester, Minn. native is one of four Bulldogs to average double-digit points and leads the entire conference with 9.9 rebounds per game and 2.8 blocks per game.

Miller and the Bulldogs will conclude their home schedule this weekend with matchups against UIC on Feb. 29 and Valpo on Mar. 2. Drake will celebrate Senior Day following Saturday’s tilt with the Beacons.

The CAM Cougars had a very good season this year. The Cougars ended their season in the regional championship game against the Montezuma Bravettes 60-47 in Norwalk. The Cougars ended the season with a 21-3 overall record and 14-2 in the Rolling Valley Conference.

The Cougars were led in scoring by senior Eva Steffensen, who scored 492 points this season and averaged 21 points per game. Steffensen also ended her Cougars career with 1,387 career points.

The Cougars will be losing seven seniors to graduation this year: Eva Steffensen, Carley Dennis, Meredith Ritch, Emma Follman, Kiera Nichols, Irelyn Gundy and Payton LaPorte.

Cougars head coach Joe Wollum was selected for Class 1A West Central District and Class 1A Region 8 coach of the year. Wollum had to say about be selected for those awards.

Wollum also said it was great season for the Cougars.

Wollum talked about playing in a competitive Rolling Valley Conference this season.

Wollum commented about how tough it really is to get three Cougar girls on the All Region team this season.

Wollum said this senior class was sure fun to be around.

Wollum did say that there was going to be some Cougars girls basketball camps coming up in June, with dates yet to be determined.

Drake needs to win and get some help as the Bulldogs open the final week of the regular season at Illinois-Chicago Wednesday night. A 91-77 loss at Northern Iowa over the weekend dropped the Bulldogs a game behind Indiana State at 14-4 in the Missouri Valley standings. U-I-C is 4-14 in conference play and 11-18 overall.

That’s Drake coach Darian DeVries who says the Bulldogs had too many defensive breakdowns against the Panthers.

Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger says his eighth ranked Cyclones have made significant strides since a Big-12 opening loss at Oklahoma. The Cyclones lost to the Sooners 71-63 in early January and the rematch is Wednesday night in Hilton Coliseum.

As he said in the previous cut Otzelberger says the Cyclones are much defensively since the start of conference play.

Otzelberger’s ISU teams have always featured defense and toughness, but this team has added balance on offense. Six players are averaging more than eight points or more.

The Cyclones are 10-4 in the Big-12. The Sooners are 7-7.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa freshman Ben Kueter has been named the Big Ten Wrestler of the Week, it was announced Tuesday by the league office. The honor is the first of his career.

The Iowa City, Iowa, native earned the distinction after upsetting 11th-ranked Konner Doucet of Oklahoma State, 5-1, to help the Hawkeyes hand No. 2 Oklahoma State its first loss, 22-9. Kueter used a third period reversal and back points to secure the win.

Kueter is the second Hawkeye to earn Big Ten Wrestler of the Week honors this season. Gabe Arnold was named Wrestler of the Week on Nov. 29.

Iowa returns to action on March 9-10 at the Big Ten Championships in College Park, Maryland.