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Williams recognized by AAC for last week’s play
Mar 08, 2021 | Men's Basketball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis Tigers junior forward DeAndre Williams earned his second American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll award for his play in a pair of games last week, the AAC announced Monday.
Williams averaged 12.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game in a win at USF Tuesday and a heartbreaking loss at No. 9/7 Houston Sunday. He shot 53.8 percent from the field (7-13), hit 4-of-5 3-point tries and went 6-for-8 from the free throw line. Seven of his 13 total rebounds last week came on the offensive end.
He started the week with a 13-point, 10-rebound double-double against the Bulls, and he closed the week's action with 11 points, all in the second half, to go along with four assists and three steals in front of a hometown crowd at Houston.
Williams also picked up an AAC Weekly Honor Roll nod on Feb. 1.
Eight different Tigers have earned weekly recognition from the conference this season. Boogie Ellis (Nov. 30, March 1), Landers Nolley II (Dec. 7, Jan. 25), D.J. Jeffries (Dec. 14), Lester Quinones (Dec. 21), Malcolm Dandridge (Jan. 18) and Alex Lomax (Feb. 8) have also been on the Honor Roll, to go along with Moussa Cisse's three Freshman of the Week awards.
After securing the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye, Williams and the Tigers (15-7, 11-4 AAC) begin play in the 2021 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship in the quarterfinals Friday in Fort Worth, Texas. The Tigers will play at 9 p.m. on ESPNU against the winner of the game between sixth-seeded UCF and 11th-seeded East Carolina.
Tickets for the tournament can be purchased through the Memphis Ticket Office at (901) 678-2331 or at THIS LINK. Ticket sales through the Memphis Ticket Office conclude at the end of the day Tuesday.
Memphis' third-place finish in the AAC is its best since finishing third in the conference in 2013-14.
The Tigers enter tournament play having won six of their last seven games and nine-of-11 overall.
Williams averaged 12.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game in a win at USF Tuesday and a heartbreaking loss at No. 9/7 Houston Sunday. He shot 53.8 percent from the field (7-13), hit 4-of-5 3-point tries and went 6-for-8 from the free throw line. Seven of his 13 total rebounds last week came on the offensive end.
He started the week with a 13-point, 10-rebound double-double against the Bulls, and he closed the week's action with 11 points, all in the second half, to go along with four assists and three steals in front of a hometown crowd at Houston.
Williams also picked up an AAC Weekly Honor Roll nod on Feb. 1.
Eight different Tigers have earned weekly recognition from the conference this season. Boogie Ellis (Nov. 30, March 1), Landers Nolley II (Dec. 7, Jan. 25), D.J. Jeffries (Dec. 14), Lester Quinones (Dec. 21), Malcolm Dandridge (Jan. 18) and Alex Lomax (Feb. 8) have also been on the Honor Roll, to go along with Moussa Cisse's three Freshman of the Week awards.
After securing the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye, Williams and the Tigers (15-7, 11-4 AAC) begin play in the 2021 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship in the quarterfinals Friday in Fort Worth, Texas. The Tigers will play at 9 p.m. on ESPNU against the winner of the game between sixth-seeded UCF and 11th-seeded East Carolina.
Tickets for the tournament can be purchased through the Memphis Ticket Office at (901) 678-2331 or at THIS LINK. Ticket sales through the Memphis Ticket Office conclude at the end of the day Tuesday.
Memphis' third-place finish in the AAC is its best since finishing third in the conference in 2013-14.
The Tigers enter tournament play having won six of their last seven games and nine-of-11 overall.
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