BRENTWOOD — Senior John Murry, of the Austin Peay State University men’s basketball team, has been named adidas®/Ohio Valley Conference co-Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 20, 2017.

In his last two appearances at the Dunn Center, Murry led the Govs to a pair of crucial victories to remain in the hunt for a postseason berth. Against Eastern Illnois, Murry’s career-high 32 points paced Austin Peay to a 19-point comeback win against the Panthers—he had two bursts of 10-point scoring in less than five minutes, one in each half (scoring 12 from 6:36-2:32 (4:04) in the first half and another 10 from 9:04-5:47 (3:17) in the second half as the Governors secured head coach Dave Loos’ 500th career victory.

On Senior Night against SIUE, Murry led the Govs with 25 points, hitting 4-of-5 from beyond the arc and 7-of-8 at the free-throw line. His performance bumped him up to eighth overall in scoring (16.4 ppg) and fourth in OVC play (20.1 ppg).

For Murry, Saturday was the 10th 20-point game of his Austin Peay career—all coming this season since Nov. 30 (22 games). Over his last five games, the Indianapolis native is averaging 23.6 points and shooting 48.1 percent (37-for-77) from the floor, 80.5 percent (33-for-41) from the free-throw line and 40.7 percent (11-for-27) from beyond the arc, averaging 2.2 threes per game. He scored 10 points over the final 4:38 against SIU Edwardsville—the 10th time this season and third in two games he needed less than five minutes to score 10 points.

For the week, the senior averaged 28.5 ppg and 5.0 rpg, shooting 46.0 percent (17-for-37) from the floor, 88.2 percent (15-for-17) from the free-throw line and 53.3 percent (8-for-15) from beyond the arc. He shares this week’s Player of the Week honor with Belmont’s Evan Bradds, and was also accorded the College Sports Madness Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week honor for his work against the Cougars and Panthers.

This is Murry’s first career weekly honor from the OVC; he’s the second Governor to earn OVC Player of the Week honors this season, with Josh Robinson winning twice (Nov. 21 and Jan. 16). Murray State’s Jonathan Stark (Newcomer) and Southeast Missouri’s Denzel Mahoney (Freshman) also earned hardware from the conference office this week.