Tre Carroll Named BIG EAST Conference Player of the Week

CINCINNATI --- The BIG EAST Conference announced today that Xavier University graduate student Tre Carroll has been named BIG EAST Player of the Week. Carroll averaged 25.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in wins over Saint Francis on Dec. 1 and Cincinnati on Dec. 5. He shot 60.5 percent (23-38) from the field for the week.

Carroll scored a collegiate career-high 30 points to go with seven rebounds in the win over Cincinnati on Friday, XU's sixth win in its last seven meetings against its crosstown rival.

Carroll leads Xavier and ranks fifth in the BIG EAST in scoring at 17.3 ppg. He ranks sixth in the BIG EAST in field goal shooting at 48.6 percent.

Carroll is the third Xavier player to earn BIG EAST weekly honors this season but the first one to earn BIG EAST Player of the Week honors. Sophomore Jovan Milićević was named to the BIG EAST Conference Honor Roll on Nov. 24 and senior Filip Borovićanin was named to the Honor Roll on Dec. 1.

Xavier, 7-3, takes a four-game winning streak into its final non-conference game of the season. XU hosts Missouri State on Friday at 7 p.m. before opening BIG EAST play vs. Creighton on Dec. 17 at Cintas Center.

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