Matehya Bryant, UC Riverside  Women's Basketball Player of the Week  Redshirt Junior • Forward • Sammamish, Wash.

• Matehya Bryant twice scored in double figures with continued stellar play on the glass as UC Riverside split a Big West road weekend, averaging 16.0 points and 10.5 rebounds en route to picking up a first Big West Player of the Week distinction.
• Bryant’s hook shot with 15 seconds remaining gave UCR a 53-52 triumph on Saturday afternoon over then-first-place CSUN, which had started the day a perfect 3-0 in conference play, Bryant had a game-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the floor and 4-of-6 at the line. The forward grabbed a team-best seven boards to go along with one assist and game bests of three steals and two blocks in 36 minutes.
• Bryant had gone for a team-best 14 points on 7-of-12 field goal shooting, a game-high 14 rebounds, two blocks, two steals and an assist in Thursday night’s loss at Cal State Fullerton.
• Bryant currently ranks third in The Big West in rebounding at 8.2 per game. The fourth-year junior and second-year transfer from Grand Canyon has turned in the top two single-game outputs on the boards thus far this season, with 19 at CSU Bakersfield on Dec. 29 and 17 at home against LIU on Nov. 26.
• Bryant has appeared in all 14 contests for UCR in 2022-23, drawing 13 starts, and is scoring at a 8.9 points-per-game clip, second on the team.
• Bryant is UC Riverside’s first Big West weekly honoree of the season, with the last Highlander to earn distinction being Keilanei Cooper on Jan. 18, 2021.

Also Nominated: Natalia Ackerman (Cal Poly); Sydney Brown (UC San Diego); Anya Choice (UC Santa Barbara); Jordyn Jackson (CSUN); Kristyna Jeskeova (Long Beach State); Déja Lee (UC Irvine); Meilani McBee (Hawai’i); Kayla Morris (CSU Bakersfield); Fujika Nimmo (Cal State Fullerton); Evanne Turner (UC Davis)

 

2022-23 Big West Women's Basketball Weekly Winners