From staff reports
For the second time this season, Michigan guard Louis Bullock has been named the Big Ten men's basketball Player of the Week.
The sophomore averaged 22.5 points per game in two contests last week, leading the Wolverines to victories at Penn State and at home over archrival Michigan State.
In last Tuesday's game at the Bryce Jordan Center, Bullock led all scorers with 23 points - eight of which came on crucial free throws - while grabbing four rebounds, dishing out a pair of assists and picking up a career-high four steals.
In the course of the 67-59 Michigan victory, Bullock nailed three of six 3-pointers, which moved him into second place on the Wolverines' all-time trey list, past Jalen Rose.
Bullock moved even closer to first place last Saturday, connecting on six of eight threes on his way to netting 22 points in Michigan's 85-65 trouncing of the Spartans at Crisler Arena.
In that game, Bullock again led all scorers, and his 3-point barrage - which included hitting all five of his first-half attempts from beyond the arc - pulled his career total to 131, just four behind Michigan career leader Glen Rice.
Bullock leads the No. 13 Wolverines in scoring, averaging just more than 16 points per game. He is also tops on the team in 3-pointers, 3-point field goal percentage and free-throw percentage. He has been the team's leading scorer in six of the Wolverines' last nine games, and in 12 of 21 contests this year.
This week's award marks the second time this season Bullock has won the honor. He was named the conference's top player on Dec. 2 after a career-best 28-point performance in the season opener against Ball State, keying an 87-63 Michigan victory.
That same week, he poured in a game-high 19 points to lead the Wolverines to an 80-74 clipping of Cleveland State in Michigan's first road contest of the season.
Bullock is the only Wolverine to have garnered the award since Jalen Rose was named Player of the Week on Feb. 14, 1994. Michigan's Juwan Howard had won the award the previous week.
Bullock is the first Wolverine since Gary Grant in 1988 to earn the honor twice in one season.