SAN FRANCISCO – The Pac-12 Conference announced on Monday that Arizona sophomore guard Bennedict Mathurin has been named the conference's Player of the Week. It's the first player of the week honor for the Montreal native, but his second overall weekly award from the conference after being named Freshman of the Week on Jan. 4, 2021.
 
Mathurin is the second Wildcat to be named Pac-12 Player of the Week after Christian Koloko received the honor on Nov. 22.
 
Arizona leads all Pac-12 schools in all-time player of the week selections with 103. UCLA is second with 80.
 
In Arizona's only game last week, Mathurin scored 29 points on 11 of 18 shooting and 4 of 9 from the 3-point line in a 90-65 win at Oregon State on Sunday. He also added six rebounds and the Wildcats were +21 when he was on the floor. It was his fifth 20+ point game of his career and his second this season.
 
For the season, Mathurin leads Arizona in scoring at 16.0 points per game and is also averaging 6.1 rebounds while shooting 45.3% from the floor.
 
Arizona has two games on the schedule this week, playing host to undefeated Wyoming on Wednesday (8:00pm MT, Pac-12 Networks ) and traveling to Illinois (3:00pm MT, FOX) on Saturday.
 
Tickets for all remaining Arizona home games can be purchased online at ArizonaWildcats.com/MBK, over the phone at 520-621-CATS and in-person at the McKale Center Ticket Office during regular business hours (Mon-Fri).