Luper Collects Second Player of the Week Honor this Season

ELMHURST, Ill. – Oral Roberts’ Kevi Luper was named Summit League Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for her performance during the week of Jan. 4-10.

Luper captures her second Player of the Week award this season and ninth of her career after leading Oral Roberts to its first-ever road sweep of North Dakota State and South Dakota State this past weekend.

The guard poured in 28 points and had four steals at SDSU, before scoring 29 points, shooting 12-of-20, grabbing six rebounds and posting three steals at NDSU.

For the week, Luper averaged 28.5 points, four rebounds and 3.5 steals per game. On the year, she is averaging 3.8 steals per game which ranks second in the country and is sixth in points per game with 23.4. She also shot 50 percent (23-of-46) from the field and 78 percent (7-of-9) from the free throw line.

In the four steal effort over the Jackrabbits, the sophomore eclipsed the 200 steal mark, becoming just the sixth member in Golden Eagle history with 1,000 career points and 200 career steals.