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Oklahoma's Raegan Beers Named SEC, National Player of the Week

The Sooners' transfer post player from Oregon State put on a couple of big performances in OU's two dominant wins last week.

John E. Hoover

Raegan Beers and Lexy Keys
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It didn’t take long for transfer Raegan Beers to make her mark at Oklahoma.

Beers, a transfer from Oregon State, was named SEC Player of the Week on Tuesday after a pair of dominating Sooner victories.

Beers shot 70.4 percent from the field last week on her way to consecutive double-doubles. She is the first Sooner in 16 years to have back-to-back games over 20 points and 14 rebounds. 

In her 26-point performance in OU’s 44-point victory over ACC foe Virginia, Beers eclipsed 1,000 career points in just her 63rd career game. 

In home wins over Southern (76-44) and Virginia (95-51), she averaged 23.5 points, 14.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 2.0 blocks.

Beers on Tuesday was also named to the Wade Trophy watch list as the top player in college basketball.

The All-American was named the Associated Press National Player of the Week, the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week and to the USBWA’s Weekly National Starting Five.

Beers is the first Oklahoma women's basketball player to earn an SEC weekly award and the first Sooner since Courtney Paris to win a national player of the week honor. It's the junior All-American's seventh weekly award in her career, adding to the six Pac-12 player/freshman of the week honors she earned at Oregon State.

Beers led No. 9 Oklahoma to two season-opening wins last week, including a 44-point victory over Virginia. The center posted back-to-back double-doubles, averaging 23.5 points, 14.0 rebounds, and 2.0 blocks per game. She shot 70.4% from the field and 50.0% from deep, becoming the first Sooner since Paris to record consecutive 20-point, 14-rebound games and surpassing 1,000 career points in the win over Virginia. Entering week two of the 2024-25 season, Beers is the only SEC player ranked in the league's top five in points and rebounds per game with multiple games played.

OU (2-0) has climbed to No. 9 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 and hosts Western Carolina at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

OU Media Relations contributed to this report.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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