Vote: Who should be SBLive’s South Carolina High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week (2/12/2024)?

Here are 10 players for your voting consideration

Mike Duprez | Feb 12, 2024

We have 10 players nominated this week for SBLive’s South Carolina Boys Basketball Player of the Week from Feb. 5-10 and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. Voting will conclude on Sunday, Feb. 18 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced in next week’s poll.

Congratulations to last week's winner: Bradyn Durrah of Greer.

Here are this week's nominees:

Josiah Peeples, Cardinal Newman

Peeples scored 19 points in the Cardinals’ 54-40 win over Trinity Collegiate. The 6-foot-3 senior also went over 1,000 points for his career.

Isaac Smalls, Cane Bay

Smalls led the way with 30 points as Cane Bay rallied for a 59-56 win over Berkeley. That was well above the 6-foot-2 senior’s average of 11.3 points.

Tre’von Walker, Aiken

Walker led his team with 20 points and got a key offensive rebound in the closing seconds as the Fighting Green Hornets held off rival South Aiken 64-60. The 6-foot-4 junior is Aiken’s leading rebounder.

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Will Willard, A.C. Flora

Willard scored 18 points as the Falcons upset top-ranked Ridge View 46-45. Ridge View is also nationally ranked.

Zion Brown, Westwood

Brown scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Redhawks overcame Richland Northeast 52-49 in overtime to clinch the program’s first region championship.

Lamont Jackson, C.A. Johnson

Jackson poured in 28 points as the Green Hornets beat Great Falls 63-57 to claim the school’s first region championship in boys basketball since 2015.

Brady Poole, Chesnee

Poole scored 23 points and went over 2,000 for his career in the Eagles’ 91-45 romp over Greenville Tech. The 6-foot-2 senior averages 20.2 points a game.

Jack Pfister, Greer Middle College

The 6-foot-5 senior posted 24 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocked shots in a 69-54 win over Landrum.

Tykeen Ross, Denmark-Olar

Ross produced a double-double of 15 points and 14 rebounds in the Vikings’ 82-31 romp over Wagener-Salley.

Gabe Cusack, Marion

Cusack scored 18 points as the Swamp Foxes beat rival Mullins 76-65 to win the region championship.

Published Feb 12, 2024

MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.