University Southern California Trojans
Trepagnier Named Pac-10 Player of the Week
March 13, 2000 | Men's Basketball
March 13, 2000
LOS ANGELES - USC junior guard Jeff Trepagnier was named the Pac-10 Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of March 7-13.
He averaged 24.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.5 steals as USC swept the Washington schools.
Against Washington, Trepagnier scored a career-high 28 points on 13-of-18 shooting with seven rebounds and seven steals. In the win over Washington State, he scored 20 points with six rebounds and four steals. Trepagnier shot .611 (22-of-36) from the field in the two games.
He set a USC single season record with 94 steals, which ranks third in the Pac-10 single-season steals chart behind only Jason Kidd and Gary Payton.
It is the first weekly award for Trepagnier, the third this season for the Trojans and the 20th overall for USC. Brian Scalabrine and David Bluthenthal were USC's other recipients of the award this season.
It is the first time USC has ever had three different players receive Pac-10 Player of the Week honors in the same season. In fact, before this year, only eight different Trojans had won the award. Harold Miner (seven) and Wayne Carlander (four) are the only USC players to have ever won the award more than once. The other recipients are Tom Lewis, Duane Cooper, Rodney Chatman, Rodrick Rhodes, Stais Boseman and Gary Johnson.
The three such honors this year are also the most for the Trojans since the 1991-92 squad had four. That season, Harold Miner won it three times and Duane Cooper won the other. USC's 20 POW awards ranks sixth in the Pac-10. Arizona has the most with 48.
