PULLMAN, Wash. - Following a historic weekend inside Beasley Coliseum, sophomore Noah Williams added a pair of national honors to his trophy shelf after being named the NCAA March Madness and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's (USBWA) Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week. The weekly awards came alongside of the sophomore's first career Pac-12 Player of the Week award after leading the Cougars to a weekend sweep of the Bay Area schools behind a record-setting scoring performance on the court.
Williams becomes just the third Cougar men's player to earn the USBWA's top weekly honor and the fourth overall Coug joining the women's freshman phenom, Charlisse Leger-Walker, as Cougs to take home a national weekly award this season.