OKLAHOMA CITY -- The awards and honors just keep piling up for senior guard Charlie Shorter, as for the second straight week and time overall this season he has been named the Sooner Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the league announced today.

The newly minted SAC Player of the Year, Shorter saved his best for last by scoring a career-high 42 points in a narrow defeat 89-80 defeat to No. 3-ranked John Brown University and scored 22 in an 81-70 victory at St. Gregory's University. He also had seven rebounds and three assists against JBU and six more boards in the victory at SGU.

For the week, Shorter averaged 32.0 ppg, 6.5 rpg and 2.0 apg and leads the SAC with 22.0 ppg and two steals per game.

Shorter and the Evangels are set to play the Rogers State University Hillcats in the quarterfinals of the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament Thursday night (Feb. 28) at 9:45 p.m. on the campus of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla.