{"id":10457,"date":"2020-02-14T21:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2020-02-14T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:24:33","slug":"jarrett-and-williams-named-swac-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2020\/02\/14\/jarrett-and-williams-named-swac-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarrett and Williams named SWAC players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Media Relations<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10458\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-14-at-3.20.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10458\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-14-at-3.20.49-PM-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JSU Sports Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson State&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gojsutigers.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=933\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"933\">Tristan Jarrett<\/a>\u00a0was named the SWAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Week following his standout performances this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett contributed back-to-back solid outings versus Alcorn State and Southern respectively scoring 24 and 22 points. The Tigers won both contests as they improved to 7-4 in league play.<\/p>\n<p>Overall for the week Jarrett averaged 23.0 points per game along with 4.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.0 steals while shooting an impressive 46 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, the junior from Brownsville, Tenn. ranks first in the SWAC with an average of 17.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>He also ranks in the top 10 in the conference in steals (No. 4, 35 steals), field goal percentage (No. 4, 38.2 percent), free throw percentage (No. 9, 66.7 percent) and 3-point field goals made per game (No. 6, 1.7 per game).<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett and the Tigers are coming off of a 67-51 win on ESPNU versus Southern as the Tigers have now won five straight games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>JSU returns to the court Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. in Houston, Texas versus Texas Southern.<\/p>\n<p>The Southwestern Athletic Conference has named Jackson State&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gojsutigers.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=903\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"903\">Ameshya Williams<\/a>\u00a0its SWAC Women&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Week after back-to-back notable outings this past week.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulfport, Miss. native led Jackson State to a pair of wins over Alcorn State and Southern. The Lady Tigers have won 12 straight games and currently sit in first place in the league with an 11-0 record in league play.<\/p>\n<p>In JSU&#8217;s win over Alcorn State, Williams scored 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field. She also added nine rebounds versus the Lady Braves and followed up that performance with a 17-point, 13-rebound and six-block effort in the Lady Tigers win over Southern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Media Relations Jackson State&#8217;s\u00a0Tristan Jarrett\u00a0was named the SWAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Week following his standout performances this past week. Jarrett contributed back-to-back solid outings versus Alcorn State and Southern respectively scoring 24 and 22 points. The Tigers won both contests as they improved to 7-4 in league play. Overall for the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}