BASKETBALL

› UTC senior Aryanna Gilbert followed her teammate sister Keiana as the College Sports Madness SoCon women’s basketball player of the week, announced Monday. Aryanna scored 25 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field in Saturday’s overtime win against UT-Martin and stretcked her streak of made free throws to 17 in a row. She also led UTC with eight rebounds and had five assists with only turnover. She’s averaging 13.4 points a game this season.

› Covenant College had both the men’s player and men’s rookie of the week in USA South basketball. Senior Patjo Twagirayezu was the overall honoree with 22 and 30 points in the Scots’ 2-0 week, and freshman Will Crumly earned the rookie honor with 26 points, 11 rebounds and four blocked shots in the two games. He had 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting and eight rebounds against Berea. Twagirayezu totaled 15 rebounds for the week and was 7-of-7 on 3-point shots.

› Cam Caldwell of Sewanee, which hosts Covenant tonight, was chosen the Southern Athletic Association men’s player of the week after totaling 35 points with six 3s, 16 rebounds and four assists in two games. The junior guard added three blocked shots against Piedmont.

› Tennessee Wesleyan junior Hunter Simpson from Madisonville was selected the AAC women’s player of the week for her part in the Lady Bulldogs’ three wins. Shooting 69.2 percent from the field, she averaged 20.3 points a game with a career-high 34 in an 81-75 league victory over Milligan and also averaged 5.7 assists and five rebounds a game.

› Since starting basketball under coach Tony Ingle in the 2013-14 season, Dalton State College has nine more wins than any other men’s four-year program in Georgia, and Ingle passed 300 four-year-college victories for his career last week. He’s at 301. The former Dalton State Junior College guard has an NCAA Division II national championship with Kennesaw State and the 2015 NAIA Division I national title with the Roadrunners, the first year they were eligible. Counting their 7-2 record this season, the Roadrunners have won 113 games since their debut, including 32 in 2014-15, 29 last year and 26 in 2013-14. Emmanuel at 104 is Georgia’s only other triple-digit men’s winner in that span.