{"id":43848,"date":"2018-01-09T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43848"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:10:49","slug":"oxford-native-alexus-malone-named-c-usa-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-native-alexus-malone-named-c-usa-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Native Alexus Malone Named C-USA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Louisiana Tech<\/strong> senior forward <strong>Alexus Malone<\/strong> was named the <strong>Conference USA<\/strong> W<strong>omen\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week<\/strong> following her performances in the <strong>Lady Techsters<\/strong> wins over<strong> North Texas<\/strong> and <strong>UTSA<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first player of the week award in her career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Malone\u2013a kinesiology and health promotions major and member of the <strong>2017 Conference USA Commissioner\u2019s Honor Roll<\/strong>\u2013averaged 17.5 points, 10 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 49 percent from the field for the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Malone, an\u00a0<strong>Oxford<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>, native, opened the week with a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds in Tech\u2019s 61-53 win over North Texas (the Mean Green entered the week ranked No. 3 nationally in scoring defense).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">She then followed that up with a 19 points, 8 rebound performance in a 63-55 win over UTSA. She helped Tech record its first 2-0 start in league play since the 2010-11 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Malone will lead Louisiana Tech into Thursday night\u2019s road C-USA game at <strong>Southern <\/strong><strong>Miss<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latechsports.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/010818aaa.html\">(source)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Tech senior forward Alexus Malone was named the Conference USA Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":43849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11453,11457,11456,11454,11455,642,4,11229,3,753],"class_list":["post-43848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-alexus-malone","tag-c-usa","tag-conference-usa","tag-la-tech","tag-louisiana-tech","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-player-of-the-week","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-09-Malone.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}