A perfect shooting day combined with a double-double stat line netted Wichita State's Grant Sherfield the American Athletic Conference's Freshman of the Week honor.
 
In Sunday's win over Abilene Christian, Sherfield scored a team-high 15 points, set a new personal-best with 11 rebounds and also logged three steals in 25 minutes. He was 6-for-6 from the field (1-for-1 from distance) and knocked down both of his free throw attempts.
 
Sherfield – a 6-foot-2 guard from Wichita – led or shared high-scoring honors for the Shockers in four of the five December games. For the month, he averaged a team-high 13.0 points on 52.6 percent shooting (5-of-10 from three) and nailed 20-of-22 free throws.
 
Sherfield becomes the sixth different Shocker to win a weekly honor from The American and the second to capture freshman of the week. Tyson Etienne won it three weeks ago.
 
No. 24/23 Wichita State (11-1) plays two home games this week: Wednesday against ECU (2 p.m. CT, ESPNU) and Saturday against Ole Miss (3 p.m. CT, ESPNU).
 

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AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WEEKLY AWARDS:
Week of Dec. 23-29, 2019
 
Player of the Week:
Fabian White Jr, Jr., F, Houston
 
Freshman of the Week:
Grant Sherfield, G, Wichita State
 
Weekly Honor Roll:
Christian Vital, Sr., G, UConn
Jayden Gardner, So., F, ECU
Precious Achiuwa, Fr., F, Memphis
Ezacuras Dawson III, R-So., G, USF
Feron Hunt, So., F, SMU
 

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SHOCKER WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS IN 2019-20:
Nov. 11 – Dexter Dennis (Honor Roll)
Nov. 18 – Jamarius Burton (Honor Roll)
Dec. 2 – Erik Stevenson (Honor Roll)
Dec. 9 – Jamarius Burton (Honor Roll)
Dec. 9 – Tyson Etienne (Freshman of the Week)
Dec. 16 – Erik Stevenson (Player of the Week)
Dec. 23 – Jaime Echenique (Honor Roll)
Dec. 30 – Grant Sherfield (Freshman of the Week)