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San Diego, California - San Diego State freshman forward Billy White has been named Mountain West Conference men’s basketball co-player of the week, the league announced Monday morning. The award is White’s first of his career and shares the honor with UNLV’s Wink Adams.

 

In SDSU’s only game of the week, White helped the Aztecs beat Sam Houston State, 79-78, in overtime at Cox Arena. The Bearkats visited Montezuma Mesa as the No. 28-ranked RPI team, one of nine unbeaten teams in the country at 10-0 and had the eighth-longest active win streak in the country.

 

In what was a close game throughout with no team enjoying a lead larger than six points, White had 12 points on 6-of-10 shooting and six rebounds, including four on the offensive end. The freshman came up big in the clutch as he scored 10 of his 12 points and grabbed all six of his rebounds after halftime.

 

With the Aztecs down by two, the Las Vegas, Nevada, native forced overtime when he followed Richie Williams’ miss with an offensive put-back with 0:00.2 remaining in regulation. Later in the extra session, White provided the game-winning bucket when he rebounded a D.J. Gay miss and followed it with a basket with 15 seconds remaining in overtime.

 

With his two huge field goals, White became the first SDSU freshman since the beginning of the 1996-97 season to hit a game-winning shot and the first Aztec to make a shot to force overtime and make a game-winner in the same game.