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Pope Captures Big West Player of the Week Honors for Third Time

UC San Diego senior Bryce Pope was named Big West Men's Basketball Player of the Week as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon. The honor is the third of the season for Pope, who helped the Tritons move into a first place tie with two more conference wins last week, the program's first Division I win at UC Riverside Thursday and a 32-point effort to lead UC San Diego past UC Irvine in overtime on Saturday.
 
Pope hit a dramatic buzzer-beater and scored a career-high 32 points on 11-of-19 shooting as UC San Diego moved back into a first-place tie in The Big West with an overtime win against the Anteaters Saturday afternoon at LionTree Arena. In the process, he moved into sixth place all-time at UC San Diego with 1,530 career points. For the week, Pope averaged 19 points and 5.5 rebounds per game as the Tritons went 2-0.