Mizzou Tigers guard honored as SEC Player of Week. MU is off to a 5-0 start this season
.JPG "Missouri’s D’Moi Hodge, center, laughs with teammates on the bench late in the second half of last week’s game against SIU-Edwardsville at Mizzou Arena.")
Missouri Tigers men’s basketball guard D’Moi Hodge has been honored as the SEC Player of the Week, the Southeastern Conference’s league office announced on Monday.
Hodge, a grad student playing in his final year of college eligibility after following MU coach Dennis Gates to Columbia from Cleveland State, averaged 24.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.0 steals as the Tigers won both of their games this past week.
With wins in both contests, against SIU Edwardsville and Mississippi Valley State, the Tigers are off to a 5-0 start.
A native of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, Hodge scored 30 points with seven rebounds, four steals and three assists against SIU Edwardsville early last week. That’s the most points scored by an MU player this season.
Hodge then scored 18 with a career-best six steals — the most for a Tigers player in two years — against Mississippi Valley State on Sunday.
Overall, Hodge ranks in the SEC’s top 10 in five categories: He’s sixth in scoring (17.0 points per game), sixth in field-goal percentage (51.7%), sixth in steals (2.80 per game), seventh in three-pointers made per game (2.80) and ninth in three-point shooting percentage (35.9%).
Hodge and the Tigers return to action Wednesday night against Coastal Carolina at Mizzou Arena at 6 p.m.
This story was originally published November 21, 2022 at 2:35 PM.