INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Katie Dinnebier has received more national honors after earning her seventh Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week award with inclusion on the most recent USBWA Women’s National Players of the Week list.

The USBWA women’s awards, organized under Mel Greenberg, the USBWA Vice President for women’s basketball, are chosen from weekly conference honors as well as at-large additions. Nominations are welcome as each seven-day period rolls along to make sure no one is inadvertently overlooked.

For the period through Sunday, Feb. 16, the five Ann Meyers Drysdale national women’s honorees of the week are Drake guard Katie Dinnebier; Connecticut guard Azzi Fudd; North Carolina guard Reniya Kelly; Harvard guard Harmoni Turner; and USC guard JuJu Watkins. The Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Week is Vanderbilt guard Mikayla Blakes and and the National Team of the Week is Texas.

Dinnebier had a historic week as Drake earned a pair of road wins at Murray State and Belmont to move into a second-place tie a game out of first in the Missouri Valley Conference. She averaged an impressive 31.5 points, 7.5 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 57 percent from the floor and 48 percent from 3-point range. Dinnebier opened her week with 21 points, seven assists, six rebounds and four steals against the Racers and then Saturday at Belmont she posted a career-high 42 points, including nine made threes, while dishing out eight assists. Her 42 points marked a Curb Event Center single-game record, men’s or women’s, and she became the second player in Division I to record two 40-plus point performances this season. Dinnebier is the only player in the country averaging at least 20.0 points and 7.0 assists per game, sitting at 20.8 points and 7.6 assists per outing. On Monday, she was named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week.