CBSSports.com Player of the Week: Northern Iowa's Seth Tuttle
The senior forward took 13 shots, made nine and finished with a career-high 29 points and seven rebounds in the 70-54 victory that followed his 13-point, 10-rebound performance in an earlier win at Southern Illinois.
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Gary Parrish
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Northern Iowa's Seth Tuttle made it clear after Saturday's blowout of Wichita State that the plan was always to spend Saturday blowing out Wichita State.
"We really didn't talk about beating them by one or two," Tuttle told reporters. "We talked about coming in here and beating them by 15. That was our mindset."
Tuttle was a big reason, if not the main reason, UNI was able to snap Wichita State's 27-game winning streak in Missouri Valley Conference regular-season games on Saturday. The senior forward took 13 shots, made nine and finished with a career-high 29 points and seven rebounds in the 70-54 victory that followed his 13-point, 10-rebound performance in an earlier 59-52 win at Southern Illinois.
Consequently, Seth Tuttle is the CBSSports.com National Player of the Week.
"Tuttle was unstoppable," said Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, and that's kind of been the case in the MVC for much of this season.
Though Wichita State's Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker get more national attention (for obvious and deserving reasons), Tuttle could reasonably be seen as the leader for MVC Player of the Year. He ranks third in the Missouri Valley Conference in points per game (15.8) and rebounds per game (6.7), and he's second in field goal percentage (61.5). Keep it up, and there's a decent chance UNI will take a 16-game winning streak into its regular-season finale with Wichita State, meaning that Feb. 28 showdown at Charles Koch Arena could end up being for the outright league title ... and the MVC POY award, too.
