Irvine, CA—The Big West Conference announced Monday that UC Riverside's Brittany Crain was named the Big West Women's Basketball Player of the Week for games played November 17-23.

Crain averaged 25.0 points in two victories as she became the 16th member of the Highlanders 1,000 point club over the weekend. She drained a three with 5:47 remaining in the first half against San Francisco on November 22 to tally her 1,000th career point, doing so in 59 games—the second-fastest in program history.
 
Yet it wasn't just the record breaking weekend that netted Crain the weekly award. The 5-8 guard shredded San Jose State for 34 points–three off her career-high–and added a career-high 15 rebounds for a double-double in a 100-80 victory on November 22 (box score/recap). Crain made 13-of-27 floor shots while adding three assists, three steals and a block.

In the 66-53 triumph over the Dons (box score/recap), Crain finished with 16 points, four rebounds, an assist and a block as the Highlanders moved to 3-0, the first time in the program's Division I history that has happened. Crain went 5-of-5 from the foul line against San Francisco, and made all 11 of her attempts for the week.

UC Riverside will look to move to 4-0 on the season as they take on Stephen F. Austin on Friday, November 28 at 4 pm PT in the first game of the New Mexico Tournament in Albuquerque, NM.