FRISCO, Texas — Nicholls' Jaylen Searles has been named this week's Jersey Mike's SLC Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Searles is the third different Colonel to win the award this season. 

Men's Basketball Player of the Week: Jaylen Searles – Sr. – G – Everett, Wash. (Jackson High School)
Jaylen Searles averaged 14.0 points and 7.5 rebounds as Nicholls picked up wins over UTRGV and McNeese last week. He posted his first double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, adding three assists and two steals to help knock off the first-place Cowboys, ending their 19-game Southland winning streak. Searles shot 6 of 9 from the field and 3 of 4 from three at UTRGV, scoring 16 points to go along with 5 rebounds in the road victory.
Honorable mention: Sam Hines Jr., Southeastern; Adam Hamilton, Lamar

2024-25 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Players of the Week

Date	Player of the Week
Nov. 11	Davion Bailey, UIW
Nov. 18	Hasan Abdul Hakim, UTRGV
Nov. 25	Sincere Parker, McNeese
Dec. 2	Michael Gray Jr., Nicholls
Dec. 9	Alexis Marmolejos, Lamar
Dec. 16	Andrew Holifield, Lamar
Dec. 30	Cliff Davis, UTRGV
Jan. 6	Javohn Garcia, McNeese
Jan. 13	Sam Hines Jr., Southeastern
Jan. 20	Robert Brown III, Nicholls
Jan. 27	Addison Patterson, Northwestern State
Feb. 3	Jaylen Searles, Nicholls

Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school's sports information director. Voting for one's own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.