Poll results: Here’s the high school boys basketball player of the week in southwest Illinois

Lane Otten of Freeburg High School is the winner of the Belleville News-Democrat Boys Player of the Week high school basketball poll, as selected by readers of bnd.com.

In recent high school basketball games, Otten, a junior guard/forward, scored 14 points in win against Gibault, 17 points in win against Wood River and 25 points in a win against Okawville. Otten entered the weekend averaging 14.5 points per game.

Otten tallied 69% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Daylen Byrd of Belleville West High School, Devin Davis of Collinsville High School, Brady Moore of Breese Central High School, Jack Seibert of Mascoutah High School and Darien Singleton of Mascoutah High School The poll ended at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

To be clear, this poll is not scientific. In fact, we invite you to vote as many times as you want. It’s all for fun, BND readers.

Anyone can nominate a varsity boys or girls high school basketball player for an upcoming poll by emailing gvartanian@bnd.com. The Week 9 poll will appear on the BND’s website — www.bnd.com — at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Past poll winners: Tyler Lunning of O’Fallon High School (Week 1), Dylan Murphy of Columbia High School (Week 2), Brady Moore of Breese Central High School (Week 3), Collinsville Prairie Farms Holiday Classic (Week 4), Kaden Augustine of Gibault Catholic High School (Week 5), Natalie Peterson of Freeburg High School (Week 6), Sydney Harris of Edwardsville High School (Week 7) and Kaylyn Wylie of Granite City High School and Lunning (Week 8).

This story was originally published February 5, 2022 at 7:00 AM.