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

Caleb Burton of O’Fallon High School is the winner of this week’s 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, Burton, a senior guard, scored 21 points in a win against Granite City, 11 points in a loss against Bolingbrook and 9 points in a loss against Collinsville. Burton entered the weekend averaging 12.4 points per game for the 21-6 Panthers.

Burton tallied 94% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Devin Davis of Collinsville High School, Hayden Hoffmann of Carlyle High School, Dylan Murphy of Columbia High School and Jordan Pickett of Belleville East 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 next 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), Kaylyn Wylie of Granite City High School and Lunning (Week 8) and Kylie Kisgen of Freeburg High School and Lane Otten of Freeburg High School (Week 9).