Vote for the southwestern Illinois Boys Basketball Player of the Week Feb. 28-March 5

Vote for the Belleville News-Democrat’s Boys Prep of the Week. Poll closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, March 10. To vote again, hit refresh.

Want to nominate a Team of the Year for next week? The BND Team of the Year will highlight high school varsity boys and girls basketball teams who had outstanding seasons. If you want to suggest a team to be included, send an email to Garen Vartanian at gvartanian@bnd.com.

Please include the athlete’s name, school, class, position, and applicable game performance statistics. Coaches must be willing to verify information.

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. People also may submit the same athlete from week to week.

We are planning to post the results later this week after the poll closes.

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Here are this week’s nominees:

• Rini Harris, O’Fallon High School, sophomore, G. Finished the season averaging 9.4 points and 3.9 rebounds per game for the 23-8 Panthers.
• Christian Jones, East St. Louis High School, senior, G. Scored 16 points in sectional semifinal win against Marion and 25 points in a sectional championship victory against Chatham Glenwood. Averaging 15.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 7.19 assists per game for the 27-5 Flyers.
  
  
• Jordan Pickett, Belleville East High School, junior, G. Finished the season averaging 19.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game for the 19-13 Lancers.
• Macaleab Rich, East St. Louis High School, junior, G/F. Scored 11 points in sectional semifinal win against Marion and 19 points in a sectional championship victory against Chatham Glenwood. Averaging 19.2 points 10.9 rebounds and 2.13 assists per game for the 27-5 Flyers.