Poll results: Here’s the high school boys basketball player of the week in southwest Illinois
Rini Harris 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.
Harris finished the high school basketball season averaging 9.4 points and 3.9 rebounds per game for the 23-8 Panthers, who lost to Quincy in the regional championship. The sophomore guard’s high point total this season was 19 against Mascoutah on Dec. 14.
Harris tallied 40% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Christian Jones of East St. Louis High School, Jordan Pickett of Belleville East High School and Macaleab Rich of East St. Louis 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. Next week’s poll will be a vote for the boys prep team of the year.
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); Kylie Kisgen of Freeburg High School and Lane Otten of Freeburg High School (Week 9); Caleb Burton of O’Fallon High School and Jaliah Pelly of O’Fallon High School (Week 10); and Gannon Birkner of New Athens High School, Reagan Chigas of Triad High School (Week 11), Norah Gum of Waterloo High School and Jake Ottensmeier of Highland High School (Week 12), and Devin Davis of Collinsville High School and Harris (Week 13).
