South Alabama forward Barry Dunning is the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week in men’s basketball, the league office announced Tuesday.

Dunning, a junior from Mobile, averaged 30 points and six rebounds in two games last week. He went off for a career-high and school-record-tying 46 points in a 93-92 overtime loss to Texas State on Saturday.

Dunning scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a 60-56 win over Arkansas State last Wednesday before his offensive explosion vs. the Bobcats. In the lossto Texas State, he tied a program record with nine 3-pointers and also matched Eugene Oliver’s 46 points vs. Southern Miss in 1974.

Dunning’s point total vs. Texas State was the second-highest in Sun Belt history (behind only Ronshad Shabazz’s 47 for Appalachian State vs. Louisiana-Monroe in 2019) and tied for the second-highest in the country this year (behind only Ryan Kalkbrenner’s 49 for Creighton vs. Texas-Rio Grande Valley in November). He is the first South Alabama player to score 40 or more points in a game since Junie Lewis hit for 41 vs. Virginia Commonwealth in 1988.

Dunning, who transferred to South Alabama from UAB prior to this season, leads the Jaguars in both scoring (14.8 points per game) and rebounding (6.9 per game). He has scored in double figures in seven consecutive games.

South Alabama (19-10, 11-5 Sun Belt) finishes the regular season with games at Southern Miss Wednesday (7:30 p.m.) and at home vs. Louisiana on Friday (7 p.m.). The Jaguars are currently in second place in the conference standings, a game behind James Madison