Troy’s Tayton Conerway is the Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week, it was announced Tuesday.

Conerway, a senior guard from Burleson, Texas, averaged 18.0 points, 5.5 assists, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 steals in road victories last week at Appalachian State and Marshall. This season, he is second on the Troy team in scoring at 10.6 points per game, but leads in assists (4.3 per game) and steals (a Sun Belt best 2.9 per game).

Troy (10-4, 3-0 Sun Belt) hosts Texas State at 6 p.m. Thursday. The Trojans are tied atop the Sun Belt standings with South Alabama, which is 11-4, 3-0.

• On the women’s side, Troy’s Zay Dyer was also named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week on Tuesdsay.

Dyer averaged 18 points, 16.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks in wins last week over Coastal Carolina and Marshall. Against Coastal, she posted 25 points and 21 rebounds, the first Trojan women’s player in two years to hit the 20-20 mark in a game.

Troy (8-7, 2-1) hosts Appalachian State at 11 a.m. Thursday.