SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Mercer’s Amoria Neal-Tysor has been named Southern Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for games played Feb. 21-27 after averaging 34.5 points per game last week. The award is selected by the league office.
 
Neal-Tysor, who also won the honor on Dec. 20, began her week scoring a career-high 42 points for Mercer as the Bears defeated Furman, 88-69, on Thursday. The native of Sanford, North Carolina, also had three assists and a block against the Paladins. Neal-Tysor went 14-for-24 (.583) from the field, including 5-for-8 (.625) from beyond the arc, and 9-for-11 (.818) from the free-throw line. The graduate guard’s 42 points were the first time any SoCon player has scored 40-plus points in a game since ETSU’s Erica Haynes-Overton had 41 on Nov. 5, 2019, against Tennessee. Neal-Tysor’s scoring performance was also just six points away from tying the conference’s single-game record of 48.
 
Two days later, Neal-Tysor had a game-high 27 points as the Bears fell to Wofford 82-76. Neal-Tysor had six rebounds, four assists and a block at Wofford, while shooting 9-for-22 (.409) from the floor, connecting on five shots from 3-point range and making all four of her free-throw attempts.
 
Mercer (12-15, 8-6 SoCon) enters the 2023 Ingles Southern Conference Women's Basketball Championship as the No. 5 seed and will take on the fourth seed, UNCG, at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, inside Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina.
 
Also nominated: Jiselle Thomas (ETSU), Akira Wiggins (UNCG), Yazz Wazeerud-Din (Chattanooga) and Rachael Rose (Wofford)
 
2022-23 SoCon Women’s Basketball Players of the Week
Nov. 15 – Sydney Ryan, Fr., G, Furman
Nov. 22 – Andrea Bailey, Sr., G, Samford
Nov. 29 – Raven Thompson, Fr., F, Chattanooga
Dec. 6 – Yazz Wazeerud-Din, Sr., G, Chattanooga
Dec. 13 – Sussy Ngulefac, So., C, Samford
Dec. 20 – Amoria Neal-Tysor, Gr., G, Mercer
Dec. 27 – Jaron Dougherty, Gr., F, Mercer
Jan. 3 – Khalis Cain, Jr., F, UNCG
Jan. 10 – Andrea Bailey, Sr., G, Samford
Jan. 17 – Enjulina Gonzalez, Fr., G, Mercer
Jan. 24 – Kendall Folley, So., G, ETSU
Jan. 31 – Rachael Rose, So., G, Wofford
Feb. 7 – Sussy Ngulefac, So., C, Samford
Feb. 14 – Kendall Folley, So., G, ETSU
Feb. 21 – Enjulina Gonzalez, Fr., G, Mercer
Feb. 28 – Amoria Neal-Tysor, Gr., G, Mercer