Conference play is now well underway and we need your help to decide our men’s player of week for Jan. 19-25 by voting in the poll below.
Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week 11 of the college basketball season.
Kamrin Oriol – North Florida
North Florida has had its struggles in 2025-26 following the last minute departure of former head coach Matthew Driscoll, subsequently replaced by the promotion of Bobby Kennen. In his first season at the helm, the Ospreys are just 5-16 but have seemingly begun to turn it around with wins in three of their last four, twice surpassing 100 points.
Oriol, a top-20 scorer in the nation averaging 20.8 PPG, led a pair of wins at home this week, including a two-point win over Eastern Kentucky in which he had 32 points and three assists. Two days later, he staved off Bellarmine in overtime, 117-114, with a career-high double-double of 33 points and 15 assists, which is the first 30-point, 15-assists performance nationally this season.
Jalen Quinn – Drake
Drake has had its ups and downs in year one of the Eric Henderson tenure in Des Moines, Iowa, with an 11-10 record overall and just 5-5 in the Missouri Valley which is good for fifth-place. Still, Quinn, who arrived from Loyola Chicago via the transfer portal this past offseason, is proving to be a superstar as the league’s leading scorer averaging a career-high 18.5 PPG.
This past week, he led a pair of bounce back wins, starting with a 101-90 win over Murray State in which Quinn dropped a career-high 34 points, grabbed six rebounds and swiped three steals. He followed that up with 27 points, four rebounds and three more steals to help defeat Indiana State on the road. He went 25-for-24 from the field over the course of the week.
Kahmare Holmes – Wofford
Though former head coach Dwight Perry was fired just a month before the 2025-26 season after leading Wofford to the 2025 NCAA Tournament, the Terriers haven’t missed a beat. New head coach Kevin Giltner, who played at Wofford and was All-SoCon Second Team in 2011-12, has the Terriers at 17-7 overall and 6-2 in conference play.
The emergence of Holmes, a returning sophomore, has been a major part of Wofford’s early success, highlighted by a career-high 36 points on 10-of-16 shooting in last week’s win over Samford. To hold off Mercer just a few days later, he managed 27 points in addition to nine rebounds, seven assists, a steal and a blocked shot to beat the Bears by one possession, 80-77.
Jelani Hamilton – Georgia State
After going just 2-9 in the non-conference, including a six-game losing streak from mid-November to early December, Georgia State has done a complete 180 in Sun Belt play. The Panthers are currently one of the conference’s top ranked defenses with an offense that’s seventh in the nation in free throw shooting, led by Hamilton’s 92.2% conversation rate at the line.
It all sparked a four-game win streak for Georgia State, including a pair last week. Hamilton’s 23 points, seven rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots helped to beat out Southern Miss, 69-62. On Jan. 24, he unleashed a career-high 38 points and went 6-for-11 from 3-point range, in addition to swiping four steals and grabbing three rebounds, in an 82-81 win over Arkansas State.
Hamilton’s 38 points are tied for the most in a single-game by any Sun Belt player this season.
Dominique Daniels Jr. – California Baptist
It’s no secret that Daniels is one of the most electric scorers in all of college basketball, and in his senior season, Cal Baptist is having one of its best starts since transitioning to the Division-I level. The Lancers are currently 15-6 under head coach Rick Croy and are 5-3 to start league play in the WAC with Daniels averaging a career-high 22.0 PPG through 20 starts and appearances.
Back on Jan. 21, he put together a game-high 26 points and corralled five boards as Cal Baptist took down Utah Tech, 73-64, for its fourth straight win. On Jan. 24, Daniels made it five straight for the Lancers by dropping a career-high 47 points and going 13-for-21 from the field to ultimately defeat Utah Tech in overtime, 78-71.
