MTSU women's basketball standout Savannah Wheeler was named Conference USA Player of the Year on Monday, and Anastasiia Boldyreva was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year.

Wheeler, a Kentucky native, is the third MTSU player to be named CUSA player of the year. The senior guard, also named all-conference, leads the league in scoring (17.5 ppg), assists (150), assist/turnover ratio (2.1), and minutes (37.8).

Already the CUSA all-time free-throw record holder, Wheeler is also third on the CUSA all-time scoring list with 2,170 points, behind Houston's Chandi Jones (2,692 points, 2000-04) and Memphis' Tamika Whitmore (2,488, 1995-99). The recent graduate is a five-time CUSA player of the week.

Boldyreva, a junior center from Moscow, has had a breakout season. She leads the league and ranks fourth in the nation with 88 blocks, a single-season school record. She is averaging 14.7 points and 8.5 rebounds.

She also earned all-conference and all-defensive team honors. She has played a crucial part in the team's defense, ranked 10th in the nation; MTSU is holding opponents to just 51.8 points per game and scoring 75.1.

Courtney Whitson, Jalynn Gregory and Ta'Mia Scott earned second-team all-conference honors.

Whitson, a graduate from Kingsport, who leads the program in all-time 3-pointers and minutes played, is averaging 9.4 points and 6.5 rebounds.

Gregory, a junior from Lafayette, is averaging 12.4 points a game and has made 82 3-pointers.

Scott, a sophomore from Clarksville, has started all 30 games and is averaging 12.5 points and 5.5 rebounds a game.

Despite leading MTSU to a 16-0 conference mark (26-4 overall), MTSU coach Rick Insell was not named the league's coach of the year. That honor went to Florida International's Jesyka Burks-Wiley, who guided the Panthers to a second-place finish (11-5, 20-10 overall).

MTSU is the No. 1 seed entering this week's conference tournament in Huntsville, Alabama. The Raiders play in the quarterfinals at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday against the winner of Tuesday's Sam Houston-UTEP matchup.

MTSU men's basketball has four honored by CUSA

Four MTSU men's players were given postseason accolades by Conference USA.

Junior guard Jestin Porter was named second-team All-CUSA, and junior forward Jared Coleman-Jones was named to the third team. Forward Chris Loofe was named to the all-freshman team and senior guard Elias King was named honorable mention all-conference.

Porter, a Houston native who came on strong in the second half of the season, is averaging 13.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists and has hit 56 3-pointers this season.

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Coleman-Jones, a Jacksonville native, is averaging 11.1 points and a team-leading 7.5 rebounds a game. Loofe, from Leander, Texas, is averaging 2.4 points and 2.5 rebounds a game.

King, an Atlanta native, is second on the team at 12.9 points per game and has a team-high 65 3-pointers.

The Blue Raiders (13-18, 7-9) are seeded No. 7 entering this week's league tournament in Huntsville. MTSU will face No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech (22-9, 12-4) at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the quarterfinals.

This article originally appeared on Murfreesboro Daily News Journal: MTSU basketball: Savannah Wheeler named Conference USA player of year