NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Taylor Dewitt is the Red River Athletic Conference Player of the Week in women's basketball for Dec. 25-31.
        The RRAC announced Tuesday the award, the second this season for Dewitt and the Gold Nuggets.
        Dewitt — a 5-foot-11 fifth-year guard/forward from Mansfield, La., and a graduate of Mansfield High School and city rival Dillard University — averaged 21.5 points and 7.5 rebounds in two games and shot 64 percent from the floor at the Keiser New Year's Classic in West Palm Beach, Fla. Against Keiser Dewitt produced a double-double that included a season-high 24 points.
        This is Dewitt's first season at XULA, where she is enrolled in graduate school. She is XULA's first women's basketball player to win two conference weekly awards in one season since Victory Udechi (Gulf Coast Athletic) in 2020-21.
        The Gold Nuggets are 7-2 overall and 4-0 in the RRAC. Upcoming games:
        •  Thursday, Jan. 4 — 5:30 p.m. at Huston-Tillotson.
        •  Saturday, Jan. 6 — 4 p.m. at Our Lady of the Lake.
        •  Thursday, Jan. 11 — 5:30 p.m. at home against LSU-Alexandria in the Convocation Center.
        •  Saturday, Jan. 13 — 2 p.m. at home against Louisiana Christian in the Convocation Center.

Taylor Dewitt photo by Yamlak Tsega