Player of the week: Zhaire Smith

As you may have heard, the Red Raiders advanced to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2005, beating SFA and Florida in the Dallas regional round, respectively by ten and three points.

In both games, senior guard Keenan Evans was the best scorer of the team, with 23 points against the Lumberjacks and 22 against the Gators, but he found a good help in a freshman who’s acting like a senior, and who improves game by game in every aspect of the game.His name’s obviously Zhaire Smith.

Maybe excited by the fact of playing near home, the Garland native had two solid games, as he had ten points and eight rebounds against Stephen F. Austin, while he exploded against the Gators, capturing nine…