ST. LOUIS – Freshman Brenni Rose (Shawnee, Kan.) of the Drake University women's basketball team has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Newcomer of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon.
 
Rose played the best game of her young Drake career in the road win at UNI on Jan. 27. She recorded her first career-double with a career-high 17 points and 10 rebounds in a career-best 28 minutes. Time and time again, Rose hauled in key offensive rebounds finishing with six, converted several critical three-point plays and tallied one block, one steal and one assist. Rose knocked down a career-high 9-of-10 free throws as the team made 34-of-36 from the charity stripe.
 
This is the first career MVC Newcomer of the Week award for Rose and the fifth this season for the Bulldogs. Fellow freshman Becca Hittner (Urbandale, Iowa) has been tabbed MVC Newcomer of the Week a league-best four times. In her first season, Rose is averaging 6.6 points and 3.6 rebounds per game.
 
Rose and her teammates travel to SIU on Feb. 3 for the second match-up between the two teams this season. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. and the contest will be broadcast on The Valley on ESPN3.