Saint Joseph's College junior guard Cameron Vines has been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week, it was announced by the league office Monday.

Vines turned in the conference's top-two soring outputs last week to average 31.0 points per game while helping the Pumas to a 1-1 record on the road to open league play. 

In Friday's conference opening 80-66 loss at No. 3 Drury, the defending NCAA Champion, Vines netted a game-high 29 points on 8-of-16 (.500) shooting, which included 3-of-4 (.750) from beyond the arc.  He also made 10-of-13 (.769) attempts from the free-throw line and had the Pumas poised for an upset with the team down just five points with three minutes to play.

The Columbus Ohio, native, who transferred in from Florida Southern, then put up a 33-point effort along with seven rebounds and three assists in the Pumas' 94-87 victory at Missouri S&T on Sunday.  Vines was 9-of-14 (.643) shooting as well as 15-of-17 (.882) from the charity stripe. 

Vines, who is sixth nationally and first in the league with 24.8 points per game on the season, earns his first career weekly honor from the conference and is the first Puma to be recognized by the league since Andrew Helmer on Feb. 1, 2010.

The Pumas will return home to the Richard F. Scharf Alumni Fieldhouse to play William Jewell College on Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. CT.