Bellarmine University senior guard Jeremy Kendle (Jeffersonville, Ind./Jeffersonville) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. Kendle helped the second-ranked Knights to victories at No. 11 Kentucky Wesleyan and at No. 22 Southern Indiana to open the GLVC season.

On the week, Kendle averaged 20.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.0 steals and 1.5 assists per game. He shot 53.5 percent (7-of-15) from the field and converted 81.8 percent (9-of-11) of his free throw attempts.

In Thursday’s 78-75 win at Kentucky Wesleyan, Kendle poured in a team-high 26 points on 8-of-13 shooting. He was 9-of-11 from the free throw line and added four rebounds, two assists and two steals. In addition to burying a key three-pointer before half to push the Knights’ lead to six at the break, he also iced the contest by knocking down a pair of free throws with eight seconds to play.

Kendle returned on Saturday to guide the Knights to a 69-60 win at Southern Indiana. In the victory, he posted 15 points, seven rebounds and four steals. The win completed the Knights’ first road sweep of Kentucky Wesleyan and Southern Indiana since 1980.

This season, Kendle is leading the GLVC in scoring by posting 22.6 points per contest. He is also averaging 4.6 rebounds and ranks tenth in the league in assists per game (3.2) and fourth in the GLVC in three-point field goals made per game (2.6).

Bellarmine (5-0) is the lone remaining unbeaten team in the GLVC and leads the GLVC East Division with a 2-0 record. The Knights will next host the Fern Valley Hotel Classic on Dec. 10-11 where they will meet West Virginia State on Friday and Indiana-Southeast on Saturday.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Drury’s Dennon Mitchell, Kentucky Wesleyan’s Cardell McFarland, Missouri S&T’s Bryce Foster, Missouri-St. Louis’ Gerald Fulton, Rockhurst’s Brandon McCann, Southern Indiana’s C.J. Trotter and UIndy’s Darius Adams.