Kentucky Wesleyan College junior guard Cardell McFarland (Evansville, Ind./Bosse) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. McFarland exploded for 63 points last week and helped the Panthers to wins over No. 6 Southern Indiana and No. 2 Bellarmine.

In Kentucky Wesleyan’s 84-77 home win against Southern Indiana on Monday, McFarland came off the bench to pour in 16 points on 4-of-6 shooting. He was 7-of-8 from the free throw line and also chipped in three assists, a rebound, blocked shot and steal.

On Saturday, McFarland posted the third-highest single-game points total in Kentucky Wesleyan history by tallying a GLVC season game-high 47 points in the Panthers upset win at Bellarmine. In the 95-86 victory, McFarland was 15-of-22 from the field and converted 7-of-9 three-point attempts and 10-of-12 free throw attempts. He also added two rebounds, an assist, blocked shot and steal in the victory.

The prolific scoring day saw McFarland set career highs in field goals (15) and three-point field goals made (7) and broke the Knights Hall single-game record.

For the week, McFarland averaged 31.5 points per game and shot 67.9 percent from the field, 80 percent from the three-point line and 85 percent from the charity stripe.

McFarland is averaging 18.0 points, 3.9 assists and 2.5 rebounds per game this season for the Panthers. He ranks fifth in the league in scoring, ninth in three-point field goal percentage (42.0) and 10th in the conference in assists per game.

Kentucky Wesleyan (17-8) finished the regular season with a 10-8 league record and earned the No. 6 seed for the upcoming GLVC Tournament. The Panthers will host No. 7 seed Missouri-St. Louis in the first round of the event on Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. CT.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Drury’s Alex Hall, Illinois-Springfield’s Michael Fakuade, Indianapolis’ Darius Adams, Missouri-St. Louis’ Gerald Fulton, Quincy’s Josh Edmonds and Rockhurst’s Najja Nicholson.