Keith Wooden

Free State

Class: Senior.

Sport: Boys basketball.

The week: The 6-foot-9 Wooden, who signed with Arizona State, usually is the biggest player on the court, but he was downright huge in last week’s Class 6A sub-state tournament at Overland Park. He scored 24 points and had five rebounds in a 49-46 victory against Aquinas, but was even better in the finale. He hit 10 of 13 field goals for 22 points, grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked three shots in Free State’s 55-54 loss to Leavenworth. When he fouled out with just more than three minutes to play, he ended his career as the school’s and the city’s all-time scoring leader with 1,006 points. The game capped a marvelous nine-game run for Wooden, who averaged 21 points a game in that span.

Comment: “I think what he did the last half of the season, the last 10 games, was he put us on his back and he carried us,” Free State coach Jack Schreiner said. “What he was doing the last 10 games was phenomenal.”

Emily Brown

Baldwin

Class: Junior.

Sport: Girls basketball.

The week: Brown, also a standout volleyball player, might be even better on the basketball court. The 6-foot-2 forward led the Bulldogs with per-game averages of 16.5 points and nine rebounds. After opening Class 4A sub-state with a blowout victory against Kansas City Piper, Brown led Baldwin past KC Ward, scoring 17 points. In Saturday’s final against Spring Hill, Brown scored a game-high 18 points and controlled the paint, but the Bulldogs lost, 54-46, in overtime.

Comment: “Not all players have the ability to execute what you teach, but she does. She’s just a very fundamentally sound player who makes everyone else around her better,” BHS coach Eric Toot said. “Saturday, she was the best player on the court. The whole week was just a great week for her. We just came up a bit short of where we wanted to be.”