Admiral Schofield on Monday was named co-SEC Player of the Week, along with Mississippi State's Lamar Peters.

Schofield averaged 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists in wins over Florida and at Ole Miss last week. He scored a career-high 25 points on 9 of 14 shooting in the 73-65 win over Ole Miss on Saturday.

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"When Admiral plays within himself and when he’s really rebounding and playing physical," Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said on Monday, "that’s when he (is at his best), because you know what, when he takes good shots, he shoots the ball well and we know that."

Tennessee (21-7, 11-5 SEC), up three spots to No. 16 in this week's Associated Press Top 25, plays at Mississippi State (21-8, 9-7) Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern Time at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville. The game will be televised by SEC Network.

Peters, a 6-foot, 185-pound sophomore guard, averaged 17.0 points, 6.0 assists and 5.5 rebounds in wins at Texas A&M and over South Carolina.

Schofield, a 6-foot-5, 238-pound junior forward, is Tennessee's second-leading scorer this season, averaging 12.8 points per game. He leads the Vols in rebounding at 6.2 per game and has started 27 times in 28 games this season, averaging 27.4 minutes per game.

"Defensively, I think he’s really improved a lot this year going to the perimeter for the first time," Barnes said. "I think he really has done a good job there. He will continue to get better there.

"The one area I do think he can do a whole lot better at is rebounding."

Schofield led the Vols in rebounding against both Ole Miss (7) and Florida (8). Barnes on Saturday and again on Monday was more focused on the rebounds he could've had, but didn't come down with.

"He gets rebounds, but he gives up three or four every game that he should have if he would do a better job of blocking out," Barnes said. "He is a guy that really could be a double-double guy every night if he would finish those rebounds that he gets his hands on that he doesn’t come up with.”

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