SAN MATEO, Calif. — All of the attention has been on the number of Freshman of the Week awards that Aidan Mahaney has been racking up this season, but that changed on Monday morning. Announced by the conference, Mahaney scored his sixth WCC Freshman of the Week award, but he is joined by Logan Johnson, who is named the conference's Player of the Week for the first time this season.
 
Johnson turned in a stellar week to help the Gaels win both of their WCC games, improving to 5-0 in conference. Johnson scored 19 points in the win against LMU on Thursday before putting up a game-best 24 points against USF on the road on Saturday night. He was awfully efficient, shooting 63% for the week, his best shooting week of the season. He continues to make a difference on all levels, adding 6.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. He also held Khalil Shabazz of USF to just six points on 1-11 shooting on Saturday.
 
This might have been Mahaney's best week of the season as he helped lead SMC to pair of WCC wins. For the first time this season, Mahaney scored 20 games in consecutive games, with 25 against LMU and 21 against San Francisco. The 25 points against LMU tied a career-best, and included 15 points in the first half, tying the most he's had in a half this year. Mahaney shot 51.4% from the field this week and 46.7% from beyond the arc while adding eight total rebounds and two assists, along with his first two collegiate blocks.
 
This is the first time that Saint Mary's has swept the weekly awards handed out by the conference since the creation of the Freshman of the Week award. It is the fourth time this season that a school has swept the weekly awards, with Portland (Nov. 28), Pepperdine (Dec. 27), and Pacific (Jan. 9) all having done so previously. In addition to six wins for Mahaney, this is the third time Johnson has been named Player of the Week, after winning the award twice last season.
 
Saint Mary's will head out on the road for their first West Coast Conference game outside of the Bay Area next week when they head down to Malibu for a date against Pepperdine on Thursday night. The Gaels took on Pepperdine twice last season and beat them on both occasions, including a 77-62 win at the Firestone Fieldhouse on January 13. The game will be televised on ESPNU.