TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily/AP) — A former East Valley high school star is earning new honors as a freshman at the University of Arizona.

Arizona Wildcats forward Koa Peat was named The Associated Press men’s college basketball player of the week for the opening week of the season.

The freshman arrived in Tucson with plenty of hype as one of the nation’s top recruits after graduating from Perry High School in Gilbert.

Peat lived up to that hype in his first game, scoring 30 points with seven rebounds and three steals in No. 5 Arizona’s 93-87 win over reigning national champion and then-No. 3 Florida. The 6-foot-8 forward had the second-highest scoring game by an Arizona freshman behind Eric Money’s 37-point game in 1972 and became the first player in Big 12 history with 30 points and fi

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