You are going total steals on the season- I'm going steals per game because Peters has played in 3 less games.
Q had 20 steals pre-SEC and has 20 steals in SEC play.
Peters only had 13 steals pre-SEC due to lack of playing time and missing 3 games because of Moultrie Knee. Minutes-wise- Q has probably played 5 more games than Peters.
But in SEC play- Peters has 24 steals in 15 SEC games. Thats 1.6 per game
In SEC play- Q has 20 steals while playing alot more minutes than Peters- but only averages 1.33 steals per game. Since the competition level rose- Q is going backwards- while Peters is going up.
I hope that I've typed this slow enough for you to understand it.