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SCAC Players-of-the-Week
(2/25/08)
Men's Basketball
KOLA ALADE OF AUSTIN COLLEGE,
a 6-3, 180-pound sophomore guard from Plano, Texas and AHMAD
KAREEM SHAHEED OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY, a
6-6, 230-pound senior post from Atlanta, Ga., have been selected the SCAC Men's Basketball
Co-Players-of-the-Week for games played from Monday, February 18 through
Sunday, February 24.
Alade
averaged 24.5 points over the weekend,
including a game-high 25 in a 69-64 win over Southwestern - a victory
that gave the ‘Roos the fourth seed from the Western Division and the
final berth into the SCAC Tournament. Alade, who hit 7-of-10 from three-point range over the weekend,
shot 83.3 percent from the free throw line and hit 47.1 percent overall
from the field. He added 4.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 steals per
game over the course of the weekend.
For the season, Alade is averaging 18.2 points per game (third in
the SCAC) and is shooting 81.2 percent from the charity stripe (sixth in
the SCAC).
Shaheed
averaged 20.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in leading Oglethorpe to
a 1-1 weekend, and more importantly, the second seed in the SCAC East
for the upcoming conference basketball tournament.
Shaheed had 12 points and five rebounds in the Petrels' narrow
65-59 loss to second-ranked Centre and then followed with a season-high
29 points and nine rebounds in Sunday's 86-80 double-overtime win
against DePauw.
For the week, Shaheed shot 60.0 percent (15-25) from the field
and 78.6 percent (11-14) from the foul line.
Currently, Shaheed is 17th in the SCAC in scoring (12.9 points
per game) and sixth in rebounding (7.4 boards per game). He leads the
SCAC in field goal percentage (54.3 percent) and is eighth in blocked
shots (0.84 per game). He is just 11 rebounds from becoming the seventh
player in league history to record 700+ rebounds for a career.
Women's
Basketball
KATY WILLIAMS OF AUSTIN COLLEGE, a
5-10 sophomore forward
from Sulphur Springs, Texas, and CASSIE PRUZIN OF DEPAUW
UNIVERSITY, a 5-7 junior guard from Crown Point, Ind., have been
selected the SCAC Women's Basketball Co-Players-of-the-Week for games
played from Monday, February 18 through Sunday, February 24.
Williams
had a historic weekend
for Austin College, as the sophomore forward pulled down her 500th
career rebound in a 58-45 win over Southwestern on Sunday. She had a
career-high 23 rebounds in the game - the most rebounds in a game for a
SCAC player since Valencia Compton of Southwestern had 24 against Austin
College on Nov. 25, 1995.
Williams is the second-fastest player in SCAC history to reach
500 career rebounds - needing just 50 games to accomplish the feat.
Rebakah Forsyth of Rose-Hulman needed 48 games to get to 500 -
reaching the milestone as a sophomore in 2005.
Williams added 23 points and 12 rebounds in Friday's loss to
Trinity. She posted her SCAC-high 13th and 14th double-doubles of the
season over the weekend.
For the week, Williams averaged 18.5 points and 17.5 rebounds,
and added five assists and five steals. She shot 46.7 percent (14-30)
from the field and 81.8 percent (9-11) from the free throw line in the
two games.
Pruzin
scored 10 of eighth-ranked DePauw's final 16 points in Sunday's
76-73 win over 25th-ranked Oglethorpe - including back-to-back
three-pointers which lifted the Tigers' lead from 1 to 7.
Pruzin averaged 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 3.0
steals per game as DePauw completed the SCAC regular season with a
perfect 14-0 conference mark with victories over Sewanee (76-61) and
Oglethorpe.
She shot 58.3 percent (14-24) from the field, including 61.5 percent
(8-13) from three-point range.
For the season, Pruzin is averaging 13.8 points (11th in the
SCAC), 6.6 rebounds (12th in the SCAC), 4.4 assists (third in the SCAC)
and 2.5 steals (fourth in the SCAC) per game. She is shooting 82.4
percent from the foul line (seventh in the SCAC) and 39.7 percent
(second in the SCAC) from three-point range.
Men's Swimming
-No Nomination
Men's Diving
-No Nomination
Women's
Swimming
-No Nomination
Women's
Diving
-No Nomination |
