Dec. 11, 2017 2017-18 MEN’S BASKETBALL @BigSouthGameDay | #BigSouthMBB 2017-18 BIG SOUTH MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS SID CONTACTS Big South Overall Big South .........................................Mark Simpson [email protected] Team W L PCT W L PCT Home Road Neu L10 Streak 704-341-7990 Liberty 0 0 .000 7 3 .700 5-3 2-0 0-0 7-3 W2 @BigSouthSID UNC Asheville 0 0 .000 6 4 .600 5-0 1-4 0-0 6-4 W1 Charleston Southern 0 0 .000 4 3 .571 2-1 2-2 0-0 4-3 L1 Campbell .........................................................Stan Cole Radford 0 0 .000 5 4 .556 3-0 2-4 0-0 5-4 W1 [email protected] Winthrop 0 0 .000 5 4 .556 4-1 1-3 0-0 5-4 L1 910-893-1331 Presbyterian College 0 0 .000 5 5 .500 4-0 0-4 1-1 5-5 W4 @GoCamelsMBB Campbell 0 0 .000 4 5 .444 3-2 1-3 0-0 4-5 L1 Charleston Southern ...Kevin O’Rourke High Point 0 0 .000 4 5 .444 4-1 0-4 0-0 4-5 W1 [email protected] Longwood 0 0 .000 3 6 .333 3-3 0-2 0-1 3-6 L1 843-863-7289 Gardner-Webb 0 0 .000 3 8 .273 3-0 0-6 0-2 3-7 L2 @csusports Gardner-Webb .....................................Marc Rabb [email protected] PLAYERS OF THE WEEK - DEC. 11 704-406-4355 @GWUSports PLAYER OF THE WEEK - XAVIER COOKS, WINTHROP, F, SR (WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA) Cooks tallied a career-high 31 points in 31 minutes and made nine of his fi nal 13 shots to nearly lead the Eagles to a road High Point .........................Tom Fenstermaker win at Georgia last Tuesday. He added fi ve rebounds, three assists, one block and one steal in the fi ve-point defeat. [email protected] Cooks tied the game three times, including twice in the fi nal 3:36 to keep Winthrop within reach. 336-841-4605 @HighPointUBball FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - ISAIAH WILLIAMS, LIBERTY, G/F, R-FR (DAYTON, OHIO) Liberty ..........................................Steven Gonzalez Williams averaged 8.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists in helping the Flames to two victories last week. He opened [email protected] with eight points, 4-of-5 from the charity stripe, four rebounds and a career-high four assists in Liberty’s overtime win 434-582-2294 at Georgia State last Monday. Williams followed with nine points in Saturday’s home triumph over UMES. For the week, @libertyfl ames he was 6-of-10 from the fi eld ( =60.0 percent). Longwood .................................................Chris Cook [email protected] 434-395-2718 THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE @LongwoodLancers TUESDAY, DEC. 12 SUNDAY, DEC. 17 Presbyterian ..........................Simon Whitaker CHARLESTON SOUTHERN at South Carolina St. ..... 1:00pm GARDNER-WEBB at Hampton ............................................................ 2:00pm [email protected] HIGH POINT vs. Wofford ............................................................................... 2:00pm 864-833-8252 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13 UNC ASHEVILLE vs. Western Carolina ................................... 4:30pm @BlueHoseSports LONGWOOD at Illinois .................................................................................... 8:00pm RADFORD at Nevada .......................................................................................... 5:30pm Radford ...................................................Nathan Wise THURSDAY, DEC. 14 [email protected] The Citadel at CAMPBELL ......................................................................... 7:00pm 540-831-5736 Toccoa Falls at PRESBYTERIAN ........................................................ 7:00pm @RadfordMBB FRIDAY, DEC. 15 *** This week’s broadcast schedule available on page 4 UNC Asheville ....................................Brian Hand Eastern Kentucky at CHARLESTON SOUTHERN ...... 7:30pm [email protected] 828-251-6932 SATURDAY, DEC. 16 @ashevilledogs Kentucky Christian at LIBERTY ......................................................... 1:00pm Cornell at LONGWOOD ................................................................................... 2:00pm Big South school in ALL CAPS Winthrop .............................................Brett Redden WINTHROP at Alabama State ............................................................. 2:00pm All Times Eastern and subject to change [email protected] 803-323-2129, ext. 6246 @WUEagles 2017-18 BIG SOUTH MEN’S BASKETBALL BIG SOUTH NABS INAUGURAL NABC TEAM OF THE WEEK HONOR ISCELLEANOUS TATISTICS The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) is awarding a National Team of the Week M S honor for the fi rst time this season, and PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE was the fi rst-ever recipient of GAMES WITH 20-OR-MORE POINTS the award on Dec. 4. The Blue Hose were recognized for their pair of last-second, buzzer-beating Player 20-24 25-29 30+ Total wins over UNC Greensboro and North Carolina A&T during the week of Nov. 27-Dec. 3. Marcus Burk, CAM 3 1 2 6 Reggie Dillard, PC 3 2 5 Andre Fox, HPU 4 1 5 HE CAN COOK Isaiah Walton, LW 2 1 1 4 Winthrop senior forward XAVIER COOKS recorded the Big South’s fi rst triple-double since 2011-12 Davon Bell, PC 3 1 4 with his 11-point, 15-rebound, 11-assist effort vs. Reinhardt on Dec. 2. The performance was the 10th D.J. Laster, GWU 4 4 triple-double on record in Big South history, and the fi rst since Liberty’s JESSE SANDERS against Xavier Cooks, WU 2 1 3 High Point on Jan. 21, 2012. Meanwhile, Cooks is just the third player in Big South history with David Efi anayi, GWU 1 2 3 more than 1,000 career points (1,401), 750 rebounds (794) and 150 blocked shots (168), and needs B.K. Ashe, LW 2 1 3 206 boards to become the league’s only player with 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 150 blocked Chris Clemons, CAM 1 1 2 shots. He is currently 16th all-time in rebounding, and would be the fourth player with 1,000 Shane Whitfi eld, CAM 1 1 2 boards should he reach the milestone. Cooks is approaching a unique statistical club -- 1,000 MaCio Teague, AVL 1 1 2 points, 800 rebounds, 150 blocks, 200 assists (230) and 100 steals (92), a list that currently has one Anders Broman, WU 1 1 2 Brandonn Kamga, HPU 1 1 member: Big South Hall of Famer JOE SPINKS of Campbell (1990-94). Jahaad Proctor, HPU 1 1 Kevin Vannatta, AVL 1 1 NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST Christian Keeling, CSU 1 1 Radford junior ED POLITE JR. became the 26th member of the Big South’s 500-rebound / 100-block Liam O’Reilly, GWU 1 1 club last week during the Virginia Tech game. Polite needs six steals for 100 in his career, which Eric Jamison, GWU 1 1 would make him just the 10th player in league annals with 500-rebounds, 100-blocked shots and Lovell Cabbil, LU 1 1 100-steals. Polite enters this week with 592 rebounds (T-54th all-time), 101 rejections and 94 steals. Scottie James, LU 1 1 He is eight rebounds away from becoming the 53rd Big South player with 600. Francois Lewis, PC 1 1 Ahmad Thomas, AVL 1 1 THE BOOK ON BURK Josh Ferguson, WU 1 1 Campbell sophomore MARCUS BURK leads the Big South with 19.6 points per game and a 50.7 3FG percentage (37-of-73). Burk, who averaged just 8.0 points and 40.1 percent from beyond the arc in GAMES WITH 10-OR-MORE REBOUNDS 36 games last season as a freshman, has scored 171 points in his last seven outings -- a 24.4 scor- Player 10-14 15-19 20+ Total Scottie James, LU 3 1 4 ing average. He has made 36 of his last 65 three-point attempts in that span for a 55.4 percentage. Xavier Cooks, WU 2 1 3 D.J. Laster, GWU 3 3 TONIGHT ON 20/20 Ed Polite Jr., RAD 3 3 Campbell junior CHRIS CLEMONS is averaging 22.2 points per game, but has missed three games Ahmad Thomas, AVL 3 3 and does not qualify for the league leaders due to having played in 66.7 of Campbell’s nine games. Josh Ferguson, WU 1 1 2 With teammate MARCUS BURK averaging 19.6 points, the duo has a chance to become the fi rst- Chris Shields, LW 2 2 ever Big South teammates to average 20.0 points in a season, as well as the fi rst pair to fi nish Donovan Gilmore, AVL 1 1 as the league’s No. 1 & 2 scorers since Radford mates JASON WILLIAMS (18.1) and RYAN CHARLES Brooks Cluxton, CAM 1 1 (18.0) in 1999-00. Andrew Eudy, CAM 1 1 Cory Gensler, CAM 1 1 2,000-POINT ODYSSEY Abdul Sarki, CSU 1 1 Campbell junior CHRIS CLEMONS is 34th all-time in Big South history with 1,593 points, and needs Travis McConico, CSU 1 1 407 to become the 11th player in league annals with 2,000 in a career. Should he reach the mile- Liam O’Reilly, GWU 1 1 Brandon Miller, GWU 1 1 stone this season, he would be the fi rst junior ever to hit the 2,000-point plateau in the history of Patrick Zeck, GWU 1 1 the conference. Meanwhile, Clemons’ career scoring average of 22.13 points is second in Big South Sam Berlin, HPU 1 1 history, just behind REGGIE WILLIAMS’ record mark of 22.82. B.K. Ashe, LW 1 1 Charles Glover, LW 1 1 THREE BALL Jonathan Baehre, AVL 1 1 Winthrop leads the Big South in three-pointers per game with 11.33, which is pacing as the fi fth- Raekwon Miller, AVL 1 1 highest per game total in league history. The Big South single-season record for three-pointers made per game is 13.69 set by VMI in 2008-09. The Eagles have drained at least 10 treys in a DOUBLE-DOUBLES game fi ve times already -- including three efforts with 15-or-more, and are on track for 340, which 3 D.J.