Monday, January 31, 2011

Brian Green WAC POW

Utah State’s Brian Green has been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 24-30. The honor marks the first career WAC Player of the Week award for Green.

Green, a senior guard from Kaysville, Utah (Davis HS/Salt Lake CC), led Utah State to a pair of WAC road wins last weekend at San Jose State (84-65) and at Hawai‘i (89-84 2OT).

Against the Spartans, Green scored a career-high 25 points and tied his career high with six rebounds as he was 8-of-9 from the field, 5-of-5 from three-point range and 4-for-4 at the free throw line. Green also tied a school record for shooting percentage from three in the game.

At Hawai‘i, Green posted 22 points to go along with three rebounds and three assists in a career-high 38 minutes. In the game, Green hit a pair of game-tying shots as he tied it at 66-all to send the game in overtime on a long two-pointer, and then hit a 30-footer late in the first overtime to tie the game at 73, sending it into another extra period. Green then sank four straight free throws in the final 0:06 of the second overtime to seal the victory.

On the week, Green averaged 23.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game. He shot 68.2 percent (15-of-22) from the field, 68.2 percent (8-of-13) from beyond the arc and 90 percent (9-of-10) from the free throw line.

Other nominees:

* Boise State senior guard La’Shard Anderson
* Fresno State freshman guard Kevin Olekaibe
* Idaho senior guard Jeff Ledbetter
* Louisiana Tech junior forward Olu Ashaolu
* Nevada junior forward Dario Hunt
* New Mexico State junior forward Troy Gillenwater
* San Jose State senior guard Adrian Oliver

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have agreed with all the other POW except this one. Olu Ashlou certainly derserved this one. He averaged basically 20 points and 15 rebounds, 2 assits, 1 block and 1 steal. That's a big double double in 2 games. He had more of an effect on a game than Brian Green. I know the USU-Hawaii game was an overtime game but going by numbers, Ashlou's numbers deserved WAC POW.