Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Appleby honored as WAC POW

Louisiana Tech’s Raheem Appleby has been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 16-22.

The honor marks the first career WAC Player of the Week for Appleby.

Appleby, a freshman guard from Jacksonville, Ark. (Jacksonville HS), led Louisiana Tech to a pair of WAC road wins last week over Hawai‘i and San Jose State.

The two wins mark the first time in LA Tech’s history that the team has
swept the UH/SJSU WAC road trip. The win over Hawai‘i also marks the first WAC road win for the Bulldogs since Jan. 23, 2010.

Appleby scored a career-high 28 points in a 74-70 victory at Hawai‘i on 10-of-15 shooting, including a pair of threes and a 6-for-6 performance at the free throw line. He also pulled down three rebounds in the win. Appleby scored 19 points in the 71-67 win at San Jose State, connecting on 7-of-13 shots. He tallied a team-high five rebounds and dished out a team-best four assists against the Spartans.

On the week, Appleby averaged 23.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. He shot 60.7 percent (17-of-28) from the field and 78.6 percent (11-of-14) from the free throw line.

Other nominees:

* Fresno State sophomore forward Jerry Brown
* Hawai‘i senior guard Zane Johnson
* Idaho senior forward Djim Bandoumel
* Nevada junior guard Malik Story
* New Mexico State senior center Hamidu Rahman.

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