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SLC Player of the Week

Press Release — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

FRISCO, Texas - Senior guard Luke Rogers of Northwestern State has been voted the Aeropostale/Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week. Rogers helped the Demons to a 2-0 week by averaging 22.5 points and 4.5 assists on his way to picking up his first award. Following is a look at his week along with others named to the honorable mention list.

LUKE ROGERS, Northwestern State, Sr., G, 6-3, Chicago, Ill. -- Rogers matched a career scoring high with 26 points vs. Southeastern Louisiana Saturday as the Demons stretched their winning streak to five straight and posted a 1 1/2 game lead in the SLC East Division as they reached the middle of the 16-game league race. The Demons went 2-0, winning 98-88 at Nicholls State and 98-91 over Southeastern Louisiana, while Rogers averaged 22.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.0 steals and just 1.0 turnovers. He shot 65.0 (13-20) percent on his field goals, including 66.7 (6-9) on 3-point attempts and 86.7 percent (13-15) from the free-throw line.

Player of the Week Honorable-Mention Selections

Isaiah Allen, UTSA -- Allen averaged 21.0 points per game last week as the Roadrunners split games with in-state rivals Texas-Arlington and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. In the 72-64 victory over UTA on Monday, Allen drained 6-of-8 3-pointers en route to a season-high 25 points. He followed that with three more treys in pouring in 17 points in the loss to the Islanders on Saturday. The Portland, Ore., native was perfect from the line (9-9) and shot 60 percent (9-of-15) from downtown and 50 percent (12-24) from the floor for the week.

Stefan Blaszczynski, NICH -- Blaszczynski was the leading scorer, or tied to
be the leading scorer in the Colonels conference games this week. On the
week, Blaszczynski averaged 21.5 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in losses
to two-time reigning league champion Northwestern State and conference
newcomer Central Arkansas.

John Ford, McN -- Ford scored 12 of McNeese's last 18 points in a 68-60 come
from behind victory over Lamar on Sunday. In that stretch he made six of six
free throws and two straight three point shots. Ford finished with a game
high 18 points and had five rebounds and a game high five assists. He also
had two steals in the only game McNeese played during week

Quennell Green, SLU -- Green set a pair of season-highs in scoring in
helping Southeastern split its two-game road trip at Central Arkansas and
Northwestern State. He scored 23 points, the most since scoring 21 against
Cal Poly and Jackson State, in the Lions' comeback win at Central Arkansas
on Thursday. Green added a team-high 25 points, including a season-high six
3-pointers, in the Lions' 98-91 loss at SLC East leader Northwestern State
in the highest scoring contest between the schools since 1969.

Antuane Miller, SFA -- Miller averaged 20 points in a pair of wins over
Texas State (82-62) and Texas-Arlington (65-54). He scored a season-high 23
points against Texas State and poured in 17 against UTA. Miller shot 81.0
percent from the field and added six rebounds.

Northwestern State 88 - Utah State 71

Press Release — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:35:04 -0800

NATCHITOCHES, La. - Jermaine Spencer and Trey Gilder each scored 14 points to lead Northwestern State to an 88-71 win against Utah State in the first game of the season for both teams. With the win, the Demons extended its home winning streak to 15 games which is the sixth-longest in the country, while Utah State's loss snapped a 12-game winning streak in season-openers.

Jaycee Carroll led all scorers with 19 points for Utah State and became the 32nd player in school history to score 1,000 career points. Nick Hammer also scored in double-figures for USU with a career-high 12, while Chris Session tied his career-high with nine points, to go along with a game-high seven rebounds.

Despite committing 13 first-half turnovers, Utah State trailed by just three at the half, 42-39, as it shot 58.3 percent from the field as compared to a 42.1 percent shooting effort for Northwestern State. Carroll scored 13 of his points in the first-half, despite spraining his right ankle early in the game.

Utah State cut the lead to one on a lay-up by Carroll with 16:49 remaining in the second-half before Northwestern State scored six straight points to open the lead to seven. USU got no closer than five points from that point on and trailed by as many as 20 points before losing by 17. In the second-half the Demons shot 65.4 percent from the field, while USU shot just 40.7 percent.

After trailing 8-4 early, Utah State went on a 15-4 run mid-way through the first-half to open its biggest lead of the game at 19-12 with 10:40 remaining. Northwestern State than went on a 20-4 run over the next six minutes to take a nine-point advantage at 36-27 with 4:51 remaining.

Overall, Utah State shot 49.0 percent from the field and just 22.2 percent from three-point range (4-18), while Northwestern State shot 51.6 percent from the field and 46.2 percent from three-point range (6-13). The Demons also out-rebounded USU 36-28 and forced the Aggies into 21 turnovers.

- From USU Media Relations