Jordan Howard Repeats as Southland Player of the Week
Southland Conference
2016-17 Southland Men's Basketball Week 15 Notes (PDF)
FRISCO, Texas - Jordan Howard of Central Arkansas is the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week, presented by
UniversalCoin.com. The Conference made the announcement Monday.
Howard also claimed the award last week.
The point guard averaged 26 points per game in two Southland Conference contests. The junior fueled an 84-73 win over Abilene Christian on Thursday by scoring 19 points, including six of seven at the free throw line. On Saturday, Howard caught fire, knocking down eight straight three pointers to start the game while tallying 33 points en route to a 106-83 victory over Nicholls. Howard finished eight of nine from three-point distance.
The Bears are riding a four game winning streak and have improved their conference record to 7-6.
In the two games, the junior was 11 of 13 (84.6 percent) from three-point range and an identical 11 of 13 from the charity stripe. He shot 60 percent from the floor overall, while committing just two turnovers in the pair of games.
Howard is a Chandler Arizona product (Perry High School).
With the back-to-back honors, Howard joins Sam Houston's Chris Galbreath in claiming the award in consecutive weeks this season. Galbreath won for weeks five and six.
Central Arkansas will travel to play at Nicholls on Thursday, followed by a Saturday visit to conference leader New Orleans.
The following Southland Conference Men's Basketball players received Honorable Mention for Week 14:
- Josh Ibarra, Houston Baptist
- Eric Thomas, New Orleans
- Rashawn Thomas, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
The Southland Conference Players of the Week so far in the 2016-17 season:
- DeAndre Harris, Nicholls (Week one)
- Marlain Veal, Southeastern Louisiana (two)
- Ja'Dante' Frye, Nicholls (three)
- Erik Thomas, New Orleans (four)
- Chris Galbreath, SHSU (five)
- Chris Galbreath, SHSU (six)
- Joey Frenchwood, Lamar (seven)
- DeAndre Harris, Nicholls (eight)
- Josh Ibarra, Houston Baptist (nine)
- Colton Weisbrod, Lamar (10)
- John Dewey III, Sam Houston State (11)
- Rashawn Thomas, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (12)
- Jordan Howard, Central Arkansas (13)
- Jordan Howard, Central Arkansas (14)
Please click
here for previous Men's Basketball Player of the Week announcements.
Each school's sports information director nominates and votes for the players of the week, and is not permitted to vote for his or her own student-athlete. To receive honorable mention, a player must receive votes from 25 percent of the Southland sports information directors.