NDSU's Woodside Named Player of the Week
Ben
Woodside,
North Dakota State
Jr., G, 5-11, Albert
Lea, Minn./Albert Lea HS
Woodside earns
Player of the Week honors after posting back-to-back 30-point games
for the first tme in his career in a pair of road games last week.
He averaged 35.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists as the Bison
went 1-1. Woodside scored a career-high 39 points to go with five
assists and three boards in a victory over Tennessee Tech to finish
the Blue Ribbon Challenge in third place behind Florida and
Rutgers. It was the 10th-best single game point total in school
history. He followed that up with 31 points at Green Bay. For the
week, he shot 58 percent from the field, 40 percent from
three-point range and 88 percent from the free throw line. Woodside
currently has 1,109 points in 62 career games to rank 20th all-time
at NDSU.
Also nominated: Tyrone
Hamilton, Centenary; Ben Botts, IPFW; George Hill, IUPUI; Reggie
Hamilton, UMKC; Shane Lawal, Oakland; Robert Jarvis, Oral Roberts;
Garrett Callahan, South Dakota State; Geoff Payne, Southern
Utah.
Previous winners: Nov. 19 -
Nick Stallings, Centenary; Nov. 12 - Jeremiah Hartsock,
UMKC.
