DENVER – Kansas City’s Fred Chatmon has been named Western Athletic Conference men’s basketball Player of the Week for Nov. 18-24.
Chatmon, a senior forward/center from Cleveland, Ohio (Garfield Heights HS), tallied his first double-double of the season and fifth of his career in a 79-67 win at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Chatmon scored 20 points, connecting on 9-of-12 shots from the field. Chatmon’s .750 field goal percentage is the WAC’s best individual single-game shooting performance of the season. He also pulled down 12 rebounds, tallied three blocks, dished out two assists and registered a steal in the win. Chatmon has now scored 20 or more points in back-to-back games for the first time in his career.
Other nominees included: Bakersfield junior guard Javonte Maynor scored 21 points in a win over Idaho State … Grand Canyon junior guard Jerome Garrison recorded three double-digit scoring games as GCU went 2-1 at a tournament in Salt Lake … Idaho senior forward Stephen Madison averaged 17.0 points over three games … New Mexico State junior guard K.C. Ross-Miller scored a career-high 26 points in a win at UTEP … Seattle U junior guard Jarell Flora scored 21 points at Boise State … Texas-Pan American freshman guard LJ McIntosh scored 17 points in a win at UTSA … Utah Valley freshman forward Zach Nelson averaged 12.0 points in a pair of road games.