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DENVER - NM State graduate student guard Zach Lofton has been named Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Nov. 20-26. This is his first-ever WAC Player of the Week honor.
The St. Paul, Minn., native averaged 24.0 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 67.9 percent from the floor and 46.1 percent from three-point range in a pair of big wins last week. Lofton opened the week with a monster night against Colorado State, scoring 30 points on 12-of-15 shooting with eight rebounds as NM State took down its second-straight Mountain West team in as many games. The 6-4 guard followed it up with 18 points and another eight rebounds against Battle of I-10 rival UTEP.
Other nominees included: CSU Bakersfield's Ricky Holden averaged 14.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game as the Roadrunners went 2-1 last week ... Fred Sims Jr. of Chicago State averaged 18.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game over four games ... Grand Canyon's Casey Benson averaged 11.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists ... Broderick Robinson of Kansas City averaged 16.3 points and 4.8 rebounds as the Roos went 2-2 on the week ... UT Rio Grande Valley's Nick Dixon averaged with 25.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists on the week ... Akolda Manyang of Utah Valley averaged 22.0 points on 65.5 percent shooting and 10.0 rebounds in a pair of wins last week.