LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock junior guard Markquis Nowell has been named the Sun Belt Men's Basketball Player of the Week, announced today by the league office.
Nowell is coming off a week in which he posted three double-doubles in leading the Trojans to a 2-1 record. He averaged 19.0 points, 11.3 assists and 5.7 rebounds for Little Rock, shooting 90.5% from the free throw line in 37.3 minutes per game.
Nowell started off the week coming within a whisker of the first triple-double in program history, finishing with 13 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds in the win over Duquesne.