CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Two of the league's top 10 scorers, Albany's Sam Rowley and UMBC's Rodney Elliott, are the league's men's basketball weekly awards winners for week 6:
Player of the Week
Sam Rowley, Jr., Forward, Albany
- Averaged 20.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists while shooting 56 percent from the field in a pair of games last week.
- Led Albany to a win over Brown by scoring 20 points grabbing five rebounds.
- Recorded his sixth career double-double (21 points, 11 rebounds) in a loss to Colgate Saturday.
Rookie of the WeekRodney Elliott, Fr., Guard, UMBC
- Elliott scored 16 points and added four rebounds in UMBC's loss at Coppin State Wednesday, its lone game of the week.
- The honor is already Elliott's third of the season.
Around the League
- Stony Brook beat UNH in the first league game of the year Sunday.
- The Seawolves have won six-straight league openers.
- The 7-4 Seawolves are receiving votes in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.
- America East is youth driven as five of the top 10 scorers are freshmen or sophomores.
- The Catamounts' Brian Voelkel is 12 rebounds shy of becoming just the ninth player in league history to reach the 1,000-mark.
- Stony Brook's Anthony Jackson is one of just four players in the country to have made all his free throw attempts (min. 2.5 attempts per game). He's a perfect 28-for-28 on the season.
- UMBC's Rodney Elliott has scored the more points (155) through 11 games than any freshman in program history.
- Conference play continues Wednesday when Vermont visits UMass Lowell in the River Hawks' first-ever America East contest.
2013-14 Men's Basketball Weekly Awards
Nov. 11 - Player of the Week: Anthony Jackson, Stony Brook
Rookie of the Week: Nick Madray, Binghamton
Nov. 18 - Co-Players of the Week: Jordan Reed, Binghamton/Chris Pelcher, UNH
Rookie of the Week: Rodney Elliott, UMBC
Nov. 25 - Player of the Week: Jameel Warney, Stony Brook
Rookie of the Week: Magnus Richards, Binghamton
Dec. 2 - Player of the Week: Peter Hooley, Albany
Rookie of the Week: Kurt Steidl, Vermont
Rookie of the Week: Rodney Elliott, UMBC
Dec. 9 - Co-Players of the Week: Jordan Reed, Binghamton/Mark Nwakamma, Hartford
Rookie of the Week: Marlon Beck, Binghamton
Dec. 16 - Player of the Week: Sam Rowley, Albany
Rookie of the Week: Rodney Elliott, UMBC