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UND’s Hooker earns Big Sky weekly honor

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OGDEN, Utah North Dakota’s Quinton Hooker’s heroics led the Fighting Hawks to two wins last week and earned this week’s Big Sky Conference men’s basketball Player of the Week honor. It is Hooker’s second weekly award of the season.

 

Hooker, a junior guard from Brooklyn Park, Minn., averaged 36.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.0 steals in two games last week. He shot at an 81 percent clip (26-of-32), 73 percent from 3-point territory (8-for-11) and 92 percent from the free-throw line (12-of-13). The two wins kept the Fighting Hawks in the hunt for a first-round bye at the upcoming Big Sky Conference tournament.

In Thursday’s 80-77 victory over Portland State, Hooker broke UND’s Division I single-game scoring record with a career-high 38 points. It was also the most points scored in a single game in the Big Sky Conference thus far this season. He made a career-best 15 field goals (15-of-20), knocked down three treys and went 5-for-5 at the charity stripe.

Hooker posted 18 points in the first period against PSU and eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career. He became the 35th player in UND history to join the 1,000-point club and the 10th junior to do so.

In Saturday’s 97-71 victory over Sacramento State, Hooker scored 34 points and made 11 straight field goals after missing his first shot of the game to help UND set a Division I single-game school record for field goal percentage (63 percent). He finished the game hitting 11-of-12 from the floor including a career-high five 3-pointers (5-of-5) and 7-for-8 at the free-throw line.

Hooker currently ranks second in the Big Sky in scoring (19.9 ppg), sixth in assists (4.1 ppg) and second in steals (2.0 spg). In Big Sky games, Hooker leads the league in 3-point percentage (46.9), is third in scoring (21.3 ppg), eighth in field-goal percentage (53.3), second in steals (2.2 spg) and tied for seventh in assists (4.4 apg).

UND will look to clinch either the No. 3 or No. 4 seed in the Big Sky Conference tournament as the Fighting Hawks travel to face Montana State and Montana in the final two games of the regular season.

Others nominated: Justin Strings – Sacramento State; Martin Breunig – Montana; Dusty Baker – Weber State; Tyler Hall – Montana State; Anthony Johnson – Northern Colorado; Ako Kaluna – Northern Arizona; Chris Sarbaugh – Idaho; Cameron Forte – Portland State; Christian Thompson – Southern Utah; Ethan Telfair – Idaho State; Venky Jois – Eastern Washington

Press release courtesy of Jason Ashcraft – Big Sky Conference. All Rights Reserved.

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