Nike #HLMBB Players of the Week (November 15)
INDIANAPOLIS – Wright State’s Grant Basile averaged a League-best 25.0 points per game to start the season including a 37-point performance at Marshall to earn Nike® #HLMBB Player of the Week, while Patrick Baldwin Jr. dazzled in his collegiate debut as he finished with 20.0 points and 10.5 rebounds per game over a two-game stretch to be named Nike® #HLMBB Freshman of the Week as the Horizon League announced its first men’s basketball weekly honors of the 2021-22 season on Monday.
#HLMBB Player of the Week
Grant Basile | Wright State | Redshirt Junior | Forward | Pewaukee, Wis.
Basile turned in a career-best 37 points on Friday night as the Raiders went on the road against Marshall and ended the first week of the college basketball season with a 25.0 points per game average through a pair of contests. Against Marshall, Basile was 12-of-21 from the floor and added a 12-for-14 mark from the free-throw stripe. The 37 points breaks his previous career high of 35 points set at the end of last season. He’s shooting 62 percent from the floor early on after opening the season with a 6-of-8 shooting night with 13 points in a win over Lake Erie, tallying his first double-double after adding 13 rebounds and four blocks. For the week, the redshirt junior led the Horizon League in scoring and ranked sixth in both rebounds and field-goal percentage.
#HLMBB Freshman of the Week
Patrick Baldwin Jr. | Milwaukee | Freshman | Guard | Sussex, Wis.
Baldwin Jr. opened up his collegiate career with back-to-back double-doubles, averaging 20.0 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 90.9 percent from the free throw line (10-of-11) and adding 2.5 assists per game as the Panthers went 1-1. In his highly-anticipated debut, the Sussex, Wis. native posted 21 points and 10 boards at North Dakota, recording the first double-double in a season opener for a Milwaukee freshman since 2008. His 20 points was also the most for an MKE freshman in a season opener since 1999. He followed up that performance with 19 points and 11 rebounds against Eastern Kentucky at home as he was the only HL player to post a pair of double-doubles during the opening week of action.
2021-22 Nike® #HLMBB Players of the Week
November 15 – Grant Basile, Wright State
2021-22 Nike® #HLMBB Freshmen of the Week
November 15 – Patrick Baldwin Jr., Milwaukee