University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Primm Earns National Award
01.31.2012 | Men's Basketball
BOSTON (MA) -- UNC Asheville's J.P. Primm earned the Lou Henson award national player of the week honors by collegeinsider.com on Monday night.
The 6-foot-1 senior had a career-high 30 points in Asheville's win over High Point on Thursday. He also had five assists and five steals in the win. On Saturday he had 23 points, 5 assists and connected on 5 three-pointers as UNC Asheville defeated Campbell.
For the week, he finished 16-for-30 from the field, 10-for-22 from three-point range, 11-for-11 from the free throw line and had a 10-to-1 assist-turnover ratio.
The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the top Mid-Major player in Division I college basketball. The award is named in honor of Lou Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four.
WEEKLY HONORS
Week 12 (Jan. 30) J.P. Primm, UNC Asheville
Week 11 (Jan. 23) Anthony Ireland, Loyola Marymount
Week 10 (Jan. 16) George Beamon, Manhattan and LaMarcus Reed, UT-Arlington
Week 9 (Jan. 9) Dominique Morrison, Oral Roberts
Week 8 (Jan. 2) Kyle Weems, Missouri State
Week 7 (Dec. 26) Alex Young, IUPUI
Week 6 (Dec. 19) Reggie Hamilton, Oakland
Week 5 (Dec. 12) Trey Harmon, Cleveland State
Week 4 (Dec. 5) Joe Ragland, Wichita State
Week 3 (Nov. 28) Doug McDermott, Creighton and Evan Roquemore, Santa Clara
Week 2 (Nov. 21) Caspar Ware, Long Beach State
Week 1 (Nov. 14) D'Aundray Brown, Cleveland State
