Pictured Above: Senior guard JoJo Cooper (Credit: Gabriel Rhodes)
Official Release
New York, NY – The accolades continue to pour in for Wagner men's basketball senior guard
JoJo Cooper (Wilmington, DE/Concord) as he's been tabbed Division I Player of the Week by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers' Association (MBWA) it was announced on Tuesday, one day after he was
named Northeast Conference (NEC) Player for the second time this season.
For Cooper, this marks the first MBWA citation of his career as he becomes the first Seahawk to earn the weekly award since his former Seahawk teammate,
Marcus Burton ('15), earned the distinction for the week of January 12-18, 2015.
The 6-0 Wilmington, DE native led Wagner to a perfect 2-0 record for the week which propelled Wagner into a first-place tie in the conference standings. In home victories over Saint Francis U and Robert Morris, the versatile Cooper nearly averaged a triple-double with 14.0 ppg, 8.5 rpg, and 9.0 apg ,while also contributing 1.5 spg and shooting at 43.0 percent clip from the floor.
The veteran point guard opened the week on Thursday night with a
17 point, 10 assist, five rebound performance against Saint Francis U as Wagner came back from an early nine-point deficit in recording its ninth home victory of the season, 73-64. Two days later, in a first-place showdown with Robert Morris on Saturday afternoon,
Cooper notched his sixth double-double of the season, finishing the contest with 11 points and 12 rebounds, while falling just two assists shy of posting a triple-double.
Playing in his 110th career game as a Seahawk against the Colonials, Cooper's game-high eight assists marked the 71st time in his career that he has led or tied for the team lead in helpers, including 17 of 19 times this season. In helping Wagner win four of its last five games, Cooper is averaging 17.2 ppg, 6.8 rpg and 6.4 apg, while shooting the ball at an efficient rate of 51.8 percent from the field, and 56.3 percent from beyond-the-arc in 37.2 minutes a contest.
Wagner now turns its attention to a two-game road trip to Western Pennsylvania as the Seahawks will take on Saint Francis U at DeGol Arena on Friday, January 26 in a 5:00 p.m. contest on ESPNU, before concluding the trip on Sunday, January 28 in Pittsburgh, PA with a 2:00 p.m. start vs. the Robert Morris University Colonials at PPG Paints Arena.
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