Collin Jones named MAC Commonwealth Player of the Week
ANNVILLE, PA – A big week in Daytona Beach earned Lebanon Valley men’s basketball senior Collin Jones Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth (MAC Commonwealth) Player of the Week honors on Tuesday in a release by the conference office.
Jones had two great games against a pair of high-quality opponents from the Ohio Athletic Conference at the Florida Sunshine Shootout in Daytona Beach. The senior averaged 24 points and 11.5 rebounds in two hard-fought defeats. He started the week with game-highs of 23 points and nine rebounds in a tough 78-62 defeat to fourth-ranked Mount Union. Jones was a force down low getting to the line 10 times and making nine free throws. The forward then finished the week with game-highs of 25 points and 14 rebounds in a tight 71-67 defeat to Marietta College. Jones led a second half comeback in which the Dutchmen rallied from a 14-point deficit with 7:19 left to within two points holding the Pioneers scoreless until a pair of free throws with nine seconds left clinched the victory.
The weekly award is the second for Jones this season and the sixth of his career. Jones is a Central Mountain High School graduate where he was a standout in both basketball and football.
