Princeton Star Gets Honored
6 foot 10 Princeton senior Judson Wallace, who had a record-setting performance in Princeton's win over Monmouth Sunday and his fourth career "double-double" in a victory over Rutgers Wednesday, has been named the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week ending Dec. 12.
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Wallace shot 13-for-13 from the free-throw line against Monmouth, outdoing three other 12-for-12 foul-line performances in program history, including his own last season at Dartmouth. The senior center from Atlanta scored a season-high 23 points against the Hawks while also adding six rebounds.
Three days earlier, in Princeton's home opener against Rutgers, Wallace was instrumental for the Tigers in a second-half run that helped the Tigers to a 53-40 victory. He scored 18 points while adding a season-high 11 rebounds, shooting 7 for 14 from the field and 3 for 7 from three-point range.
Wallace earned the Ivy League's Player of the Week award twice last season on the way to first-team All-Ivy League honors at season's end. He currently leads the Tigers in scoring at 13.3 points per game and is just 158 points away from becoming Princeton's 25th 1,000-point scorer.
The Tigers (5-2), who have won four straight games, return to action next Mon., Dec. 20, when they face Temple for the first time since the 1974-75 season. The Tigers and Owls meet at Temple's Liacouras Center at 7 p.m. in a game televised on ESPN2.
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