Boudreaux Takes Home Seventh Ivy League Rookie of the Week Award

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its weekly award winners in men's basketball this afternoon, and Dartmouth forward Evan Boudreaux was selected as the Rookie of the Week for the seventh time this season. Those seven awards are the most ever by one player at Dartmouth, and he is just one shy of matching the league record of eight set by Penn's Michael Jordan (1996-97) and equaled by Cornell's Adam Gore (2005-06).

The freshman from Lake Forest, Illinois, averaged 22.0 points and 8.5 rebounds in the two Ivy League games over the weekend, including a career-high 27 points at Penn on Friday night. Boudreaux connected on 10-of-21 field goals with a pair of three-pointers against the Quakers, plus sank all five of his free throws to account for his 27 points. He also led the Big Green with eight rebounds while playing 38 minutes, but Dartmouth ended up on the wrong end of a 71-64 score at The Palestra.

The next night, Boudreaux led the Big Green in scoring for the seventh straight game, recording 17 points, and in rebounding for the fifth consecutive contest with nine caroms, just missing out what could have been his seventh double-double of the season. But host Princeton hit everything in sight over the first 10 minutes, opening up a 34-12 lead, and Dartmouth could not recover at Jadwin Gym in an 83-70 defeat.

For the season, Boudreaux is averaging 16.9 points and 8.9 rebounds per game, both of which rank third among Ivy Leaguers. In conference play, he leads the loop with 10.5 boards and is second with 20.3 points per game.

Should he maintain his pattern of winning this award every other week, as he has done since the season began, he would garner two more to break the league record.

Dartmouth (7-13, 1-5 Ivy) plays host to league-leading Yale (15-5, 6-0 Ivy) and Brown (7-13, 2-4 Ivy) on Friday and Saturday with both games tipping off at 7 p.m. This is the first meeting between the Big Green and the Bulldogs since Dartmouth denied the Elis an outright Ivy League crown last year and and NCAA Tournament berth by hitting a last-second shot at Leede Arena. Fans that can't make it to Hanover to see the team in action in person can subscribe to the Ivy League Digital Network and watch the game online with Jay Burnham calling the action.

Note: The previous Big Green record of six Rookie of the Week awards was held by Leon Pattman in 2003-04.

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