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Men's Hoops Leasure Named Big South Player of the Week

       

Men's Hoops Leasure Named Big South Player of the Week

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Coastal Carolina guard Jack Leasure (Rochester, N.Y.) has been selected as the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for games played Jan. 2-7, it was announced today by the League office. 

Leasure broke through last week with his best back-to-back games of the season, averaging 22.0 points in leading the Chanticleers to two wins.  He scored a season-high 24 points, going 7-of-11 from the field, 6-of-8 from three-point range and 4-of-4 from the charity stripe, along with three assists and two steals in Coastal’s win over McNeese State.  He followed that with 20 points, hitting 6-of-11 treys, as well as three assists and two steals in Saturday’s win over Charleston Southern.  Leasure tallied 11 of his 20 points -- including three triples -- in the closing seven-and-a-half minutes to seal the win.  On the week, Leasure was 14-of-26 from the field (53.8 percent), 12-of-19 from long range (63.2 percent), 4-of-4 from the line (1.000 percent) and tallied 3.0 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.5 rebounds.

Coastal is back in action tonight, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m., taking on UNC Asheville at UNCA's Justice Center.