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Nick Bennett |
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Class:
Senior |
Hometown:
Stevens Point, WI |
Position:
Forward |
2003-04:
Most Valuable Player of final four after scoring 30 points in championship
game and averaging 25.8 points in NCAA tournament on 60.0 percent
three-point shooting (21-for-35)...Named first-team All-WIAC while ranking
fifth in league in scoring... Selected to Street & Smith�s 2004-05
preseason All-American second team...Ranked second in league and 23rd
nationally in free throw shooting at 86.7 percent...Set single-season
school record with 83 three-pointers and finished third in WIAC with 46.1
percent three-point shooting...Team was 23-0 when he scored 14 points or
more...Led WIAC in assist/turnover ratio with 97 assists and 42
turnovers...Had a career-high 37 points in NCAA sectional win at Puget
Sound...Scored 25 points, including a game-tying three-pointer with nine
seconds left in regulation against Lawrence... Reached 1,000 career point
mark in second half against Lawrence...Hit first four three-point attempts
and finished with 24 points in NCAA tourney opener against
Benedictine...Posted 29 points in regular season wins over UW-Stout and
Kalamazoo to earn WIAC Player of the Week honors after each effort...Made
all nine free throws against Kalamazoo...Named to all-tournament team in
Pointer Tipoff Classic. 2002-03: Started 21 of 24 games played and
scored in double figures 17 times...Led WIAC in three-point field goal
percentage at 52.0 percent...Second in conference in both free throw
percentage (89.9) and field goal percentage (60.3)...Ranked seventh in
NCAA Division III in free throw percentage...Exploded for 29 points,
including 22 of the team�s final 25 points of the first half while making
11 of 12 shots against Viterbo...Scored 27 points and made five of six
three-pointers in an important victory over UW-Stout to start the second
half of the conference season...Led team in scoring in NCAA tournament
game against Gustavus Adophus with 18 points...One of seven players in
school history to have a perfect game from the free throw line with at
least nine attempts, hitting all nine and finishing with 21 points and
seven rebounds against UW-River Falls...Had a career high eight rebounds
at UW-River Falls. 2001-02: Appeared in all 27 games as a freshman,
earning four starts and averaging 13.9 minutes per game...Shot 56.1
percent from the field...Scored 20 points in loss at UW-Stout and 20
points in win at UW-Superior. 2000-01: Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL:
First-team All-Conference selection...Member of SPASH�s Wisconsin Valley
Conference title team in 1999-2000...Named WSAW Channel 7 All-Star...Twice
named to the All-Sentry Classic Team...Honor Roll student.
PERSONAL:
Born 12-22-81...Parents Jack and Sue...High school coach Bob Schultz...Broadfield
Social Studies major.
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