Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Gold Rush's Wright is GCAC Player of the Week again

MORRIS WRIGHT
NEW ORLEANS — For the second time this season, Xavier University of Louisiana's Morris Wright is the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week in men's basketball.

Wright — a 5-foot-10 junior guard from Zachary, La., and a former Zachary High School and Baton Rouge Community College standout — earned the honor for Dec. 15-21 after averaging 18.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.5 steals during the Gold Rush's 2-0 week. Wright scored 15 points, made 6-of-6 free throws and grabbed five rebounds in a 72-63 hone victory against Faulkner, then he had 22 points, five assists and a career-high-tying steals in a 92-82 overtime victory at NAIA No. 5 William Carey which snapped the Crusaders' 29-game home winning atreak.

Wright scored six points during a 10-0 run to begin overtime and helped Xavier's record its first road victory against a top-10 opponent in nearly seven years.

Xavier, 11-4 and ranked 22nd in NAIA Division I, will play NAIA No. 9 Concordia (Calif.) at 7 p.m. next Tuesday at XU's Convocation Center.

Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
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