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Bell Shares Ivy Men's Hoops Player of the Week Honors
January 11, 2016 | Men's Basketball
For the first time in his Tiger career, sophomore Amir Bell has earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors.
Bell, who will share the award with Harvard's Agunwa Okolie, scored a career-high 28 points in a 73-71 overtime comeback win at Penn Saturday. The total boosted his previous career best by 11 points.
The honor is Princeton's first Ivy League Player of the Week honor this season and first since Henry Caruso won one on Jan. 12, 2015. Devin Cannady was the last Tiger to earn either weekly honor, being named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week just two weeks ago. Bell won one Ivy rookie honor last season, on Dec. 1, 2014.
Bell scored his 28 points on 9 of 13 shooting, making 4 of 5 3-pointers tried and all six free throws.
Princeton trailed Penn by 11 points at 64-53 with less than four minutes to go, but Bell made a pair of free throws to start the comeback and a 3-pointer to pull Princeton within 64-59 with 2:21 left. Princeton and Penn were tied at 66-66 at the end of regulation and the Tigers shut Penn out for the last 3:12 of overtime while rallying from a 71-66 deficit.