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Devin Cannady won Ivy League Player of the Week honors this week.
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Cannady Earns Ivy Player of the Week Honors
December 26, 2017 | Men's Basketball
For the first time this season and the third time in his career, Devin Cannady has earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors.
Cannady broke out for 28 points, the second-most for a Tiger this year behind classmate Myles Stephens' 30 at USC last week, at Hawai'i to help Princeton close a 4-1 trip to California and Hawaii. The last four games of that trip, including the win at USC and Princeton's 2-1 finish at the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, were included in this week's awards.
Cannady also earned the honor twice last season, on Jan. 9, 2017 and Feb. 27, 2017, during Princeton's 14-0 run through the Ivy League. They'll have the chance to build on that next time out when the Ivy season opens Jan. 5 at Penn. Cannady will enter that game just three points from becoming the 33rd player in program history and sixth to play for Mitch Henderson to score 1,000 points.
At USC, Cannady hit four 3-pointers as part of his 23 points, giving him his fifth 20-point game of the year and 11th of his career. Though Cannady struggled from the field over the first two games in the islands, going a combined 5 of 22 from the field and 3 of 15 from 3, he found other ways to contribute, grabbing 17 rebounds and adding six assists with just three turnovers between those two games. He bounced back against the host team on Christmas Day, going 7 of 13 from the field and hitting a career-high 12 free throws on the way to a season-high 28 points, just one off his career best, as Princeton closed the week with two wins.
Cannady's nine rebounds at USC were a career high, and his 33 rebounds over the four games upped his season rebounding average from 3.4 to 4.8 boards per game. Entering the week, Cannady had just two occasions when he'd had eight or more rebounds in a game, and he went on to add three such games in three chances. His career best on the glass was 11, set in last year's Ivy League Tournament semifinal at Penn.
The win over USC was Princeton's first over a Pac-12 team since the 1996 NCAA Tournament win over UCLA and first on a Pac-12 team's home court since a 1970 win over Stanford. Princeton had seven meetings with teams from that conference since the UCLA game and five games at Pac-12 teams since the Stanford game 47 years to the day before.
Cannady broke out for 28 points, the second-most for a Tiger this year behind classmate Myles Stephens' 30 at USC last week, at Hawai'i to help Princeton close a 4-1 trip to California and Hawaii. The last four games of that trip, including the win at USC and Princeton's 2-1 finish at the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, were included in this week's awards.
Cannady also earned the honor twice last season, on Jan. 9, 2017 and Feb. 27, 2017, during Princeton's 14-0 run through the Ivy League. They'll have the chance to build on that next time out when the Ivy season opens Jan. 5 at Penn. Cannady will enter that game just three points from becoming the 33rd player in program history and sixth to play for Mitch Henderson to score 1,000 points.
At USC, Cannady hit four 3-pointers as part of his 23 points, giving him his fifth 20-point game of the year and 11th of his career. Though Cannady struggled from the field over the first two games in the islands, going a combined 5 of 22 from the field and 3 of 15 from 3, he found other ways to contribute, grabbing 17 rebounds and adding six assists with just three turnovers between those two games. He bounced back against the host team on Christmas Day, going 7 of 13 from the field and hitting a career-high 12 free throws on the way to a season-high 28 points, just one off his career best, as Princeton closed the week with two wins.
Cannady's nine rebounds at USC were a career high, and his 33 rebounds over the four games upped his season rebounding average from 3.4 to 4.8 boards per game. Entering the week, Cannady had just two occasions when he'd had eight or more rebounds in a game, and he went on to add three such games in three chances. His career best on the glass was 11, set in last year's Ivy League Tournament semifinal at Penn.
The win over USC was Princeton's first over a Pac-12 team since the 1996 NCAA Tournament win over UCLA and first on a Pac-12 team's home court since a 1970 win over Stanford. Princeton had seven meetings with teams from that conference since the UCLA game and five games at Pac-12 teams since the Stanford game 47 years to the day before.
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