OVC Players of the Week

Three Different Teams Represented

All three players pick up their first league-wide award.

Editor: The following is part of a press release from ovcsports.com.

PLAYER
Ben Sheppard, G • Belmont
In a pair of wins last week Sheppard averaged 21.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.0 steals and 1.5 assists/game while hitting 62.1 percent (18-of-29) from the field as Belmont improved to 4-0 in OVC play. In the team’s 68-55 home win over rival Murray State, Sheppard had a career-high 21 points. He also limited All-OVC performer Tevin Brown to just two field goals. He matched that career-high three days later with 21 points in a 90-69 win at UT Martin. In that win, Sheppard added a career-high six steals.

NEWCOMER
Amanze Ngumezi, F • Jacksonville State
Ngumezi, a transfer from Georgia, had a career-high 20 points, eight rebounds, an assist and block in 21 minutes off the bench in Jacksonville State’s 80-70 home win over UT Martin. The Gamecocks improved to 3-0 in Conference play and Ngumezi has now scored in double figures in three-straight games.

FRESHMAN
Wendell Green Jr., G • Eastern Kentucky
In two wins, Green averaged 19.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.5 steals and 1.5 assists/game while hitting 50 percent (5-of-10) from 3-point range. Green exploded for 30 points in Saturday’s 80-75 road win over Austin Peay; the 30 points is the second most nationally by a freshman this season (trailing only 32 points by LSU’s Cameron Thomas), and second-most by any OVC player this year. At one point Green scored 14-straight points in a 3:22 stretch of the first half. He started the week with nine points, a season-high five steals, three assists, three rebounds and a block in a home victory over Eastern Illinois. Green leads all OVC freshmen in assists (4.5/game) and steals (2.0/game) and is second in scoring (11.9 points/game).