Senior basketball player Brandon Norfleet has been named an IUP Athlete of the Week in an announcement made Monday for the week ending on Sunday, Feb. 7.
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Norfleet led the Crimson Hawks to a pair of wins against Mercyhurst and Edinboro on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively, to stretch IUP’s win streak to 12 consecutive games.
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IUP sits in first place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West Division with a 15-3 record. The Crimson Hawks are 18-5 overall.
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An IUP Athlete of the Week now for the sixth-straight week, Norfleet averaged 19 points, six assists and five rebounds in the two wins. Wednesday’s 22-point outing against Mercyhurst was his seventh-straight game of scoring at least 20 points, a stretch in which he averaged 26.6 and included a career-high 38 points Jan. 20 against Seton Hill.
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The PSAC’s leading scorer, Norfleet has 15 games of at least 20 points for the Crimson Hawks. On the year, he’s shooting 48 percent from the field, 43.6 percent from 3-point range and 78.6 percent from the free throw line.Â
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