JONATHAN BLOUNT OF CENTENARY COLLEGE, a senior guard from Shreveport, La., has been selected the SCAC Men's Basketball Player-of-the-Week for games played from Monday, January 27th through Sunday, February 2nd.

Blount led Centneary to a pair of SCAC road wins over the weekend, moving the Gents to just a 1.5 games out of first place. The senior averaged 20.5 points this weekend to move Centenary's win streak to three games and marked the first time since the 2003-04 season that the program has recorded 10 wins on Feb. 1.

Blount scored 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting including two three pointers to lead the Gents to a 78-71 win over Texas Lutheran in Seguin. He followed that up with a 19 point outing on 5-of-10 shooting and seven assists to lead Centenary to a huge win over second place Schreiner.

Blount shot 50% from the field as well as from the three point line and was 85% from the charity stripe. Blount also moved into the top 15 in career scorers with 1,280 points.