NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Landon Gamble was named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Basketball Player of the Week Monday.

Gamble, a junior forward from Joliet, Illinois and Lockport Township High School, scored a season-high 26 points on 11-of-12 shooting from the field during the Cardinals’ 88-61 win over North Park on Saturday. His performance was the fourth-best shooting percentage in school history and he currently leads the team at 68.6 percent.

2012-13 CCIW Men’s Basketball Players of the Week
Landon Gamble – North Central (2/18/13)
Kevin Reed – Illinois Wesleyan (2/11/13)
Andrew Ziemnik – Illinois Wesleyan (2/4/13)
Tyler Peters – Wheaton (1/28/13)
Mitch Thompson – Carthage (1/21/13)
Nathan Haynes – Wheaton (1/14/13)
Vince Kmiec – North Central (1/7/13)
Andrew Ziemnik – Illinois Wesleyan (12/31/12)
Derek Raridon – North Central (12/17/12)
Tyler Peters – Wheaton (12/10/12)
Mark Holmes – North Park (12/3/12)
Landon Gamble – North Central (11/26/12)
Tyler Peters – Wheaton (11/19/12)

The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services eight member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2011-12 academic year, the CCIW honored 1,323 academic all-conference recipients, 16 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 1 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year, 89 all-Americans and three national championship teams.