Wheaton’s Raymond Earns Fourth CCIW Men’s Basketball Player of the Week Award

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – For the fourth time this season, Kent Raymond of Wheaton was named men’s basketball player of the week in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Monday after his performance during the previous week of competition.

Raymond, a sophomore guard from New Palestine, Ind., and New Palestine High School, had a record-breaking week, averaging 30.5 points per game, with a 56 percent (14-25) field goal percentage and a 53.8 percent (7-13) three-point field goal percentage. Raymond scored a Shirk Center-record 44 points in Wheaton’s 93-84 win at Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday night. Raymond’s career-high 44-point output is the most by a Wheaton player since 1970 and the fifth-highest single-game tally in over 100 years of Wheaton basketball. Raymond made six three-pointers in the win and recorded a school-record 20-for-20 effort from the free throw line. On Wednesday night he scored a team-high 17 points in a three-point loss at 10th-ranked Augustana.

The last player to earn the award four or more times in one season was Wheaton’s Joel Kolmodin, who earned player of the week honors five times during the 2002-03 season.

2006-07 CCIW Men’s Basketball Players of the Week
Kent Raymond- Wheaton (2/12/07)
Kent Raymond - Wheaton (2/5/07)
Brent Ruch -Elmhurst & Brian Schlemm - Carthage (1/29/07)
Kent Raymond - Wheaton (1/22/07)
Drew Gensler - Millikin (1/15/07)
Brian Lee - Elmhurst (1/9/07)
Johnnie Standard - Wheaton (1/2/07)
Nick Michael - Elmhurst & Jordan Delp - Augustana (12/18/06)
Ryan Burks - Elmhurst (12/11/06)
Kent Raymond - Wheaton (12/4/06)
Brian Schlemm - Carthage (11/27/06)
Andrew Freeman - Illinois Wesleyan (11/20/06)