Chico State’s Jojo Murphy collects his second FloCollege/CCAA Player of the Week award

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Chico State’s Jojo Murphy has been selected as the FloCollege/CCAA Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 30-Jan. 5.

Murphy averaged 21.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists to lead Chico State to a pair of road wins coming out of the holiday break. The junior guard shot .516 percent from the field (16-of-31) and .421 percent from 3-point range. The wins extended Chico State’s record to a perfect 6-0 in conference play. 

Against Cal State Monterey Bay, Murphy had 19 points, six rebounds and five assists. In the next game at Stanislaus State, Murphy scored 24 points and grabbed a season-high eight rebounds. He added five assists, two steals and five 3-pointers.

Those performances extended his CCAA-leading scoring average to 20.4 points per game. He is up nearly two points on second place. Murphy is also second in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.96) and fifth in assists per game (4.1). He is shooting .482 percent from the field (seventh CCAA) and .387 from 3-point range (third CCAA). Click here to see CCAA Statistics Leaders.

This is Murphy’s second CCAA Men’s Basketball Player of the Week award in the past two week, and the third of his career. Click here to see a complete list of past CCAA Players of the Week.

The Wildcats will have a tough home slate next week when they host No. 17 Cal Poly Pomona on Thursday, Jan. 9 and Cal State San Bernardino on Saturday, Jan. 11.

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