Marquis Wright & Peter Kiss Earn LifeStorage Weekly Awards
MAAC Sports
Player of the Week
Marquis Wright, Siena
Sr., 6-1, G, Waldorf, MD/North Point
Wright averaged 18.5 points, 7.5 assists, and 4.5 rebounds in leading the Saints to a pair of road wins last week at defending MAAC Tournament Champion Iona and archrival Marist. Wright recorded a stellar 5.0 assist-to-turnover ratio and came up huge in the clutch late in the two close road wins. In the 81-79 victory at Iona which snapped the red-hot Gaels’ seven-game home win streak and six-game winning streak overall, Wright scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half to rally the Saints back from a 13-point deficit with 13:18 to go. He scored nine of his points over the final four minutes, and calmly sank the go-ahead, game-winning free throws with 12.3 seconds left. He also dished out nine assists in the win. On Saturday, Wright scored 16 of his team-high 21 points in the second half and dished out six assists without committing a turnover in an 84-77 win at Marist. Wright was clutch down the stretch once again, going a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line over the final 44 seconds to ice the win.
Rookie of the Week
Peter Kiss, Quinnipiac
Fr., 6-5, G, New York, NY/Notre Dame (MA)
Kiss had 18 points and 12 rebounds, including the game-winning basket with 1.9 seconds left, as Quinnipiac picked up a road win at Fairfield on Monday. Kiss broke ties three times in the last 1:10, giving the Bobcats their first lead of the second half with a free throw with 1:08 left, hitting a tiebreaking jumper with 42 seconds left, and after Fairfield knotted it back up with 31 seconds, he beat the shot clock buzzer with a 10-foot floater for the win with just 1.9 left. After being held to nine points in a loss to Saint Peter’s on Thursday, he came back with 17 points and eight rebounds in a 112-107 road loss at Rider on Saturday.