Clemens Earns Second Summit League Player of the Week Honor For 2017-18

The senior guard helped the Leathernecks open 1-0 in league play.

ELMHURST, Ill.— Senior point guard Emily Clemens earned her seventh-career Summit League Player of the Week award and the first of 2018, as announced Tuesday (Jan. 2, 2018).

Clemens has been named a Summit League Player of the Week twice this season, as she earned the award last week, along with her first-career espnW National Player of the Week honor on Dec. 26.

As the reigning Summit League Player of the Year and the current Preseason Player of the Year, Clemens now has seven games this season of 20 or more points and three games of 10 or more assists. She is also one of 20 names in the country to earn a spot on the Nancy Lieberman Award Preseason Watch List, which goes to the top point guard in the nation.

The Muscatine, Iowa native recorded 21 points, nine assists and went 6-for-6 from the charity stripe on the road at Bradley (Dec. 28). She followed up with a 28-point, 11-assist performance two days later (Dec. 30) in the league-opening win over Fort Wayne to close out 2017. In that game, she also went 7-for-7 from the free throw line. The win over the Mastodons marked her third double-double this season, while her 28 points were just six shy of her career-high (34).

Over the two-game span, she averaged 24.5 points, 10.0 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 4.5 steals. She also shot 54.8 percent (17-of-31) and a went perfect 13-of-13 from the charity stripe.

The Leathernecks (11-4, 1-0) welcome South Dakota (Jan. 4) and Oral Roberts (Jan. 6) to Western Hall for a pair of Summit League matchups, which begin at 7 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. (CST).

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#2 Emily Clemens: G; 5' 4"; Senior; Muscatine

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