Men's Basketball

Casale Earns GNAC & MMBCWA Honors

Posted: Dec 11, 2018

STANDISH, Maine – Weekly accolades have been released and Saint Joseph's College sophomore Jack Casale (Portland, Maine/Cheverus) has garnered Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Week and Maine Men's Basketball Coaches & Writers Association (MMBCWA) Co-Player of the Week accolades.

In a 2-0 week, Casale averaged 22.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists while shooting 60.7% (17-28) overall and 64.3% (9-14) from beyond the arc to help the Monks extend their winning streak to six games. He was a stellar 11-of-13, including 6-of-6 from three, en route to scoring 28 points with six boards and four assists in a 104-78 victory over Maine Maritime on Tuesday. He added 16 points and 13 rebounds in a 78-74 win at Husson on Saturday.

Through nine games, Casale is averaging 24.0 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists per contest while shooting 50.3% (74-147) from the field, 52.1% (38-73) from three-point distance, and 73.2% (30-41) from the free-throw line. He currently leads the conference in scoring average, three-pointers made, and defensive rebounds (73) and is second in points (216), and fourth in minutes per game (34.2) and total rebounds (82).

Casale shares the MMBCWA Player of the Week honor with Bowdoin College junior guard David Reynolds (Raleigh, N.C.), who averaged 23.7 points while shooting 56% from the floor in a 3-0 week for the Polar Bears.

For Casale, the MMBCWA honor is his third this season and the GNAC Player of the Week accolade is the first of his collegiate career.

In the weekly coaches poll, Saint Joseph's is ranked second - according to a vote of Maine college head coaches - with 32 total points. With seven first-place votes and 38 total points, Colby is ranked first while Bowdoin is third (23 pts), Husson fourth (18), and UMaine-Farmington is fifth (4). Southern Maine and Maine Maritime also received votes.

Saint Joseph's (7-2) will host UMaine-Farmington on Thursday at 7:30 PM.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.