Alumni Alert - United States

We'll get to a Canadian update soon. Here's how our friends down south have been performing:

Women

May Kotsopoulos, Vermont - NCAA D1 (Senior)
The Catamounts are 8-2 on the year (with losses coming to #1 ranked UConn and Oklahoma State out of the Big 12.

Kotsopoulos leads Vermont in scoring (18.9 PPG) and also is averaging 2.4 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.7 steals per contest. She's shooting 42.6% from three-point land and a solid 80% from the line.

Kaila Montgomery, Cleveland State - NCAA D1 (Redshirt Freshman)
The WCI grad has not yet seen action for the (aptly named) Vikings --- she also redshirted last season due to knee injury.

Men

Bryson Johnson, Bucknell - NCAA D1 (Freshman)
The Bisons are 4-8 on the year thus far, and last night dropped a 101-69 decision to Notre Dame. Johnson, however, was Bucknell's leading scorer with 17 points (see the Yahoo Boxscore here).

The St. David grad is averaging just under 10 points per contest (9.9), 1.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists. Johnson's season high of 19 points came against Wagner on November 28th in an 85-61 victory.

He's shooting 34.7% from the floor and 34.5% from three point range ---- the similarity is not surprising considering about 85% of his field goal attempts and makes are from beyond the arc! He's also been a solid 88% from the line thus far.

Murphy Burnatowski, Maine - NCAA D1 (Freshman)
Burnatowski, who starts for the Bears, had 5 points in a losing effort last night against #11 UConn. The Bears were tied with the Huskies 26-26 at halftime, before being outscored in the second half en route to a 71-54 loss (see the Yahoo Boxscore here).

The Bears are 5-5 on the year, with losses at Syracuse and UConn.

Burnatowski is averaging 4.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists on the campaign in 16.2 minutes of action per contest. His season high of 13 points came in a 133-58 destruction of D-III school Maine-Presque Isle, while against D1 opposition he hit for 8 points against Quinnipiac.

Imad Qahwash, Central Arkansas - NCAA D1 (Junior)
The Grand River grad (via Harmony Prep in Cincinnati) has started all 12 games for the 5-7 Bears, who have played at #1 Kansas and at perennial power Memphis.

The 6'2" point guard is actually third on the team in rebounding (5.1 RPG) while putting in 4.8 points per game and adding 2.2 assists.

He has been playing well as of late, scoring 10 points against both Tennessee-Martin and Harris Stowe State University (NAIA). Yesterday, he chipped in 2 points and pulled down 9 'boards during a 55-44 loss to Western Illinois (see Yahoo Boxscore here).

Jon House, Belmont University - NCAA D1 (Junior)
The third-year Bruin is averaging 7.0 PPG, 3.7 rebounds and 2.0 assists for the 7-4 Bruins. In addition, he's shooting over 50% (50.9% to be exact) from the field.

He pumped home 17 points (December 8th in an 83-71 win over Middle Tennessee State) on 6-7 shooting including 3-3 from three-point land. His career high of 20 points came last season, though he has had 4 games in double digits to this point in the season.

Aleksa Rovic, Southwestern Oklahoma State - NCAA D2 (Freshman)
Although the stats page from the SWOSU website has been down as of late, I can tell you that the freshman has started a couple games of late for the Bulldogs, scoring 3 points in 10 minutes against Tarleton College and adding 5 points in 24 minutes during a 67-35 win over Rhema Bible College.

Against Eastern New Mexico, he played an efficient 13 minutes off the bench scoring 6 points (2-3 FG, 1-2 FG, 1-1 FT), while adding 3 rebounds and a steal.

SWOSU is currently 4-8 on the year.

Boyd Vassell, Iowa Central Community College - NJCAA (Freshman)
Vassell has been seeing some good floor time for Iowa CCC, having scored 11 points in a recent loss against Southeastern Iowa CC. He currently ranks second in conference in free-throw shooting (30/34, .882).

While unsuccessfully stumbling around looking for stats, I did come across this cool website with some of the all-time great performances of various leagues, including Canadian High School basketball. See it here. Vassell's 55 points against CHCI last year made a list of all-time great performances by Canadian High School hoopsters, which is naturally led by Denham Brown's 111 point game a few years back.

Mike Onochie, San Pasqual HS (San Diego Area, CA) - High School Junior
The former Resurrection junior starter was named as a high school athlete of the week after scoring 53 points in 3 games for the Eagles. He's currently averaging 14.0 PPG while the Eagles are 4-2 on the season.