Noel Coleman, University of Hawai’i’s Men’s Basketball is the Player of Week. He has been honored following his double-digit scoring streak in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic.
It is a career first conference honor for the sophomore Guard and the first weekly honor for a Rainbow Warrior in this season.
Noel Coleman, a native from Leopoldsburg in Belgium, scored 26.5 points per game while shooting 62.2% (18-29) from the floor, and 60.0% (9-of-15) beyond the three point line during tournament games against the Vanderbilt Commodores and the South Florida.
Coleman lite up Vanderbilt for a career-high 31 points — the highest scoring output by a Big West player so far this year — and followed that up with a 22-point performance against South Florida Bulls.
At 18.0 points per game, the 6-1 guard leads all Big West players. He also posted four games with at least 20 point totals.
Coleman, who made six three-pointers against Vanderbilt, is also the leader in three pointers per game (3.0) as well as second in three point goal percentage (.500, 21 of-42).
