UMass Lowell men’s basketball guard/forward Jahad Thomas (Williamsport, Pa.) picked up his third straight America East Player of the Week award for his efforts in a pair of conference games from January 9-15. He was also named River Hawk of the Week for the third time this season.
Thomas is the sixth student-athlete in America East history to earn three-straight Player of the Week honors, and the first to do so since Stony Brook’s Jameel Warney won four in a row in Jan. 2015.
The Williamsport, Pa. native averaged 18.0 points and 15.0 rebounds with 15 assists in a 1-1 week for the River Hawks. He finished the two games shooting 16-for-26 for a 61.5 percent clip from the field.
Thomas first turned in 17 points and 11 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double in a hard-fought, 73-71 setback at Maine on Jan. 11. In that contest, he surpassed 500 career rebounds, just one game after reaching 1,000 career points, to become the ninth player in program history to achieve both milestones in his tenure.
Later in the week, Thomas led the River Hawks to a 71-55 victory against Hartford on Jan. 14 with his first ever triple-double. He set a new career high with 10 assists, while matching a personal-best 19 rebounds and adding 19 points to tally the first triple-double of the modern era for UMass Lowell, and the first on record in program history since Hank Brown’s performance for Lowell Tech in 1967.
The redshirt-junior, who is third among the America East’s active career scoring leaders with 1,057 points, has logged seven double-doubles so far this year. He is averaging team-best marks with 17.4 points and 9.8 rebounds with 83 assists and 28 steals.
The "River Hawk of the Week" is chosen each week in voting by the UMass Lowell Athletic Communications staff. It honors the top athlete, male or female, based on performance during the previous week of competition.
