Wells With CAA ROW #4

Was there any doubt? I did call it in my Gardner-Webb recap...as probably most people did after seeing his performance this week. For the second week in a row (and fourth time this season) freshman Julius Wells was named CAA Rookie of the Week. In JMU's double overtime loss to Hofstra, he scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed seven boards. In Saturday night's 12 point win over Gardner-Webb, Wells scored 21 points (8-15, 4-11 3-pt, 1-1 FT), grabbed 8 rebounds, and had an assist, block, and steal. In the past two games he shot 54.3% from the floor and went 9-22 from behind the arc. The guy is just incredible and does so relatively quietly. If you watch the Dukes play, he doesn't stand out, but he has played incredibly solid minutes pretty much every game this year. He's got to be a shoe-in for CAA Rookie of the Year.

In JMU's latest game, the Dukes hit a total of 10 3-pointers. This broke the school record for threes in a single season with 208. The team that held the record before was the 1993-94 team...the last JMU squad to make it to the NCAA tournament.

From CAASports.com (same article):

History In The Making: Since the CAA began playing an 18-game conference schedule in 2001-02, there have never been more than six teams with at least 10 league victories in a season. Heading into the final week of regular-season play, six teams have already reached double-figure win totals and James Madison is just one victory away from joining them."

Fabulous Freshmen: James Madison’s freshman trio of Julius Wells (356 pts), Devon Moore (274 pts) and Andrey Semenov (222 pts) have scored the most points ever (852) by a Dukes’ freshmen class at the Division I level. It’s also the first time that JMU has had three freshmen with more than 200 points in a season.