Defensive Player of the Week: JJ Montgomery, Bellevue (Neb.)
Montgomery, a senior guard from Hayward, Calif., was selected as the Defensive Player-of-the-Week.
He registered a pair of steals in a pair of conference home victories over (RV) Montana Western and No. 15 ranked Montana Tech. The diminutive drew the defensive assignment of locking and trailing UMW’s leading scorer and held the league’s leading scorer’s eight points below his season average and allowed him to get off just six (6) field goal attempts in Bellevue’s 80-67 win.
Montgomery followed up by holding the Orediggers’ leading scorer to just ten points, six points below his season average as the Bruins knocked off No. 15 MT 67-62.
He added 2.0 defensive rebounds per game for the week.
This is Montgomery’s first career Erck Hotels / Frontier Conference Player of the Week award.