Bowles & Evans Give JMU a Sweep of CAA POW Awards

CAA POW Denzel Bowles.

Denzel Bowles was selected as the CAA’s Player of the Week thanks to his big 34 point game against Marshall. Not to be outdone, JMU’s Dawn Evans won the CAA Player of the Week for the women. Evans dropped 42 points against UVa in the Dukes’ 82-80 come from behind victory over the Cavaliers.

This is Bowles’ second POW this season. Through 12 games, Denzel is leading the CAA in FG percentage. He’s shooting .622 from the floor. Given JMU’s improved depth, particularly the addition of Rayshawn Goins and return of Devon Moore, Bowles scoring average has dipped from last year. He’s still averaging over 18 points a game and as Marshall learned last week, he can take over a game. In the first game against Marshall, Denzel shot well from the field but only had 13 points. It was nice to see that when JMU decided to switch up the gameplan and run the offense through Bowles in the rematch, that he came through.

Dawn Evans is in the midst of another outstanding season herself. The Senior Guard leads the nation in scoring at 26.1 ppg. She also broke the CAA record for three pointers made, with 325 thus far in her career.