{"id":10176,"date":"2018-02-20T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:24:39","slug":"matt-lewis-keeps-winning-caa-rookie-of-the-week-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10176","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lewis Keeps Winning CAA Rookie of the Week Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"10134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=10134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Cathy Kushner&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;2017JMUMBB-ODU&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1510604431&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;150&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;2017JMUMBB-ODU&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Matt Lewis\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10134 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?resize=599%2C337\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Matt_Lewis_ODU_111317.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>He did it again folks. For the fourth time this year, JMU&#8217;s Matt Lewis was selected as the CAA Rookie of the Week for men&#8217;s basketball. If you haven&#8217;t been watching, Lewis is just one of a number of Dukes&#8217; newcomers who give us plenty of optimism about the program&#8217;s direction. After playing shooting guard in high school, he&#8217;s transitioned to the point for JMU. And he&#8217;s doing an outstanding job.<\/p>\n<p>In JMU&#8217;s three games last week, Lewis averaged 21.7 points while shooting 45.5% from the field. He also knocked down 18 of 31 free throws, helping JMU pull out a couple of tight wins. JMU went 2-1 for the week, picking up a pair of wins against UNCW and Towson, and narrowly losing to the CAA leading College of Charleston. Lewis&#8217; best game probably came in the loss, when he dropped a career high 33 points. And it was not a quiet 33 points. It was an &#8220;in your face, let&#8217;s make it obvious who the best player on the court is&#8221; sort of 33 points.<\/p>\n<p>We sound like a broken record, but the roster Coach Rowe has assembled has plenty of upside. Sure, there are flaws that we&#8217;ve acknowledged. But the Dukes can play with anyone in the conference. Right now, JMU is the proverbial team that nobody wants to see in the tourney. If you&#8217;re still not tuning in and judging things off the record, you&#8217;re missing out. Players like Lewis, Stuckey Mosley, Darius Banks, Develle Phillips, and others are really fun to watch. They&#8217;re athletic and aggressive. And to our eyes at least, Rowe has started to take some steps forward as a coach. This team buys into what he&#8217;s selling. The record isn&#8217;t impressive, but this team is actually fun to watch. And it could be primed to compete for the CAA title, sooner than we think.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D10176&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He did it again folks. For the fourth time this year, JMU&#8217;s Matt Lewis was selected as the CAA Rookie of the Week for men&#8217;s basketball. If you haven&#8217;t been watching, Lewis is just one of a number of Dukes&#8217; newcomers who give us plenty of optimism about the program&#8217;s direction. After playing shooting guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10189,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10189","url_meta":{"origin":10176,"position":0},"title":"JMU Closes the Season With a Loss to Drexel","date":"March 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"That's all she wrote folks. JMU fell to Drexel in the Dean Keener round of the CAA Tournament, ending the 2017-2018 season. The Dukes played well in the opening half of the 70-62 loss, but the wheels came off down the stretch. 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