ZITO SHARES SECOND AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARD OF THE SEASON
12/12/2005
For the second time this season, UMBC senior forward John Zito (Windsor, Conn./Windsor/St. Thomas More) has been named co-America East Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. Zito shares the award with Albany center Kirsten Zoellner, and shared the November 21 award with Albany’s Jamar Wilson.
Zito returned from missing a game with an ankle injury to score 17 points each in games at West Virginia and in the conference opening win versus Stony Brook. The 6-6 forward hit 8-of-12 shots and managed five offensive rebounds in the Retrievers' loss at WVU and then hit all four second half field goal attempts in the win over Stony Brook. He is 25 of his last 36 (69.4 percent) from the floor in his last three games, raising his field goal percentage to 53.4 percent for the 2005-06 campaign.
Zito leads UMBC with 15.5 points and 7.0 rebounds per game.
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