Enfield Basketball Star Wins Third Player-of-Week Honor

By Eastern Connecticut State University Athletics

After helping the Eastern Connecticut State University men’s basketball team clinch a share of its third straight Little East Conference regular-season championship, junior forward Hugh Lindo of Enfield has been selected Player-of-the-Week for the third time this year, for the week ending February 14.

The 6-foot-4 inch Lindo averaged 23.0 points and 12.5 rebounds with a shooting percentage of 73.1 to lead the Warriors to two conference wins and to at least a share of the conference regular-season title.

The conference leader in rebounding average (11.0), Lindo tied his season high with 16 rebounds to go along with a career-high 30 points (12-of-16 from the floor), four assists and four steals in an 88-71 home win over UMass Dartmouth Saturday that moved the Warriors to within a win of their third straight outright LEC regular-season title and fourth in five years. Lindo had 20 points and eight rebounds in the second half to help Eastern – ranked seventh in the NCAA Northeast Region -- erase a four-point halftime deficit and reach double-digit conference regular-season victories for the sixth straight season.

In an 81-66 midweek LEC road win over Western Connecticut, Lindo had 16 points (7-of-10 from the floor), nine rebounds and two steals. In addition to leading the LEC in rebounding, Lindo leads the conference in double-doubles with 14, sharing eight place nationally in that category. He’s also second in the LEC in blocks (53) and blocks per game (2.3) and fifth in field goal percentage (55.3).

Already the program leader with 139 blocked shots in 79 career games (1.76 per game), Lindo has three of the top seven season block totals in program history, needing three to set a season record. He also has two of the top six best rebounding seasons in program history and ranks in a tie for first all-time in rebounding average (11.0) and fourth in total rebounds (869).

This year, Lindo averages 12.4 points and has topped the team or shared the team-high in rebounds 18 times, including the last 12. He has recorded five blocked shots in a game five times this year.

Eastern (16-7, 10-2 LEC), which has won at least ten LEC regular-season games for six straight years, visits Keene State College Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and closes out the regular season Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Boston at 3 p.m. The Warriors need one victory to earn the No.1 seed in the conference playoffs, which get underway with first-round games Feb. 23.

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