Emmanuel Omogbo is Colorado State's double-double machine

Colorado State's Emmanuel Omogbo, left, is making a strong case to be the Mountain West men's basketball player of the year, an award no player from the program has ever won. (David Zalubowski / The Associated Press)

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State is one of six schools that have been in the Mountain West since the conference began in 1999. And yet no Ram has ever been named the MW player of the year for men's basketball.

As the league's 18th season approaches the halfway point, Emmanuel Omogbo is making a strong case to end the drought for CSU.

The senior from Hyattsville, Md., is one of just 24 players in the country currently averaging a double-double with 13.3 points and 10.7 rebounds a game.

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