PHILADELPHIA – Junior Nate Pierre-Louis was named the American Athletic Conference and Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week for the week ending November 10. It is the second AAC Player of the Week honor for the Owls guard and the first Big 5 weekly accolade.
The Plainfield, N.J native (Roselle Catholic) averaged 17.5 ppg, 10.5 rpg., 4.5 rpg., 5.5 spg., 1.0 bpg. in leading Temple to a 2-0 week. The team co-captain led the Owls in scoring, rebounding and steals in both Temple wins and his three straight double-doubles (dating back to NCAA game with Belmont last year) are most by a Temple player since 2011 (Lavoy Allen).