Iona junior Mike Glover of The Bronx is piling up the hardward for his stellar performance this past week.
Glover was named the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the ECAC Player of the Week on Tuesday in addition to his selection as the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
Glover averaged 29.7 points and 12.7 rebounds in wins at Norfolk State on the road and vs. Canisius and Niagara at home, posting double-doubles in all three contests.
In the Gaels’ two conference wins, he averaged 34.5 points, including a 39-point, 14-rebound effort against Canisius. Glover became the second player in Iona history (Jeff Ruland) to record back-to-back double-doubles with 30 or more points.
Glover’s 39 points vs. Canisius represented the sixth-highest single-game scoring total in school history and the highest since Steve Burtt, Jr. poured in 38 in a MAAC-TV doubleheader on President’s Day in 2005 against Marist. It was one point shy of the Hynes Center record for Iona set by Burtt’s father, Steve, Sr. on Feb. 1, 1984.
In his effort on Sunday, Glover netted 30 points, with a 14-of-17 effort from the field, the best shooting performance by a NCAA Division I college basketball player this season with a minimum of 15 attempts. He is the sixth player in school history to record back-to-back 30+ point efforts, a feat accomplished eight times.
Read my preseason feature on his journey to Iona here.
