NIACC men play on road this weekend
The NIACC men's basketball team hits the road for a pair of games this weekend.
NIACC (9-2) plays at the St. Ambrose Junior Varsity at 5 p.m. Saturday and at Augustana College Junior Varsity at 1 p.m. Sunday.
History Lesson
The Trojans are 3-0 all-time against the St. Ambrose JV and 0-1 all-time against the Augustana College JV.
Last season, the Augustana JV topped NIACC 92-87 and the Trojans stopped the St. Ambrose JV 82-62.
NIACC coach Mark Mohl is 3-0 against the St. Ambrose JV and 0-1 against the Augustana JV.
Last time out: NIACC wins pair at Great Western Shootout in Fort Dodge
NIACC picked up a pair of wins at the Great Western Shootout on the Iowa Central campus in Fort Dodge on Dec. 1-2. The Trojans topped Northeast CC 82-60 and nipped Central CC 67-66.
Against Northeast CC, sophomore Nick Wurm scored 20 points, Orrington Hamilton scored 19 points and Gunnar Myers scored 12 points.
Against Central CC, Wurm scored 21 points and Hamilton scored 17 points.
Hamilton was selected as the ICCAC player of the week for the week of Nov. 27-Dec. 3.
Climbing the charts
Sophomore Nick Wurm has 77 career 3-point goals, which is 21st on the school's career 3-point list. He has 149 career assists (34th on the school's career list) and 527 career points (58th on school's career scoring list.)
2017-18 NIACC leaders
Points (870, 79.1ppg.) - Nick Wurm (16.5 ppg.) 182; Orrington Hamilton (11.3 ppg.) 124; Harrison Mills (10.9 ppg.) 120; Jaycob Payne (10.9 ppg.) 120.
3-point goals (85) - Wurm 23, Hamilton 20, Payne 14, Mac Skogen 11.
Rebounds (457) - Payne 90, Mills 48, Wurm 46.
Assists (193) - Wurm 49, Hamilton 26, Payne 24.
Steals (83) - Raymond Harding 18, Wurm 11, Hamilton 9, Payne 9.
NIACC's 2017-18 season (9-2 overall)
NIACC 65, Fort Scott CC 60
NIACC 93, Bay College 87 (OT)
NIACC 81, Milwaukee Area Tech 69
NIACC 91, Harper College 61
Iowa Western 115, NIACC 65
NIACC 90, Wartburg College JV 70
NIACC 82, Riverland CC 54
NIACC 96, Luther College JV 67
Southeastern 109, NIACC 58
NIACC 82, Northeast CC 60
NIACC 67, Central CC-Columbus 66
