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PRESTOSPORTS/MBWA MEN'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Antoine Agudio Approaches Hofstra's All-Time Scoring Mark

WHITE PLAINS, NY (25 February 2008) - For the third time this season,
Hofstra University's Antoine Agudio (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) earns PrestoSports/Met Basketball Writers Association Player of the Week honors.
The highly decorated senior guard moved even closer to the Hofstra (11-16 overall, 7-9 Colonial Athletic Association) career scoring record with 51 combined points in two games last week. He had 27 points in the Pride's 81-67 win over Towson, including two three-pointers and an assist in a pivotal 10-0 run after Towson took its only lead of the second half. He followed up with 24 points in the Pride's 81-63 road win at Iona in the O'Reilly ESPNU Bracketbusters contest. He now has recorded 2,212 points in his career - just ten shy of the school's scoring record. That record has stood for 43 years, since Steve Nisenson set the mark from 1962-65. Agudio has been in double figures in 59 of his last 60 games, making the record very likely to fall at Delaware on Wednesday.

This Week's Honor Roll
Damien Santana, Farmingdale State, Junior, Guard, 6'2", 195 lbs., Brooklyn, NY/Grady
Chris Harrison, Mount Saint Mary College, Junior, Forward, 6'5", Baldwin, NY/Holy Trinity HS
Desmond Quincy-Jones, Pace University, Senior, Forward, 6'7", 200 lbs., Rye, NY/Rye
David Acree, St. Joseph's-LI, Junior, Guard, 6'0", 175 lbs., Brentwood, NY/Brentwood
Waleed Farid, Stevens Institute of Technology, Senior, Guard, 6'2", 210 lbs., Woodside, NY/Stuyvesant

About the PrestoSports/MBWA Weekly Player of the Week Award
Founded for the 2004-05 season, the Player of the Week Award is granted on a weekly basis by the New York Area Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. Each week, each of the nearly 75 schools that play college basketball in the Tri-state area have the ability to nominate one male and one female student-athlete, based upon their on-court accomplishments over the previous seven days. An esteemed panel of eight media members votes to select from the nominations the most outstanding player. Any player who receives any votes, but are not named the Player of the Week, are then named to the Honor Roll.

About PrestoSports
PrestoSports is proud to sponsor the college basketball in the New York area, and specifically the MBWA. We are pleased to recognize the best athletic achievements in the Tri-state area. A Maryland-based company, PrestoSports is a leading provider of athletic content management software to colleges and conference offices used for designing, building and maintaining official athletic websites. With clients across the country, PrestoSports focuses on smaller schools and conferences in NCAA Divisions II and III.

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