By Jason Pugh, Northwestern State Associate Athletic Director for External Relations; featured photo by Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
NATCHITOCHES – Addison Patterson became the first Northwestern State player in nearly two years to record consecutive double-doubles, doing so in wins against New Orleans and Stephen F. Austin.
Those performances lifted Patterson to his first career weekly honor, taking home Southland Conference Player of the Week laurels as announced by the conference office Monday afternoon. The award is chosen weekly by a vote of conference sports information directors.
A 6-foot-7, 205-pound senior from Missassauga, Ontario, Canada, Patterson averaged 18 points and 10.5 rebounds per game as the Demons pushed their conference record to 6-3 entering Monday night’s game at Lamar.
In the Demons’ Jan. 20 win against New Orleans, Patterson scored 15 of his 17 points and grabbed nine of his career-high-tying 11 rebounds in the second half as Northwestern erased a nine-point halftime deficit.
Patterson followed that by scoring a game-high 19 points and grabbing 10 rebounds in the Demons’ 57-54 overtime win at Stephen F. Austin on Saturday. The consecutive double-doubles were the first for a Demon player since Jalen Hampton posted two in a row from Feb. 11-16, 2023.
Patterson, who leads the Demons in scoring at 13.2 points per game as well as assists (63) and steals (27), becomes the first Demon to capture the Southland Player of the Week since DeMarcus Sharp on Feb. 27, 2023.