Dec. 18, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - San Diego State senior guard Brandon Heath has been named Mountain West Conference Player of the Week two days after he broke the all-time MWC scoring record. The award, his second this season, extends his school record for most weekly awards to seven after he earned the honor three times as a junior and twice as a sophomore.
A 6-4 guard from Los Angeles, Heath helped the Aztecs to a 2-0 record for the week with victories over Campbell (119-82) and Loyola Marymount (74-63). In San Diego State's two wins, he averaged 22.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists on 59.3 percent shooting from the field, including 58.3 percent from bonus distance.
Against the Fighting Camels, Heath scored a game-high tying 19 points on 8-of-13 shooting and finished the contest by hitting 3 of 5 from the three-point range. Not only did he fill up the scoring column, the MWC's top returning player handed out a game-best tying seven assists and two rebounds in leading SDSU to its fourth highest offensive output in school history and its most points since 1991.
For an encore, Heath went for 25 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals in San Diego State's victory over Loyola Marymount. After only scoring six points in the game's initial 20 minutes, Heath went 7 for 8 from the field, including 4 for 5 from beyond the arc, in the second half to tally 19 of SDSU's 39 second-half points.
The school's No. 2 all-time scorer tied the league's scoring mark held by New Mexico's Ruben Douglas (1,782) with a three-pointer and moved atop the list with a 25-foot three-pointer with 11:51 remaining in the game to become the MWC's most prolific scorer.
For his career, Heath has 1,790 points in three-plus seasons at San Diego State and is 57 points shy of surpassing Michael Cage (1,846) for the school's all-time scoring title.