Hot Prospect: Ben Woodside

Posted by admin on June 15, 2009

North Dakota State ● Senior ● Guard ● 5-11 ● 185 ● 7/1/85
23.2 ppg ● 3.2 rpg ● 6.2 apg (2008-09)

Highlights: Finished as the all-time leading scorer in North Dakota State University history with 2,315 points … Also finished as the all-time leader in field goals attempted (1,525), free throws made (687), free throws attempted (834), tied in games played and started (118) and second in scoring average (19.6), field goals made (700) and assists (640)… Finished in the top 5 in other categories: 3-pointers made (3rd; 228), 3-pointers attempted (3rd; 560), free throw percentage (4th; .824), assists average (4th; 5.4), and total steals (5th; 176).

2008-09 (RS Senior): All-America honorable mention pick by The Associated Press… CollegeInsider.com and CollegeHoops.net Mid-Major All-American… NABC All-District 12 first team… Summit League Player of the Year… Named Summit League tournament MVP after making the game-winning jump shot to beat Oakland 66-64 in the championship game and vault North Dakota State to its first-ever NCAA Division I tournament appearance… Scored 37 points in the NCAA first round loss to Kansas, the most points scored in a single game by any player in the 2009 tournament… First made national headlines after scoring 60 points in a triple-overtime loss to Stephen F. Austin in the first game of the Drake Hy-Vee Classic on Dec. 12… Scored 49 of his 60 points in the final 8:51 of the second half plus overtime, and did not commit a turnover after halftime… Broke Summit League, NDSU and Knapp Center records for points, free throws made (30) and free throws attempted (35)… Tied Pete Maravich’s NCAA record for free throws made in a game… Played 51 of 55 minutes in that game and came back the next night to hang 31 points and 10 assists on Georgia Southern in a 98-77 victory… Earned tournament MVP honors and was named Summit League Player of the Week and CollegeHoops.net Mid-Major Player of the Week… Named Summit League Athlete of the Month for December and again in January… Carried the Bison to a 65-60 overtime win at UMKC, where he scored 21 of NDSU’s last 28 points… Made four free throws in the final 47 seconds to ice an overtime win at South Dakota State… Summit League Player of the Week for a second time after averaging 30.5 points and 5.5 assists in a weekend road sweep at Centenary and Oral Roberts to clinch the regular-season title… Set NDSU and Summit League season records with 766 points, 100 more than the previous school record… Set an NDSU season record with 231 free throws made and shattered the school’s career record, passing the old mark of 465 in the third game of the year and finishing with 687… Became NDSU’s all-time leading scorer on Dec. 22 in a 90-68 home win over Northern Arizona, scoring 24 points and making 10 assists… NDSU’s first player to eclipse 2,000 points, he finished his career with 2,315 points and his career 19.6 scoring average over 118 games ranked second in school history… Led the league only stats in scoring (22.2 ppg) and was second in assists (5.7 apg)… Ranked among the NCAA’s top 10 in scoring and assists most of the season… Finished ninth in scoring (23.2 ppg) and 15th in assists (6.2 apg).

2007-08 (RS Junior): First-team All-Summit League… Named to the Summit League Winter/Spring All-Academic Team and Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence… Started all 29 games to run his consecutive starts streak to 85… The Summit League’s second overall leading scorer with 20.7 points per game and third in assists with 5.14 per game… In the league-only stats, he ranked fourth in scoring (18.3 ppg) and second in assists (5.11 apg)… Summit League Player of the Week on Nov. 26 following first back-to-back 30-point games… His 39 points at Tennessee Tech tied for 10th most in a single game in school history… Followed that with 31 in a loss at Wisconsin-Green Bay… Summit League Men’s Athlete of the Month for November after leading the Bison in scoring in five of the first seven games… NDSU’s top scorer in 18 games overall.

2006-07 (RS Sophomore): One of three Bison players to earn first team Division I all-independent honors… Ranked third in the independent stats with 16.4 points per game, second in assists with 5.1 per game, and fifth in free-throw percentage (.822).

2005-06 (RS Freshman): Started all 28 games for North Dakota State and averaged 34.4 minutes… NDSU’s leading scorer in 14 games… Strung together nine straight double-digit scoring games after the regular-season opener and had 23 total… Division I independent Player of the Week twice (12/6 and 1/24)…Independent all-academic team… Independent Newcomer of the Year by a vote of coaches and SIDs… Independent MVP by CollegeInsider.com… Independent Freshman of the Year by CBS Sportsline.com.

2004-05 (Freshman): Sat out the entire season as a redshirt in the Bison program.

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