Northern Colorado’s men’s basketball guard Quinn Denker has been named the Big Sky Conference men’s player of the week for his play last week in Portland, the conference announced Tuesday.

Denker averaged 21 points, 5.7 assists, 3.3 rebounds and made 91% of his free throws in three games Nov. 21-23 at an invitational hosted by the University of Portland.

The Bears finished the invitational with two wins in the three games — a last-second loss to St. Thomas, an overtime win against the host Pilots and a win over California State Fullerton. Denker was also named to the all-tournament team after scoring 63 points in the three games.

UNC is 5-1 this season heading to Wednesday’s nonconference road game at the Air Force Academy.

Denker played over 35 minutes a game in the three games in Por

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