MEET THE WILDCATS
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DAMIAN LILLARD
Standout point guard Damian Lillard will enter the 2011-12 season as a junior for the Wildcats. He received a medical redshirt for the 2010-11 season after playing in just nine games due to an injury. Damian has played in 71 career games at Weber State entering this season and has scored 1,150 career points, which ranks as 13th in Weber State history. He ranks fourth in school history in career three-pointers with 152.
6-3 • 195 Junior Guard Oakland, CA
Career Highs Points 36, vs. E. Washington, 01-23-10 Rebounds 9, vs. Sacramento St., 02-28-09 Assists 7, four times FG made 10, vs. E. Washington, 01-23-10 FT made 13, vs. Drake, 11-27-10 3PT FG made 6, vs. E. Washington, 01-23-10 6, at Utah State, 11-13-10 Steals 3, five times Blocks 2, vs. Montana, 01-02-10
2010-11 Played in just nine games for the Wildcats before suffering a foot injury that forced him to miss the remainder of the season...Because he played in less than 30 percent of WSU’s games he received a medical redshirt season...Suffered the injury in the second half of WSU’s game at Tulsa on December 16...In his nine games with the Wildcats Lillard averaged 19.7 points and 4.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, while shooting nearly 44 percent from the field...He scored in double digits in the eight full games. 2009-10 (Sophomore) Named the 2009-10 Big Sky Conference MVP and earned First Team All-Conference honors for a second year in a row...Named to the Big Sky Post-Season All-Tournament Team...Earned Honorable Mention All-American honors by the Associated Press...Named to the United States Basketball Writers Association All-District VIII team and was Second Team All-District VIII on the National Associations of Basketball Coaches team...Led the Big Sky Conference in overall scoring at 19.9 points per game...Scored 617 points which is the 8th best single season effort in WSU men’s basketball history...Had 29 double figure scoring games in 31 outings. Scored eight at UNLV and nine at home vs. Idaho State...Scored 30 at home vs. Montana on Jan. 2, then exploded for a career-high 36 points on Jan. 23 at home vs. Eastern Washington, hitting 10-11 from the field (6-7 from beyond the arc) and 10-11 from the free throw line...Scored 28 points in WSU’s home court win over instate rival, Utah, making 9-9 from the free throw line...Made 29 straight free throws during a stretch from late November through early December...Played 50 of the 55 minutes in the 95-93 three overtime win at Idaho State, scoring the winning bucket on a lay up with less than two seconds left in the third OT...Played at least 30 or more minutes in 27 of WSU’s 31 games. 2008-09 (Freshman) Established himself as one of the top players in the Big Sky during his freshman season…Was a unanimous selection as the Big Sky Freshman of the Year and was named to the Big Sky All-Conference First Team…Became the first freshman to earn All-Conference First Team honors since Rodney Stuckey of Eastern Washington in 2006, and the first true freshman in Big Sky history to earn First Team honors…Became just the third Wildcat ever to earn Freshman of the Year honors…Was also named to the
Career Statistics Rebounds Year GP-GS Min/Avg. FG-FGA Pct. 3FG-3FGA Pct. FT-FTA Pct. Off Def Total/Avg. PF-D A TO BL ST Pts./Avg. 08-09 31-26 911/29.4 119-274 .434 49-131 .374 69-82 .841 9 111 120/3.9 78-3 89 70 6 33 356/11.5 09-10 31-31 1062/34.3 185-429 .431 84-214 .393 163-191 .853 11 114 125/4.0 58-0 112 74 4 35 617/19.9 2011 WEBER STATE FOOTBALL 10-11 9-9 283/31.4 49-112 .438 19-55 .345 60-70 .857 6 32 38/4.2 23-0 33 28 2 14 177/19.7 Total 71-66 2256/31.8 353-815 .433 152-400 .380 292-343 .851 26 257 283/4.0 159-3 234 172 12 82 1150/16.2
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2011-12 WEBER STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL