The Northeast Conference men's basketball weekly awards for Saint Francis University have a Yogi Berra "Its déjà vu all over again," feel to it, after freshman Landon Moore (Bloomington, Ill./Western Reserve Academy) has been tabbed the NEC Rookie of the Week for the second-straight week and the week of November 14-20. Similar to last week, redshirt junior Josh Cohen (Lincroft, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) and junior Maxwell Land (Cincinnati, Ohio/Archbishop Moeller) have been selected as NEC Prime Performers.

Moore continued his consistent start in a Red Flash uniform, averaging 15.5 points, 2.5 assists and 1.5 rebounds per game in the week. The freshman matched his career high of 15 points and added four assists against Cornell on Monday.  Despite being down 13 points in the final five minutes, Moore powered a 20-10 run to end the game with 10 points and Saint Francis had a chance to tie the game in the waning seconds of the game Moore scored the last seven points of the game for the Red Flash including an acrobatic 3-pointer with eight seconds left to cut the margin to two points. Playing two hours from his hometown of Bloomington, Ill., Moore posted a career-high 16 points against Butler on Thursday. Moore is the first Red Flash freshman to score double figures in four-straight games since Darshan Luckey in 2002-03. Moore is the top scoring freshman in the league with 15.0 ppg (eighth in the NEC) and ranks second in the NEC in assists (4.50 pg), fourth in assists-to-turnover ratio (2.57) and 10th in free throw percentage (78.6).

Moore becomes the fifth Red Flash player to earn consecutive back-to-back NEC Rookie of the Week awards and the first since Keith Braxton in 2016-17. Will Felder (2009-10), Devin Sweetney (2003-04) and Luckey (2002-03) are the other players to earn the recognition in consecutive weeks since the 1997-98 campaign. Luckey holds the Saint Francis standard with five-straight top rookie weekly awards.

In addition, Moore is the ninth two-time NEC Rookie of the Week for the Red Flash and the first since Land in 2020-21. Luckey won the award eight times and Braxton seven times, Sweetney four times and Felder three times, while Land, Malik Harmon (2013-14), Stephon Mosley (2012-13) and Rashaan Benton (2001-02) are the other two-time winners dating back to the 1997-98 season.

Cohen averaged 21.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game for the Red Flash in the week. The redshirt junior registered a season-high 24 points and eight rebounds against Cornell and then then the Red Flash again in points with 18 points and seven rebounds against Butler. The 24 points were the third highest point total in his career and the All-NEC Preseason selection has registered 18 points or more in three of the four games this season. He shot 56.7 percent from the floor (17-for-30) and 66.7 percent from the free throw line (8 of 12). Cohen paces the NEC in scoring (18.5 ppg.) and field goal percentage (65.2) and ranked sixth in rebounding (7.0 rpg.).

Land averaged 15.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game for the Red Flash in the week. The junior notched his second career double-double with 13 points and a career-high 11 rebounds against Cornell on Monday and then added 17 points and five rebounds against Butler on Thursday. Land came into the season never recording a double-double and has registered the trick twice in his first three games. Land leads the NEC in minutes played (36.00), while ranking third in scoring (16.8 ppg) and seventh in rebounding (7.0 rpg.).

Saint Francis returns to action and starts a three-game homestand when Lehigh comes to town on Monday night. Game time is 7 p.m.