Third time this season
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Northern Michigan’s Dylan Kuehl has been named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Offensive Player of the Week for the third time this season following a pair of wins to close the regular season.
Kuehl has led the Wildcats to a 25-5 overall record and a GLIAC Regular Season Championship, the fourth conference championship in his career. His weekend was, to put it simply, dominant. He opened the weekend with 36 points in a 100-87 win over Roosevelt. He shot 13-20 from the floor and added seven rebounds and five assists. In the regular season finale and with the GLIAC title on the line, he put together the most impressive stat line of his illustrious career: 41 points (career-high) on 15-20 shooting, nine rebounds, four assists, and three blocks. He also threw down five highlight-level dunks.
He is averaging 21.3 points per game, putting him inside the nation’s top-15 scorers. He is also shooting 56.7% from the field while averaging 6.3 rebounds per contest. Within the GLIAC slate, his 23.8 points per game finished first, 58.6 FG% second, 6.4 rebounds per game ranked 10th, and 1.5 blocks per game ranked third.
For his career, Kuehl has transformed the Northern program. With him on the court, NMU holds a record of 93-34 (.732), and his 2,089 career points are third on the program’s all-time list, just 21 back of second and 135 from first.
