Senior basketball student-athlete Alex Young has been voted the IUPUI Sahm's Athlete of the Month for the month of November 2011. The 6-foot-6 swingman averaged a team-high 17.1 points and 6.6 rebounds in the season's first month, spanning seven games. He also turned in 12 assists, six steals and six blocked shots in the month of November.
Young turned in his lone double-double of the month with 21 points and a career-high 14 rebounds against Eastern Michigan on Nov. 20. Six days later, he scored a season-high 30 points in a win over Texas Southern, including hitting 10-of-18 from the floor and 5-of-8 three-point attemnpts.
Young hit double-digits in the scoring column in five of the team's seven games, including tallying 20 or more three times. For the year, he remains the top active scorer in all of Division I basketball with 1,801 points.
