Completed Event: Men's Basketball versus No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round) on March 10, 2026 , Loss , 66, to, 73
Final Score
Men's Basketball
66
vs No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round)
73
The University of Utah Athletics
Althoff Earns MWC Player Of The Week Honors
2/14/2000 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 14, 2000
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah's Nate Althoff is the Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week after leading the Runnin' Utes to a 2-0 record this past week in league play. Utah is now 19-5 overall and sits atop the conference at 8-1.
The Delano, Minnesota (Delano HS) product scored 37 total points (18.5 ppg) and pulled down eight boards in two games. Althoff shot an astounding 80 percent from the field (12-for-15) and 86.7 percent from the free throw line (13-for-15).
Althoff was the Utes' leading scorer in the 83-65 victory over San Diego State on Thursday with a career-high 22 points. He went 6-for-8 from the field and made a personal-best 10-of-11 free throws.
In the 77-62 win vs. BYU on Saturday, Althoff hit 6-of-7 shots from the field and went 3-for-4 from the foul line for 15 points and grabbed five rebounds. The win extended the Utes home court win streak to a nation^s-best 50 games.
Althoff currently leads the conference in field goal percentage at .605 (72-119). In conference action, he ranks first in both field goal percentage, hitting 64.9 percent of his shots (37-for-57), and free throw percentage (.833) hitting 30-of-36 attempts.
This is Althoff's first Mountain West Conference Player of the Week honor and Utah's second of the year.
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