Blackwood put on a virtuoso performance in CCSU’s 88-86 win over Robert Morris last Thursday en-route to his second Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week award of the season. The junior guard scored an NEC single-game season-high 40 points and tied a 16-year old league record with 10 three-pointers (in 17 attempts) in the contest. Blackwood, who also scored his 1,000th career point in the game, added three rebounds, five assists and a steal as the NEC regular season champion Blue Devils improved to 15-2 in league play this season. The ten trifectas matched the total of the Mount’s Scott Murphy, who established the long-standing conference mark on February 7, 1991 against Wagner, and fell one shy of the CCSU record of 11 set by Marc Rybczyk versus LIU on November 26, 1991 (prior to the Blue Devils’ entry into the NEC). Blackwood’s 40 points were the most scored in an NEC contest since Quinnipiac’s Rob Monroe tallied 40 against Sacred Heart on February 3, 2005 and marked the 25th time in NEC history that a player has scored 40 points in a league game. Likewise, the Toronto, Ontario native became the fifth CCSU player to hit the 40-point mark (second in the Division I era) and recorded the highest single-game point total for a Blue Devil competitor since Obet Vasquez scored 41 against Radford on December 12, 1990. With a CCSU record 102 three-pointers, Blackwood is tied for fourth on the NEC’s single-season list and needs 15 more to break the record held by Long Island’s Charles Jones, who hit 116 in 1997-98. Blackwood, who averages 16.7 ppg (third in NEC), leads the league in free throw percentage (.921; sixth nationally) and made three-pointers (3.5 per game, seventh nationally). He also ranks first in the conference with 19.5 ppg in league play.