Baptiste earns his second career Choice Hotels NEC Player of the Week award as he averaged 25.3 points on 55.6 percent shooting from the field, including 42.3 percent from long range (11-26). Baptiste began the holiday season by scoring 25 points on 8-14 shooting in a loss to Saint Peter’s on December 23rd. He then went for 31 points (including four treys) and nine rebounds at Big East and in-state rival Seton Hall on December 27th. The North Brunswick, NJ native then rang in the new year with a career and NEC single-game season-high 37 points, hitting on 12-18 shots from the floor, 4-6 from three-point range and 9-9 from the charity stripe, as the Knights improved to 2-1 in the NEC with a 72-68 win over Quinnipiac on Saturday. Baptiste, who had 20 first half points and then scored 12 of FDU’s first 13 points in the second half, also snared eight boards. He has averaged 23.4 ppg over his last seven contests to lift his season numbers to 16.8 ppg to rank fifth in the league. Baptiste is also the leader in NEC play with an astounding 30.3 ppg. A preseason all-NEC pick, he also ranks 11th on the circuit with 6.1 rpg and is is one of six NEC players averaging better then two three-pointers per game (2.2 per game).