Onyechi collects his second Choice Hotels Rookie of the Week award after averaging 12.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 blocks in three games last week, including two wins for the Blackbirds in league play. After recording 12 points and three blocks in a 78-69 loss at Bethune Cookman on Monday, he matched a pair of career-highs with 17 points and eight rebounds to go along with three rejections in a 74-64 win over Robert Morris on Thursday. Onyechi went on to tally nine points and a block in Saturday's 89-80 triumph over Saint Francis (PA) that lifted LIU's conference record to 4-0, the best start for the program since 1996-97. Onyechi, who hails from Sugar Land, TX, currently averages 9.3 ppg and 5.0 rpg and is shooting a team-best 46.0 percent from the field. He also has ten multi-block games on the year and ranks second in the NEC with 2.40 bpg.