Robert Morris assured itself two wins on its Garden State swing thanks to the play of redshirt junior Velton Jones, who averaged 28.5 points and six assists in a pair of come-back victories over Fairleigh Dickinson and Monmouth to earn a share of this week’s Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week honor. The Philadelphia, PA native put the second-place Colonials on his back in both games, beginning late in the second half against Fairleigh Dickinson last Thursday. With RMU trailing 50-47 with less than eight minutes to play, Jones scored seven of his 22 points and had a hand in three other baskets during a 20-5 run to turn aside FDU and secure a 67-55 decision. In addition to his 22 points, he finished the night with six assists and three steals. Against Monmouth on Saturday, the veteran guard put on a show with 35 points while etching his name in the RMU record books. Jones became 20th Colonial to score 1,000 points in a career when he drained a 3-ball as part of a 17-point outing in the first half, helping RMU to a four-point lead, 33-29, at the break. He then turned it up a notch after the Hawks went up by 15 in the second half, drilling three more treys and assisting on three others to erase the deficit and put RMU up by one, 66-65, on his career-best sixth long-distance shot of the game with 2:55 to play. All told in the 45-minute marathon, Jones finished 10-for-20 from the field, including 6-for-11 from distance as the Colonials pulled away in overtime to win, 81-73. It was his second 35-plus point outing of the season (38, James Madison) and raised his scoring average to 17.0 ppg, good for sixth in the league. Jones also ranks in the NEC top-10 in steals (third, 1.90), assist-to-turnover ratio (third, 1.72) and assists (fourth, 4.10).