In earning his second Choice Hotels NEC Player of the Week award this season, Olasewere powered the Blackbirds to back-to-back wins by averaging 22.5 points and 9.0 rebounds while shooting a blistering 73.9 percent from the field. In an 81-75 victory over Central Connecticut on Thursday, the 6-7 forward was near perfect from the field as he pocketed 25 points on 12-of-13 shooting. He also pulled down 14 rebounds, just two shy of his career high. Three days later against St. Francis Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, Olasewere was clutch in the latter stages of the game by scoring six points in the final three minutes to secure the win, an 83-75 decision, over the his team’s borough rival. He finished the game with 20 points, four rebounds, two assists and one steal as LIU won for the eighth time in nine games. The All-NEC first teamer is now just nine points away from cracking the top-five on LIU Brooklyn’s all-time scoring list, checking in with 1,684 points. He ranks third in NEC in scoring (19.0 ppg), fourth in rebounding (8.5 rpg), and seventh in both field-goal percentage (.515) and steals (1.59 spg).