Princeton's Mason Hooks Named Ivy League Rookie Of The Week

PRINCETON, NJ — Mason Hooks, a freshman forward on the Princeton men's basketball team, was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday.

The 6-foot-10 forward from Los Angeles scored 10 points —shooting 5-for-5 from the floor —and had three assists and two rebounds in the Tigers' 100-59 win over Keane University on Dec. 21.

Hooks has seen action in all 13 of Princeton's games this season, and he is averaging 4.5 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Four Princeton players now have received weekly honors this season. Senior Ethan Wright was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on December 20 and November 22, and senior Jaelin Llewellyn was named the conference's Player of the Week on November 15.

Princeton's victory over Keane was its fifth straight, as the Tigers improved to 10-3 on the season.

The Tigers are scheduled to begin Ivy League play at 2 p.m. Sunday at Harvard (8-4) at the Lavietes Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts.

If the game takes place, it will be Princeton's first Ivy League contest since March 7, 2020, which was a loss to Cornell. After that game, the 2020 Ivy League Tournament and 2020 NCAA Tournament were canceled, and then the league's teams did not compete during the 2020-21 season due to the pandemic.