JR Inman Named to BIG EAST Honor Roll
Nov 19 | Men's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The BIG EAST Conference has named Rutgers junior forward JR Inman (Pomona, N.Y.) to its initial Honor Roll of the 2007-08 men's basketball season. Inman averaged 20.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game in the first four contests to help lead the Scarlet Knights to a 3-1 record, their best start since 2005-06.
A 2007 Third Team All-Metropolitan selection, Inman is shooting 56.0 percent (28-50) from the field while averaging a team-best 35.0 minutes per contest. He scored a game-high 18 points in 70-64 season-opening win over Tennessee Tech, before posting 21 points and 11 rebounds in 79-67 win over North Dakota State, his fifth career-double-double. Inman then scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 38 minutes of action in a 73-48 win over North Carolina Central to become the first RU player to post consecutive 20-plus point games since Quincy Douby. At Florida, he played a career-high 39 minutes en route to 17 points and seven rebounds.
Inman spent this past August in San Francisco performing the rigorous Chameleon Training program. Inman ran in the sand at Baker Beach, dashed up hills with a 60-pound pack on his back, and climbed ropes; all in an effort to improve his strength and agility. He trained for a month in the program with several NBA and college players, including Hilton Armstrong (New Orleans Hornets), Gabe Pruitt (Boston Celtics) and Kareem Rush (Seattle SuperSonics).
Inman has started 52 of 55 career games and ranks 14th all-time at Rutgers with 74 career blocks. He has scored in double figures 37 times in his career. The team's top returning player from last season in terms of field goals, free throws, free throw percentage, rebounding, points and scoring average, he was a CollegeInsider.com Freshman All-American and BIG EAST All-Rookie Team selection in 2006.
