INDIANAPOLIS – League games are officially underway in a new month as Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Athlete of the Week honors went to Cedarville for the second consecutive time.
 
Thursday night tipped off the Great Midwest schedule with five games played across the league. Walsh, Ashland, Cedarville, Findlay and Hillsdale, each collected wins while on Saturday, Malone Tiffin, Kentucky Wesleyan, Cedarville and Hillsdale, emerged as victors.
 
Hillsdale and Cedarville both lead the standings at 2-0 while Malone and Walsh each won their only conference contest played.
 
Men’s Basketball Athlete of the Week
Branden Maughmer
Cedarville
Guard
Senior
Chillicothe, OH (Chillicothe HS)
 
Maughmer is off to a blistering start this season as one of the many weapons on the Yellow Jackets’ roster. He follows teammate Quinton Green for conference weekly honors as Cedarville began the conference schedule with a road win at Tiffin and home win vs. Ashland.
 
The senior guard has scored double-figure point totals in all seven games so far, including 20+ in four different outings. He is third in the Great Midwest in scoring at 20.6 points per game and to this point, is blowing his already impressive career best totals since he began playing for Cedarville in 2018-19.  
 
Maughmer averaged a double-double over the past week with 27.5 points and 10 rebounds per game. He rarely missed when he shot the ball (20-of-29) and connected for a field goal percentage of 69 percent.
 
Against Tiffin, Maughmer scored a season-high 28 points on 11-of-19 shooting. He also played a season-high 37 minutes while hitting a pair of threes and knocking down four free throws. He also pulled down 10 boards including two of the offensive variety.
 
On Saturday, Maughmer matched his rebounding output with another strong performance from the field as he made 9-of-10 shots. Maughmer finished with 27 points and again made two shots from deep while coming up with three steals on the defensive end.
 
Maughmer now has 1,355 points in his career and has been a selection to the all-conference first team and all-defensive team for two consecutive seasons.