CINCINNATI – Wilmington High School graduate Jarron Cumberland was named American Athletic Conference men’s basketball Rookie of the Week.
Cumberland, a freshman at the University of Cincinnati, averaged a team-high 14.5 points last week, shooting 64.7 percent (11 of 17) from the field and 70.0 percent (7 of 10) from three-point range in a pair of Cincinnati wins.
He scored a career-high 18 points and grabbed six rebounds while making 7-of-9 field goal attempts, including 4-of-4 from three-point range against Texas Southern on Dec. 13. He then posted 11 points with a trio of threes and a career-high five assists against Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 17.
A 2016 graduate of WHS, Cumberland is averaging 6.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 15.2 minutes off the bench this season.
Cumberland’s teammate Kevin Johnson, a senior guard at UC, was named to the AAC’s weekly honor roll. Johnson played high school basketball at Summit Country Day High School.
