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JACKSONVILLE – As the Gamecocks prepare to host Norfolk State on Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Jacksonville State basketball program learned on Monday that junior Nick Murphy has been named the Ohio Valley Conference's Player of the Week for the second-straight week.

Murphy, a 6-foot-3 forward from Bronx, N.Y., received the honor after scoring 20 points and pulling in 18 boards in the Gamecocks' 79-53 win over Reinhardt on Saturday. The performance was Murphy's third-straight double-double, making him the first JSU player with three consecutive double-doubles since 2002-03, when Omar Barlett rattled off five in a row.

The Gamecocks are trying to win their third-straight game on Tuesday at 7 p.m., when they welcome Norfolk State of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for the fourth in a five-game homestand. The meeting will be just the third all-time between the Gamecocks and Spartans, with all three coming over the past three seasons. The series began in 2007-08, when Norfolk State claimed a 76-72 win on Dec. 29 in Jacksonville, and the Gamecocks tied the series at 1-1 a year ago with a 80-61 win in Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 2. Murphy led JSU in that game with 18 points.

Murphy's 18 boards tied his career high and the school's Division I record for rebounds in a game. He pulled down 18 board at Murray State as a freshman on Feb. 2, 2008. Rusty Brand and Brant Harriman have also recorded 18 rebounds for the Gamecocks since they moved to Division I in 1995-96. On the 2009-10 season, Murphy has moved into second in the Ohio Valley Conference in rebounding with 9.1 per game and leads the league in field goal percentage with a .673 clip from the floor.

Also in the win over Reinhardt, junior Trenton Marshall scored a game-high 22 points, putting him over the 20-point mark for the third consecutive game. Marshall was 8-for-10 from the floor, including a 3-for-4 effort from behind the arc, and sank all three of his tries from the charity stripe. He now leads the OVC in scoring with 19.3 points per game and free throw shooting with an .882 percentage from the line.

The Spartans are led by Michael Deloach's 19.9 points per game on a .448 shooting percentage. Deloach, who scored 25 in NSU's loss to the Gamecocks last year, has taken 125 shots on the season, 42 more than his closest teammate, Rob Hampton. Hampton is scoring 14.1 points per game for the Spartans.