Senior Venky Jois, only the third player in the 53-year history of the Big Sky Conference to have more than 1,600 points and 900 rebounds in his career, is inching closer to the EWU career scoring record. Now with 1,679 points as an Eagle, he is only 62 points behind the school record of 1,741 held by Ron Cox (1974-77).
If Jois equals his 16.7 scoring average the rest of the season (including one Big Sky Tournament game), Jois would finish with 1,779 to rank 13th in league history and break the school record at home on March 3 versus Idaho State. He moved from fourth to second in career scoring against Montana on Jan. 23, with a first-half dunk moving him past the 1,550 points of Irv Leifer (1942-47) and in the second half he moved past the 1,564 scored by former teammate Tyler Harvey.
Jois also ranks ahead of the 1,438 of Rodney Stuckey (now with the Indiana Pacers in the NBA). He became the fourth player in school history to hit the 1,500-point mark in his Eagle career with 24 against Southern Utah on Jan. 14.
Besides his scoring prowess, Jois’ school-record total of 231 blocked shots are 16 from the league record of 247 (Brian Qvale, Montana, 2008-11). Jois also has 950 rebounds in his career to rank third in school history and sixth all-time in the Big Sky (61 from fifth).
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