Marvin Billups Award Player of the Week Week Of 1/4/2010 Sport Men's Basketball School Purchase Year Junior Position Forward Hometown Chester, N.Y. High School Monroe-Woodbury High School Purchase College junior Marvin Billups was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the Naismith Classic Championship at Springfield College. Billups averaged 27.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals in the two games while helping the Panthers to a runner-up finish. In a 70-68 win over Wesleyan in the first round, Billups scored 22 points on 9-of-16 shooting. In the championship game against host Springfield, he scored 33 of Purchase’s 61 points while adding 11 rebounds, four steals, three blocked shots and three assists.