SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Gonzaga's Ryan Nembhard was named the Heluva Good Dip West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week the league announced Monday.
 
Nembhard etched his name in record books this week. The nation's leader in assists became just the 51st player in NCAA Div. 1 history to dish out 800 assists in a career. He is one of only two active players in the country with 800 career assists. The Aurora, Ontario, native needed three assists to reach that plateau, and he finished with a game-high 11. The senior had 10 assists by halftime and set a new West Coast Conference record for most assists in a single season in conference play. Kyle Collinsworth of BYU had the previous record of 136 in 18 games during the 2015-16 season.
 
Nembhard sits at 140 assists through 14 conference games. Nembhard is 14 assists away from matching Emmett Naar's WCC record for most assists in a single season at 284. Nembhard helped Gonzaga break the program's 45-year-old team record for assists in a game against Pepperdine, as the Zags finished with 33.
 
In Thursday's win over San Francisco, he recorded his conference-leading 11th double-double of the season, which ranks 14th in the nation. He scored 18 points, one off his season-high.
 
Nembhard leads the nation in assists, assists per game (10.0), and is third in in assist-to-turnover ratio (4.35). Only five players in the last 30 years have finished a season averaging double-digit assists per game.
 
Also Nominated: Boubacar Coulibaly, Pepperdine; Steven Jamerson II, San Diego; Max Mackinnon, Portland; Paulius Murauskas, Saint Mary's; Johnny O'Neil, Santa Clara; Caleb Stone-Carrawell, LMU; Malik Thomas, San Francisco; Lamar Washington, Pacific