CLEVELAND - After recording the third triple-double in program history versus Illinois State and nearly averaging one in two games last week, Ally Lehman (Nineveh, Ind./Indian Creek) repeated as the Mid-American Conference's West Division Player of the Week on Tuesday morning. She earned the honor the previous week after registering 48 points and 21 rebounds versus Milwaukee.

Against Chicago State and the Redbirds, Lehman averaged 17.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 10.0 assists per game while shooting 65 percent from the field as NIU scored 101.0 points per game in two victories. Most remarkably, she posted a 20/1 assist to turnover ratio last week as well. The Huskies lead the country in scoring offense with 97.0 points in five games this season.

"The things Ally has been able to do this early in the season are pretty remarkable and are things not a lot of players have been able to do," said Head Coach Lisa Carlsen. "With the numbers she puts up each game, she's still a very unselfish player and she continues to make her teammates around her better. She'll do whatever it takes for the team to win."

She started the week with 15 points, eight rebounds and nine assists against the Cougars last Tuesday as the Huskies defeated CSU, 94-85.

Lehman followed up with a remarkable 28-minute performance versus ISU, recording 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, Northern Illinois University's first triple-double since Leslie Pottinger in 1995. The Huskies defeated Illinois State, 108-66, its first 100-point game in regulation since 1996.

To that point, only four players in the country had reached the triple-double plateau with Lehman's being the first East of the Mississippi River. Six total players have recorded triple-doubles this season

The Huskies are off to their best start since 1990-91 when NIU started the season 6-0. NIU will start a three-game road trip on Wednesday when it takes on Drake in Des Moines, Iowa. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. Central.