Fowler earns MVP tournament title
Sophomore guard Chris Fowler was named the Central Michigan Tournament MVP in the men's basketball tournament this weekend.
Not only was he the tournament MVP, he's also the backbone for the Chippewas. He ended the final game of the tournament with a team-high 25 points and eight assists, the eight assists being a season high for Fowler.
“I started off a little slow, missed my first couple shots, but then the ball started to go in for me," Fowler said. "I think the best thing that helped me was that I put up my best assist number, so they had to worry about everyone else, which opened the lane up for me."
In the first half, Fowler hit his team's first three-pointer and the rest was history, as the team went on to hit 12 more.
“I think everyone’s success impacts each other," Fowler said. "We're so happy when one person has their own personal success. I don’t feel like I have done anything unless the team is winning or we're succeeding as a team."
When Central Michigan needed to get something going offensively, it looked to Fowler.
Yet, like most captains, Fowler takes the bad with the good; when the team is successful, it is about the team, and when the team does poorly, he takes the blame.
“I feel like energy wise I didn’t play as hard as I should have in (Friday’s) game,” Fowler said.
Friday night, Fowler took the loss to Montana State harder than most of his teammates, as he took all the blame for their loss in Friday night’s press conference.
“The amount of blame he put on himself was 100 times more than I ever would have,” head coach Keno Davis said. “If the team has a stretch where we didn’t quite have the attitude, he takes that personally.”
Fowler is all about the team rather than his own personal success.
“I feel the team’s success adds to my personal success. Not the other way around,” Fowler said.
