Career: So far in his career, he’s played in 51 games (14 as a starter) and is averaging 5.0 points, 1.5 assists and 1.6 rebounds while sinking 46-of-135 3-point attempts (34.1 percent). He has a total of nine career games scoring in double figures (one with at least 20). He’s led Eastern in single games in scoring (5 times), assists (9), steals (3) and rebounding (2).
Big Sky Tournament Experience: Rouse played in the semifinals versus Montana (3/12/21) and had a rebound in four minutes of action.
2021-22: Rouse earned the start in Eastern’s opener at Nevada where he saw 18 minutes of action, going 1-for-4 from the field for two points, two rebounds, and three assists. He earned another start in Eastern’s next game at UC Davis, but only played for 43 seconds before he suffered a knee injury that would wind up being season-ending.
2020-21: Selected to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic team. Rouse averaged 2.9 points and 1.1 assists in the 18 games he played, and made nine 3-pointers (in 38 attempts for 23.7 percent, 28.4 percent overall). Rouse made his season debut against Arizona (12/5/20) and finished with 13 points and four assists in the narrow three-point loss. He sank a trio of 3-pointers, including one in a 9-1 run as the Eagles took their biggest lead of the half at 56-48 with 8:42 remaining. He followed that with 10 points at Oregon (12/7/20). His best scoring game after that was nine versus Montana State (2/13/21) when he also had a pair of assists.
2019-20: He started seven of EWU’s 31 games, and averaged 6.5 points and 1.7 assists while making 37-of-96 3-pointers (38.5 percent). He exceeded his previous career best by seven points when he scored 21 points in a 100-75 victory over Idaho State on March 5 to help EWU wrap-up at least a share of the Big Sky title. He scored 14 versus Portland Bible (11/5/19), and was also in double figures versus Belmont (11/26/19) with 11 points and four assists. In the conference season, he’s hit double figures five times, all since Feb. 1 when he had 13 points and four rebounds in a win at Sacramento State. He had 11 at Montana on Feb. 6, 10 against Idaho on Feb. 13 and 11 at Portland State on Feb. 15 to give him four double figure performances in six games with an average of 9.5 points per game.
2018-19: Redshirted.
HS: Graduated from Timberline HS in 2018. As a senior, he helped lead his team to a 22-7 record and fourth-place finish at the State 3A Championships, the best in school history. His high school coach was Allen Thomas.
Personal: Majoring in interdisciplinary studies at Eastern and has a 3.32 grade point average through winter quarter 2021. Born Jan. 2, 2000, in Lacey, Wash. His mother is Cassie Rouse. His last name rhymes with “house” and his first name is pronounced “kuh-sahn.”
| SEASON |
GP-GS |
MIN/AVG |
FG-FGA |
FG% |
3FG-FGA |
3FG% |
FT-FTA |
FT% |
OFF |
DEF |
TOT |
AVG |
PF-FO |
AST |
TO |
BLK |
STL |
PTS |
AVG |
| 2019-20 |
31-7 |
678/21.9 |
67-158 |
.424 |
37-96 |
.385 |
29-42 |
.690 |
3 |
59 |
62 |
2.0 |
45-0 |
54 |
26 |
0 |
20 |
200 |
6.5 |
| 2020-21 |
18-5 |
243/13.5 |
19-67 |
.284 |
9-38 |
.237 |
6-9 |
.667 |
2 |
17 |
19 |
1.1 |
8-0 |
19 |
19 |
0 |
3 |
53 |
2.9 |
| 2021-22 |
2-2 |
19:12/9.6 |
1-5 |
.200 |
0-1 |
.000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
1.0 |
4-0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1.0 |
| TOTAL |
51-14 |
940/18.4 |
87-230 |
.378 |
46-135 |
.341 |
35-51 |
.686 |
5 |
78 |
83 |
1.6 |
57-0 |
76 |
46 |
0 |
23 |
255 |
5.0 |
Single Game Highs (as of March 18, 2022)
Points - 21 vs Idaho St. 03/05/20
Rebounds - 9 vs Multnomah 12/13/19
Assists - 7 vs Weber St. 03/07/20
Steals - 3 vs Portland Bible 11/05/19
FG Made - 6 vs Idaho St. 03/05/20
FG Attempts - 12 at Portland St. 02/15/20
3FG Made - 4 vs Portland Bible 11/05/19
3FG Attempts - 8 at Washington 12/04/19
FT Made - 7 vs Idaho St. 03/05/20
FT Attempts - 8 vs Idaho St. 03/05/20
