Career
As a senior with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team, he averaged 12.2 points per game in the 2008-2009 season, and was the Golden Gophers" leading scorer. He is also the cousin of former NFL player Brian Westbrook. As a junior at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona, he led the nation in scoring with 41.0 points per contest.
He had 883 points in just 22 games that season.
He then transferred to Winchendon Preparatory High in Winchendon, Massachusetts as a senior, where he averaged 19.0 points per game as a senior. Rivals.com named him the 75th best high school basketball player of the decade.
He signed with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the fall of 2005. Westbrook was leading scorer for the Gophers in the 2008-2009 season.
He has started almost every game in both his sophomore and junior seasons.
He also hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 2 seconds remaining in regulation.