SHERMAN, Texas - In exclusive voting by the
head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC),
junior guard Jonathan Blount of Centenary College was selected as
SCAC Men’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year, while Trinity
University head coach Pat Cunningham was named SCAC
Coach-of-the-Year. First-year forward Brett Bell of Centenary was
selected as the league’s Newcomer-of-the-Year and junior
guard Ransom Okpala of Austin College was named the SCAC Defensive
Player-of-the-Year. Complete Release
After averaging 16.9 points per game as a sophomore in
Centenary’s only season in the American Southwest Conference,
Blount has made an immediate impact in the SCAC and leads the
league in both points scored (421) and scoring average (21.1)
heading into the conference tournament. The junior has scored 25+
points eight times this season, and is the only player in the
league to have two 30+ point performances. Blount is also fifth in
the SCAC in field goal percentage (47.9%), fourth in three-point
field goal percentage (38.1%) and eighth in free throw percentage
(73.3%). And despite missing three games this season, he is also
seventh in the league in total three-point field goals made (32)
and second in made free throws (121).
Blount joins Rose-Hulman’s Bryan Egli, who was named SCAC
Player-of-the-Year in 1998-99, as the only players to earn POTY
honors in his first team’s season of competition in the
conference.
Brett Bell of Centenary earned SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year honors
after averaging 7.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per game (second in the
SCAC) during the regular season. Bell has scored in double figures
seven times on the season and has recorded double-digit rebounds on
four occasions, despite suffering an injury in January that caused
him to miss five conference games. Bell, who was also a Third Team
All-SCAC selection, shot 45.1 percent from the field (51-113) and
had 31 assists (third on the team) for the Gents.
An all-conference performer a year ago, Okpala was Austin
College’s best on-ball defender this season as evidenced by
his 41 steals – good for second in the conference. The junior
guard also grabbed 77 rebounds, which was fourth-best on the team.
Okpala, the ‘Roos floor leader, was also the team’s
most consistent offensive force as he led the team in scoring (10.6
points per game) and three-point field goals (32) while shooting
40.5 percent from beyond the arc during the regular season.
Okpala is the first Austin College men’s player to earn
Defensive Player-of-the-Year honors and just the second ‘Roo
to win one of the league’s major postseason awards –
following Kola Alade who was named SCAC Player-of-the-Year for the
2009-10 season.
Cunningham, in his 14th season with Trinity, has led the Tigers to
an 18-7 overall mark, a 12-3 conference record and the No. 1 seed
in this year’s conference tournament. This is the fifth time
that Cunningham has been honored as the league’s
Coach-of-the-Year – the most of any men’s basketball
coach in the league’s 22-year history. The winningest
men’s basketball coach in Trinity history, Cunningham has
amassed a record of 272-113 (.706) while in San Antonio and has
guided the Tigers to seven NCAA Division III playoff appearances
and five Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships,
including 2012. Trinity stands at 160-57 (.737) in the SCAC under
Coach Cunningham’s leadership. In his 26th season as a
collegiate head coach, Cunningham, who picked up his 400th career
victory last season, sports an overall career mark of 423-276.
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Centenary's Blount; Trinity's Cunningham Highlight 2012-13 All-SCAC Men's Basketball Honors
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