(Photos by Josh Moczygemba)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Centenary College senior guard Jonathan Blount and Schreiner University senior guard AJ Myres were named to the 2014 Men's DIII News All-America team, the organization announced today. Complete Release
Blount and Myres were both selected to the Honorable Mention team and were the only Southern Collegeiate Athletic Conference men's basketball players named to the squad.
Last week, both Blount and Myres were to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District team and Myres was also a D3hoops.com All-South Region selection.
Blount, who was also a DIII News Honorable Mention All-America selection last season, led the league in scoring for the second consecutive year and set new single-season SCAC records this season for scoring average (24.4 ppg) and total points (682). He shot 49.7 percent from the field (seventh in the SCAC), 43.4 percent from three-point range (fourth in the SCAC) and 85.0 percent from the free-throw line (third in the SCAC). A four-time SCAC Player-of-the-Week this season, Blount set a new Centenary single-game scoring record with 53 points against Open Bible College on Feb. 18 and finished his career with 1,573 career points (eighth in program history). The 2012-13 SCAC Player-of-the-Year, he was just the second men's player in league history to earn back-to-back POTY honors and the first since Sewanee's Ryan Harrigan in 1996-97 and 1997-98. He and Harrigan also share the distinction of being the only two players in SCAC history to be named NABC First Team All-District two consecutive years.
Myres finished third in the conference in scoring (18.7 ppg) as well as eighth in assists (79) and field goal percentage (48.4%). Although the senior's scoring dipped somewhat in the latter part of the season, it was largely due to the emergence of new scoring threats for the Mountaineers as evidenced by Myres' 52 assists during conference play – the second-highest total in the league. Myres, who only played three years at Schreiner, finished his career with 1,140 career points – the second-most by any player in the school's Division III era (1999-present) and 11th-most overall. In his one and only year in the conference, Myres was named SCAC Co-Player-of-the-Year and SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year and was selected to the 2014 All-Tournament Team.
