JAMES SAPP OF CENTENARY COLLEGE, while leading Centenary to a SCAC co-regular season title, Sapp earned five conference Player-of-the-Week awards (no other player had more than one) and currently leads the league in scoring at 15.9 points per game and is second in rebounding at  7.9 boards per game. He is also in the top 10 in both field goal percentage (52.1 percent – fifth) and free throw percentage (74.6 percent – eighth) as well as steals per game (1.2 – tied for fifth). The junior has recorded seven double-doubles this season, six of which came in conference play, including season-highs of 33 points at Trinity (Jan. 23) and 15 rebounds at Austin College (Feb. 7). The honor for Sapp marks the third consecutive year that a Centenary player has either won or shared SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors as Jonathan Blount was recognized in both 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Sapp was the coaches' overwhelming choice for Player-of-the-Year as he received seven of eight first-place votes. Senior forward Donte McGee of Texas Lutheran received the remaining first-place vote.