Akron Zips (24-11 overall, 12-4 Mid American Conference, 2nd)
Four Akron players earned all-conference laurels, led by Jimmy Conyers, who was named to the first-team as well as Defensive Player of the Year…Conyers averages 10.1 ppg and leads the Zips in rebounding (6.7 rpg) and steals (39)…brothers Chris and Brett McKnight both earned honorable mention acclaim from the MAC…Brett averages 10.1 ppg while Chris nets 9.5 ppg…highly-touted 7-0 center Zeke Marshall was named to the All-Rookie team…Marshall leads the MAC with 59 blocked shots…he also averages 5.1 points and 3.9 rebounds a game.
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Boston Terriers (21-14 overall, 11-5 America East Conference, 4th)
Boston University, under first-year head coach Patrick Chambers, is 21-13, its 12th 20-win season and first since the 2004-05 campaign. BU is led by two-time first-team All-America East honoree John Holland…Holland is America East’s leading scorer at 19.3 ppg and ranks fifth all-time at Boston University…sophomore Jake O’Brien nets 13.6 ppg and leads the team with his 6.4 rpg average...seniors Carlos Strong (10.8 ppg) and Tyler Morris (10.1 ppg) are also scoring in double figures for BU...senior Corey Lowe (15.0 ppg) left the team prior to the win over Morehead State...the Terriers, who entered the CBI averaging 70.8 points per game, are averaging 93.5 ppg in their two CBI games.
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Charleston Cougars (22-12 overall, 14-4 Southern Conference, 2nd)
The Cougars posted 22 wins this season, marking the third time in four years under head coach Bobby Cremins that they achieved a 20-win season…Charleston is led by junior guard Andrew Goudelock, who earned first-team All-Southern Conference honors and has a team-best 19.4 ppg average while also leading the Cougars with 3.8 assists per game…6-8 junior Jeremy Simmons, who garnered second-team all-conference laurels, averages 11.8 ppg and a team-best 7.9 rpg…junior guard Donovan Monroe (third-team all-league) and freshman forward Willis Hall (all-freshman team) also earned South Conference honors this season…Charleston is making its second-consecutive CBI appearance.
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Colorado State Rams (16-16 overall, 7-9 Mountain West Conference, 5th)
CSU is led by second-team All-Mountain West selection Andy Ogide, who is tied for the team lead in scoring (11.7 ppg) and tops in rebounding (6.5 rpg)...freshman guard Dorian Green has dished out a team-high 75 assists and is tied with Ogide with an 11.7 point per game scoring average...junior forward Travis Franklin is netting 10.5 ppg to go with his 5.1 rpg average...Franklin also has 33 steals on the year...under third-year head coach Tim Miles, CSU's 16 wins this year match the total of wins for the last two seasons combined.
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Duquesne Dukes (16-16 overall, 7-9 Atlantic 10 Conference, 8th)
Duquesne is led by first-team All-Atlantic 10 honoree Damian Saunders…the A-10 Defensive Player of the Year leads the team in points (15.0 ppg), rebounds (11.3 rpg), blocks (94), steals (87), and field goal percentage (.497)…Bill Clark is netting 14.1 points a game while pulling down 6.0 rebounds a game…Jason Duty, who was a non-scholarship player his first three seasons, earned a scholarship this year and has started 25 of 30 games, scoring at a 5.4 ppg clip.
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Eastern Kentucky Colonels (20-13 overall, 11-7 Ohio Valley Conference, 3rd)
This was the seventh 20-win season in school history and the second in five years under head coach Jeff Neubauer…EKU set a school record with 15 home wins this season and at one point had won 19-straight at McBrayer Arena…Justin Stommes paces the Colonles with his 14.3 ppg average…second-team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection Josh Taylor is second on the team in scoring (13.2 ppg) and rebounding (4.3 rpg)…Spencer Perrin is EKU’s leading rebounder at 4.9 per game…the Colonels are in the postseason for the first time since the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
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George Washington Colonials (16-15 overall, 6-10 Atlantic 10 Conference, 10th)
The Colonials recorded their first winning season in three years…senior Damian Hollis leads head coach Karl Hobbs’ troops…the honorable mention All-Atlantic 10 performer has team highs of 13.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg, and 25 blocked shots…sophomore Tony Taylor has a team-high 121 assists to go along with his 9.4 ppg average…freshman Lasan Kromah was named to the A-10 All-Rookie team for averaging 11.6 ppg this season.
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Green Bay Phoenix (22-13 overall, 11-7 Horizon League, 3rd)
Head coach Tod Kowalczyk has led the Phoenix to back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in 14 years as Green Bay is 22-13 in 2009-10…junior Rahmon Fletcher garnered first-team All-Horizon League honors and is averaging 15.8 ppg…junior Bryquis Perine has handed out a team-high 134 assists to go along with his 13.6 ppg average…the Phoenix are led in rebounding by senior Randy Berry, who has hauled down an average of 8.1 boards a game…Green Bay is making its second straight CBI appearance, marking the first time in 14 years it has made consecutive postseason appearances.
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Hofstra Pride (19-15 overall, 10-8 Colonial Athletic Association, 7th)
Over the last six years, Hofstra has more wins (121) than any other New York City area program…junior guard Charles Jenkins leads the Pride…the Colonial Athletic Association’s Player of the Year averages a team-high 20.6 ppg…he also posts 4.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists an outing to go with a team-high 60 steals…freshman Halil Kanacevic leads Hofstra with a 7.6 rpg while tallying 8.5 points a game…Kanacevic and junior Greg Washington combine for 153 blocks on the season.
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Indiana State Sycamores (17-15 overall, 9-9 Missouri Valley Conference, 5th)
Second-team All-Missouri Valley honoree Harry Marshall leads the Sycamores in scoring (13.7 ppg) and assists…sophomore Dwayne Lathan is pouring in 12.9 points a game while pulling down 5.0 rebounds an outing…senior Rashad Reed (9.9 ppg) and junior Jake Kelly (9.0 ppg) also rank among ISU’s leading scorers…sophomore Carl Richard paces the Sycamores with his 5.3 rebound per game average.
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IUPUI Jaguars (25-11 overall, 15-3 Summit League, 2nd)
Senior Robert Glenn and sophomore Alex Young pace the Jaguars, who are 25-11 in 2009-10…Glenn (19.9 ppg, 6.4 rpg) and Young (18.4 ppg, 4.6 rpg) both earned first-team All-Summit League honors, becoming IUPUI’s first first-team duo since both Brandon Cole and George Hill were honored in 2005-06 and just the second tandem in school history to earn the distinction…senior Jon Avery was named the Summit’s Sixth Man of the Year, coming off the bench in all 35 games to average 8.0 ppg and 4.3 rpg to go along with 39 steals.
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Morehead State Eagles (24-11 overall, 15-3 Ohio Valley Conference, 2nd)
The Eagles are 24-11 record, the second-most wins in school history…the 24-11 record follows last year’s 20-16 mark which gives Morehead State its first back-to-back 20-win seasons in the history of the program…in addition, in going 15-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference, MSU recorded its most league wins in school history…the Eagles are led by Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Kenneth Faried…the junior owns a 16.8 ppg scoring average and a 13.1 rpg average, both tops among the Eagles…senior Maze Stallworth, a second-team all-league honoree, is netting 12.2 ppg and junior Demonte Harper is at 12.1 ppg.
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Oregon State Beavers (14-18 overall, 8-10 Pacific-10 Conference, 6th)
Under the guidance of second-year head coach Craig Robinson, Oregon State has won 32 games over the last two seasons, the most wins over any two-year period since winning 36 games during the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons…junior guard Calvin Hayes leads the Beavers in scoring, netting 12.4 points per game…for his season-long efforts Hayes was named to the All-Pac-10 second-team…senior swingman Seth Tarver, the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year and honorable mention all-conference selection, averages 10.3 ppg and led the league with a 2.3 steals per game average…senior Roeland Schaftenaar (9.1 ppg), the 2009 CBI MVP, garnered honorable mention all-conference acclaim.
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Saint Louis Billikens (23-11 overall, 11-5 Atlantic 10 Conference, 4th)
The Billikens, under the direction of head coach Rick Majerus, are the youngest team in the country, with no seniors or juniors on the active roster...SLU is 23-11 after being predicted to finish 12th in the A-10's preseason poll...the 23 wins match the most since a 23-8 campaign in 1994-95...Kwamain Mitchell leads the Billikens with his 16.3 ppg average and 47 steals...for his efforts he was named to the A-10 all-conference second-team...sophomore Willie Reed nets 12.4 ppg and leads the Bills with an 8.1 rpg average and 70 blocks in garnering honorable mention all-conference acclaim...freshman Cody Ellis, who averages 10.9 points and 5.1 rebounds a game, was named to the all-rookie team.....sophomore Kyle Cassity leads the Billikens with a 3.1 assists per game average.....he also scores 6.2 points a game.....SLU allows only 59.7 ppg and opponents are shooting just 39.8 percent from the field and 28.2 percent from three-point range on the year.
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Virginia Commonwealth Rams (25-9 overall, 11-7 Colonial Athletic Association, 5th)
The Rams are 25-9 this season and are led by the Colonial Athletic Association’s Defensive Player of the Year and first-team all-conference selection Larry Sanders...the junior tops VCU with 14.5 ppg and 9.2 rpg averages.....he also leads the Rams with 84 blocked shots...Sanders is joined on the all-conference team by classmate Joey Rodriguez, who garnered second-team laurels...Rodriguez is second to Sanders with his 12.7 ppg average while his 200 assists and 65 steals top the list...sophomore Bradford Burgess tallies 10.7 ppg and is second to Sanders at 5.1 rebounds per outing.....under first-year head coach Shaka Smart, the Rams have recorded their third straight 20-win season.....with its win over Boston University, VCU earned its 201st victory over the past nine seasons, dating back to 2001-02...that is by far the most among all Division I institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia...the next closest are Old Dominion (183) and George Mason (180).
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