Browder garners all-region honors from NABC
KANSAS CITY – For a second straight season, Carson-Newman’s men’s basketball program has a consensus all-region honoree.
KANSAS CITY – For a second straight season, Carson-Newman's men's basketball program has a consensus all-region honoree.
Junior forward Jack Browder (Kingsport, Tenn.) lands a spot on the NABC all-Southeast Region second team, the organization announced Monday afternoon.
Browder follows teammate John Zhao (Sevierville, Tenn.) who was a consensus all-region selection last season. Browder nets the ninth all-region honor for head coach Chuck Benson, joining Zhao, Charles Clark (three times), Antoine Davis (twice), Ish Sanders and Carson Brooks as Eagles to have earned all-region honors under Benson's guidance.
Browder leads C-N with 19.7 points per game. He also averages a team-best 8.8 rebounds per game. He has produced 30 double-digit scoring efforts this season, including 15, 20-point efforts. He leads the conference with 14 double-double games this season.
A four-time SAC Player of the Week honoree, Browder was named NABC National Player of the Week on Dec. 10.
The junior turned in back-to-back 30-point games, and is the first Eagle this century to score 30 points in three straight games.
He has scored 99 points in a three-game stretch – the fifth time this century a player has scored more than 90 in a three-game span for C-N. Browder's 99 are second only to Charles Clark's 110 during the stretch where he had his 54-point triple-double and earned his second national player of the week award.
For the week, Browder averaged 33 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks per game. He made 75 percent of his shots, 88.9 percent of his threes and all 16 of his free throws.
He started his week with a career-night in an 87-81 loss to UVA Wise. He scored 36 points and grabbed 16 boards – both career days. The 16 rebounds are the tied for the seventh-most in school history and the third-most in the NCAA Division II era.
Browder followed that up with 30 points in Saturday's 98-89 win over Limestone. Browder connected on all four of his threes against the Cavaliers before going 4-of-5 from deep against Limestone.
Southeast
First Team
Jarrett Adderton, Columbus St.
Daylan Askew, Chowan
Wes Enis, Lincoln Memorial
Jalen McCoy, USC Aiken
Kendall Taylor, Wingate
Second Team
Jack Browder, Carson-Newman
Elyjah Freeman, Lincoln Memorial
Demitri Gardner, Augusta
Bradlee Haskell, UNC Pembroke
Ziare Wells, Lenoir-Rhyne
Co-Coaches of the Year: Robert Moore, Columbus St. and Brent Owen, Lenoir-Rhyne
