Trio of #HLMBB Players Selected to Lou Henson Mid-Season List
BOSTON – Three Horizon League men’s basketball student-athletes were placed on the 2018-19 Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List on Wednesday as Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis, Wright State’s Loudon Love and Northern Kentucky’s Drew McDonald made the list. McDonald and Love were each selected to the Preseason list in November, while Davis makes his first appearance of the season.
The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the nation's top mid-major player in Division I College Basketball. The Horizon League’s three representatives ties for the second-most selections by a conference.
Davis, a freshman guard, is second in the NCAA in scoring at 27.3 points per game and also leads all of Division I with 81 3-pointers. He has tallied seven 30-point performances this season, including two 40-point games. Davis has also set the school record twice this season with 10 3-pointers in game. In addition, the Birmingham, Ala. native is top-10 in HL in minutes played (37.3), 3-point field goal percentage (41.5) and assists (3.3).
Love, a sophomore center and native of Geneva, Ill., was the #HLMBB Freshman of the Year last season and has picked up right where he left off ranking third in the HL in rebounding at 8.6 boards per game, while scoring 13.8 points per contest with a 51.6 field-goal percentage. He is also second in the League with seven double-doubles and offensive rebounds per game at 3.3, while adding 1.1 blocks a game.
McDonald, a senior forward from of Cold Spring, Ky., was named to the 2018 Lou Henson All-American team and is the only #HLMBB player to be top-5 in points and rebounds averaging a double-double with 18.6 points and 10.0 rebounds. He leads the HL with eight double-doubles this season including posting one of just 16 triple-doubles in Division I this season. McDonald is shooting 48.1 percent from the floor, including 39.1 percent from behind the arc.
Lou Henson coached for 41 years and accumulated 779 Division I wins, which ranked sixth all-time when he left the game in 2005. Henson is also one of only 12 coaches to take two schools to the Final Four.
The 2019 Lou Henson Award will be presented at the College Insider awards event in April at the site of the men's Division I national championship in Minneapolis, Minn.
2018-19 Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List
Milan Acquaah 6-3 So. California Baptist
Francis Alonso 6-3 Sr. UNC Greensboro
Jordan Barnes 5-11 Jr. Indiana State
James Batemon 6-1 Sr. Loyola Marymount
Jarrell Brantley 6-7 Sr. Charleston
Keith Braxton 6-4 Jr. Saint Francis (PA)
AJ Brodeur 6-8 Jr. Penn
Tookie Brown 5-11 Sr. Georgia Southern
Desmond Cambridge 6-4 So. Brown
Devin Cannady 6-2 Sr. Princeton
Yoeli Childs 6-8 Jr. BYU
Chris Clemons 5-9 Sr. Campbell
RJ Cole 6-1 So. Howard
Zach Cooks 5-9 So. NJIT
Mike Daum 6-9 Sr. South Dakota State
Jordan Davis 6-2 Sr. Northern Colorado
Antoine Davis 6-1 Fr. Detroit
Jordan Ford 6-1 Sr. Saint Mary's
JaKeenan Gant 6-8 Sr. Louisiana
Jerrick Harding 6-1 Jr. Weber State
Rapolas Ivanauskas 6-10 Jr. Colgate
Cameron Jackson 6-8 Sr. Wofford
David Jenkins 6-2 So. South Dakota State
Nathan Knight 6-10 Jr. William & Mary
John Konchar 6-5 Sr. Purdue-Fort Wayne
Anthony Lamb 6-6 Jr. Vermont
Loudon Love 6-9 So. Wright State
Fletcher Magee 6-4 Sr. Wofford
Max Mahoney 6-8 Jr. Boston University
CJ Massinburg 6-3 Sr. Buffalo
Garrison Mathews 6-5 Sr. Lipscomb
Nick Mayo 6-9 Sr. Eastern Kentucky
Drew McDonald 6-8 Sr. Northern Kentucky
Ja Morant 6-3 So. Murray State
Matt Morgan 6-2 Sr. Cornell
Miye Oni 6-6 Jr. Yale
Nijal Pearson 6-5 Jr. Texas State
Nick Perkins 6-8 Sr. Buffalo
Matt Rafferty 6-8 Sr. Furman
Grant Riller 6-4 Jr. Charleston
Ahmaad Rorie 6-1 Sr. Montana
Jaelan Sanford 6-4 Sr. Toledo
D'Marcus Simonds 6-3 Jr. Georgia State
Terry Taylor 6-5 So. Austin Peay
Jordon Varnado 6-6 Sr. Troy
Jaylin Walker 6-3 Jr. Kent State
Dylan Windler 6-7 Sr. Belmont
Justin Wright-Foreman 6-1 Sr. Hofstra
Milik Yarbrough 6-6 Sr. Illinois State
Akwasi Yeboah 6-6 Jr. Stony Brook