KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jonathan Blount of Centenary College and Zach Lambert of Trinity University were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District team in an announcement made today. Complete Release
Blount was named to the All-South First Team while Lambert was a Second Team selection.
After averaging 16.9 points per game as a sophomore in Centenary's only season in the American Southwest Conference, Blount made an immediate impact in the SCAC and led the league in both points scored (441) and scoring average (21.0). The junior guard scored 25+ points eight times this season, and was the only player in the league to have two 30+ point performances. Blount was also sixth in the SCAC in field goal percentage (47.8%), sixth in three-point field goal percentage (37.9%) and seventh in free throw percentage (73.6%). And despite missing three games this season, he led the league in made free throws (128) and was ninth in the league in total three-point field goals made (33).
Blount joined Rose-Hulman's Bryan Egli, who was named SCAC Player-of-the-Year in 1998-99, as the only players to earn league POTY honors in his team's first season of competition in the conference.
Lambert, a junior forward from Frisco, Texas, averaged a team-high 15.0 points (fourth in the SCAC) and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Tigers. He shot 50.2 percent from the floor (second in the SCAC) - including a league-best 46.3 percent from three-point range - and 82.7 percent from the free throw line (fourth in the SCAC).
A two-time All-SCAC selection, Lambert led his Trinity squad to a 20-8 mark, which included both the SCAC regular season and tournament titles, and a spot in the 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament where he pitched in a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds in an 87-83 first-round loss to Concordia (Texas) University.
