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Long Named Lou Henson All-American
3/25/2015 5:21:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BOSTON, Mass. – The finalists for the 2015 Lou Henson Award were announced on Wednesday with Louisiana junior Shawn Long being named as one of the 31 finalists.
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The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the top Mid-Major player in Division I college basketball, while the finalists also represent the Lou Henson all-America team.
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Long was named to the all-Sun Belt Conference first team at the end of the regular season for the second straight year and currently ranks as the only player in the SBC in the top five in both scoring (16.4 ppg) and rebounding (10.2 rpg).
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He has scored in 23 of his last 24 games played and earlier this season posted the first 20-point, 20-rebound game by a Ragin' Cajun since 1981. Long has also moved into the all-time top 10 at UL in scoring, while ranking second in blocked shots and third all-time in rebounding.
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Long is currently the active leader in the nation in double-doubles with 51 for his three-year career. Those efforts have helped him lead the Cajuns to a 22-win season and a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament quarterfinals where they will face Evansville on Thursday night at Blackham Coliseum.
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The award is named in honor of Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in Division wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State and is one of only 12 coaches in history to take two schools to the Final Four.
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The 2015 recipient will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis, site of the 2015 NCAA Basketball Championships.
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2015 Lou Henson All-America Team
Lawrence Alexander            North Dakota State
D.J. Balentine            Evansville
John Brown              High Point
Julius Brown              Toledo
Jalen Cannon             St. Francis Brooklyn
Kal Cochran              Wofford
AJ English               Iona
Kahlil Felder                         Oakland
Chris Fowler                         Central Michigan
Ty Greene               USC Upstate
Tyler Harvey                         Eastern Washington
Corey Hawkins                     UC Davis
Tyler Haws               BYU
RJ Hunter                Georgia State
John Jordan              Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
David Laury              Iona
Shawn Long             Louisiana
Mikh McKinney                    Sacramento State
Justin Moss              Buffalo
Mike Myers              Maryland-Eastern Shore
Saah Nimley             Charleston Southern
Wesley Saunders         Harvard
Justin Sears             Yale
Keifer Sykes             Green Bay
Marcus Thornton                 William & Mary
Corey Walden            Eastern Kentucky
Brad Waldow            Saint Mary's
Thomas Walkup          Stephen F. Austin
Jameel Warney          Stony Brook
Jalan West              Northwestern State
Alan Williams            UC Santa Barbara
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The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the top Mid-Major player in Division I college basketball, while the finalists also represent the Lou Henson all-America team.
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Long was named to the all-Sun Belt Conference first team at the end of the regular season for the second straight year and currently ranks as the only player in the SBC in the top five in both scoring (16.4 ppg) and rebounding (10.2 rpg).
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He has scored in 23 of his last 24 games played and earlier this season posted the first 20-point, 20-rebound game by a Ragin' Cajun since 1981. Long has also moved into the all-time top 10 at UL in scoring, while ranking second in blocked shots and third all-time in rebounding.
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Long is currently the active leader in the nation in double-doubles with 51 for his three-year career. Those efforts have helped him lead the Cajuns to a 22-win season and a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament quarterfinals where they will face Evansville on Thursday night at Blackham Coliseum.
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The award is named in honor of Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in Division wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State and is one of only 12 coaches in history to take two schools to the Final Four.
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The 2015 recipient will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis, site of the 2015 NCAA Basketball Championships.
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#GeauxCajuns
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2015 Lou Henson All-America Team
Lawrence Alexander            North Dakota State
D.J. Balentine            Evansville
John Brown              High Point
Julius Brown              Toledo
Jalen Cannon             St. Francis Brooklyn
Kal Cochran              Wofford
AJ English               Iona
Kahlil Felder                         Oakland
Chris Fowler                         Central Michigan
Ty Greene               USC Upstate
Tyler Harvey                         Eastern Washington
Corey Hawkins                     UC Davis
Tyler Haws               BYU
RJ Hunter                Georgia State
John Jordan              Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
David Laury              Iona
Shawn Long             Louisiana
Mikh McKinney                    Sacramento State
Justin Moss              Buffalo
Mike Myers              Maryland-Eastern Shore
Saah Nimley             Charleston Southern
Wesley Saunders         Harvard
Justin Sears             Yale
Keifer Sykes             Green Bay
Marcus Thornton                 William & Mary
Corey Walden            Eastern Kentucky
Brad Waldow            Saint Mary's
Thomas Walkup          Stephen F. Austin
Jameel Warney          Stony Brook
Jalan West              Northwestern State
Alan Williams            UC Santa Barbara
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