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McCasland, Hamlet, Gibson NABC All-District
3/23/2020 6:47:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DENTON — North Texas men's basketball head coach Grant McCasland was named National Association of Basketball Coaches District 11 Coach of the Year. Guard Javion Hamlet was voted NABC First Team All-District 11 and Umoja Gibson was voted second team.
McCasland is the first UNT head coach to be named a NABC Coach of the Year and Hamlet is the first Mean Green men's basketball player to earn first team honors. This is the first time in program history UNT has had multiple NABC all-district honors in a single season.
This year, McCasland led North Texas to its first regular season league title in 31 years with a 14-4 league record. The program's best league record since moving to the Division I ranks in 1957. After leading the Mean Green to the conference championship and the No. 1 seed in the league tournament, he was named the 2020 Conference USA Coach of the Year. He is the first UNT men's basketball coach to be named a league coach of the year since 1989.
Hamlet, the 2020 C-USA Player of the Year, led C-USA in league play in assists, assists per game, assist/turnover ratio, free throw percentage and was fourth in scoring and 11th in field goal percentage.
The point guard who averaged 17.9 points per game in conference became UNT's (20-11, 14-4 C-USA) closer as the team put the ball in his hands to seal victories late in games.
He was the first UNT men's basketball player to be voted a league player of the year since 1989.
Gibson joined Hamlet on the all-district honor list after averaging 14.5 points per game and making 86 3-pointers. He's moved into the top 3 in program history for career 3-pointers. Gibson was named second team all-conference after the season. Three times this year Gibson made at least five 3-pointers in a game. He had 14 games with at least three made 3-pointers. He had a team leading 24 games with double digit scoring and a team leading seven games with 20 or more points. He scored a season-high 27 points on Jan. 23 in the Mean Green's 98-78 win over UT San Antonio in Denton. The 27 points scored were tied for a team-high this season.
Under the third-year head coach McCasland, UNT has now had three players named all-district. Roosevelt Smart was voted second team all-district after the 2017-18 season.
McCasland is the first UNT head coach to be named a NABC Coach of the Year and Hamlet is the first Mean Green men's basketball player to earn first team honors. This is the first time in program history UNT has had multiple NABC all-district honors in a single season.
This year, McCasland led North Texas to its first regular season league title in 31 years with a 14-4 league record. The program's best league record since moving to the Division I ranks in 1957. After leading the Mean Green to the conference championship and the No. 1 seed in the league tournament, he was named the 2020 Conference USA Coach of the Year. He is the first UNT men's basketball coach to be named a league coach of the year since 1989.
Hamlet, the 2020 C-USA Player of the Year, led C-USA in league play in assists, assists per game, assist/turnover ratio, free throw percentage and was fourth in scoring and 11th in field goal percentage.
The point guard who averaged 17.9 points per game in conference became UNT's (20-11, 14-4 C-USA) closer as the team put the ball in his hands to seal victories late in games.
He was the first UNT men's basketball player to be voted a league player of the year since 1989.
Gibson joined Hamlet on the all-district honor list after averaging 14.5 points per game and making 86 3-pointers. He's moved into the top 3 in program history for career 3-pointers. Gibson was named second team all-conference after the season. Three times this year Gibson made at least five 3-pointers in a game. He had 14 games with at least three made 3-pointers. He had a team leading 24 games with double digit scoring and a team leading seven games with 20 or more points. He scored a season-high 27 points on Jan. 23 in the Mean Green's 98-78 win over UT San Antonio in Denton. The 27 points scored were tied for a team-high this season.
Under the third-year head coach McCasland, UNT has now had three players named all-district. Roosevelt Smart was voted second team all-district after the 2017-18 season.
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