University of North Texas Athletics
Hamlet, Jones Voted All-Conference
3/8/2021 12:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
This is the second consecutive season the second-year guard Hamlet was voted first team all-conference. This season he averaged 15.5 points per conference game. He scored 30 points at Rice on Jan. 29 and 28 points at Marshall on Feb. 27. He had two double-doubles this season and had single-game career-highs in all major categories.
Hamlet was also one of the nation's top free throw shooters. All season he ranked in the top 20 in the nation and finished the regular season with a 89.2 percentage, which was the second-best single-season free throw percentage in program history.
Jones ranks in the top five among active C-USA freshmen in points per game, assists per game, 3-pointers per game and steals per game.
He scored a season-high 14 points at Mississippi State on Dec. 4 and a season-high six rebounds at No. 11 West Virginia on Dec. 11. He shot over 40 percent from 3-point range, which is the third-best 3-point field goal percentage by a UNT freshman.
Hamlet, who last season became the first Mean Green men's basketball player to be named Conference USA First Team All-Conference (UNT moved to C-USA in 2013), is the first UNT men's basketball player to earn multiple first team all-conference nods, regardless of conference, since Chris Davis earned his second First Team All-Sun Belt honor in 2003. Hamlet is the seventh North Texas men's basketball player to earn multiple first team all-conference honors.
(1961-64) John Savage, First Team All-Missouri Valley 3x
(1965-67) Rubin Russell, First Team All-Missouri Valley 2x
(1968-70) Joe Hamilton, First Team All-Missouri Valley 2x
(1986-88) Tony Worrell, First Team All-Southland 2x
(1991-94) Jesse Ratliff, First Team All-Southland 3x
(2001-03) Chris Davis, FIrst Team All-Sun Belt 2x
(2019-21) Javion Hamlet, First Team All-Conference USA 2x
Jones is the fourth UNT freshman to be named to the C-USA All-Freshman Team.
1998-99 Deginald Erskin, Big West
1998-99 Dexter Tennell, Big West
1999-00 Chris Davis, Big West
1999-00 Jason Miller, Big West
2014-15 Jeremy Combs, C-USA
2016-17 A.J. Lawson, C-USA
2019-20 Umoja Gibson, C-USA
2020-21 Rubin Jones, C-USA
2020-21 All-Conference Selections
All-Conference First Team:
Jahmir Young, Charlotte
Taevion Kinsey, Marshall
Javion Hamlet, North Texas
Jhivvan Jackson, UTSA
Charles Bassey, WKU
All-Conference Second Team:
Jarrod West, Marshall
Malik Curry, Old Dominion
Tavin Lovan, UAB
Keaton Wallace, UTSA
Taveion Hollingsworth, WKU
All-Conference Third Team:
Isaiah Crawford, LA Tech
Kenneth Lofton, Jr., LA Tech
Quincy Olivari, Rice
Souley Boum, UTEP
Bryson Williams, UTEP
All-Freshman Team:
Kenneth Lofton, Jr., LA Tech
Rubin Jones, North Texas
Jaron Pierre, Jr., Southern Miss
Jordan Ivy-Curry, UTSA
Dayvion McKnight, WKU
All-Defensive Team:
Jarrod West, Marshall
Cobe Williams, LA Tech
Quan Jackson, UAB
Trey Jemison, UAB
Charles Bassey, WKU
Josh Anderson, WKU
