Shabazz Napier Player of the Year American Athletic Conference By a vote of the league’s coaches, UConn senior guard Shabazz Napier has been named the 2014 American Athletic Conferencve Player of the Year and was also a unanimous choice as an All-AAC first team pick. Napier was The American Player of the Week on five different occasions this season and was named to the league’s weekly Honor Roll nine times. Where Shabazz ranks in American Athletic Conference final regular-season statistics: Scoring...............2nd (19.3) Rebounding........13th (5.7) Def. Rebounding...5th (4.8) Assists...................3rd (4.7) FT Percentage....2nd (.901) 3-Pt. FG Pct. ....14th (.360) 3-Pt. FG Made ......5th (2.3) Steals....................5th (1.8) Assist/TO Ratio.....8th (1.8) Minutes played...4th (35.1)
UConn All-Time Lists Scoring 1. Chris Smith.............2,145 2. Richard Hamilton.....2,036 3. Tony Hanson...........1,990 4. Shabazz Napier..1,937 5. Ray Allen................1,922 Games Played 1. Shabazz Napier.....142 2. Kevin Freeman...........140 3. Jake Voskuhl..............138 Steals 1. Scott Burrell..............310 2. Shabazz Napier.....248
Assists 1. Taliek Brown..............772 2. Tate George...............677 3. Shabazz Napier.....643 4. Kevin Ollie.................619 Free Throws Made 1. Shabazz Napier.....507 2. Kemba Walker............501 3. Corny Thompson........496 3-Pointers Made 1. Rashad Anderson......276 2. Shabazz Napier.....256 3. Ben Gordon..............246 4. Chris Smith...............242
AAC PLAYER OF WEEK (5): Nov. 25, Dec. 9, Jan. 27, Feb. 17, March 3. WEEKLY HONOR ROLL (9): Nov. 11, Nov. 18, Dec. 23, Dec. 30, Jan. 13, Jan. 20, Feb. 3, Feb. 24, March 10.
NATIONAL AWARDS: Besides the Player of the Year and unanimous first team recognition by the AAC, Shabazz Napier has already been named a consensus first team All-American by the Associated Press, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the U.S. Basketball Writers Assciation and he is that organization’s District I Player of the Year. He has also been named a John Wooden All-American and has captured the Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year award. TRIPLE THREAT: Through 39 games, Napier leads the Huskies in scoring (17.9), and assists (4.9) and is second in rebounding (5.8). Since 1969-70, when UConn began compiling assist records, no one player has led the team in all three categories for a single season. DOUBLE TRIPLE-DOUBLE: Napier added to the UConn record book on Nov. 11 against Yale, when he became the only UConn player to ever record a second triple double in his career. He is one of only two players in the country (UCF’s Isaiah Sykes) with two triple-doubles in his career. 2013-14 triple doubles .....1 2013-14 double-doubles...6
UCONN ALL-TIME TRIPLE-DOUBLES Player Shabazz Napier Shabazz Napier Kemba Walker Hasheem Thabeet Marcus Williams Ben Gordon Emeka Okafor Caron Butler Doron Sheffer Donyell Marshall
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11/11/13 vs. Yale 14p, 11r, 10a 11/20/11 vs. Coppin State 22p, 12r, 13a 12/3/10 vs. UMBC 24p, 13r, 10a 1/31/09 vs. Providence 15p, 11r, 10b 2/21/06 vs. Notre Dame 18p, 10r, 13a 12/20/03 vs. Iona 17p, 16r, 11a 12/6/03 vs. Army 18p, 15r, 10b 12/26/00 vs. URI 14p, 12r, 11a 12/30/95 vs. Hartford 10p, 10r, 11a 1/17/94 vs. Hartford 23p, 11r, 10b
2014 UConn NCAA Championship Media Notes April 7, 2014, NCAA Final Four AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas