Eastern Kentucky University junior Jomaru Brown has been named to the prestigious Lou Henson Award Watch List. The award is given annually to the top mid-major player in Division-I college basketball.
Brown – a 6-2 guard from Raleigh, North Carolina – was a first-team All-OVC selection last year after averaging 18.4 points-per-game. That ranked fourth in the OVC and 12th among all sophomores in the country. He poured in a career-high 41 points versus in-state rival Western Kentucky last November at McBrayer Arena. That was the most points scored by an OVC player all season, and it was tied for the fourth-most points ever scored by a Colonel in a single game.
Brown scored his 1,000th career point last year as a sophomore, reaching the milestone in the regular season finale versus Morehead State, an 80-76 victory at home.
After missing the first two games of this season, Brown is currently averaging 15 points, 4.5 assists and 4 rebounds-per-game. He posted 18 points, four assists, three rebounds and two steals in EKU’s 95-78 win at USC Upstate on Wednesday.
The recipient of the 2020-21 Lou Henson Award will be announced in April.
The award’s namesake, Lou Henson, coached college basketball for 41 years. When he left the game in 2005, he was sixth all-time in career Division-I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four.
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