HIGH POINT, N.C. – For the third-straight season, High Point University men’s basketball redshirt-senior forward John Brown has been named first team NABC All-District.
Brown is one of just nine players nationally to earn first team all-district honors in each of the last three seasons. That list includes Buddy Hield (Oklahoma), Fred VanVleet (Wichita State), Ron Baker (Wichita State), Yogi Ferrell (Indiana), Nic Moore (SMU), Jameel Warney (Stony Brook), Justin Sears (Yale) and Shawn Long (Louisiana-Lafayette).
Brown is the only player in HPU history to become a three-time first team all-district selection and a four-time all-district pick (he was a second team selection as a freshman in 2012-13).
He is joined all the District 3 First Team by Dallas Moore (North Florida), Keon Johnson (Winthrop), DeSean Murray (Presbyterian) and Marc-Eddy Norella (Florida Gulf Coast).
One of the most well-rounded players in the nation, Brown ranked second in the country in player efficiency rating in 2015-16, one of the most beneficial statistics to measure a player’s value to his team. In addition, he was third in the country in offensive efficiency and ranks in the top-40 in field goals made (13th), field goal percentage (21st) and scoring (36th) during the season.
He was named Big South Player of the Year for the second time in three seasons and became the first player ever to be named Big South Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same campaign.
Brown ranked in the top-6 of the Big South in field goal percentage (1st), offensive rebounds (2nd), scoring (3rd), blocks (4th), steals (5th) and rebounding (6th). On the defensive end of the floor, Brown led the conference in combined blocks/steals (97) by 18 over the next closest player and was the only player in the Big South to rank in the top-100 nationally in block percentage and steal percentage.
A preseason candidate for the Julius Erving Award and a mid-season finalist for the Lou Henson Award, Brown posted 10 points in 27-of-28 games and 20+ 12 games. A two-time Big South Player of the Week selection, Brown led the nation in Ken Pomeroy MVPs during the regular season, a stat given to the top player in each college basketball game all season long.
The redshirt-senior ends his career as the only player in Big South history to post at least 2,000 points, 700 rebounds, 150 blocks, 150 steals and 150 assists. He is second all-time in Big South history in scoring (2,229 career points) and first on HPU’s Div. I career scoring list.
Brown also is first all-time at HPU in games started (116), offensive rebounds (381), steals (181) and is second in field goals made (858).