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10/29/2009 -
Kendrick Easley Named To Basketball Times Division II Men's Basketball All-America Top 25
Mount Olive College senior Kendrick Easley has been named to the 2009-10 Basketball Times Division II Preseason All-America Top 25, it was announced by the basketball publication. The preseason All-America award is the third this season for Easley, who has also been selected to The Sporting News and Division II Bulletin Preseason All-America Teams.
Easley, last year’s Conference Carolinas Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, has earned preseason All-America recognition in each of the last three years. He also garnered post-season All-America honors in both his sophomore and junior years.
Easley, a 6-1 guard from Norfolk, Va., ranked among the national leaders last season with a 21.2 points per game scoring average, 84.9 free throw shooting percentage and 43.6 percent three-point field goal percentage. His 593 points last year ranks as the fourth-highest single-season scoring total in school history. He came within a field goal of matching a school single-game scoring record with 39 points against Pfeiffer last year.
Easley enters this season with 1,577 career points. He is 149 points away from moving into third place on the Trojan men’s basketball all-time scoring list and 278 points away from climbing into second place. Easley needs 588 points this season to become the Trojans’ all-time career scoring leader.
In addition to his All-America honors, Easley is a two-time NABC All-Region selection and a two-time All-Conference Carolinas first team selection. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 2008 Conference Carolinas Men’s Basketball Tournament after helping lead Mount Olive to its first-ever conference tournament championship. Easley was named the (then) 2005-06 Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Men’s Basketball Freshman of the Year and was among 10 players nationwide selected to the 2005-06 Division II Bulletin All-Freshmen Team.
Mount Olive finished with an 18-10 record last year and won a share of its second consecutive Conference Carolinas regular season title with a 17-3 mark. The Trojans have reached the 20-win mark and earned an NCAA Tournament berth in five of the last six years, including an East Regional championship and a trip to the NCAA II Elite Eight in 2005.
Mount Olive tips off its 2009-10 season November 16 with a non-conference road game at Lenoir-Rhyne. The Trojans play host to the 44th Annual Pickle Classic November 20-21 at Kornegay Arena. This year’s Pickle Classic includes two teams that have won national championships during this decade, Virginia Union (2005) and Barton (2007).