George Washington University Athletics
Brown Joins Wooden Award Top 50 Nominees
8/25/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The 10-player Wooden Award All-America team will be announced on March 27, 2001. One member of the Wooden Award All-America Team will be selected on April 6 as the recipient of the Wooden Award Trophy as the nation's Most Outstanding Collegiate Basketball Player of the Year. Last year's winner was Kenyon Martin of the University of Cincinnati.
As a freshman last season, Brown was named an Associated Press honorable mention All-America player. He is GW's second AP All-America honoree in as many years following Shawnta Rogers' honorable mention selection in 1999.
The Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie of the Year, Brown set a new GW single-season scoring record with 738 points surpassing the 31-year-old mark of 723 points held by Bob Tallent during the 1968-69 season.
Brown was recognized as the league's Rookie of the Week six times this season. His six Rookie of the Week citations is the most for a Colonials player since Yinka Dare won the award nine times in 1992-93.
One of the country's impact freshmen, Brown broke the Smith Center single-game record for individual scoring with 42 points against Siena last Dec. 11. Brown was named MVP of the BB&T Classic Dec. 5 after his two-game total of 50 points was one point shy of the tournament record. GW won the tournament by defeating Seton Hall on Dec. 4 and No. 19 Maryland on Dec. 5.
Brown, who was second in the country in scoring with 24.6 points per game, had eight 30-plus point games in addition to the 42-point effort. He nearly became the first freshman to lead Division I in scoring falling just one-tenth of a point shy.
GW (15-15, 9-7 in the A-10 last season) opens the 2000-01 season with an exhibition game against Double Pump, Inc. on Wednesday, November 8, at Smith Center.
