ETSU senior guard Tim Smith made good on the predications.
Named the Atlantic Sun Conference Preseason Player of the Year back in October, Smith was officially selected as the conference Player of the Year on Tuesday, joining six other players from around the A-Sun as first-team selections.
Meanwhile, freshman guard Courtney Pigram was chosen to the league’s all-freshman team.
Smith lived up to the preseason hype during his final campaign in Johnson City, leading the conference in scoring and posting the league’s highest scoring average (22.1 ppg) since 1995-96. The 5-9 senior has currently scored 596 points and should become only the third player in the last 13 seasons to reach the 600-point plateau in the A-Sun. Additionally, his 3.37 steals per game average is the fifth best in conference history.
Along with Smith, Gardner-Webb’s Simon Conn, Florida Atlantic’s Rodney Webb, Campbell’s Maurice Latham, and Lipscomb’s Brian Fish and Eddie Ard rounded out the first team selections.
Meanwhile, Pigram, who is currently the Bucs’ second leading scorer with 12.3 points per game, was joined on the all-freshman squad by Jacksonville’s Marcus Allen, Florida Atlantic’s Carlos Monroe, Kennesaw State’s Andre Morgan, and Belmont’s Andy Wicke.
Fourteen of the 17 players honored by the conference office will participate in the 2006 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Championship. The madness begins in the mountains today when top-seeded Lipscomb faces eighth-seeded Mercer at 1 pm to tipoff the quarterfinal round at the Memorial Center on the campus of ETSU.

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