Another honor for Clavell
3/9/2011 5:34:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Clavell is joined on the NABC All-District 23 first team by Anatoly Bose of Nicholls, Devin Gibson of UTSA, Patrick Richard of McNeese State and Trent Hutchin of Southeastern Louisiana.
Clavell is a two-year letterman from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Crow, a Houston Westfield product, is the only four-year letterman on the 2011 Bearkat squad.
The Sam Houston men won their third consecutive Southland Conference West Division championship this year. The Bearkats are the No. 3 seed at the State Farm Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament in Katy, the seventh year in a row for Sam Houston to enter the post-season event as a top three seed.
Clavell scored 578 points in 30 games for an average of 19.2 points per game this year.
The senior is the only junior college transfer to score 1,000 points or more in two years as a Bearkat. The conference's 2010 newcomer of the year has scored 1,141 points in 63 games since transferring to Sam Houston from Collin County Community College.
He has scored in double figures 55 times including 27 games with 20 or more points and four with 30 or more.
A five-time player of the week in his two seasons in Huntsville, Clavell's career scoring average of 18.1 points ranks as the third highest at Sam Houston, behind James Lister, the school's all-time scoring leader, who averaged 21.9 points in 1970-73, and Tom Sewell, who posted a 19.6 scoring average from 1952 to 1954.
Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, the 10 student-athletes represent the finest basketball players across America. The 245 student-athletes, from 24 districts, are eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams, to be announced on Saturday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m. (EDT) at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston during the NABC Convention and NCAA Final Four.
The complete NABC All-District 23 Team:
First Team
Gilberto Clavell Sam Houston State
Anatoly Bose Nicholls State
Devin Gibson UTSA
Patrick Richard McNeese State
Trent Hutchin Southeastern La.
Second Team
Will Pratt Northwestern State
Jenirro Bush Jackson State
Demond Watt Texas A&M C.C.
Kevin Galloway Texas Southern
Travell Jones Texas Southern
