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McDowell,
Payne receive honors from basketball sportswriters
The
LSUS men’s basketball coach and the team’s
leading scorer were honored in late April at the Louisiana
Association of Basketball Coaches (LABC) annual banquet
in Baton Rouge.
Coach
Chad McDowell, the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Coach
of the Year, was selected the LABC Small College Coach
of the Year, and sophomore shooting guard Fredericko
“Rico” Payne, the GCAC Newcomer of the Year,
shared LABC Small College Player of the Year honors
with SUNO’s Roberto Ferriar. College basketball
coaches in the state vote on the awards.
McDowell led his team to a 21-12 overall record in the
Pilots’ first year of competition since the mid-1990s
– when McDowell was a standout player for LSUS.
The Pilots’ 12-6 conference record put them in
a tie for fourth place in the conference, one game behind
a three-way tie for first place.
Payne, a GCAC first team All-Conference selection, played
a major role in the Pilots’ success in the 2003-04
season. Payne finished the season as the leading scorer
in the GCAC, averaging 21.8 points per game, a mark
that was good enough to rank him eighth in the nation.
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