Antoine Smith Jr. | University of Evansville Athletic
Antoine Smith Jr. | University of Evansville Athletic
Antoine Smith Jr. receives MVC Scholar-Athlete recognition
University of Evansville junior Antoine Smith Jr. was recognized with Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention accolades on Monday.
Smith is a history major at UE with a 3.59 GPA. He averaged 7.7 points and 3.3 rebounds per game throughout the regular season. Playing in 30 games and making 14 starts, Smith was the Purple Aces' top free throw shooter at 84.8%. In games against Valparaiso and Missouri State, Smith set his season high with 16 points. He was locked in throughout the middle portions of the conference campaign, averaging 9.6 points in the 12 games leading up to the Feb. 18 game at Murray State.
Marcus Domask highlighted a list of 16 student-athletes honored as part of the 2023 Missouri Valley Confer¬ence Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete Teams, announced today by the league office. Voting was conducted by league's sports information directors.
The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the CSC (College Sports Communicators) standards for Aca¬demic All-America voting. Student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). He must have participated in at least 75 percent of his team's games during the regular season. No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and been on a col¬lege roster in that sport for two years.
For transfers, graduate students, and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible, although graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution. Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or above both as an undergrad and in grad school.
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