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Mayo Earns NABC First Team All-District Honors

3/22/2019 10:41:00 AM

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KANSAS CITY
– Eastern Kentucky University senior men's basketball player Nick Mayo has been voted to the 2018-19 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 19 First Team.
 
Mayo ranked second in the OVC and 10th in the country in scoring (23.7 points-per-game) during the regular season. He also led the OVC in free throw percentage (86.4%), tied for second in blocks-per-game (1.8) and ranked fourth in rebounds-per-game (8.7).
 
The 6-9 forward from Oakland, Maine opened the season with 26 points and a career-high 15 rebounds versus Marshall. He followed that up with a career-high 40 points and 12 rebounds in a road win at Chattanooga on November 10. He scored 27 of those 40 points in the final 10 minutes of the game. Mayo closed out November by hanging 23 points and nine boards at then-No. 6 Tennessee.
 
Mayo opened December by scoring 30 points and hitting a buzzer-beating three-pointer to beat High Point on the road. Seven days later, he had 27 points and 11 rebounds and hit another buzzer-beat to lift the Colonels past Northern Kentucky at McBrayer Arena.
 
On December 15, Mayo posted 25 points, six rebounds and five steals at Xavier. In doing so, he moved past Matt Witt to become EKU's all-time leading scorer.
 
Mayo averaged 23.9 points and 8.8 rebounds-per-game during OVC play. He nearly led EKU to a big road upset at Murray State on January 5, scoring 36 points and pulling down nine boards. Other notable conference performances included 33 points and 11 rebounds at SIUE (February 2), 32 points and 11 boards at Morehead State (February 14), 26 points and 12 rebounds at home versus Murray State (February 16), 32 points and 14 boards at Jacksonville State (February 23), 31 points and nine rebounds in a critical win over Austin Peay (February 28) and 27 points and seven rebounds in the season finale against Morehead State (March 2).
 
Mayo finished his career fifth on the OVC's all-time scoring list and 145th on the NCAA's all-time scoring list with 2,316 points.
 
He is only the second player in the 71-year history of the OVC to be named first team all-conference four times. Western Kentucky's Ralph Crosthwaite (1954-59) is the other.
 
It is the fourth consecutive year Mayo has been honored by the NABC. He was named All-District 19 Second Team as a freshman, sophomore and junior.
 
District 19
First Team
Dylan Windler, Belmont
Ja Morant, Murray State
Terry Taylor, Austin Peay
Jason Burnell, Jacksonville State
Nick Mayo, Eastern Kentucky
 
Second Team
Kevin McClain, Belmont
Nick Muszynski, Belmont
Jordan Walker, Morehead State
Josiah Wallace, Eastern Illinois
Chris Porter-Bunton, Austin Peay
 
 
 
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