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Culver Earns NABC All-America Honors
March 26, 2019 | Men's Basketball
ANAHEIM, California – Texas Tech sophomore Jarrett Culver has been named a National Association of Basketball Coaches Third-Team All-America in a season where he is averaging 18.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game and has helped lead the Red Raiders back to the Sweet 16. The NABC Coaches' Division I All-America teams are selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC and comprises of 15 student-athletes. Â
Culver has now earned three All-America honors this postseason after also being named to the Sporting News and USBWA second-team. He is the third Red Raider in program history to earn NABC All-America honors following Andre Emmett (2003-04) and Keenan Evans (2017-18) who also earned the award during their careers. A Lubbock native, Culver was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and to the All-Big 12 First-Team and is coming off his fifth double-double of the season after he went for 16 points and 10 rebounds in the win over No. 6 Buffalo on Sunday to lead the Red Raiders (28-6) into the Sweet 16 where they will play No. 2 Michigan (30-6) at 8:39 p.m. (CT) on Thursday at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Also a John R. Wooden Award and Jerry West Award finalist, he enters the second week of the NCAA Tournament also averaging 1.4 steals per game and is shooting 48.4 percent from the field. Culver has now scored 1,053 points in 71 career games as a Red Raider after also scoring 29 points in the first-round win over No. 14 Northern Kentucky where he also contributed seven assists and eight rebounds. He has scored 20 or more points in 12 games this season and has scored in double-figures in 33 of 34 games with his only single-digit scoring performance coming in a win over Kansas State where he had nine points and seven rebounds.
Culver scored a career-high 31 points at Iowa State in the regular-season finale to help secure the program's first-ever Big 12 Conference regular-season championship where he was 12-for-19 from the field. He also had 30 points this season in a win over Abilene Christian where he was 12-for-13 from the field and secured a career-high with 16 points against Iowa State at home. Culver comes into the matchup against Michigan with 397 rebounds, 196 assists and 90 steals in his career.
The NABC named RJ Barrett (Duke), Rui Hachimura (Gonzaga), Ja Morant (Murray State), Grant Williams (Tennessee) and Zion Williamson to its first team and had Carsen Edwards (Purdue), Ethan Happ (Wisconsin), Markus Howard (Marquette), De'Andre Hunter (Virginia) and Cassius Winston (Michigan State) on the second team. Joining Culver as NABC third-team All-America is Mike Daum (South Dakota State), Kyle Guy (Virginia), Dedric Lawson (Kansas) and PJ Washington (Kentucky).
Culver has now earned three All-America honors this postseason after also being named to the Sporting News and USBWA second-team. He is the third Red Raider in program history to earn NABC All-America honors following Andre Emmett (2003-04) and Keenan Evans (2017-18) who also earned the award during their careers. A Lubbock native, Culver was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and to the All-Big 12 First-Team and is coming off his fifth double-double of the season after he went for 16 points and 10 rebounds in the win over No. 6 Buffalo on Sunday to lead the Red Raiders (28-6) into the Sweet 16 where they will play No. 2 Michigan (30-6) at 8:39 p.m. (CT) on Thursday at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Also a John R. Wooden Award and Jerry West Award finalist, he enters the second week of the NCAA Tournament also averaging 1.4 steals per game and is shooting 48.4 percent from the field. Culver has now scored 1,053 points in 71 career games as a Red Raider after also scoring 29 points in the first-round win over No. 14 Northern Kentucky where he also contributed seven assists and eight rebounds. He has scored 20 or more points in 12 games this season and has scored in double-figures in 33 of 34 games with his only single-digit scoring performance coming in a win over Kansas State where he had nine points and seven rebounds.
Culver scored a career-high 31 points at Iowa State in the regular-season finale to help secure the program's first-ever Big 12 Conference regular-season championship where he was 12-for-19 from the field. He also had 30 points this season in a win over Abilene Christian where he was 12-for-13 from the field and secured a career-high with 16 points against Iowa State at home. Culver comes into the matchup against Michigan with 397 rebounds, 196 assists and 90 steals in his career.
The NABC named RJ Barrett (Duke), Rui Hachimura (Gonzaga), Ja Morant (Murray State), Grant Williams (Tennessee) and Zion Williamson to its first team and had Carsen Edwards (Purdue), Ethan Happ (Wisconsin), Markus Howard (Marquette), De'Andre Hunter (Virginia) and Cassius Winston (Michigan State) on the second team. Joining Culver as NABC third-team All-America is Mike Daum (South Dakota State), Kyle Guy (Virginia), Dedric Lawson (Kansas) and PJ Washington (Kentucky).
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