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McClung Earns NABC and USBWA All-District Honors
March 16, 2021 | Men's Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS – Texas Tech junior Mac McClung was named an all-district selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) on Tuesday.
McClung was also named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and earned All-Big 12 Second Team and Big 12 All-Newcomer Team honors in his first season with the program after transferring from Georgetown. A junior from Gate City, Virginia who has started all 27 games, McClung leads the Red Raiders with 15.7 points per game this season where he averaged 17.0 in Big 12 play. A dynamic scorer, McClung had a season-high 30 points at West Virginia where he had four 3-pointers and comes into his first NCAA Tournament experience with 10 games this season with 20 or more points.
His last 20-point performance came in the home finale against Iowa State before being limited to seven at Baylor and seven against Texas in the past two games. McClung is 102-for-127 from the free-throw line (80.3 percent) for the season and is second on the team with 43 3-pointers. He hit a season-high four 3-pointers in the team's home game against Baylor where he scored 24 points by also going 8-for-10 at the line and matched a season-high six assists in the home win over TCU. McClung is averaging 2.2 assists per game to go along with his scoring after also having six assists in a non-conference win over Corpus Christi and having three or more assists in 11 games. He scored a career-high 38 points as a freshman at Georgetown against Little Rock and comes into the NCAA Tournament with 1,135 points through 77 collegiate games.
McClung and the Red Raiders open the NCAA Tournament at 12:45 p.m. (CST) on Friday against Utah State at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.
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McClung was also named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and earned All-Big 12 Second Team and Big 12 All-Newcomer Team honors in his first season with the program after transferring from Georgetown. A junior from Gate City, Virginia who has started all 27 games, McClung leads the Red Raiders with 15.7 points per game this season where he averaged 17.0 in Big 12 play. A dynamic scorer, McClung had a season-high 30 points at West Virginia where he had four 3-pointers and comes into his first NCAA Tournament experience with 10 games this season with 20 or more points.
His last 20-point performance came in the home finale against Iowa State before being limited to seven at Baylor and seven against Texas in the past two games. McClung is 102-for-127 from the free-throw line (80.3 percent) for the season and is second on the team with 43 3-pointers. He hit a season-high four 3-pointers in the team's home game against Baylor where he scored 24 points by also going 8-for-10 at the line and matched a season-high six assists in the home win over TCU. McClung is averaging 2.2 assists per game to go along with his scoring after also having six assists in a non-conference win over Corpus Christi and having three or more assists in 11 games. He scored a career-high 38 points as a freshman at Georgetown against Little Rock and comes into the NCAA Tournament with 1,135 points through 77 collegiate games.
McClung and the Red Raiders open the NCAA Tournament at 12:45 p.m. (CST) on Friday against Utah State at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.
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