Fields Named To The C-USA All-Freshman Team
March 06, 2007 | Men's Basketball
March 6, 2007
MEMPHIS, Tenn. --- East Carolina forward John Fields has been named to the Conference USA All-Freshman team as voted upon by the league's 12 head coaches and select media members announced league officials Tuesday.
Fields is the fifth Pirate to earn all-freshman team honors during ECU's six-year membership is Conference USA.
Fields has the fifth-highest scoring average among all conference freshmen (9.5 ppg) and the second highest rebounding average (5.88 rpg), second only to fellow freshman and teammate Gabe Blair (7.0 rpg). He ranks second overall in the league in field goal shooting (.627) and fourth in blocked shots (1.96), a category in which he has ranked among the national leaders all season.
Fields is joined on the all-freshman team by Jeremy Wise and Sai'Quon Stone of Southern Miss, Tulane's Kevin Sims and Tulsa's Ben Uzoh. Wise was voted the league's Freshman of the Year and currently ranks fourth in Conference USA for scoring, averaging 17.6 ppg, and free throw percentage (.828). Stone and Uzoh are also scoring in double figures with a 10.3 ppg average. Sims averages 9.9 points and 3.5 assists per game for the Green Wave.
The league also revealed its other specialty award winners Tuesday. Senior Jeremy Hunt and junior Joey Dorsey of the fifth-ranked Memphis Tigers were selected the Sixth Man of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively.
Joining Dorsey on the All-Defensive squad is teammate Antonio Anderson, seniors Paul Delaney III of UAB and Oliver Lafayette of Houston, as well as sophomore Bamba Fall of SMU. Lafayette is pocketing 2.5 steals per game this season to lead Conference USA and rank 15th nationally. Delaney (1.90 spg) and Anderson (1.83) are ranked second and third in the conference. Fall was averaging a league-best 2.58 blocks per game before being sidelined by a broken finger in February.
