Jonathan Stark Earns All-America Honors

Murray State's Jonathan Stark has been honored as part of the 2018 Associated Press NCAA D-I Men's Basketball All-America Team.

Stark, from Munford, Tennessee, just completed an amazing season in which he was named Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year and set the Murray State record with 100 made 3-point baskets as he was leading the league in scoring for a second-consecutive season at 21.4 points per game. He ended as the all-time two-year scorer at Murray State with 1,408 points. Stark's 2017-18 season scoring total was 685 points, just behind sixth place Cameron Payne (14-15) 707, and fifth place DT Mayes (97-98) 711) in MSU history.

Stark helped the Racers to a fantastic 2017-18 season that had an overall mark of 26-6 and MSU won the OVC at 16-2. MSU's 26 wins marked the ninth time in 93 seasons that a Racer team posted 25 or more victories. The Racers were OVC champions for the 25th time and when they won a pair of games in Evansville, they won the OVC Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, each for the 16th time. MSU had the second-longest win streak in the nation of 13-straight when the season ended in San Diego at the NCAA's against West Virginia.

Stark is the 16^th Murray State player to be named All-America since Cameron Payne was honored in 2015. Other recent Murray State players to be recognized include Isaiah Canaan (2012) and Cuthbert Victor (2004). Three of the Racers' all-time greats were also All-America selections, including all-time leading scorer Jeff Martin (1989) and all-time rebounder Popeye Jones, who is the only MSU player to be named twice (1991 and 1992). Marcus Brown was All-America in 1994 and finished 3^rd in all-time scoring at MSU.

MSU All-America Selections
Etheridge McKeel 1938
Bob Salmons 1941
Joe Fulks 1943
Garrett Beshear 1951
Bennie Purcell 1952
Howie Crittenden 1956
Stewart Johnson 1966
Dick Cunningham 1968
Jeff Martin 1989
Popeye Jones 1991
Popeye Jones 1992
Marcus Brown 1994
Cuthbert Victor 2004
Isaiah Canaan 2012
Cameron Payne 2015
Jonathan Stark 2018

2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS MEN'S BASKETBALL ALL-AMERICA TEAM
First Team
Jalen Brunson, Villanova, 6-3, 190, junior, Lincolnshire, Ill.
Deandre Ayton, Arizona, 7-1, 250, freshman, Nassau, Bahamas
Trae Young, Oklahoma, 6-2, 180, freshman, Norman, Okla.
Marvin Bagley III, Duke, 6-11, 234, freshman, Phoenix
Devonte' Graham, Kansas, 6-2, 185, senior, Raleigh, N.C.

Second Team
Keita Bates-Diop, Ohio State, 6-7, 235, junior, Normal, Ill.
Trevon Bluiett, Xavier, 6-6, 198, senior, Indianapolis, Ind.
Jock Landale, Saint Mary's, 6-11, 255, senior, East Malvern, Australia
Miles Bridges, Michigan State, 6-7, 225, sophomore, Flint, Mich.
Jevon Carter, West Virginia, 6-2, 205, senior, Maywood, Ill.

Third Team
Keenan Evans, Texas Tech, 6-3, 190, senior, Richardson, Texas
Carsen Edwards, Purdue, 6-1, 200, sophomore, Atascocita, Texas
Mikal Bridges, Villanova, 6-7, 210, junior, Malvern, Pa.
Luke Maye, North Carolina, 6-8, 240, junior, Huntersville, N.C.
Kyle Guy, Virginia, 6-2, 175, sophomore, Indianapolis

Honorable Mention (alphabetical order)
Jaylen Adams, St. Bonaventure; Peyton Aldridge, Davidson; Grayson Allen, Duke; Mo Bamba, Texas; Trae Bell-Haynes, Vermont; Joel Berry II, North Carolina; Bogdan Bliznyuk, Eastern Washington; Desonta Bradford, ETSU; Tony Carr, Penn State; Gary Clark, Cincinnati; Xavier Cooks, Winthrop; Jermaine Crumpton, Canisius; Clayton Custer, Loyola of Chicago; Mike Daum, South Dakota State; Angel Delgado, Seton Hall; Kahlil Dukes, Niagara; Tre'Shaun Fletcher, Toledo; Marcus Foster, Creighton; Brandon Goodwin, Florida Gulf Coast; Isaac Haas, Purdue; Aaron Holiday, UCLA; Jordan Howard, Central Arkansas; Jemerrio Jones, New Mexico State; Nick King, Middle Tennessee; Kevin Knox, Kentucky; Fletcher Magee, Wofford; Caleb Martin, Nevada; Kelan Martin, Butler; Yante Maten, Georgia; Martaveous McKnight, Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Kendrick Nunn, Oakland; Shamorie Ponds, St. John's; Jerome Robinson, Boston College; Junior Robinson, Mount St. Mary's; Colin Sexton, Alabama; Landry Shamet, Wichita State; T.J. Shorts II, UC Davis; D'Marcus Simonds, Georgia State; Jonathan Stark, Murray State; Brandon Tabb, Bethune-Cookman; Zach Thomas, Bucknell; Seth Towns, Harvard; Allonzo Trier, Arizona; Grant Williams, Tennessee; Johnathan Williams, Gonzaga; Justin Wright-Foreman, Hofstra.

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