2013-14 Men's Basketball Roster
Roster
Cameron Payne
- Position:
- Guard
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 175
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Memphis, Tenn.
- High School:
- Lausanne Collegiate
2014-15: Recorded 14 steals in the first three games ... Had back-to-back games against Brescia (Dec. 3) and Western Kentucky (Dec. 6) where he was 17-of-27 from the field for 46 points and was named OVC Player of the Week off these performances ... Named OVC POW for a second-straight week after a career-high 32 points at Evansville ... Scored 33 points on 12-of-20 shooting at Eastern Illinois (Jan. 22) ... Became 41st Racer to reach 1,000 points (Jan. 31) vs UTM, and the second fastest ... Had a season-high 10 assists in the OVC championship game vs Belmont (March 7) ... Flirted with a triple-double (March 17 vs UTEP with 14 points, seven rebounds and 10 assists ... Was named the Lute Olson Player of the Year Award by CollegeInsider.com ... Named Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Player of the year, Payne backed it up with the substance and style to earn the OVC MVP at seasons’ end ...  Was named All-America by the Associated Press as Honorable Mention and by CBS Sports as Third Team,  NABC All-District 19, USBWA All-District 4 ...  He was a Naismith Trophy Semifinalist and was part of the Cousy Award Watch List ... Scored 20.2 points per game and dished out 6.0 assists to rank 13th and 15th among NCAA D-I players ... He was the fourth player in MSU history to score 700 points in a single season with 707 (it ranked fifth all-time in a single season at MSU) ... His 209 assists were three off the record at MSU ... Was the second fastest MSU player to reach 1,000 points, doing it in 57 games ... Even though he only played two seasons, he is the 23rd all-time scorer at MSU with 1,279 ... He finished his Racer career past the halfway point to leader Jeff Martin’s 2,484 points (1985-89) ... Was a big part of the Racers’ 29-6 season, which included the program’s 24th OVC championship and a pair of wins in the National Invitation Tournament ... Along the way, MSU won 25 straight games (second-longest in the nation) and went 16-0 in the OVC as the first in school history and the fifth in league history to run the table.
2013-14: Debuted with 21 points at Valparaiso (Nov. 8) ... The best MSU debut since Antoine Whelchel scored 27 vs Gardner Webb in 2000 ... Scored 22 points (Dec. 17) against Southern Illinois to become the first MSU freshman to have two 20-point games since Ivan Aska in the 2008-09 season ... Hit three straight 3-pointers in route to a 23-point night against Southeast Missouri (Jan. 2) ... Scored 27 points against UT Martin (Jan. 5) on 6-of-10 3-pointers ... Tremendous stat line (Jan. 8) at Eastern Kentucky with 19 points, seven rebounds, five asssists, three blocked shots and three steals ... Had nine assists against Tennessee Tech (Jan. 23) ... Had his first MSU double-double (Jan. 31) against Austin Peay with 12 points and 12 assists ... Scored 29 points (Feb. 6) at Belmont ... For the first time, he played an entire game without coming off the floor (Feb. 15) against Eastern Illinois ... Played a career-high 43 minutes in MSU’s double overtime game at SEMO (March 1) ... Earned a MSU record nine OVC Freshman of the Week awards ... Was named All-OVC First Team and OVC Freshman of the Year ... Scored 24 points in MSU’s OVC Tournament semifinal loss to Eastern Kentucky (March 7) and was named to the OVC All-Tournament Team ... In the EKU game, he hit a career-high 10-of-10 from the free throw line ... Named NABC All-District 19 and College Sports Madness Freshman of the Year for the mid-major level ... Had a career-high five steals in the CIT game vs Towson (March 27) ... Named CIT MVP ... Named SBNation.com Mid-Major Freshman of the Year.
Before MSU: Came to MSU from Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tenn. ... He was part of a team that won the Tennessee 2A Private School championship with a 25-4 record ... He was named Mr. Basketball ... Averaged 20 points per game and 10 assists as a senior to go with four rebounds ... As a junior in 2011-12, he scored 22 points per game and dished out four assists per game ... Had a 34-point game against St. George’s Independent School ... Was was named to the Tennessee Sports’ Writer’s Association All-State Team ...  He was a three-time selection by The Commercial Appeal for its Best of Preps All-City Team ... He was considered the 41st-best point guard in the 2013 class by ESPN.com.
Personal: Born Aug. 8, 1994 ... Son of Tony and Leshawn Payne ... Undecided on a major.
