Brown Chosen to PBC Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference Team
AUGUSTA, Ga. – University of South Carolina Aiken men’s basketball player Alvin Brown has been chosen to the 2011-12 Peach Belt Conference Preseason Men’s Basketball All-Conference Team.
The league office released the five-member men’s basketball preseason All-Conference team. The team was selected by the Peach Belt Conference men’s basketball head coaches.
Joining Brown on the preseason team are Georgia Southwestern’s Phillip Brown and Colin Slotter, UNC Pembroke’s Shahmel Brackett and Francis Marion’s Liki Turner.
An Honorable Mention Preseason All-America selection by the Sporting News, Brown was the 2010-11 Peach Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year. During the 2010-11 season he helped to lead the Pacers to a No. 1 national ranking in blocked shots. The Pacers as a team in the 2010-11 season blocked an average of 6.1 shots per outing.
The junior center was the catalyst for the Pacer block party, finishing fifth nationally in blocked shots per game with an average of 3.3 swats per game. Brown in only one year has already moved to third all-time in school history in career blocks with his 90 swats.
Brown averaged 8.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in his first season in a Pacer uniform.
Brown collected 12 double-figure scoring outings in the 2010-11 season to go along with three double-doubles.
He had a career-best 21 points to go along with 11 rebounds in a Pacer win over Mars Hill on Dec. 30.
Brown's best game of the year came in USC Aiken's 76-71 win over North Georgia at the Convocation Center on Jan. 17, 2011. Brown (Fort Washington, Md./James Madison) broke the Peach Belt Conference record for blocked shots in a single game and finished with the third triple-double in school history in USC Aiken's win over North Georgia.
Brown finished his incredible night with 13 blocks, 13 points and 10 rebounds. His 13 blocks eclipsed the previous USC Aiken and Peach Belt Conference record of 12 blocks in a game that was formerly held by USC Aiken Hall of Famer Derek Moore, who swatted 12 shots in a contest with Coastal Carolina on Dec. 5, 1998.
Brown's triple-double marked the first time that a Pacer had secured a triple-double in a single game since Moore acquired 16 points, 12 blocks and 11 rebounds in the Coastal Carolina game.
Brown was selected as the PBC Player of the Week on Monday, Jan. 24.
PBC Men's Basketball
2011-12 Preseason All-Conference Team
Alvin Brown, USC Aiken
Shahmel Brackett, UNC Pembroke
Phillip Brown, Georgia Southwestern
Colin Slotter, Georgia Southwestern
Liki Turner, Francis Marion
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