It Is Bradds Again – OVC POY

(St. Louis, MO) – Belmont’s Evan Bradds will go down in Ohio Valley Conference history as a two-time ‘OVC Player of the Year’. Bradds won the award last season, was the media’s pre-season pick to repeat and did not disappoint as he led the Bruins to an East Division title, a regular season championship while averaging over 20 points per game and just under nine rebounds for the OVC power.

Bradds was joined on the ten man first team by teammate Austin Luke and his coach, Rick Byrd was named ‘OVC Coach of the Year’ in a vote conducted by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors.

With ten members on the All Ohio Valley Conference team, it will hard to evaluate how our prognostications measured up to that of the professionals, but you can read our reasoning Valley Hoops Insider – All OVC Team !

We named eight of the ten first-teamers in our two, five-man teams. Eastern Illinois’ Terrell Lewis didn’t even make it onto the OVC’s second team and Tennessee State’s Wayne Martin did. League officials placed Terrell Miller (Murray State) and Belmont’s Luke on the squad instead.

The rest of the first team, as we accurately predicted, was Xavier Moon of Morehead State, Murray State’s Jonathan Stark, UT Martin’s Jacolby Mobley, Nick Mayo of Eastern Kentucky, Southeast Missouri’s Antonius Cleveland, Tahjere McCall of Tennessee State and Austin Peay’s Josh Robinson.

For the second team and all-newcomer team, head to the Ohio Valley Conference website.

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