BOSTON – Georgia Southern guard Ike Smith has been named to the 2017-18 Lou Henson Award preseason Watch List, it was announced today.
The award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I mid-major player and will be announced March 31, 2018, at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Event in San Antonio, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.
A first-team preseason All-Sun Belt selection in a poll by the league's 12 head coaches, Smith earned first-team all-league accolades a season ago.
The junior ranked first in the Sun Belt in scoring (19.