BATON ROUGE – LSU Basketball junior point guard, Javonte Smith, has been named Monday as one of 20 watch list candidates by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the 2021 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award.
Named after Class of 1971 Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic and Holy Cross guard Bob Cousy, the annual honor now in its eighteenth year recognizes the top point guards in Division I men's college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates.
In two seasons, Smart has started 48-of-65 career games including 30-of-31 a year ago.