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Coastal Carolina's Bamba Earns Google Cloud Academic All-America Honors

AUSTIN, Texas – Coastal Carolina junior forward Amidou Bamba was named to the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Men’s Basketball Teams, receiving third-team honors, as selected by CoSIDA.

Bamba, a finance major, was one of only 15 honorees from around the nation in Division I men’s basketball and the only Division I player from the state of South Carolina. He is the second-consecutive and fourth overall Coastal Carolina men’s basketball student-athlete to receive Academic All-America honors.

This season, Bamba is averaging 6.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per games appearing in 30 games.