Men’s basketball players from both West Virginia and Marshall universities earned Academic All-District II first-team honors Thursday from CoSIDA.
WVU’s Jevon Carter and Marshall’s Austin Loop joined a first team that also included Joe Sherburne of UMBC, Cameron Johnson of Pitt and Steven Cook of Princeton.
A sport management major with a 3.4 grade point average, Carter has started all 24 games for the Mountaineers this season. He is averaging 11.5 points, 4.4 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game. Carter currently leads the Big 12 Conference in steals with 70 on the season.
Loop is a double-major in biomechanics and exercise science, owns a 3.