Lo Listed on Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List
1/11/2016 10:06:00 AM | Men's Basketball
BOSTON – Columbia men's basketball senior Maodo Lo was selected as one of 31 players to the Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List, as announced by CollegeInsider.com. Lo was also tabbed for the preseason watch list.
The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the Mid-Major player in division I college basketball. The award is named in honor of Lou Henson who coached 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four.
Lo is averaging a team-high 16.2 points, which puts him fourth in the Ivy League. He has made 51 3-pointers on the year, which ranks in the top-30 of the NCAA, and set Columbia's all-time record for threes against Lehigh on Nov. 22. Lo is also the Ivy League leader in steals, checking in at 2.0 per contest.
The Berlin native is fifth on the Lions' career scoring list with 1,440 points and third all-time in steals with 138.
The recipient of the 2016 award will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Award Presentation on April 1 in Houston, site of the men's division I national championship.
LOU HENSON AWARD MID-SEASON WATCH LIST
Paris Bass, Detroit
Anthony Beane, Southern Illinois
Joel Bolomboy, Weber State
Nathan Boothe, Toledo
Evan Bradds, Belmont
Josh Braun, Grand Canyon
Martin Breunig, Montana
John Brown, High Point
Obi Emegano, Oral Roberts
A.J. English, Iona
Quincy Ford, Northeastern
Juan'ya Green, Hofstra
Kevin Hervey, UT Arlington
Peter Hooley, Albany
Casey Jones, Chattanooga
Maodo Lo, Columbia
Shawn Long, UL-Lafayette
Egidijus Mockevicius, Evansville
Dallas Moore, North Florida
Mamadou Ndiaye, UC Irvine
Deondre Parks, South Dakota State
Alec Peters, Valparaiso
Justin Robinson, Monmouth
Justin Sears, Yale
Pascal Siakam, New Mexico State
Rashawn Thomas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Matt Tiby, Milwaukee
Fred VanVleet, Wichita State
Thomas Walkup, Stephen. F. Austin
Jameel Warney, Stony Brook
Wes Washpun, Northern Iowa
