Armstrong Named to Lou Henson National Player of the Year Watchlist
11/23/2022 12:01:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BOSTON - California Baptist University's sophomore point guard Taran Armstrong was included on Wednesday's CollegeInsider.com's Lou Henson National Player of the Year Award watch list announcement. Armstrong is one of just ten guards in the nation currently averaging at least 16 points, four assists, and five rebounds per game, and the only underclassman on that list.
Armstrong is the reigning WAC Freshman of the Year after a debut season where his averages put him in rare company with the likes of Ja Morant, Lonzo Ball, and Magic Johnson. He led the Lancers to their first-ever Division I postseason win at the WAC Tournament, topping UTRGV 81-80 in Las Vegas.
Armstrong has improved as a scorer this season so far, increasing his season average to 16.0 points per game in 2022-23, up from 10.5 last season. That average was helped tremendously in an all-time effort in CBU's milestone victory over Washington last week, where he scored 18 points to guide CBU to its first win over a Power 5 opponent in program history. He followed that up with another stellar performance against Minnesota, dropping a game-high 24 points against the Big Ten foe.
FULL 2022-23 LOU HENSON AWARD WATCH LIST
Max Abmas 6-0 Sr. Oral Roberts
Taran Armstrong 6-6 So. California Baptist
Emoni Bates 6-10 So. Eastern Michigan
Mike Bothwell 6-3 Sr. Furman
Jordan Brown 6-11 Jr. Louisiana
Joe Bryant Jr. 6-1 Sr. Norfolk State
Sincere Carry 6-1 Sr. Kent State
Antoine Davis 6-1 Sr. Detroit Mercy
RayJ Dennis 6-2 Jr. Toledo
Tucker DeVries 6-7 So. Drake
Jordan Dingle 6-3 Jr. Penn
Kenny Dye 6-0 Sr. Queens
Aaron Estrada 6-3 Sr. Hofstra
Tosan Evbuomwan 6-8 Sr. Princeton
Enrique Freeman 6-7 Jr. Akron
Jordan Gainey 6-4 So. USC Upstate
Ques Glover 6-0 Jr. Samford
Jared Godfrey 6-5 Sr. Purdue-Fort Wayne
Qua Grant 6-1 Sr. Sam Houston
Mason Harrell 5-9 Sr. Texas State
Freddy Hicks 6-6 So. Tarleton
Cam Holden 6-5 Sr. Towson
Jaden House 6-4 Jr. High Point
Logan Johnson 6-2 Sr. Saint Mary's
Dillon Jones 6-6 So. Weber State
Nelly Junior Joseph 6-9 Jr. Iona
Taevion Kinsey 6-5 Sr. Marshall
Zeke Mayo 6-3 So. South Dakota State
Courvoisier McCauley 6-5 Sr. Indiana State
Darius McGhee 5-9 Sr. Liberty
Ajay Mitchell 6-5 So. UC Santa Barbara
Jordan Minor 6-8 Sr. Merrimack
Isaac Mushila 6-5 Sr. Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Drew Pember 6-10 Sr. UNC Asheville
A.J. Plitzuweit 6-2 So. South Dakota
Charles Pride 6-4 Sr. Bryant
Tucker Richardson 6-5 Sr. Colgate
Sam Sessoms 6-0 Sr. Coppin State
Reyne Smith 6-2 So. Charleston
Ben Sheppard 6-6 Sr. Belmont
J.T. Shumate 6-7 Sr. Toledo
Jalen Slawson 6-7 Sr. Furman
Jake Stephens 7-0 Sr. Chattanooga
Parker Stewart 6-5 Sr. UT Martin
Ray'Sean Taylor 6-1 Sr. SIU Edwardsville
Trey Townsend 6-6 So. Oakland
Cameron Tyson 6-3 Jr. Seattle
Marques Warrick 6-2 Jr. Northern Kentucky
Walter Whyte 6-6 Sr. Boston University
Isaiah Wilkins 6-4 Sr. Longwood
