Former & Current MVC and OVC Players
(Boston, MA) – Familiar names are all over the 2023-24 Lou Henson ‘Early Season’ Watch list. The award is presented annually to the top player in mid-major college basketball.
Current Missouri Valley and Ohio Valley Conference players are found on the ‘watch list’. Three MVC players are among the nominees. Those nominees are Duke Deen of Bradley, Northern Iowa’s Tytan Anderson and Murray State guard JaCobi Wood .
Current OVC ‘Player of the Week’, Southern Illinois Edwardsville’s Ray’Sean Taylor made the list.
Former MVC players are on the Henson watch list. Jacob Ognacevic of Lipscomb began his career at Valparaiso and East Tennessee State guard Quimari Peterson began his at Indiana State.
The Lou Henson award honors the former Illinois and New Mexico State head coach who won 775 games and is the winningest coach in Illinois basketball history with 423 victories and at New Mexico State with 289. Henson is one of eleven coaches to take two different schools to the NCAA Final Four.
Coach Henson passed away on July 25, 2020.
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