Four Huskies Earn Pac-12 All-Conference Honors
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The University of Washington men’s basketball team placed four student-athletes on the league’s all-conference teams, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott announced on Monday. Senior Andrew Andrews, freshmen Dejounte Murray and Marquese Chriss and junior Malik Dime all earned the first Pac-12 honors of their careers. Washington placed four players on the all-conference teams for the first time since the 2011-12 season.
Andrew Andrews - First Team All-Conference
Dejounte Murray – Second Team All-Conference, All-Freshman Team
Marquese Chriss – Honorable Mention All-Freshman Team
Malik Dime – Honorable Mention All-Defensive Team
Senior Andrew Andrews became the first Husky to be named to the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team since 2012 after finishing up the 2015-16 regular season as the league’s leading scorer, averaging 21.2 points. Andrews led the Pac-12 in scoring during the entire conference slate and finished at 22.3 points over 18 games, four points ahead of the second leading-scorer in the league. Andrews, who earned two Pac-12 Player of the Week honors this season, sits in seventh all-time at UW in career scoring with 1,737 points over 124 career games and his seven 30+efforts this year are the most in a single season in UW history. Additionally his 17 20+point games tie for third-most. Andrews was a stat sheet stuffer all season, leading the team in assists (142 – T8th in single season history), and averaging a career-best 5.8 rebounds per outing. He set the UW career record for FT made with 546 and his 241-of-285 mark this season consistently sat in the top 5 in the NCAA for both makes and attempts.
Freshman Dejounte Murray was named Second-Team All-Conference while also earning a spot on the five-man Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. He’s one of three freshmen to earn a spot on an All-Pac-12 Second Team and is the first UW freshman to be named to both an All-Conference team and the All-Freshman team since Tony Wroten in 2012. Additionally, he’s the third Romar-coached freshman to earn both honors joining Wroten and Isaiah Thomas (2009). The Seattle, Wash., native led all Pac-12 freshmen in scoring (15.3), steals (1.8) and assists (4.3) and was second in rebounding (5.8). In UW’s all-time freshman record book, Murray sits fourth in ppg (15.3), fourth in total points (460), second in steals (53) and fifth in steals (175). Murray reached the 20-point mark seven times this season, five of which came in conference play and he has started in all 30 games for the Dawgs.
Freshman Marquese Chriss was an honorable mention All-Freshmen selection. The youngest player in the league averaged 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game this season. Chriss’ 48 blocks are the second-best by a both a Pac-12 freshman this season and a UW freshman in program history. Chriss reached double figures in 13 of 18 league games including a stretch of 11-straight games. He totaled 20 10+ scoring efforts, four double-doubles and started every game this season. His honorable mention selection to the All-Freshman team marks the first time since 2011 that UW has placed two on the team (C.J. Wilcox, Terrence Ross-HM).
Junior Malik Dime made his defensive presence known in his first year with the Huskies as he was named to the Honorable Mention All-Defensive Team to become the first UW player since Aziz N’Diaye in 2012 to earn a spot on the team. The 6-9 forward saw action in all 30 games and posted a team-best 82 blocks, which is three shy of the UW school record. He ranked in the top 10 nationally in blocks throughout the season averaging 2.7 per game. Additionally, Dime shot 61.2 percent from the field and pulled down 5.6 rebounds per outing while adding 6.7 points. Additionally, the Dakar, Senegal native, moved into the starting lineup five games ago.
The eight-seeded Huskies open the 2016 Pac-12 Tournament against nine-seed Stanford on Wednesday, March 9 at Noon PT. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.
