Men's Basketball: 2008-09 Season Individual Accomplishments and Team Highlights

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March 19, 2009

Men's Basketball: 2008-09 Season Individual Accomplishments and Team Highlights

The 2008-09 Youngstown State men's basketball season was full of many impressive individual and team accomplishments. Below is a list of notable feats of the season:

• After being picked to finish 10th in the Horizon League, the Penguins finished sixth in the circuit and hosted a first-round Horizon League Tournament game for the second-time in three seasons.

• Youngstown State tied a record for most Horizon League wins in school history (seven).

• The Penguins won four straight Horizon League games for the first time since joining the league in 2001-02.

• The Penguins played seven games against teams that made the 2009 NCAA Tournament, including a 64-60 win over Cleveland State in front of a nationally-televised audience on ESPNU.

• Junior DeAndre Mays was named to the Horizon League All-Newcomer Team. He is the third player in the last four years to be named to the squad. Vytas Sulskis (2008) and Keston Roberts (2006) were also named to the league's all-newcomer team.

• Senior Jack Liles finished his career with 850 points with 564 career rebounds. He also ranks third all-time with 116 career blocked shots.

• Liles played in 118 career games, which ranks second all-time in school history. He also started 92 times during his career, which ranks fifth all-time.

• Junior Sirlester Martin led the team and ranked second in the Horizon League with 7.3 rebounds per game. His 220 rebounds were the most since Quin Humphrey hauled down 221 in 2006-07.

• Junior Kelvin Bright led the Penguins and ranked 16th in the Horizon League in scoring with 11.4 points per game. Bright also averaged 11.2 points per game against Horizon League opponents.

• Bright was named the Horizon League Player of the Week on Jan. 12 after averaging 22.5 points per game while shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 80 percent from the free-throw line. He scored 20-plus points in both contests against UIC (Jan 8) and Loyola (Jan. 10).
• Bright scored a game-high 23 points on 6-of-15 shooting from the field, including three 3-pointers, in YSU’s 80-70 win over UIC. He also connected on 8-of-9 from the free-throw line. Against Loyola, Bright posted 22 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the floor and made 4-of-6 from the charity stripe.

•DeAndre Mays ranked fifth in the Horizon League with 3.5 assists per game. He also ranked 20th in the league in scoring with 10.7 points per game.

• Sophomore Tom Parks connected on 40.3 percent of his 3-point attempts which was good enough to rank seventh in the Horizon League.

• Against Horizon League opponents, Parks ranked third making 45.7 percent (21-of-46) of his 3-point attempts.

• Sophomore Vytas Sulskis made 70 percent of his free throw attempts (70-of-100), an improvement of 10.8 percentage points from his freshman season.

• After two seasons, sophomore Vance Cooksey owns a .782 career free-throw percentage and ranks tied for ninth all-time in school history.