Chattanooga Mocs men’s basketball graduate center Jake Stephens has been tabbed to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 21 First Team following his outstanding performance during the 2022-23 season.
The District 21 region includes all members of the Southern Conference and is split between the first and second team honorees. The first-team honor is the second for Stephens after he earned the top selection following the 2021-22 season at VMI.
Stephens had a remarkable campaign in his final collegiate season this year despite missing the last 11 games of the regular season due to injury. His gutsy return to the Southern Conference Tournament provided the Mocs with historic play and a four-game run for the ages.
The Bunker Hill, W.Va., native scored 92 points over the four-game stretch to notch a new UTC program record for points at the SoCon Tournament. He posted 20 or more points in each of the four games including 25 points and eight rebounds in the title game against Furman.
Stephens finished the season averaging 22.0 points, 9.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.2 blocks per game while becoming the 26th Moc in program history to score 500 or more points in a single season (527). He was one of just two players in NCAA Division I this season (Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana) to average at least 20 points, 9.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 blocks per contest.
He is the only player in NCAA DI basketball since at least 1992-93 to post 1,900 career points (1,943), 900 total rebounds (964), 350 assists (366) and 200 blocks (206) in a career, according to Sports Reference College Basketball’s stat database.
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