Harvey, McKinney Named to Henson Mid-Season Watch List

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Eastern Washington junior Tyler Harvey and Sacramento State senior Mikh McKinney have been named to the Lou Henson Mid-Season Award Watch List, CollegeInsider.com announced Wednesday.

The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the Division I "Mid-Major" Player of the Year. The award is named in honor of Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four. 

The 2015 recipient will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis, site of the 2015 men's NCAA Basketball Championship.

Harvey, a guard, leads the nation in scoring with an average of 23.2 points per game. He also leads the nation in 3-point field goals per game with an average of 4.5 per game. Harvey has scored in double figures in every game this season. He's shooting .488 percent from 3-point range, .506 from the floor, and .852 percent from the free-throw line. Earlier this season, he was named the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week by the USBWA. The Eagles are 4-1 in Big Sky play.

McKinney, a junior guard, has Sacramento State in first place in the league standings at 5-1. McKinney ranks fourth in the league in scoring with an average of 17.6 points per game. He's third in assists at 5.3 points per game. McKinney leads the Big Sky and ranks third in the nation in steals with an average of 2.9 per game. McKinney has scored in double figures in 14 consecutive games. He has been named the Big Sky Player of the Week twice. He is the first player in school history to be named to the list.


NOTE: Ron Baker (Wichita State), Tyler Haws (BYU), Kevin Pangos (Gonzaga) and Fred VanVleet (Wichita State) were named to the mid-season Mid-Season Lute Olson Award Watch List.  |  The Preseason Lou Henson award Watch List


LOU HENSON AWARD MID-SEASON WATCH LIST

Lawrence Alexander 6-3 Sr. North Dakota State
D.J. Balentine 6-2 Jr, Evansville
John Brown 6-8 Jr. High Point
Julius Brown 5-10 Sr. Toledo
Mike Caffey 6-0 Sr. Long Beach State
Karl Cochran 6-1 Sr. Wofford
Kyle Collinsworth 6-6 Jr. BYU
A.J. English 6-4 Jr. Iona
Kahlil Felder 5-9 So. Oakland
Juan'ya Green 6-2 Jr. Hofstra
Ty Greene 6-3 Sr. USC Upstate
Ryan Harrow 6-2 Sr. Georgia State
Tyler Harvey 6-4 Jr. Eastern Washington
Corey Hawkins 6-3 Jr. UC Davis
Jerome Hill 6-5 Jr. Gardner-Webb
David Laury 6-9 Sr. Iona
Denzel Livingston 6-4 Sr. Incarnate Word
Shawn Long 6-9 Jr. UL-Lafayette
Mikh McKinney 6-1 Sr. Sacramento State
Shonn Miller 6-7 Sr. Cornell
Justin Moss 6-7 Jr. Buffalo
Mike Myers 6-9 Sr. UMES
Jordan Parks 6-7 Sr. North Carolina Central
Cameron Payne 6-2 So. Murray State
Rashawn Rembert 6-3 Sr. ETSU
Wesley Saunders 6-5 Sr. Harvard
Justin Sears 6-8 Jr. Yale
Jeff Short 6-4 Jr. Norfolk State
Keifer Sykes 6-0 Sr. Green Bay
Connar Tava 6-6 Jr. Western Michigan
Marcus Thornton 6-4 Sr. William & Mary
Seth Tuttle 6-8 Sr. Northern Iowa
Corey Walden 6-2 Sr. Eastern Kentucky
Brad Waldow 6-10 Sr. Saint Mary's
Jameel Warney 6-8 Jr. Stony Brook
Jalan West 5-10 Jr. Northwestern State
Alan Williams 6-8 Sr. UC Santa Barbara
Kyle Wilson 6-4 Jr. Army
Kyle Wiltjer 6-10 Jr. Gonzaga
Zikiteran Woodley 6-2 So. Northwestern State