MONROE, La. – ULM senior guard
Jamari Blackmon was named Third-Team All-Sun Belt Conference Monday afternoon in a release by the conference office. The All-Conference honors were voted on by the league's head coaches.
Blackmon finished the regular season averaging 12.9 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game. In SBC action, the numbers jumped to 15.1 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. He was eighth in the SBC in scoring in conference games, while ranking third in three-point field-goals made (43, 2.39 per game), fourth in minutes played (36.56) and fourth in free-throw percentage (.841).
He scored in double figures 19 times, with 12 of those efforts coming in SBC action. He topped 20 points five times and 30 points twice, all in conference play. He scored a career-high 35 points twice, doing so in ULM's upset of Marshall on Jan. 26 and again a week later at home against Coastal Carolina on Feb. 2, where he hit 5-of-7 3-point field goal attempts. Against Marshall, he hit 8-of-15 3-point field-goal attempts, including his final five attempts of the night, while playing all 50 minutes of the double overtime win.
He also scored 25 points at Arkansas State (6-of-8 3-pointers) on Dec. 31, 24 points vs. Texas State on Jan. 14 and 23 points vs. South Alabama on Feb. 4. He often drew the assignment of guarding the opposition's best player on the defensive end.
ULM opens play at the Hercules Tires Sun Belt Conference Championship at 7:30 p.m. Thursday against Georgia Southern at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida.
2023 Sun Belt Men's Basketball Awards
Player of the Year: Taevion Kinsey, Marshall
Defensive Player of the Year: Kevin Samuel, South Alabama
Freshman of the Year: Micah Handlogten, Marshall
Newcomer of the Year: Austin Crowley, Southern Miss
Sixth Man of the Year: Terrence Edwards, James Madison
Joe Gottfried Coach of the Year: Jay Ladner, Southern Miss
First-Team All-Sun Belt
Jordan Brown, Ragin' Cajuns
Taevion Kinsey, Marshall
Andrew Taylor, Marshall
Isaiah Moore, South Alabama
Austin Crowley, Southern Miss
Second-Team All-Sun Belt
Andrei Savrasov, Georgia Southern
Terrence Edwards, James Madison
Greg Williams, Ragin' Cajuns
Felipe Haase, Southern Miss
Zay Williams, Troy
Third-Team All-Sun Belt
Donovan Gregory, App State
Jamari Blackmon, ULM
Chaunce Jenkins, Old Dominion
Kevin Samuel, South Alabama
DeAndre Pinckney, Southern Miss
Mason Harrell, Texas State
Ties were not broken.
