Men's Basketball Selected Tied for No. 3, Young and Kelly Earn Preseason All-MAAC Honors
10/23/2018 7:31:00 PM | Men's Basketball
EDISON, NJ – Quinnipiac men's basketball guard Cameron Young (Los Angeles, Calif.) has been selected to the 2018 Preseason All-MAAC First Team, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday night during the Men's and Women's Basketball Preseason Awards Show on ESPN3. Sophomore guard Rich Kelly (Shelton, Conn.) also earned an individual honor, being selected to the 2018 Preseason All-MAAC Third Team.
The Bobcats were picked to finish tied for third place in the Preseason Coaches' Poll. Quinnipiac received 94 total points in the vote, finishing behind Rider (121 points) and Canisius (105 points) and tied with Iona (94 points).
Young, a 2017-18 All-MAAC Second Team honoree, broke the Bobcats' single-season Division I scoring record with 622 points a season ago. He averaged a team-best 18.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, scoring 20.9 points per game in league play. Young made 184 free throws in 2017-18, which ranked No. 19 nationally.
Kelly earned a spot on the 2017-18 MAAC All-Rookie squad, tallying 11.1 points, a team-high 4.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds per contest during his first year at Quinnipiac. The sophomore guard started in 32 total games, finishing third on the program's Division I single-season assist list with 155. Kelly tallied double-digit points totals in 13 games for the Bobcats.
Quinnipiac went 12-21 in 2017-18 (7-11 MAAC), before topping No. 10 Siena and No. 2 Canisius in the MAAC Tournament to advance to the Semifinal Round. The Bobcats open the 2018-19 season at Villanova – the defending Division I national champion – on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8:00 p.m.
The Bobcats were picked to finish tied for third place in the Preseason Coaches' Poll. Quinnipiac received 94 total points in the vote, finishing behind Rider (121 points) and Canisius (105 points) and tied with Iona (94 points).
Young, a 2017-18 All-MAAC Second Team honoree, broke the Bobcats' single-season Division I scoring record with 622 points a season ago. He averaged a team-best 18.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, scoring 20.9 points per game in league play. Young made 184 free throws in 2017-18, which ranked No. 19 nationally.
Kelly earned a spot on the 2017-18 MAAC All-Rookie squad, tallying 11.1 points, a team-high 4.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds per contest during his first year at Quinnipiac. The sophomore guard started in 32 total games, finishing third on the program's Division I single-season assist list with 155. Kelly tallied double-digit points totals in 13 games for the Bobcats.
Quinnipiac went 12-21 in 2017-18 (7-11 MAAC), before topping No. 10 Siena and No. 2 Canisius in the MAAC Tournament to advance to the Semifinal Round. The Bobcats open the 2018-19 season at Villanova – the defending Division I national champion – on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8:00 p.m.
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