CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – Charleston Southern men's basketball guards
Phlandrous Fleming Jr. and
Travis Anderson were named All-Big South student-athletes Monday afternoon, as announced by the conference office.
A native of Athens, Ga., Fleming was named the Defensive Player of the Year and earned First Team All-Big South honors after a career-year donning a Buccaneer uniform sitting among the conference's top-10 in scoring (17.6, 4th), rebounding (8.5, 1st), assists (3.5, 6th), blocks (1.3, 4th), field goal percentage (.437, 8th), free throw percentage (.788, 4th), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.1, 10th) and minutes played (35.1, 2nd).
Fleming, who was named an All-Freshman player two seasons ago, gives the Bucs a First Team student-athlete for the third-consecutive season and 22nd time in program history. Fleming earns First Team honors for the first time in his career to go along with his Defensive Player of the Year accolade – the first Buccaneer to win the award since Kelvin Martin won it back-to-back in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons.
Fleming was the only guard among the top-five shot blockers in the conference, had the highest rebounding average and sat among the top-15 in steals to earn the accolade.
Fellow guard
Travis Anderson was named to the All-Freshman Team after leading the Big South in points off the bench (8.9 ppg) in his rookie campaign and finished fourth in scoring on the Buccaneer squad.
An Atlanta, Ga., native, Anderson had a career-high 23 points at UNC Asheville (Feb. 15) and scored in double figures in 12 games. Anderson was especially lethal from deep as he finished among the league's top-15 in 3-points field goals per game (1.6) and shot .387 from three-point range.
Anderson also had a game-sealing three-point basket with just :58 on the clock in the Bucs' upset win at Missouri, closing out the first win over an SEC program since the 2014-15 season. That three-point basket gave the Bucs a 65-59 lead at the time, their largest of the game just moments after taking the lead for good on
Duncan LeXander's trey.
The redshirt-freshman also hit multiple three-point baskets in 12 games including a career-high 4 three times throughout the season and upped his scoring to 9.3 points a night during league games. Anderson's honor makes it four-straight seasons CSU has been represented on the Big South's All-Freshman Team dating back to the 2016-17 season. Anderson also becomes the 17th player in Charleston Southern men's basketball history to be named an All-Freshman student-athlete.
2019-20 MEN'S BASKETBALL ALL-CONFERENCE
First-Team All-Conference
Carlik Jones, G, R-Jr., Radford
Jermaine Marrow, G, Sr., Hampton
Ben Stanley, F, R-Soph., Hampton
Phlandrous Fleming Jr., G/F, Jr., Charleston Southern
Travis Fields Jr., G, Sr., Radford
Second-Team All-Conference
DeVon Baker, G, Soph., UNC Asheville
Nate Johnson, G, R-Jr., Gardner-Webb
Chandler Vaudrin, G, R-Jr., Winthrop
DJ Burns Jr., C, R-Fr., Winthrop
Eric Jamison Jr., G, R-Sr., Gardner-Webb
Honorable Mention All-Conference
Hunter Hale, G, Gr., Winthrop
LJ Thorpe, F., Jr., UNC Asheville
Cory Hightower, F, Soph., Presbyterian
Jaheam Cornwall, G, Jr., Gardner-Webb
John-Michael Wright, G, Fr., High Point
All-Freshman Team
DJ Burns Jr., C, Winthrop
John-Michael Wright, G, High Point
Tommy Bruner, G, USC Upstate
Kareem Reid, F, Gardner-Webb
Travis Anderson, G, Charleston Southern
All-Academic Team
Cory Gensler, G, Sr., Campbell
Eric Jamison Jr., F, R-Sr., Gardner-Webb
Caden Sanchez, F, R-Soph., High Point
Sean Flood, G, Sr., Longwood
JC Younger, G, Sr., Presbyterian College
Chyree Walker, F, R-Soph., Radford
Jax Levitch, F, R-Jr., UNC Asheville
Nevin Zink, C, Soph., USC Upstate
Kyle Zunic, F, Jr., Winthrop
Player of the Year
Carlik Jones, G, R-Jr., Radford
Freshman of the Year
DJ Burns Jr., C, R-Fr., Winthrop
Defensive Player of the Year
Phlandrous Fleming Jr., G/F, Jr., Charleston Southern
Coach of the Year
Mike Jones, Radford
Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Cory Gensler, G, Sr., Campbell