PRINCETON, N.J. – Four Ivy League men’s basketball standouts have been named to the 2018-19 watch list for the Lou Henson Award, which honors the top mid-major player in Division I.
 
Cornell senior guard Matt Morgan, Harvard junior forward Seth Towns, Penn junior forward AJ Brodeur and Yale junior guard Miye Oni are four of the 50 Division I players named to the list. The quartet of standouts were all unanimously voted to the All-Ivy First-Team a season ago after ranking inside the top-15 in both scoring and rebounding. 
 
Morgan, a three-time All-Ivy selection and the League’s leading scorer for the past three seasons, is averaging 23.6 points per game, which ranks seventh among the nation’s best. The Concord, N.C., native has reached double figures in 58 consecutive games. 
 
Towns, who has been sidelined by injury for the opening stretch of the 2018-19 campaign, became the third sophomore to earn Player of the Year honors in League history last year. The 6’7 forward guided Harvard to its sixth Ivy league title in program history before suffering an injury in the championship game of the Ivy League Tournament. Towns finished his sophomore campaign averaging 16.0 points and 5.7 boards per game.   
 
A unanimous All-Ivy First-Team selection from a season ago, Brodeur has helped Penn to a 7-2 overall record, which is the best start since the 1994-95 team went 8-1. Brodeur is turning in 12.6 points game and 7.4 boards per game, which ranks third among the League’s best rebounders. The junior has registered seven double figure scoring games, including three double-doubles.
 
Oni, unanimous All-Ivy First-Team selection in 2018, is coming off a career-high 29 points as Yale rallied from a 15-point deficit early in the second half to down Miami, 77-73. Yale is 2-0 against Power 5 conferences this season. The Northridge, California native is averaging 18.6 points per game, second-best in the Ivy League. The junior needs just 96 points to reach 1,000 in his career.  

Lou Henson coached 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 2019 Award will be presented at the College Insider awards event in April at the site of the men’s division I national championship in Minneapolis, Minnesotar.