Men's Basketball

Five Standouts Named to Lou Henson Award Midseason Watch List

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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Five Ivy League men’s basketball standouts have been named to the 2018-19 Midseason Watch List for the Lou Henson Award, which honors the top mid-major player in Division I, as recently announced. 
 
Brown sophomore guard Desmond Cambridge, Cornell senior guard Matt Morgan, Penn forward junior AJ Brodeur, Princeton senior Devin Cannady and Yale junior guard Miye Oni are five of the 50 Division I players named to the list. The Ivy League is one of three conferences to have five selections on the list, joining the Southern Conference and the Sun Belt Conference.

The Ivy League currently sits as the 12th strongest conference (out of 32) in the country according to the most recent KenPom conference RPI rankings. Both Penn (then No. 16 Villanova) and Princeton (then No. 17 Arizona State) tout wins over nationally-ranked teams this season. 
 
Cambridge, the 2018 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has led Brown to its best start in program history including an impressive road win at San Diego State. The Nashville, Tenn., guard ranks third among League leaders in scoring averaging 18.9 points per game and ranks second in the league in blocked shots (1.7) and fifth in three-point field goals made per game (2.6).
 
Morgan, a three-time All-Ivy selection and the League’s leading scorer for the past three seasons, became the sixth player in Ivy League men’s basketball player to reach 2,000 career points with 38 points at Towson. The senior guard ranks 15 in the country with 22.6 points per game and has registered double figures in 67 straight games.
 
A unanimous All-Ivy First-Team selection from a season ago, Brodeur has led Penn to an impressive 10-5 non-conference season with wins over defending national champion Villanova and Miami. The Northborough, Mass., native leads Penn in scoring with 14.9 points per game while pulling down a team-best 7.9 rebounds per game. The junior ranks fifth on the program’s all-time list with 123 blocked shots.
 
A two-time All-Ivy selection, Cannady has guided Princeton to an 8-5 record, including an overtime win against Penn to open conference play. The Mishawaka, Ind., native ranks second in the League in scoring with 19.5 points per game. The senior guard ranks third in the country with 4.0 triples made per game.  
 
Oni, a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy First-Team a season ago, became the 28th play in program history to reach the 1,000 career-point mark. Oni ranks fourth in the League with 16.8 points per game while grabbing 6.1 rebounds per game, good for eighth. Yale concluded non-conference action with a 10-3 record, including an impressive win over Miami.

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 Lou Henson 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, Minnesota.
 
Penn will look to even the series next weekend when the Quakers welcome Princeton to The Palestra in what will be the teams’ first back-to-back regular season meetings since 1915. Harvard will travel to Dartmouth to open Ivy League play on Saturday. Four of this week’s five contests will be available on ESPN+.