ST. LOUIS – Four Ivy League standouts were named to the 2018-19 U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-District Teams. Harvard’s Bryce Aiken, Yale’s Miye Oni and Brown’s Desmond Cambridge were named to the 10-player team for District I, while Matt Morgan landed on the District II team.
Oni was named the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year, while Aiken and Morgan were unanimous selections to the First-Team All-Ivy,
which was announced Tuesday.
Oni became the fourth Yale student-athlete to earn the League’s top honor, while the Bulldogs claimed its third Ivy League title in the previous five seasons after going 20-7 overall and 10-4 in League play. The Porter Ranch, Calif., native ranks third in the League with 17.4 points per game. The junior has reached double figures in 25 games throughout the season, including three 30-plus performances.
Aiken, a two-time All-Ivy honoree, established himself as a top scoring threat in League play averaging 22.2 points per game. The Randolph, New Jersey helped the Crimson to its seventh Ivy League title in the past nine seasons and tallied three games of at least 30 points, including the second-highest output in program history (44) earlier this season in a triple overtime thriller against Columbia. This marks the second All-Ivy honor for the junior who was named first team All-Ivy as a freshman in 2016-17.
Cambridge helped Brown to one of its most successful seasons in recent history as the Bears match its program record, set in 2008, for wins in a season with an overall mark of 19-11. The Nashville, Tenn., native is fourth among League leaders with 15.7 points per game, while his 31.8 three-point field goal percentage is good for fifth.
Morgan concluded his career as the second leading scorer in Ivy League history with 2,309 points and is on pace to become the first player to pace the League in scoring all four years of his career after finishing the season with 22.1, which currently ranks 18th in the nation. His 80-game double-figure scoring streak is a program and League record, while ranking 12th in NCAA history. Morgan is a unanimous first-team all-conference selection for the second straight season, becoming just the sixth player in Cornell history to earn multiple first-team All-Ivy mentions.
The USBWA has selected All-District Teams since the 1956-57 season, its founding year. For each of the nine geographic districts, ten players are selected (11 in the case of ties in the voting) as well as a player and coach of the year.
District 1
Bryce Aiken, Harvard (Jr., G – Randolph, N.J.)
Desmond Cambridge, Brown (So., F – Nashville, Tenn.)
Miye Oni, Yale (Jr., G – Porter Ranch, Calif.)
District 2
Matt Morgan, Cornell (Sr., G – Concord, N.C.)