Numerous Utah Men’s College Basketball Players Honored

Numerous Utah Men’s College Basketball Players Honored

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Thursday, BYU men’s basketball received a pair of honors as junior forward Yoeli Childs and junior guard TJ Haws were named to the 2018-19 NABC Division I All-District 9 team. Additionally, Weber State’s Jerrick Harding and Jake Toolson of Utah Valley received this distinction.

Childs earned first team honors and Haws was named to the second team.

Harding and Toolson also made the first team.

Harding, a junior guard for the Wildcats, averaged 21.4 points per game. He also led the Big Sky Conference in free throw shooting, making 87 percent of his free throws. Harding, a native of Wichita, Kan., also made the all-Big Sky conference squad for the second consecutive season.

Toolson, a redshirt junior guard, scores 15.9 points per game and shoots 53.9 percent from the field, 44.7 percent behind the arc and 85.1 percent at the foul line. His Wolverines ensue in their College Basketball Invitational Tournament run as they visit the South Florida Bulls Monday evening at Tampa, Fla.

These all-district teams are selected and voted on by NCAA Division I member coaches.

Childs is a repeat first-team honoree and this Haws’ first appointment to this team.

Additionally, Childs (21.2 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1 block per game in 2018-19) was named to the United States Basketball Writers Association All-District First Team.

Haws averaged 17.8 points, 5.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game for the Cougars, while making 57 3-pointers and shooting 86.8 percent at the foul line for BYU in 2018-19.