The University of Mississippi Athletics
Chris Warren Tabbed AP All-SEC, USBWA All-District
3/14/2011 | Men's Basketball
March 14, 2011
OXFORD, Miss. - More and more postseason hardware is coming Chris Warren's way, as the Ole Miss senior guard has been named first team All-SEC by the Associated Press and All-District by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Warren is the first Rebel to be named an AP All-SEC first teamer since Justin Reed in 2004. He receives All-District IV recognition from the USBWA for the second straight year.
The Orlando, Fla., native was previously honored as a member of the league coaches' All-SEC first team and the National Association of Basketball Coaches' All-District 21 second team.
As the Rebels head to California for the first round of the NIT, Warren is poised to join some elite company in the conference record books. With two more points, he will be the fourth player in SEC history to record 2,000 career points with 400 assists. The others are LSU's Pete Maravich, Tennessee's Allan Houston and Georgia's Litterial Green. Warren currently ranks second among league players this year with his 19.0 scoring average - the highest by a Rebel since Joe Harvell averaged 25.0 in 1991-92. He leads the nation in free throw percentage (93.3) and is on pace to set the school and conference records for a season. He ranks fifth in the SEC in assists (3.8/game), fourth in 3-pointers made (2.7/game), third in assist-turnover ratio (1.8) and third in minutes (34.7/game).
Warren was joined on the AP All-SEC first team by Player of the Year Chandler Parsons of Florida, as well as Vanderbilt's John Jenkins, Kentucky's Terrence Jones and Alabama's JaMychal Green.
He was joined on the USBWA All-District IV team by Parsons, Jenkins, Jones, Green, Morehead State's Kenneth Faried, Tennessee's Scotty Hopson, Kentucky's Brandon Knight, Louisville's Preston Knowles and Georgia's Trey Thompkins.
Ole Miss (20-13) faces the California Golden Bears (17-14) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. PDT in the NIT first round. It is the Rebels' fourth postseason appearance in the last five years.
