By: James Hill, Director of Athletics Communications
BETHANY - For the second consecutive season, junior
Jhonathan Dunn of the Southern Nazarene men's basketball team was selected to both the NABC and D2CCA All-Region Teams, earning second team honors from both organizations.
Dunn, the 2018 GAC Player of the Year, led the team in scoring for the second consecutive season after averaging 17.6 points a game. He shot 45% from the floor and 81%t from the free-throw line while connecting on 70 3-pointers. This season, he moved into the Top 10 all-time in career scoring at 1,548 and is now the GAC career leader in field goals made with 568.
Dunn was a first team All-GAC selection this season and earned a spot on the GAC All-Tournament Team as he helped lead SNU to their second straight GAC Regular Season and Tournament Championship, the first program to ever accomplish this feat in GAC basketball history.
SNU moved onto the NCAA Central Region for the second straight year and earned their first ever postseason win, defeating St. Cloud State 81-61. They would fall in the Central Region Semifinals to No. 1 Northwest Missouri State, 70-59.
Dunn joined the 1,000 point club on November 19th in a win over Oklahoma Christian earlier this season. He was the first of three players to do so as
Noah Starkey and
Micah Speight joined that club later in the season.
Dunn will return for his senior season next year as he eyes Jeff Jantz's scoring record of 2,104 while he also could become the second ever SNU basketball player, as well as the first in GAC men's basketball history, to score 2,000 points in a career.