MSU's Jamont Gordon Named To CollegeInsider.com Freshmen All-America Team

Mississippi State freshman standout Jamont Gordon has received his first national honor of the postseason, as the Bulldog guard/forward has been named to this year's CollegeInsider.com Freshmen All-America Team.
The current SEC Freshman of the Week for the league-high fourth time this season, Gordon is one of only three Southeastern Conference freshmen featured on CollegeInsider.com's 25-man team listing. The talented rookie tandem of Tyrus Thomas and Tasmin Mitchell from the SEC Champion LSU Tigers also made the list. Eastern Washington's Rodney Stuckey was named the website's National Freshman of the Year by a vote of NCAA Division I coaches with final selections made by CollegeInsider.com's senior staff.
A native of Nashville heading back to his hometown for this week's SEC Men's Basketball Tournament, Gordon begins postseason play ranked 11th nationally among the NCAA's top freshmen scorers (13.9 ppg), 15th in rebounding (6.6 rpg), 13th in assists (4.3 apg) and 17th in minutes played (32.9 mpg). He joins Louisiana-Lafayette senior Dwayne Mitchell as the only two players in NCAA Division I men's basketball currently averaging at least 13.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists per contest on the year.
Entering Thursday's first-round SEC Tournament contest against South Carolina needing just two assists to break Rich Knarr's freshman season school record of 127 assists set in 1972-73, Gordon stands 12th among the SEC's overall scoring leaders, ninth in rebounding, sixth in assists and 10th in minutes. The former second-team PARADE All-American at Oak Hill Academy leads all SEC freshmen in scoring average and owns a current string of 11 consecutive games scoring in double figures. The lone MSU player to have started all 29 games to date this season has scored in double digits 25 times and has been the Bulldogs' leading scorer or co-leader a team-most 12 times on the season.