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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
More honors for Lee
(Originally posted Monday at 8:47 p.m., updated at 7:29 a.m.)

Bucknell's Charles Lee, the Patriot League Player of the Year and a two-time first-team All Hoop Time honoree has earned honorable mention honors on the 2005-06 AP All-America Basketball Teams.

Lee is the sixth Patriot League player to get honorable mention and the fifth straight league player of the year to be honored in that manner. It makes you wonder if the AP has some policy of giving the Patriot's POY token honorable mention every year.

We ask that because last season's POY, Kevin Hamilton of Holy Cross, was an honorable mention choice a year ago, but not this season, despite putting up better numbers this time around.

While we preach that you cannot judge a player solely by statistics, Hamilton was also the league's defensive POY. He an Lee were the consensus two top players in the league this year. Chances are the deciding factor in Lee winning POY over Hamilton was the fact that the Bison won the league title.

It is hard to imagine how Hamilton could not merit honorable mention again this season if he deserved it last season.

PREVIOUS PATRIOT LEAGUE AP ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION CHOICES:
2005 - Kevin Hamilton, HC
2004 - Austin Rowland, Lehigh
2003 - Patrick Whearty, HC
2002 - Patrick Doctor, AU
1997 - Adonal Foyle, Colgate
1996 - Adonal Foyle, Colgate
Published at 7:29 AM by Hoop Time.
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