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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
McNaughton repeat scholar pick
From the league's official site:

For the second consecutive season, Bucknell junior center Chris McNaughton (Leuterhausen, Germany/Dientzenholfer) was named the Patriot League's Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. An electrical engineering major, McNaughton finished the 2005 fall semester with a 3.58 grade-point average while leading the Bison to its second-straight Patriot League crown and second-straight NCAA Tournament second round appearance.

The postseason honors were numerous for the towering McNaughton (6'11), who was also named First-Team All-Patriot League for the second-straight year as well to ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-District squad and to the NABC All-District team. In addition, McNaughton also earned his second-straight Patriot League All-Tournament team nod as the Bison capped off the first perfect League season in (14-0) Patriot League history.

The Patriot League's career leader in field-goal percentage (61.1 percent), McNaughton led the League and finished ranked 24th nationally with a 57.8 field-goal percentage last year. McNaughton will enter the 2006-07 campaign 37th all-time and the active Patriot League scoring leader with 1,158 points. His 12.8 ppg last season ranked him eighth overall in scoring in the League.

McNaughton is the third two-time Patriot League Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year recipient, and first since former-Bison Dan Blankenship took home back-to-back honors in 2001-02. The first two-time winner was also from Bucknell, Valter Karavanic, who garnered back-to-back awards in 1999-00.

The biggest moment in McNaughton's young career came two seasons ago, when the Bison became the first-ever Patriot League team to win a game in the NCAA Tournament, as the second-year McNaughton hit the game-winning hook shot against Kansas in the first round in 2005.

McNaughton averaged 14.7 ppg in the Patriot League Tournament last season, and scored a career-high 29 points against No. 4 Villanova on Dec. 6, 2005 in Lewisburg, Pa. and led Bucknell with 15 points against No. 1 Duke on Jan. 2.
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