All-Southern Conference men’s basketball teams announced

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – ETSU senior guard Quimari Peterson was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year as the league announced its 2024-25 men’s basketball postseason awards Wednesday. Selections were made by the leagues’ head coaches of the 10 member institutions.
 
Chattanooga head coach Dan Earl was named the Anton Foy Coach of the Year. Mocs forward Frank Champion was named SoCon Newcomer of the Year and Samford guard Josh Holloway was named SoCon Sixth Man of the Year. ETSU’s Karon Boyd was voted SoCon Defensive Player of the Year.

The 2025 Ingles Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Championship begins Friday at 5 p.m. at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina, and will be broadcast on ESPN+. Friday’s first round games will appear on ESPN+ as well as select Nexstar affiliates. Sunday’s semifinals will air live on ESPNU, and the championship game is scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2.
 
All-Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Teams
  
Malcolm U. Pitt Player of the Year
Quimari Peterson, Sr., G, ETSU
 
Newcomer of the Year
Frank Champion, Sr., F, Chattanooga

Sixth Man of the Year
Josh Holloway, So., G, Samford

Defensive Player of the Year
Karon Boyd, Jr., F, ETSU
 
Anton Foy Coach of the Year
Dan Earl, Chattanooga
 
First team
Quimari Peterson, Sr., G, ETSU
Jaden Seymour, Sr., F/C, ETSU

PJay Smith Jr., Sr., G, Furman
Kenyon Giles, Jr., G, UNCG

Honor Huff, Jr., G, Chattanooga
 
Second team
Rylan Jones, Gr., G, Samford

Trey Bonham, Sr., G, Chattanooga

Bash Wieland, Gr., G, Chattanooga

Frank Champion, Gr., F, Chattanooga
Corey Tripp, Sr., G, Wofford
 
Third team
Nick Anderson, Gr., G, Furman
Donovan Atwell, Jr., G, UNCG
Trey Fort, Sr., G, Samford

Rickey Bradley Jr., Jr., G, VMI
Kyler Filewich, Sr., C, Wofford

 
All-Defensive team
Karon Boyd, Jr., F, ETSU

Cooper Bowser, So., F, Furman
Josh Holloway, So., G, Samford
AJ Clark, So., G, VMI
Justin Bailey, Jr., G, Wofford

 
Notes

- Quimari Peterson is ETSU’s first player of the year since Desonta Bradford was honored by the coaches in the 2017-18 season. The last consensus player of the year for the Bucs was Zakee Wadood during the 2003-04 campaign.

- Peterson leads the SoCon in scoring (19.5 ppg) and steals (2.0 spg). He ranks in the top 15 in the NCAA in total points (603), field goals made (219) and 3-point percentage (43.1).

- Of the five first-team all-conference recipients, three were not all-conference players a season ago. ETSU’s Jaden Seymour and Chattanooga’s Honor Huff were third and second-team selections, respectively, in 2023-24. Peterson and Furman’s PJay Smith Jr. were not postseason selections last year, while UNCG’s Kenyon Giles played at Radford for two years prior to this season.

 
- Junior forward Karon Boyd is ETSU’s first defensive player of the year award recipient. Boyd, who was also voted to the all-defensive team, is ranked second in the conference in total rebounds (219) and fifth in total blocks (28), making him the only player in the league in the top five in both categories.
 
- Chattanooga’s Frank Champion, a second-team selection, is the second recipient of the SoCon Newcomer of the Year award. Champion averaged 12.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game in SoCon games. Samford’s Josh Holloway is the second recipient of the SoCon Sixth Man of the Year. Holloway came off the bench in 22 of his 31 games played this season, averaging 8.8 points and 2.3 assists per contest in conference games.

- Chattanooga’s Dan Earl was named the Anton Foy Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, with his first honor coming in the 2020-21 season when he coached VMI. Earl guided the Mocs to a 23-8 overall record and a 15-3 SoCon ledger, giving Chattanooga its first SoCon regular season crown in three seasons. The Mocs, who are on an 11-game winning streak, enter the Ingles SoCon Basketball Championship as the No. 1 seed.

 
- Between the all-conference teams and the all-defensive team, seven of the 10 squads had at least two representatives.