Gilyard Named to Cousy Award Watch List

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. -- Spiders senior guard Jacob Gilyard has been named to the watch list for the 2020-21 Bob Cousy Award, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Monday. Gilyard is one of 20 players in Division I on the watch list for the Cousy Award, which is given to the top point guard in the country.

Gilyard led the Spiders to a 24-7 record last season while starting all 31 games and earning First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors. He led the nation with a school-record 99 steals en route to winning the A-10's Defensive Player of the Year Award and was one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year Award. On offense, Gilyard scored 12.7 points per game and averaged 5.7 assists, third most in the conference and 29th in the nation.

Gilyard enters his senior season with 276 career steals, most among active players, and has a chance to set the Division I record for career steals. Gilyard, who averaged 3.2 steals per game last season, needs 109 steals this season to match the record of 385 held by Providence's John Linehan, who played for the Friars from 1997 to 2002.

Gilyard is one of three Atlantic 10 point guards are on the Cousy Award watch list, with Dayton's Jalen Crutcher and Rhode Island's Fatts Russell also represented. The field for the Cousy Award will be narrowed down to 10 semifinalists in mid-February and halved to five finalists in March. The winner of the Cousy Award will be presented on April 9, 2021.

The public will have a chance to contribute to the voting process, with Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies to being on Friday, November 6. For more information on voting and the Cousy Award, log onto www.hoophallawards.com and follow @hoophall and #CousyAward on Twitter and Instagram.

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