KANSAS CITY, Mo. – IUP senior forward
Ethan Porterfield was named to Small College Basketball (SCB) Trevor Hudgins Top 15 Watch List, announced Friday.
The award, created in November 2023, is presented annually to the senior who has had the finest overall four-year career within Small College Basketball. Considerations will be overall career statistics and achievements, team achievements, awards, and personal character.
The player must have played his entire career at the small college level. This will be the highest award given to a four-year player within Small College Basketball (NCAA DII, NCAA DII, NAIA USCAA, NCCAA). The award featured 25 players on the initial list, released in early February, before being reduced to the top 15.
Porterfield is the only player from the Atlantic Region to earn this prestigious recognition. The Sharon, Pa. native continues building one of the top careers of any IUP student-athlete in any sport as a senior leader on the roster in 2023-24.
Posting a combined career record of 111-19 (including 2020-21), Porterfield boasts an outstanding 74-13 (.850) mark in regular season conference games during his IUP career. The inside-outside threat is a two-time PSAC Tournament MVP (2021-22, 2022-23), also the MVP of the Atlantic Region Tournament in 2021-22.
IUP has captured three consecutive PSAC Championships during Porterfield's storied career, which includes a run of four straight for the program since 2018-19. Named to the Bevo Francis Top 100 and Top 50 Watch Lists this season, Porterfield continued elevating up the program record book in several categories.
The 2019-20 PSAC Freshman of the Year boasts 127 career games for the Crimson Hawks at the time of release, tied for fourth in program history. With 1,852 career points, Porterfield is second in program history and 98 points shy of surpassing IUP Hall of Famer Darryl Webb (1,949).
Porterfield is also among the program leaders in career field goals (691; 2nd), career three-point field goals (226; 6th), career three-point percentage (41.7; 9th), career rebounds (862; 5th) and career blocks (161; 3rd).
This season, Porterfield ranks fifth in the PSAC in scoring average (19.2), third in rebounding average (8.7), second in field goals made (189), 11th in blocks (24), fourth in three-point field goals made (66) and second in double-doubles (10).
Trevor Hudgins, the namesake of the award, helped Northwest Missouri State make history as the first NCAA DII program to win three consecutive national championships. The two-time NCAA DII Player of the Year finished with 2,829 points and helped the Bearcats to four straight MIAA regular season titles with an overall career record of 131-8.
A video of the finalists will be released on Friday April 5, and the award winner will be announced through a video presentation on Monday April 8, at halftime of the NCAA Division I National Championship Game.
2023-24 Trevor Hudgins Top 15 Watch List
Drew Blair (MN-Duluth)
Anthony Brown (MidAmerica Nazarene)
Daniel Cook (St. John Fisher)
Tyler Dearman (Guilford)
Issac Fink (Augustana)
Jake Hilmer (Upper Iowa)
Jeff Hunter (Keene State)
Zach Laput (Bentley)
KJ Jones (Emmanuel)
Josiah Johnson (Mary Hardin-Baylor)
Elijah Malone (Grace)
Christian Parker (Mount Union)
Ethan Porterfield (IUP)
Tyler Schmidt (Olivet Nazarene)
Jeremiah Sparks (Oswego State)
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