ST. LOUIS – Southern Illinois guard Trent Brown has been named to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Team, earning First Team accolades for the second time in his career.
Brown, a Scottsdale, Arizona native, has been named to the Scholar-Athlete Team now three times in his career. He earned First Team honors his sophomore season in 2020-21 and was named to the Second Team his senior season in 2022-23.
The sharpshooter ranks third on the team with 8.8 points per game and is shooting 36.3 percent from downtown. He ranks in the top 10 in program history with 173 career 3-pointers and owns the career games played record after passing Tony Young last time out against UNI for his 140th game in a Saluki uniform.
Brown graduated with a 3.9 GPA in finance and holds a 4.0 currently in graduate school studying business administration.
The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the CSC (College Sports Communicators) standards for Academic All-America nominations. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students.
An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), and a graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don’t have an established graduate GPA.
