ST. LOUIS - Indiana State men's basketball redshirt senior Xavier Bledson and junior Jayson Kent were named to the Missouri Valley Scholar-Athlete Second Team, voted on by the league's sports information directors. 

The scholar-athlete teams are comprised of 14 student-athletes spread across a first team, second team, and honorable mention team. ISU is one of three teams that feature multiple athletes on the three teams.

Xavier Bledson, 3.825, Criminology
Bledson is a redshirt senior out of Gainesville, Ga., transferring to Indiana State three years ago following the hiring of Coach Schertz. Bledson is currently earning is second undergraduate degree in criminology after recently completing his first undergraduate degree in sport management. He played in all 31 regular season games as the Sycamores' sixth man, and moved into the starting role when teammates were ruled out. In those 31 games, Bledson averaged 6.9 points per game shooting 45,3% from the floor in 18.9 minutes per game.

Jayson Kent, 3.51, Sport Management
Kent is a junior out of Oak Forest, Ill., in his second year at Indiana State with his first stop being at Bradley for the first two years of his collegiate career. Kent played in 30 games this season, starting 29. He averaged 12.7 points per game in the regular season shooting 61.3% from the field, pulling down 7.9 rebounds per game, and averaging 29.9 minutes per game

Requirements
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. [The 12-month residency requirement for undergraduate transfers is no longer required.] 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.



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