HERRICK, STRINGS AND STUTEVILLE RECEIVE ACADEMIC ACCOLADES FROM THE NABC

Athletics News

Jul 18, 2017

NABC Honors Court Announcement (pdf)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento State men's basketball players James Herrick, Justin Strings and Eric Stuteville were each honored on the 2016-17 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court.

Herrick and Strings will enter their senior seasons for the Hornets in 2017-18 while Stuteville recently graduated from Sacramento State with a sociology degree. Recipients of the award must have been academically a junior or senior last season while earning a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better. If the award wasn't limited to just juniors and seniors, two additional Hornets would have earned the award.

A two-time NABC Honors Court and three-time Big Sky all-academic selection, Stuteville played four season for the Hornets (2013-17) and recently played in the NBA Summer League for the Sacramento Kings. The Orangevale native started all 31 games in 2016-17 and was a team tri-captain, averaging 11.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.5 blocked shots and 26.8 minutes per game. He shot .632 (141-223) from the field, the best mark in Sacramento State single-season history. He leaves the Hornets as the program's all-time leader in career games played (125) while also becoming the only center in school history to score 1,000 points.

Also a three-time Big Sky all-academic question, Strings will enter the 2017-18 season as the team's top returning scorer. Last season, the Carson, Calif., native was a second team all-Big Sky Conference selection after appearing in all 31 games, including 30 starts. He averaged a team-best 15.9 points per game, scored in double figures in all but two games and had eight contests with 20-plus points. He posted season averages of 15.9 points, 5.5 rebounds and 32.9 minutes per game while shooting .422 (179-424) from the field and .350 (55-157) from the 3-point line. He bumped his scoring average to 17.0 points in Big Sky play, and scored in double figures in all 18 league games.

Herrick, who will enter his fourth year with the program in 2017-18, played in 10 games a year ago, including both of the Hornets' games during the Big Sky Tournament. The Minden, Nev., native posted totals of six points, a rebound and 11 minutes while converting all three of his field goal attempts during the season.

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