WKU Basketball: Bassey Named to Three End-of-Year Conference Teams

With the Conference USA regular season in the rear view mirror and it being tournament week time, the conference unveiled their annual…

With the Conference USA regular season in the rear view mirror and it being tournament week time, the conference unveiled their annual end-of-year awards, which was headlined by a certain big man in Red and White.

WKU center Charles Bassey found his name on three of the post-regular season honors, bringing home First Team All-CUSA, All-Defense and All-Freshman honors.

Bassey is the first Hilltopper freshman to be named to an all-conference first team since 1954–55 when Ralph Crosthwaite was named to the All-Ohio Valley Conference Team.

He’s also the first freshman to be named to any sort of all-conference selection since Derrick Gordon was named to the Sun Belt’s Third-Team in 2011–12.

Finally, Bassey is the first freshman to make the C-USA First-Team since Rice’s Marcus Evans was named that in 2016 and is the ninth overall.

A member of the All-Freshman team last year, Taveion Hollingsworth was also honored, being named to the conference’s Third-Team.

The Hilltoppers have time off until this Thursday when they open the C-USA tournament as the #2 seed, where they’ll take on the winner between FIU and North Texas on Wednesday. Tip off for both games is set for 8:30 p.m. CT.