INDIANAPOLIS – Three Drury men's basketball student-athletes have been selected for post-season All-Great Lakes Valley Conference honors, the league office announced Wednesday. Junior guard Zach Howell was voted a First-Team All-GLVC performer, while sophomore guard Colin Hardrick was a Second-Team and All-Defensive Team honoree, and KeShaun Thomas was named to the conference's All-Freshman Team.

Howell, Drury's leading scorer with his 17.5 ppg., average, leads the GLVC and fifth nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.446); he also ranks 11th nationally in three-point field goals made (91), while his free-throw percentage (.869) ranks seventh in the GLVC and his 1.5 steals per contest rank ninth in the conference. Howell enters the postseason just 10 points away from the 500-point plateau for the season. He has three 30+ point performances to his credit this season, including a career-best 35 points in DU's win over Indianapolis (Jan. 23). His three 30-point efforts are the most by a Panther in a season since the 2012-13 season. 

Howell's first-team selection is Drury's first for the league's top team since Conley Garrison's citation in 2020-21, and the Panthers' 14th overall since joining the conference in 2005.

Hardrick, a sophomore from Milwaukee, Wis., is the club's second-leading scorer (15.3) and rebounder (6.6) who has logged 25 double-digit point totals in 28 games this season. He leads the club and ranks sixth in the conference with his 47 steals this season, while his 19 blocked shots is the Panthers second-highest total. Hardrick also topped the 100-assist barrier, joining teammate Keion Epps as the first two Panthers to achieve that mark since the 2020-21 season. Hardrick, who earned GLVC All-Freshman and All-Defensive team honors last year, has three double-doubles this season and turned in a career-high 28 points in DU's win over Indianapolis (Jan. 24).

Thomas, a freshman from Quincy, Ill., has started 26 of the Panthers' 28 contests this winter, averaging 15.0 points and a team-best 7.3 rebounds per game. He posted seven 20+ point performances and seven double-doubles during the regular season and leads all GLVC freshmen in scoring. Thomas currently ranks fifth on Drury's all-time freshman scoring list with 419 points -- just 11 points behind Gail Frederick in the No. 4 position on the chart -- while his 205 boards also rank fifth all-time among Drury rookies. 

LOOKING AHEAD
Drury faces top-seeded Rockhurst in the quarterfinal round of the GLVC Men's Basketball Championship in St. Louis on Thursday (March 5), with tip-off scheduled for 5:45 p.m., at the Mark Twain Building on the campus of Missouri-St. Louis.
 
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