Koonce Earns All-Big West Honorable Mention Praise
3/11/2025 1:10:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – Closing the regular season sixth among Big West players with 17.2 points per game and ranked 23rd among NCAA Division I players with an 88.8 percent free throw mark, graduate guard Owen Koonce earned All-Big West honorable mention recognition Tuesday afternoon.
Also sixth in the Big West with a 39.8 (64-for-161) percent three-point mark and the conference’s seventh leading shooter at 52.4 (200-for-382) percent, Koonce has scored in double digits in 27 of 32 games this season while reaching 20-plus points in a game 13 times. The Dec. 2 Big West Player of the Week selection, Koonce also leads the Mustangs with 4.9 rebounds per game.
As part of a career high 32-point performance at San Jose State (Dec. 14), Koonce – an offseason transfer from Division II Colorado Mesa – became the first of three Mustangs this season to reach 1,000 career points.
In Cal Poly single season history, Koonce ranks fourth with his 88.8 (87-for-98) percent free throw mark, fifth with 551 total points and sixth with 200 field goals.
Winners of four of its last five to close the regular season, seventh-seeded Cal Poly (14-18) faces No. 6 UC Davis (15-16) in the Big West Championship opening round on Wednesday, March 12. Tip time from Lee’s Family Forum (Henderson, Nev.) is 8:30 p.m. on ESPN+.
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