Charles White has averaged 5.3 assists as well as 8.4 points a game this season for Tennessee Wesleyan, and he led the Appalachian Athletic Conference with 2.3 steals per game.
Leland Robinson
Trey SuttlesTrey Suttles. Tre Tiller.
Beyond the similarity of their first names, both are from Chattanooga and District 6-AA high school basketball teams.
And both are in their first season playing – and starting – for Tennessee Wesleyan College, which shared the Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season championship and won a playoff for a spot in the NAIA Division II tournament in Point Lookout, Mo. The Bulldogs’ first game there is at 9:30 a.m. EST Thursday.
Both Trey and Tre are listed at 6-foot-5, and both have been very instrumental in the 28-3 Bulldogs’ success as program rookies. The main difference is that Suttles is a senior from Tyner, completing a run of four college programs in four years, while Tiller is a freshman from Central.
Tiller is in the starting lineup with four all-conference seniors – player of the year Leland Robinson, first-teamer Suttles and second-teamers Devante’ Jenkins and Charles White – and made the AAC all-freshman team.