Bryan College senior Brandon Cole from Crossville and Stone Memorial High School was announced Monday as the CoSIDA 2015-16 Academic All-America College Division men’s basketball player of the year. That covers NAIA, Canadian institutions and two-year schools. Cole, Bryan’s all-time scoring and rebounding leader with 2,799 career points and 1,235 rebounds – at 6-foot-2 – is an exercise health science major with a 3.83 grade point average. He led NAIA Division II with 29.1 points per game while averaging 10.9 rebounds this year. “He has led the nation in scoring and rebounding twice. He has an extraordinary GPA,” Lions coach Don Rekoske said in a Bryan release.
* Lee University point guard Haris Price was voted the Gulf South Conference women’s basketball freshman of the year, and sophomore shooting guard Erin Walsh made the five-player All-GSC first team announced Monday. Price, who averaged 10.9 points and 4.5 assists, made the second team. She had season highs of 24 points and 10 assists. Walsh averaged 17.4 points a game and scored 24 or more seven times, with a high of 33.
* Covenant College’s first-ever NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament game is set for Friday night at 7:30 against Emory (18-7) in Atlanta. That game will be preceded by SAA champion Birmingham-Southern against LaGrange, which lost in overtime to Covenant (18-9) in the USAS final.
Golf
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team slipped from first to third Monday in the 41-team Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Spring Classic with a 313, 20 shots more than the first-round total, and the Mocs’ Emily McLennan is tied for third individually at 1-under-par 143 going into the final round. Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston share the team lead at 589, while UTC is at 596 with Elon two shots behind. UTC’s Cris Perez, Monica San Juan, Megan Woods and Isabella Loza are at 150, 151, 152 and 153.