Two Hornets honored for academics

"BARLETT AND STUTEVILLE RECEIVE ACADEMIC ACCOLADES FROM THE NABC"

"Sacramento State men's basketball players Eric Stuteville and Dreon Barlett were both honored on the 2015-16 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court, announced on Tuesday.

Stuteville is currently a senior center on this year's team, and Barlett graduated from Sacramento State in the spring after playing four years for the Hornets. Recipients of the award must have been academically a junior or senior last season while earning a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better. If the award wasn't limited to just juniors and seniors, four additional Hornets would have earned the honor.

Stuteville, a sociology major from Orangevale, will be a fourth year senior on the 2016-17 team. Last season, he played in all 31 games, including 26 starts at center. Stuteville averaged 8.0 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.9 blocked shots per game while shooting .565 from the field (100-of-177). His 58 blocked shots ranked as the fourth best mark in program single-season history, and his 1.9 blocks per game led the Big Sky and ranked 53rd in the nation.

Also among Big Sky leaders, he ranked sixth in field goal percentage and 11th in offensive rebounds per game (1.7). Stuteville had a career-high 19 points at Stanford on 8-of-13 shooting from the field in 28 minutes, and finished the season a +35 in plus/minus ratio. He was named Sacramento State's Student-Athlete of the Week on two occasions and his 102 career blocked shots are third most in program history...