BOISE, Idaho (March 8, 2021) – Junior
Cameron Shelton, the Big Sky Conference's leading scorer all season long, was voted to the All-Big Sky First Team in the announcement by the league office on Monday, ahead of the 2021 conference tournament.
Shelton is the first Northern Arizona men's basketball player to be named to the All-Big Sky First Team since Kris Yanku in 2015.
The captain from Chino, Calif. was voted to the Preseason All-Conference Team and he verified that honor with his play throughout the 2020-21 campaign. A third team selection as a sophomore, Shelton posted team-high averages of 20.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game this season.
In addition to pacing the conference in scoring, Shelton is the only player in the league to rank in the top 10 in all four statistical categories. In fact, he is just one of two players along with Weber State's Isiah Brown, to rank in the top 10 in at least three of those categories.
In conference play, Shelton's numbers saw a slight uptick to 20.6 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.6 steals per game. He ranked in the top three in points, assists and steals and was eighth in rebounds in Big Sky games.
Beginning with a 23-point effort against Eastern Washington on Dec. 19, Shelton scored 20 or more points – including a career-high 30 points at Idaho on Jan. 2 to cap a week in which he was named the Big Sky Player of the Week – in eight consecutive games. The eight-game streak was the longest in school history dating back to the 1993-94 season.
Shelton recorded 20 or more points in 13 games in all this season, and logged a stat line of at least 20 points, five rebounds and four assists in 10 of 20 contests.
The newest member of NAU's 1,000 point club – a milestone reached versus Montana State on Jan. 23 – ranks 23rd in the country in scoring leading into NAU's Big Sky Tournament opener on Wednesday against Portland State.
Shelton was joined on the all-conference first team by Weber State's Isiah Brown, Eastern Washington's Tanner Groves and Kim Aiken Jr. and Southern Utah's Tevian Jones. Groves was voted the Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player.
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