NABC Release
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Senior Kyle White of the Goldey-Beacom College men's basketball team has earned a spot on the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-East District Second Team it was announced today. The voting was done by member coaches of the NABC.
White, who led the Lightning to their first-ever Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament championship game, is the first GBC basketball player to ever receive this honor. The 5-10 guard from Georgetown, Del. had an unforgettable senior season during which he became the fastest player to eclipse the 1,000-career-point mark, broke the school's single-season scoring (640 points) and assists (124) records, earned All-CACC First Team and All-CACC Tournament Team honors, three conference player of the week laurels and four weekly conference honorable mentions.
One of the league's most dominant players, White finished among the top-10 in the CACC in four statistical categories: scoring (3rd, 22.1 ppg), assists (5th, 4.28 apg), free-throw percentage (8th, 75.8-percent) and assist-to-turnover ratio (9th, 1.39). He led the Lightning in scoring in 19 of their 29 games, tallying 30 or more points in four different outings and 20 or more in 20 games.
His season and career-high came in an overtime win against Nyack on Feb. 13 when White poured in 36 points to lift GBC to an 89-77 victory. He was also the catalyst in a thrilling 89-80 overtime win at Shippensburg back on Nov. 30 when he scored 28 points, including a coast-to-coast layup at the last second of regulation that sent the game to overtime where the Lightning then took the game over.
All year long, head coach Chuck Hammond's go-to player when the Lightning needed a score, White came through for GBC in the clutch time after time – and never more so than in the CACC Tournament. He had arguably one of the greatest all-time performances in the history of the CACC Tournament, averaging 26.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per-game.
First against Wilmington in the quarterfinals, White scored 21 second-half points to finish with 27 for the day and send his team to the semifinals. Then, in an epic battle with the conference player of the year, Gage Daye, White got the last laugh as he hit the game-winning shot with just under a second left in regulation to lift GBC over Bloomfield in the semifinals. He finished that game with 30 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and two steals. White then scored 21 points to go with five rebounds, three assists and a steal in the finals against Felician, but the Lightning fell short, 84-79.
In just two seasons with Goldey-Beacom after transferring in from Delaware State, White finished his career ranked fourth on the school's all-time list in scoring with 1,095 points, fourth in assists with 220 and sixth in rebounds with 302.
Joining White on the East Region second-team were two other CACC players – Philadelphia's Russell Frederick and Holy Family's Justin Swidowski. Bloomfield's Gage Daye, the second-leading scorer in the NCAA at the end of the regular season, earned First Team accolades.
