Morris on Wooden Award Preseason All-American Team
8/12/1999 8:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Aug. 12, 1999
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland junior Terence Morris (Frederick, Md.), an Associated Press honorable mention All-America selection last season, is on the John R. Wooden Award preseason All-America list of the top 25 players in the nation it was announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Morris averaged 15.3 points and a team leading 7.1 rebounds as a sophomore last season. He was an All-ACC first-team selection and is the only returning All-ACC first team player for the 1999-2000 season.
Morris became only the only the fourth sophomore in school history to earn All-ACC first-team honors and finished fifth in the voting for ACC Player of the Year in 1999. He is among the most versatile players in the ACC and was the only conference player to finish among the league?s top 10 in field-goal percentage (third), blocked shots (third), free-throw percentage (fourth), rebounds (eighth), scoring (10th) and steals (10th) during the 1998-99 season. He was an all-tournament team selection at the Puerto Rico Shootout, as he averaged 14.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and shot 70.8 percent from the field (17-of-24). In addition, Morris enters his junior season ranked sixth all-time in blocked shots (106) and seventh in field goal shooting percentage (.542).
Morris needs only 243 points to become the 35th player in school history to score 1,000 career points. Only 14 players in school history have reached the 1,000-point plateau during or before their junior seasons
