AUSTIN, Texas --- Tusculum University's Trenton Gibson has been named to the 2022 NCAA Division II Academic All-District 3 Men's Basketball first team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Gibson, a graduate student from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, earns Academic All-District first team honors for the third time in his career, including last year where he was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team.
Gibson will advance to this year's Academic All-America® team ballot with the winners being announced next month.
Gibson graduated from Tusculum last May with his undergraduate degree in sport management in just three years. He garnered summa cum laud honors as he finished with a 3.95 cumulative grade point average. He has a perfect 4.00 GPA in graduate school and is working on his master's in business administration.
On the court, he is averaging 18.7 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists per contest and is the only player in the South Atlantic Conference to be ranked in the top-10 in all three categories. He has scored in double figures on 84 occasions in his career including 18 times this season.
Last season, he became the first player in league history to be named SAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year as well as SAC Scholar Athlete of the Year. In 2021, he was the recipient of the SAC Presidents Award, the league's top student-athlete accolade. He was also named the Southeast Region Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) and was the Tusculum Male Athlete of the Year. In 2019, he was honored as the SAC Freshman of the Year.
He has earned All-Conference honors twice at Tusculum and was a 2021 NABC All-District first team selection.
In his 100 career games at Tusculum, he has led the Pioneers to a 63-37 record and is ranked in the top-10 in ten statistical categories including: points (1545 – 8th), field goals made (483 – 8th), field goal attempts (1169 – 5th), free throws made (462 – 1st), free throw attempts (577 – 2nd), free throw percentage (.801 – 6th), rebounds (642 – 8th), rebound average (6.42 rpg – 4th), assists (427 – 3rd), assists per game (4.27 apg – 6th) and steals (125 – 7th).
Gibson has shined in the classroom where he was the 2020 recipient of the SAC Elite 20 Award for men's basketball. He is a member of the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll, Tusculum President's List, Dean's List and Charles Oliver Gray Honors List. He is a two-time Division II Athletic Directors Association Honor Roll selection and is a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society.
In addition to his success on the basketball court and in the classroom, Gibson has been an active member of the community. He has volunteered at the Nettie Day of Service, is a member of the Pioneer Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and is a Pioneer Peer serving as a mentor for incoming freshmen. He volunteers as a youth basketball coach with the Above the Rim program and has served as a sports management intern within the Tusculum Athletic department. He is also an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and served a summer internship with the NCAA national office.
The Division II and III CoSIDA Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2021-2022 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs.
CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 First Team
Blake Atwood, King
Mason Carver, Anderson
Parker Dortch, Anderson
Ben Gahlert, Limestone
Trenton Gibson, Tusculum
Jordan Guest, Lincoln Memorial
Spencer Levi, UNC Pembroke
Wesley Simpson, Georgia College
Brian Sims, Jr., Lees-McRae
