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Spartanburg Methodist’s Bayonne Named 2024-25 CAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year
Posted: Feb 27, 2025

Spartanburg Methodist’s Bayonne Named 2024-25 CAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year

Spartanburg Methodist College (South Carolina) senior Bryan Bayonne has been named the Continental Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, among specialty awards for the 2024-25 season.

Other honorees included Washington Adventist University (Maryland) senior Rande Harper, co-Defensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year; Fisher College (Massachusetts) junior Anthony Douglas Jr., co-Defensive Player of the Year; and Washington Adventist's Jerry McFarland, Coach of the Year.

First and second team honors also were announced as the CAC Men's Basketball Championship Tournament begins and continues through Sunday, March 2, at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.

Bayonne led the Pioneers and the NAIA by averaging 24.5 points per game, highlighted by a 24.9 scoring averaging in 10 conference games. He made 61 3-point field goals and shot 46% of all field goals in 25 games. Bayonne also grabbed 6.2 rebounds per outing and tallied 68 assists.

Harper averaged 18.9 points a game and shot 52.6% from behind the 3-point arc in 13 starts this winter. He recorded 38 steals (2.7 steals per contest) and grabbed 5.5 rebounds per outing.

Douglas Jr. averaged 10.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, along with having 40 steals and 90 assists for the regular season. He started 20 of the 23 games he appeared in this winter. Douglas Jr. averaged 7.3 rebounds in eight games against CAC opponents.

McFarland led the Shock to a 6-2 record in games against conference opponents while being 10-12 record overall. That made Washington Adventist the No. 3 seed of the eight-team postseason tournament field.

The eight-team CAC tournament will crown a champion on Sunday, starting at 7 p.m.  

 

2024-25 Continental Athletic Conference Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams

Player of the Year: Bryan Bayonne, Spartanburg Methodist College

Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Anthony Douglas Jr., Fisher College

Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Rande Harper, Washington Adventist University

Newcomer Player of the Year: Rande Harper, Washington Adventist University

Coach of the Year: Jerry McFarland, Washington Adventist University

First Team

Nate Braden, Arkansas Baptist College

Aundree Polk, Carolina University

Ke'Andre Penceal, Fisher College

Nate Duda, Florida College

Bryan Bayonne, Spartanburg Methodist College

Rande Harper, Washington Adventist University

Second Team

Deavon Bankston, Arkansas Baptist College

Anthony Douglas Jr., Fisher College

Malik Beauford, Florida College

Nehemiah Boykins, Haskell Indian Nations University

Nigel Quaynor, Northern New Mexico College

Chase Cooke, Washington Adventist University

Emanuel Hylton, Washington Adventist University

Champion of Character

Terrance Stewart, Arkansas Baptist College

Dakota Sampson, Carolina University

Malik Beauford, Florida College

Carlos Diaz, Fisher College

Michael Conard, Haskell Indian Nations University

Angel Reyes-Muniz, Northern New Mexico College

Marshall Lamb, Spartanburg Methodist College

Emanuel Hylton, Washington Adventist University