SEWANEE, Tenn. - Announced on Tuesday,
Russ Marr from the University of the South was selected to the Second Team of the D3hoops.com All-Region Team for Region VI.
Region VI includes the following conferences: Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), Southern Athletic Association (SAA) and the USA South Athletic Conference (USAS).
Additionally, Asbury University in Kentucky (Independent), Bob Jones University, Christopher Newport University (Coast-To-Coast; C2C), Emory University (University Athletic Association), University of Mary Washington (C2C) and Warren Wilson (C2C) are schools that are also in the region but are not associated with the conferences above.
Winning the Southern Athletic Association Player of the Week award three times, he was named First Team on the all-conference team a few weeks ago. Additionally, he was the Most Valuable Player of the SAA Tournament.
Starting in all 29 games in his sophomore season, Marr averaged 21.1 points per game and shot 49% from the field. From long distance, he shot 37.6% and was an 84% shooter from the charity stripe.
Marr finished the 2023 season with 611 points, good for eighth-most in the country and the most in the region. In terms of program history, the Bryant, Ala. native became the second player in program history to score 600 points in a season, joining Kit Walsh's 648 in his senior season in 1991.
28 of his 29 games saw him net double-digits and he scored 20 more in 13 games. More impressive, he had five games of 30 or more points, including a career-best 50 at Covenant on Nov. 29.
Marr became the first player since the 2001-02 season to drop 50 in a game for the University of the South. Posting the second-best point total in the 10-plus year history of the Southern Athletic Association in a game, he was five points shy of breaking the school record of 55 set by Eric Ochel in 1995 versus Emory.
His 197 made field goals were second-best in program history as well. Walsh also holds that mark with 245. On a national level, he finished 35th in field goals made, and his mark was the third-most in Region VI.
From beyond the arc, his 82 triples finished as the third-most in school history. In Division III, he was the top 3-point shooter in the region and the 13th-best in the country.
At the free throw line, Marr tied the school record for shots made with 135, joining Ben Pursell C'09 in 2008. Finishing second in the region in the category, he sits at 15th in the nation.
Players were nominated for the All-Region Team by the Sports Information Directors (SIDs) at the various schools. There were 798 players nominated nationwide across the 10 regions in Division III. The ballot was then made available to SIDs, who voted for a predetermined number of players in their region.
The University of the South posted a 19-10 overall record, won the 2023 SAA Tournament Championship and earned the automatic qualifier to the NCAA Championships.
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