Griffin Named Second Team All-Region Selection

Senior Becomes Third Player in School History to Earn All-Region Honors

St. Louis, Mo. – University of Missouri-St. Louis men’s basketball player Jonathan Griffin (St. Louis, Mo./Normandy) was named a second team All-Great Lakes Region selection, becoming just the third men’s basketball player in school history to earn all-region honors.

Griffin continues to pile up the awards for his career, as last week he was named an All-Great Lakes Valley Conference second team selection for the second consecutive season. He was named an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District selection earlier this year and has been a three-time academic all-conference selection. He is just the third player in UMSL history to earn all-region honors, joining Eric Love who was a two-time all-region selection, and current head coach Chris Pilz who was a three-time all-region selection.

Griffin finished up his record setting career this season at UMSL after leading the Rivermen in scoring with 18.3 points per game and in rebounding with 7.1 per game. He also led the team in assists (102), steals (46) and blocked shots (15), and was the only player in the GLVC to lead his team in all five of those stats. He finished fourth in the conference in scoring and fifth in rebounding, and was in the top ten in the conference in both assists and steals. Griffin scored in double figures in every game this year, including a season best 30 points in a win over then 4th-ranked Southern Indiana. Griffin recorded six double-doubles on the season, including a season best 13 rebounds against SIUE. He nearly missed a triple double against Lewis, recording 29 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists.

For his career, Griffin finished as the second all-time leading scorer in UMSL history with 1,739 points, and finished seventh in career rebounds with 652. He finished third in career steals with 160, fifth in career assists with 283 and ninth in career blocked shots with 28, becoming just the second player in UMSL history to rank in the top ten in the career charts for those five categories. In other career rankings, he is fifth in field goals made (538), eighth in three-point field goals made (112), second in free throws made (551) and attempted (741) and tenth in free throw percentage (.744).