Mustang Daily Staff Report
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Forward Chris Eversley capped off a blazing Big West regular season performance by taking home All-Big West first team honors on Monday. Senior guard Dylan Royer, who earned a scholarship prior to his senior season at Cal Poly, was awarded Big West honorable mention.
Eversley was the only Cal Poly player to average double-figure scoring, posting 16.8 points per game and pulling down a team-leading 7.8 rebounds per game. He scored 30 points in a victory over Cal State Northridge on Jan. 26 and led the team in scoring in 16 games. He started 27 games this season, missing two contests to a lower leg injury and averaged 33 minutes per game.
“I’m obviously excited about it, but I think of awards as a sign of what you’ve done in the past,” Eversley said. “I’m already looking forward to Thursday.”
Royer was one of two players to start all 29 of Cal Poly’s games in 2012-13 and emerged as the Mustangs’ 3-point specialist. He hit 75 of 182 attempted 3-pointers (41.2 percent), including a game against UC Santa Barbara where he hit seven 3-pointers, one shy of the Cal Poly record.
The Mustangs face UC Davis in the first round of the Big West Conference Tournament at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. The winner of the tournament earns an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament the following week.
“I wasn’t happy with the way we ended the season last year with the loss to UC Santa Barbara in the semis,” Eversley said. “It’s been a long time coming, 368 days since then, I’ve been keeping count of it. UC Davis is a great matchup for us. We matchup well with them at every position, so it should be a good game for us to test the waters of the conference tournament.”
Stephan Teodosescu contributed to this report.