JERSEY CITY, NJ - Despite the 2020-21 season being complete for over a month now, Saint Peter's standout junior forward
KC Ndefo still continues to garner postseason awards, most recently being named to the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 2020-21 All-Met Second Team, announced today by the MBWA. Ndefo is one of four players from the Metro Atlantic Athletics Conference (MAAC) to earn All-Met acknowledgement, accompanied by Iona's Isaiah Ross and Asante Gist, and Monmouth's Deion Hammond.
Following a third team selection in 2019-20, Ndefo was elevated to the All-Met Second Team this season, adding his name to an elite list of Saint Peter's men's basketball players to claim multiple All-Met accolades. He is the program's sixth product to gain All-Met honors in consecutive years, the first since Wesley Jenkins '11, who made an All-Met team three straight seasons from 2009 through 2011. Ndefo is the first player from Saint Peter's to make the second team since 2017, joining former Peacock Quadir Welton '17.
Ndefo's MBWA honor comes just two weeks after the Elmont, NY native became the program's first ever NCAA Annual Individual Champion award winner for blocked shots, the second Peacock to lead the NCAA in an annual statistical category alongside Peacock Hall of Famer Keydren "Kee Kee" Clark. This postseason, he has also been awarded unanimous MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, Lefty Driesell Defensive All-American Team, unanimous All-MAAC First Team, MAAC All-Championship Team, and NABC All-District Second Team distinctions.
Saint Peter's Men's Basketball All-Met recipients since 1981
2021:
KC Ndefo, Second Team
2020:
KC Ndefo, Third Team
2017: Quadir Welton, Second Team
2011: Wesley Jenkins, Third Team
2010: Wesley Jenkins, Third Team
2009: Wesley Jenkins, Second Team
2008: Todd Sowell, Third Team
2006: Keydren Clark, First Team
2005: Keydren Clark, First Team
2004: Keydren Clark, First Team
2003: Keydren Clark, First Team
2000: Kamaal McQueen, Fourth Team
1999: Ricky Bellinger, Fourth Team
1997: Ricky Bellinger, Third Team; Moe Segar, Fourth Team
1996: Luis Arrosa, Third Team; Mike Frensley, Fourth Team
1995: Luis Arrosa, Second Team; Randy Holmes, Third Team
1994: Antoine Allen, Fourth Team
1993: Scott Weeden, Third Team
1991: Tony Peters, Second Team; Marvin Andrews, Third Team
1990: Tony Walker, Third Team
1989: Willie Haynes, First Team; Chuck Veterano, Fourth Team
1988: Alex Roberts, First Team; Willie Haynes, Third Team
1987: Daren Rowe, Second Team; Willie Haynes, Fourth Team
1986: Kevin Boyle, Fourth Team; Willie Haynes, Fourth Team
1985: Leonard Hayes, Second Team; Shelton Gibbs, Fourth Team
1984: Tommy Best, First Team; Shelton Gibbs, Second Team
1983: Shelton Gibbs, Second Team; Tommy Best, Third Team
1982: William Brown, First Team
1981: Kevin Rogers, Third Team
Note: The All-Met Fourth Team was discontinued after 2000
Haggerty Award (Player of the Year)
Keydren Clark - 2005
Coach of the Year
Ted Fiore - 1991, 1987
Bob Dukiet - 1984, 1982
Rookie of the Year
Keydren Clark - 2003
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