BATON ROUGE — LSU sophomore guard Collis Temple III was named on Thursday to the five-player 2001 Verizon District VI Academic All-Star basketball team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors Association.
Named to the team with Temple were Erik Cooper and Michael Sharod Wilks, Jr., of Rice, Eric Channing of New Mexico State and Brandon Wolfram of the University of Texas-El Paso.
To be eligible for the team athletes had to possess at least a 3.20 overall grade point average and have been a starter or front line reserve. The five players will go on to represent the district on the national ballot. District VI is comprised of universities in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Temple, a junior scholastically, but in his second year as an athlete after red shirting his first year due to injury, is from Baton Rouge and has a 3.204 grade point average in Business Administration. Temple is a starting guard for the basketball team, having started 23 games with an average of 13.3 points per game, second on the Tiger team.
The highest grade point average on the team belonged to Wolfram of UTEP. The senior had a 3.87 average in business management while scoring 22.2 points per game. Channing of NMSU, posted a 3.85 GPA.