DALLAS – The 2019-20 Conference USA superlative awards have been announced, with players from four different schools being honored among the four awards.  Charlotte guard Jahmir Young was named Freshman of the Year, North Texas junior Javion Hamlet picked up Newcomer of the Year honors, FIU senior forward Osasumwen Osaghae earned the Defensive Player of the Year nod and Louisiana Tech junior forward Kalob Ledoux earned Sixth Player of the Year recognition.  Voting on the awards was done by the C-USA head coaches and media members in each conference city.

2020 Men's Basketball Superlative Awards.(pdf)
 
This season, Young was named Conference USA Freshman of the Week a league-best eight times.  He ranks second on Charlotte in scoring, averaging 12.5 points per game and leads the 49ers in C-USA games, averaging 13.7 points per game.  Young has recorded 21 double-figure scoring games.  The rookie from Hyattsville, Maryland, leads the 49ers in rebounding, averaging 5.2 boards per game and has grabbed at least five rebounds in 17 games this season.  He ranks sixth in Conference USA in steals, averaging 1.6 per game.  Young was also named third team All-Conference USA.
 
Hamlet is the first Mean Green men's basketball player to be named First Team All-Conference USA.  In league play, he led C-USA in assists (95), assists per game (5.3 apg), assist/turnover ratio (2.7), free throw percentage (88.3%) and was fourth in scoring (17.9 ppg).  Hamlet's 147 total assists this season currently ranks sixth all-time in UNT history for a single season.  The Memphis, Tennessee, native has an assist rate of 34.8, meaning 34.8 percent of the field goals that occur when he's on the floor are assisted by him.  That figure leads C-USA and ranks 30th in the nation.  In the Mean Green’s program-record 14 conference wins this year, Hamlet shot nearly 75 percent from the field in the final five minutes of games and scored an average of seven points during the final five minutes of conference wins.
 
Osaghae leads the nation in blocked shots (116) and blocks per game this season (3.7).  The Miami native paces the FIU squad with 8.1 rebounds and is second on the team in scoring (12.8).  Osaghae recorded a career-best 22 points twice this season, with one of those performances coming in the 81-76 win over WKU on Feb. 1.  The program's all-time leading shot-blocker (246) tallied a career-high eight swats twice this season, while also leading the league with eight double-doubles to round out the stat sheet. Osaghae was named second team All-Conference.
 
Ledoux is Louisiana Tech’s second-leading scorer at 11.2 points, having come off the bench in 23 of the team’s 29 games with six starts.  The Port Barre, Louisiana, native tops the Bulldogs with 58 made three-pointers this season and has made at least four threes in a single game six times.  Ledoux has reached double-figure scoring in 16 games, including twice in the final week of the season when he was named C-USA Player of the Week after averaging 17 points and hitting 9-of-14 three-pointers in a pair of LA Tech victories.
 
Conference USA will announce its 2019-20 Player of the Year and Gene Bartow Coach of the Year on Wednesday morning.  The 2020 Air Force Reserve C-USA Men’s Basketball Championship presented by Baylor Scott & White Sports Performance Center at The Star in Frisco tips off Wednesday at 6 p.m. CT. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit ConferenceUSA.com.