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EDINBORO, Pa. – Metro State men's basketball player Brandon Jefferson (Flower Mound, Texas/Lewisville H.S.) was named 2014 Daktronics NCAA Division II Ron Lenz National Player of the Year on Monday. He becomes the second player in school history to earn national player of the year honors, joining Mark Worthington from 2005.

Jefferson has led the Roadrunners to a current 28-game winning streak and a 31-1 overall record. He is currently averaging 21.5 points, the highest single-season scoring average in school history. Additionally, he is averaging 3.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.4 steals, while shooting 46.5 percent from 3-point range and 92.3 percent at the free throw line. His 687 points this season rank first in school history and he has broken both the career and single-season free throws made records this year.

Top-ranked Metro State will play Tuskegee (Ala.) at 2:30 p.m. (CT) on Wednesday in the NCAA Elite Eight in Evansville, Ind.

The D2SIDA All-America men's basketball team is sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition. The teams are voted on by the members of D2SIDA, NCAA Division II Sports Information Directors Association.

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