Feb. 27, 2007

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Los Angeles, CA (Feb. 27) -- Loyola Marymount University men's basketball senior Matthew Knight earned his second consecutive first-team All-West Coast Conference honor as he is one of three Lions to earn honors by the WCC for efforts this 2006-07 season. Knight is joined by senior Adoyah Miller, who earned honorable mention honors, and junior Damian Martin, who earned WCC Defender of the Year honors.

It is the second straight year the Lion have had three players earn WCC honors. Martin is just the second player in LMU history to ear Defender of the Year honors, joining Sherman Gay, who eared it in 2003-04. This is the 13th time in 55 years that LMU has had three or more student-athletes given postseason honors.

Knight heads into the WCC tournament on Friday second in the WCC in scoring and third in rebounding with 16.5 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. Knight has posted six double-doubles this season to give him 25 in his career, fifth all-time. The Australian native is on of just five players to rank in the top-10 in career points and rebounds.

For Knight's Australian teammate, Martin, it was a comeback season to remember. After missing nearly two years of basketball due to a torn Achilles tendon, Martin returned to be one of just two players on the Lions' roster to play all 30 games. In those contests, he established himself as the best defender in the WCC.

Martin finished second overall in the WCC with 63 steals, good for 2.10 per game. In WCC games, he led the league with more than 2.4 per game. His steal mark is tied with Terrell Lowery for fifth all-time in a single season at LMU. He has 156 in his career to rank sixth and his nine steals in the win over Boise State set the single game record.

Joining Martin in playing all 30 games was Miller. It might have been the turn-around campaign of the year in the WCC as Miller went from playing 10 total games in his previous two years to playing all 30 this season.

He had scored 56 points with seven three-pointers in his first two campaigns. This season he has 350 points and 69 three pointers, the most in a decade and ranking eighth all-time at LMU. In league games, Miller is third in the WCC with 2.64 three-pointers per game, ranking fifth with 2.30 in all games played. Overall he is ranked 16th in scoring at 11.7 points per game, coming in at 10th in WCC games at 13.9 points per game.

The Lions open the WCC tournament with host Portland on Friday at 8 p.m.