ST. LOUIS – The honors continued to roll in for the University of Evansville men’s basketball team as Ned Cox was named the Team Captain for the MVC All-Bench Team.
 
Also named the Valley’s Sixth Man of the Year, Cox played in all 29 games for Evansville this year while making two starts. He averaged 9.3 points per game. Cox has 10 double-digit scoring efforts, led by a pair of 20-point outings. In a November contest at Illinois Chicago, he set his career mark with 24 points as he hit 9-of-13 shots.
 
Cox made two starts for the Aces, scoring 16 points against Oakland City before leading Evansville with 17 points in a start in the regular season finale against Missouri State. He's joined on the All-Bench Team by Kurt Alexander of Drake, Bryant Allen of Illinois State, Chip Rank of UNI, and Ethan Wragge of Creighton.
 
The Aces are continuing preparations for Friday’s MVC Tournament game against Missouri State, set for 8:30 p.m.