Hubbard Garners First-Team Selection for Second-Straight Season

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UPLAND, Ind. – On Wednesday afternoon, the Crossroads League announced its selections for the 2021-2022 all-league men's basketball teams, among whom Jason Hubbard received a First-Team nod for the second-consecutive season, the first and only Trojan to accomplish such a feat in the nine-year tenure of head coach, Josh Andrews.

In addition to Hubbard's award, sophomore guard, Kaden Fuhrmann, took home a Second-Team selection for the first postseason award of his young career.

The accolades applicable to Hubbard and his 2021-2022 season are almost too bountiful to acknowledge in full, nonetheless the effort is worthwhile. To begin, Hubbard led the Crossroads League in scoring with 23.0 points per game, a mark that landed him seventh in the nation. That season-average is the highest number posted by any Taylor men's basketball player in the last four decades. Even more, in the last 20 years only four Trojans have landed in the league's top-five, yet no other Trojan besides Hubbard has led the league in scoring since the turn of the millennium.

Culminating in his league-leading 23.0 points per game, Hubbard scored double-digit points in each of his 28 games played, including 20 20-point games and four 30-point efforts. Hubbard stormed through the season's final 17 games, averaging over 25.0 points per game in that stretch. As a final word regarding his scoring-accolades, Hubbard grew to excel from beyond the arc toward the end of the season, posting a 46.7-percent mark from three throughout Taylor's final six games of the season.

The Miamisburg, Ohio, native also led the league with 5.2 made-free-throws and 7.0 free-throws-attempted per game. Meanwhile, Hubbard ranked third in the league with 9.1 rebounds per contest, which fueled 12 double-doubles, and shared the league's fourth-highest mark with 1.4 blocks per game, earning Hubbard a spot on the All-Defensive Team for the third-consecutive season.

En route to his Second-Team selection, Fuhrmann led the league with 3.3 made three-point field-goals per game while maintaining a mark of 37.1 percent from deep. The Liberty Township, Ohio, native knocked down two-or-more three's in 22 games, including 13 games of four-or-more made three's.

Fuhrmann finished his sophomore season averaging 16.2 points per game, a mark bolstered by seven 20-point games and three 30-point games, and spotlighted by a 39-point performance in Taylor's 77-74 win over Huntington on November 20th.

Along with Hubbard and Fuhrmann, Taylor is expected to return four-of-five starters for the 2022-2023 season.