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ISU’s Morris drafted by Nuggets

Monté Morris

AMES – Iowa State point guard Monté Morris was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the 2017 NBA Draft with the 51st pick on Thursday night.

Morris, the winningest player in school history, is the 38th Cyclone to be drafted. Iowa State has had 11 players drafted since the Big 12 was formed in 1996-97.

Morris, a Flint, Mich., native, finished his four-year career by earning All-American honors in 2016-17. As a senior, Morris averaged a career-best 16.4 points. He was the only player nationally to average 16 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds and fewer than 2 turnovers per game.

Morris concluded his career by breaking the NCAA single-season (5.17) and career (4.65) assist-to-turnover ratios. He is just the eighth player in Division I history to lead the nation in a statistical category in three different seasons.

Morris broke school records for career assists (768) and steals (225) in addition to the assist-to-turnover mark. He was 11th in school history in scoring with 1,708 points and just the seventh college player since 1992-93 to collect 1,700 points, 700 assists, 500 rebounds and 200 steals. Of those seven players, only Morris had fewer than 365 turnovers (165).

Morris becomes the fifth player and third point guard that Iowa State head coach Steve Prohm has had drafted in his six years as a college coach (Murray State and Iowa State).

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