All-GCAC: Wright 1st team, Coleman, Goode 2nd team

From left, Xavier's Sydney Coleman, Anthony Goode and Morris Wright 

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Morris Wright, Sydney Coleman and Anthony Goode have been selected All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in men's basketball for the 2014-15 season.

Wright and Coleman were All-GCAC a year ago.

Awards were announced Thursday at a GCAC team luncheon at the Crowne Plaza New Orleans Airport hotel in suburban Kenner, La. The GCAC Tournament for men (Xavier's Convocation Center) and women (Dillard's Dent Hall) will begin Friday with quarterfinal games at two New Orleans sites. Xavier will be the site of the men's and women's semifinals and finals.

Wright, a 5-foot-10 junior guard from Zachary, La., and a former Zachary High School and Baton Rouge Community College standout, leads Xavier this season with 14.0 points per game. He became the first Gold Rush player to reach 400 points, 100 rebounds, 100 assists, 50 steals, 100 made free throws and 50 made 3-pointers in one season.

Coleman, a 6-7 senior forward from Meridian, Miss., and a graduate of Meridian High School, ranks third on the Gold Rush with 11.6 points per game and second in rebounding at 5.1. He is shooting a team-best 61.4 percent from the floor.

Goode, a 6-foot senior guard from Baltimore, Md., and a graduate of Milford Mill Academy, made All-GCAC for the first time after averaging 12.4 points and making 55 3-pointers. He has made 86.8 percent of his free throws in 2014-15 and ranks No. 4 on Xavier's all-time season list.

Xavier — 22-8, ranked 18th in NAIA Division I and seeded second in the GCAC Tournament — will play seventh-seeded city rival Dillard (5-24) at 7 p.m. Friday in the quarterfinals at Xavier. Friday's other men's matchups are Philander Smith against Edward Waters at noon, Tougaloo against Voorhees at 2 p.m. and Talladega — NAIA Division I's top-ranked team — against SUNO at 5 p.m.

Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
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