Big East Conference

NEW YORK – Butler University guard Kellen Dunham has been selected as the BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year Presented by Sunkist. The selection was made by the Conference’s Academic Affairs Committee.   
 
A senior from Pendleton, Ind., Dunham will receive a $2,000 scholarship which may be applied to graduate or professional studies.
 
Dunham holds a 3.18 grade point average in entrepreneurship and innovation.  He is a two-time member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and has made the Butler Athletic Director’s Honor Roll three times. 
 
Dunham has excelled on the court as well.  In his three seasons in the BIG EAST, he has earned all-conference honors each year.  As a sophomore, he was All-BIG EAST Second Team.  He was all BIG EAST First Team as a junior.  This season, he was BIG EAST Honorable Mention.  Going into this week’s BIG EAST Tournament, Dunham is tied for sixth in the league in scoring with a 16.2 average.  He is one of the BIG EAST’s top shooters, making a league-high 75 3-point baskets and ranking second in 3-point percentage, 41.4 percent.  Dunham is fifth in free throw shooting, making 83.6 percent.
 
The BIG EAST Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year award is one of a number of scholarships presented by the BIG EAST Conference during the 2015-16 academic year. In addition, 20 student-athletes (one male and one female from each of the BIG EAST’s 10 member institutions) will receive postgraduate scholarships as the winners of their respective institutions’ Scholar-Athlete Award. The winners of the institutional and basketball awards are then eligible for the BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, which provides an additional postgraduate scholarship to one male and one female student-athlete.