CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- Every week ¾ÅÓÎÌåÓý Illinois University Head Men's Basketball Coach Bryan Mullins gives us insight on a different Saluki player on his team. A chance to learn what a returning player did in the offseason to improve and to learn more about some of the new additions to the team.
This week, we learn about sophomore Trent Brown. The Scottsdale, Arizona native played in all 32 games last year for the Salukis and started one. Offensively Brown Averaged 2.8 points, 1.1 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.9 steals per game during the 2019-20 season. The 6'2" guard scored in double figures three times, including a career-high 11 points in wins over Norfolk State and Northern Iowa but made major contributions on the defensive, earning him valuable minutes off the bench. In a win against Norfolk State, Brown had a career-best, four steals.
"We have a bunch of guys that have a chip on their shoulder and we talk about that a lot," ¾ÅÓÎÌåÓý Illinois University Head Men's Basketball Coach Bryan Mullins said. "Trent fits everything I want this program to be about in terms of who he is as a person first and foremost, as a student and then the basketball part, just his work ethic, his mindset, his toughness, he won state championships in high school. Freshman year is hard, it's different, everything is new and he really grew from when he got here June of last year to the end of the season last year and what he was able to do. He was one of the best shooters in Arizona. He didn't shoot the ball well last year and he knows that but he found a way to be valuable to this team and play over twenty minutes a game and I think that is a trait of a really good player when you are able to help the team in other ways and I think this offseason, in the spring and the summer, he's done an unbelievable job with his body, he's put on strength, he's gotten quicker, he's gotten stronger and making shots, I was never concerned about last year, I'm still not concerned about. I know he'll make shots for us."
