CSU’s Lewis, Grady, Lee earn All-Horizon League honors

While their recent loss to Valparaiso was quite the storm cloud, there is a silver lining to the end of the Cleveland State Vikings’ regular season: Trey Lewis, Anton Grady, and Charlie Lee all earned All-Horizon League honors. Grady and Lewis (pictured above) were both named to the all-league first team, while Grady and Lee earned spots on the all-defensive squad.

Lewis, a preseason first-team conference selection, was fourth in the conference in scoring (16.9 points per game) and set a CSU single-season record with 87 three-pointers made. The junior from Garfield Heights via transfer from Penn State was one of two Horizon League players to score 30-plus points twice, and he topped the 20-point mark 11 times. This marks his first selection to a year-end all-conference team.

Grady, a Cleveland Central Catholic product, was a preseason second-team choice and is making his first appearance on the postseason all-conference team. He led the conference with eight double-doubles and ranked in the top six in per-game points (15.5, sixth), rebounds (9.4, first), steals (1.8, second), and blocks (1.9, third) in league play, as well as field goal percentage (.541, fourth). He is the only player to finish in the top six in all of those categories. The junior averaged 13.7 points and 7.6 rebounds overall.

Lee, a senior from Milwaukee, was suspended for the season’s first six games, but was among the Vikings’ leaders for much of the season. The 5-8 guard averaged just under a steal in nearly 36 minutes per game, and his pressure was often the fulcrum of the Viking defense. He also recorded career-bests in field goal percentage (.446) and three-point percentage (.434).

Grady and Lewis are the first Vikings to make the All-Horizon first team since current New Orleans Pelican Norris Cole in 2011, and the first CSU duo to earn first-team all-league honors since 1993, when Gravelle Craig and Sam Mitchell were among the top five in the Mid-Continent Conference, Cleveland State’s former divisional home, now known as the Summit League.

Grady and Lee are the first Viking teammates to make the all-defense team since D’Aundray Brown and Trey Harmon in 2012.

Cleveland State is the No. 4 seed in the Horizon League tournament, and will play either No. 5 Detroit or No. 8 Youngstown State on Friday, March 6 in Valparaiso, Indiana. The Titans host the Penguins in Detroit Tuesday night, with the winner facing CSU.

The full Horizon League honors go as follows:

All-League First Team
Keifer Sykes, Green Bay (Sr., G)
Kahlil Felder, Oakland (So., G)
Alec Peters, Valparaiso (So., F)
Anton Grady, Cleveland State (Jr., F)
Trey Lewis, Cleveland State (Jr., G)

All-League Second Team
Juwan Howard, Jr., Detroit (Sr., F)
Corey Petros, Oakland (Sr., C)
Greg Mays, Green Bay (Sr., F)
Matt Tiby, Milwaukee (Jr., F)
Steve McWhorter, Milwaukee (Sr., G)

All-Freshman Team
Paris Bass, Detroit (G/F)
Tevonn Walker, Valparaiso (G)
Jalen Hayes, Oakland (F)
Grant Benzinger, Wright State (G)
Nick Daniels, Oakland (G)

All-Defensive Team
Vashil Fernandez, Valparaiso (Sr., C)
Jordan Fouse, Green Bay (Jr., F)
Dante Williams, Oakland (Sr., F)
Anton Grady, Cleveland State (Jr., F)
Charlie Lee, Cleveland State (Sr., G)

Player of the Year: Keifer Sykes, Green Bay (Sr., G)
Defensive Player of the Year: Vashil Fernandez, Valparaiso (Sr., C)
Freshman of the Year: Paris Bass, Detroit (G/F)
Sixth Player of the Year: Jubril Adekoya, Valparaiso (So., F)
Coach of the Year: Bryce Drew, Valparaiso