Nick Evans Class: Freshman Hometown: Carbondale, Ill High School: Carbondale Height / Weight: 6-11 / 245 Position: C Birthdate: 04/14/1988

Updated Oct. 15, 2008

2007-08
Redshirted...Played five games in China last summer with Reach USA, a division of Sports Reach, which is a Christian sports ministry founded for the purpose of reaching the world for Christ through sports... Averaged 9.2 ppg on the trip...The trip was cut short due to the devastating earthquake.

High School
As a senior, he averaged 11.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg and 5.0 bpg at Carbondale High School in only his second season of organized basketball...Played at Red Hill High School (Ill.) as a junior and averaged 12.5 ppg and 11.0 rpg in his first experience with organized basketball.

Dawg Bites
Grew up on a 280-acre farm in Bridgeport, Ill., a town of 2,300 located near the border with Indiana and approximately 150 miles from Carbondale...Some of his jobs included cleaning silos and baling hay...Was home-schooled by his mother, Regina Evans, through his sophomore year of high school...Mother is enrolled at SIU and is a teaching major, who will graduate in 2009...Grew from 6-foot-6 to 6-foot-10 during his sophomore year of high school...Wears size 19 shoes...His cousin, Derek Brown, played minor league baseball in the New York Mets organization...Plans to major in public relations...Born April 14, 1988, in Chicago, Ill.