Updated Oct. 17, 2006

2005-06 Notebook
*CollegeInsider.com Defensive All-America Team
*First-Team All-Missouri Valley Conference
*MVC All-Defensive team
*MVC Most-Improved team
Third in the MVC in scoring in conference games (14.8 ppg) and 14th overall (11.6 ppg)...An excellent 3-point marksman who ranks 4th in career 3-point shooting (39.5) at SIU...Makes plays under pressure...Made the game winning shots versus UNI (Feb. 25) and Drake (Jan. 14) with nine and seven seconds left, respectively...Also made the game-winning defensive stops at the buzzer in those two games...Shot 84.1 percent from the free throw line, including 17-straight makes during one stretch...Broke an ankle in a pick-up game during the summer of 2005.

2004-05 Season
*MVC Sixth Man of the Year
*MVC All-Defensive Team
*MVC All-Bench Team
Led the team in 3-point shooting (41.5) and was second in free throw shooting (80.0)...Had a season-high 16-point outing at Bradley in which he made 4-of-5 3-pointers...Recorded at least five steals three times, including a career-high six steals vs. Murray State.

2003-04 Season
Came off the bench against Hawaii to record six steals and make 4-of-5 shots...Playing time dramatically increased after he filled in for Jamaal Tatum on Jan. 7 at Indiana State and scored 8 points in 15 minutes...After that game, he averaged 5.2 ppg and 14.5 mpg...

2002-03 Season
Played four games and received a medical redshirt.

High School
Signed during the 2002 spring signing period...Averaged 18.2 ppg, 6.0 apg, 3.5 rpg, 3.5 spg as a senior and was an all-state, all-conference and all-area selection...Conference player-of-the-year...Team finished 19-8...In his junior season, helped lead Schaumburg to a 29-3 record and the AA state championship...Averaged 13.8 ppg and led the team in scoring in seven games...Converted to point guard his senior year.

Dawg Bites
Earned a scholarship from Bruce Weber when he was the only player among invitees to show up for a Saluki practice in Chicago prior to the 2002 NCAA Tournament...Has many nicknames that pay tribute to his defensive prowess...A TV announcer called him a "rabid dog." Fans have brought signs calling him the "Secretary of Defense"...Played power forward as a junior on his Schaumburg High School team that won the Class AA state title in 2001...Majoring in management...Born March 3, 1984 in Monroe, La....Son of Carolyn Young.

Career Stats

                                 Total         3-Point                    Rebounds
Year      GP-GS   Min/Avg    FG-FGA   Pct   FG-FGA   Pct   FT-FTA   Pct Off-Def  Tot  Avg  PF-FO Ast  TO Blk Stl  Pts/Avg
2002-03    4-0     14/3.5     1-2    .500    1-1   1.000    0-0    .000   0-1      1  0.3   3-0    0   3   0   0    3/0.8
2003-04   30-0    349/11.6   44-94   .468   18-43   .419    7-11   .636  10-16    26  0.9  56-0   19  18   1  30  113/3.8
2004-05   35-5    727/20.8   72-155  .465   34-82   .415   36-45   .800   8-47    55  1.6  95-2   50  51   3  47  214/6.1
2005-06   33-31   958/29.0  130-325  .400   64-170  .376   58-69   .841  24-70    94  2.8 107-4   63  74  11  49  382/11.6
TOTAL    102-36  2048/20.1  247-576  .429  117-296  .395  101-125  .808  42-134  176  1.7 261-6  132 146  15 126  712/7.0