ST. LOUIS – MVC scoring leader Antonio Reeves has been named the Team Captain of the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Most-Improved Team, an award voted on by the conference's beat writers.
Reeves is the fifth Redbird to be named the Team Captain of the Most Improved Team and is joined by MiKyle McIntosh (2015-16), Levi Dyer (2006-07), Marcus Arnold (2003-04), and Rico Hill (1996-97).
One day earlier Reeves was named to the All-MVC Second Team. Of the four other Redbirds to be named the Most Improved Team Captain, only Rico Hill had earned a place on an All-MVC Team (Hill earned First Team honors that season). Reeves is the 16th Redbird in program history to earn a place on the Most Improved Team, with the most recent being Deontae Hawkins in 2016-17.
Reeves scored 627 points in the team's 31 games this season, the seventh-highest single-season point total in program history. His 74 three-pointers made this season is the sixth-most by a junior in program history and his team-high 105 made free throws is just outside of the top-10 for a junior in program history.
This season he has scored in double-figures in 29 of the team's 31 games, including 17 games of 20 or more points, tied for the seventh-most in the country this season and sixth-most in program history. His scoring average is 18th-best in NCAA Division I this season.
Earlier this season Reeves became the 46th member of Illinois State's 1,000-point club, and he currently stands tied for 33rd in program history with 1,160 points over his three seasons.
Reeves is joined on the most improved team by Sheldon Edwards (Valparaiso), Rienk Mast (Bradley), Cooper Neese (Indiana State), and Garrett Sturtz (Drake).
The Redbirds open play in the MVC Tournament on Thursday, March 3 at 6 p.m., when the squad faces off against the Indiana State Sycamores for the second time in six days.
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