March 4, 2015
MVC Release | Williams Bio & Stats | ArchMadness.com
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Missouri State University junior Dorrian Williams (G, Oklahoma City, Okla.) was named to the Missouri Valley Conference's Most-Improved men's basketball team, the league announced Wednesday.
Williams is joined on the team, as voted on by a panel of conference beat writers, by Indiana State's Devonte Brown, Drake's Jacob Enewold, UNI's Marvin Singleton and the Wichita State tandem of Evan Wessel and Darius Carter.
Williams has started all 28 games in which he appeared this season for the Bears, averaging 7.2 points and 4.2 rebounds with 124 assists and 42 steals. He is among the Valley's leaders in assists (2nd), assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd), steals (4th) and minutes played (8th).
He has doubled his season steals total from last season and turned into one of the league's top point guards, dishing out 4.4 assists per game with a nationally-ranked assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.78. Williams has also upped his scoring average from 5.6 points last year to 7.2 this winter, while improving his field goal accuracy from .333 to .381 with 24 more field goals in 2014-15.
Williams enters this week's MVC Tournament in St. Louis needing just 8 more assists to reach 300 for his career, a milestone achieved by just 15 Bears in program history. Missouri State will take on Southern Illinois on Thursday at 6 p.m., in the opening round of Arch Madness at Scottrade Center.
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