2016-17 Men's Basketball Roster
Roster
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Kendall Smith
- Position:
- Guard
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Antioch, CA
- High School:
- Deer Valley HS
2016-17 All-Big West Conference Second Team
2015-16 All-Big West Honorable Mention
2016-17 Season (Redshirt Junior)
Competed in all 30 games and averaged a team-high 16.7 points and 4.8 assists to go along with 4.0 rebounds and 1.3 steals ... Shot 44.8 percent from the floor, 37.5 percent from behind the 3-point arc and 76.2 percent from the free throw line ... Averaged 17.6 points in conference play... Earned All-Big West Second Team honors ... Finished tops in the Big West in assists per game ... Also finished second in the conference in points, fifth in steals and eighth in 3-point percentage ... Led the team in scoring 15 times ... Posted career highs in a host of categories including points, rebounds, assists, steals, field goal percentage, 3-point percentage and free throw percentage ... Collected the fifth-most assists in a season in team history with 143 ... Scored 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting and swiped a career-high five steals at No. 16 UCLA ... Shot 11-of-12 at the free throw line and scored 15 points along with eight assists vs. Northern Illinois (11/19/16) ... Finished with 16 points and seven assists vs. Loyola Marymount (12/10/16) ... Played a full 40 minutes and scored 21 points along with a career-high nine assists vs. UC Riverside (1/4/17) ... Notched a season-high 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting at Long Beach State (1/11/17) ... Finished with 21 points vs. UC Davis (1/14/17) ... Collected 23 points, seven assists and six rebounds vs. Long Beach State (2/1/17) ... Had 24 points, four assists and three steals vs. Cal State Fullerton (3/5/17) ... Tallied 21 points and seven assists vs. Cal State Fullerton at the Big West Tournament (3/9/17).
2015-16 Season (Redshirt Sophomore)
After sitting out due to NCAA transfer rules, played his first game for the Matadors on 12/17/15 at Portland State...Was the only game he did not start...Averaged 15.3 points and 3.0 assists in his first season with CSUN...Earned Big West Conference Honorable Mention following the 2015-16 season...Named Big West Conference Player of the Week on 12/21/15 after his first week with the team...Posted a 16-point effort against UC Davis on Senior Night (3/5/16)...Recorded 15 points and six rebounds at Hawai’i (2/27/16)...Finished with 21 points and five rebounds at UC Irvine (2/13/16)...Grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and scored a team-high 18 points versus Cal State Fullerton (2/10/16)...Scored 20 points on 6-for-9 shooting against UCSB (1/23/16)...Recorded a career-high seven assists vs. Cal Poly (1/21/16)...Tallied a career-high 30 points at Cal State Fullerton (1/9/16)...Converted on 15 free throws against Fullerton, which is third most in a game all-time in school history...Scored a team-high 27 points on 10-for-17 shooting vs. Long Beach State (1/6/16)...Presented with an Academic Excellence Award at the team's banquet.
2014-15 Season (Sophomore, UNLV)
Played in UNLV's first two games, scoring 14 points, before leaving the team. Granted a redshirt for the season.
2013-14 Season (Freshman, UNLV)
Was named the Mountain West Preseason Freshman of the Year ... Earned Academic All-MW honors as a true freshman ... Played in 31 games and made 13 starts (all out of the first 16 games of the season) ... Averaged just over 14 minutes played per game ... Averaged 3.8 points and 1.5 assists per game ... Shot 40.7 percent from the field and 35.0 percent from 3-point range ... Scored in double figures on four occasions, including three of his first four games ... Scored a career-high 13 points vs. UC Santa Barbara and against Arizona State ... Made two 3-pointers against Portland State and at Air Force ... Had a career-high five rebounds against UT Martin and Radford and five assists vs. Radford ... Played in a career-high 31 minutes vs. Nevada, Reno.
High School
A 2013 graduate of Deer Valley High School in Antioch, CA ... Ranked as a Top-100 recruit by ESPN.com ... Averaged 27.5 points, 6.7 assists, 5.4 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game, while shooting 46 percent from the field as a senior ... Played in 27 games as a senior and recorded 25 or more points on 12 occasions with a season-high of 52 ... Helped the Wolverines to a league and sectional championship ... Earned first team all-league honors as a senior ... Also played for the Oakland Soldiers (AAU).
Matador Memo
Kendall Clay Smith was born Sept. 18, 1995, in San Francisco, CA ... Son of Kirkland and Qwivander Smith ... Has a sister and three brothers: Erika (26), Quincy (21), Kameron (17) and Kaleb (15)...Quincy was a senior on Hawai'i's men's basketball team during Kendall's junior year...Is a communications major.
