{"id":46871,"date":"2013-03-13T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=46871"},"modified":"2013-03-13T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:20:05","slug":"basketball-sykes-named-to-c-usa-all-defensive-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/basketball-sykes-named-to-c-usa-all-defensive-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: Sykes Named to C-USA All-Defensive Team"},"content":{"rendered":"
A day after receiving all-league first team honors, UCF men’s basketball standout Isaiah Sykes was selected to the Conference USA All-Defensive Team Tuesday. The junior was one of five conference players to earn a spot on the squad.<\/p>\n
Sykes, who helped UCF record its third-straight 20-win campaign, has developed into one of the top perimeter defenders in the country. He averaged 2.3 steals per game in both league play and overall games to pace C-USA and rank 19th in the nation in the category.<\/p>\n
A Detroit native, Sykes registered 72 steals, good for seventh on the UCF single-season list. The guard helped the Knights limit opponents to only 30.5 percent shooting from deep in conference play, the lowest mark in C-USA.<\/p>\n
Sykes is the third UCF player to garner C-USA All-Defensive Team honors, joining Keith Clanton (2011-12) and Dave Noel (2007-08).<\/p>\n
2012-13 CONFERENCE USA ALL-DEFENSIVE TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n Junior led C-USA in steals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":46873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[423,2362,3346,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-46871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-isaiah-sykes","tag-ncaa","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n