Tate, Dixon-Tatum Earn GCAA Honors

The Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association released its All-Region men’s basketball teams, and two Golden Eagles players received recognition for outstanding play during the regular season. Asauhn Dixon-Tatum, CTC’s 6-foot-11 sophomore center, earned second-team All-GCAA honors, as well as Defensive Player of the Year honors, and freshman point guard Sean Tate was an honorable mention all-region selection. 

Dixon-Tatum, from Highland, Ind., leads NJCAA Division I with 5.4 blocks per game, 152 total this season, and is fifth in the country in rebounding with 11.8 per game. He is also averaging 10.9 points per contest. Tate, a 5-8 guard from Sequoyah High School in Canton, Ga., is the conference leader in assists per game with 6.6, third in 3-point percentage at 41 percent, third in free-throw percentage at 83 percent, and 13th in the GCAA in scoring with 13.6 points per game. 

Each player earned GCAA Player of the Week recognition this season, with Tate getting the honors for Week 4 of the regular season and Dixon-Tatum winning for Week 7. 

The Golden Eagles finished the regular season as the No. 5 seed for the eight-team GCAA tournament beginning this week. CTC will travel to play No. 4 seed Albany Tech on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. CTC is currently 19-11 overall. 

The full list of all-conference honorees is below:

1st team

James Johnson – Georgia Perimeter (Player of the Year)

Jarvis Williams – Gordon College

Jamorris Gaines – Albany Tech

Shane Heyward – Middle Georgia

Lamar Richardson – East Georgia

2nd Team

Asauhn Dixon-Tatum – Chattahoochee Tech

Khiry White – South Georgia Tech

Darius Tookes – Waycross College

Ryan Fleming – Gordon College

Darius Minor – Atlanta Metro

Honorable Mention

Muhammed Abdul-Aleem – Georgia Perimeter

Kentavius Clowers – South Georgia Tech

Sean Tate – Chattahoochee Tech

Shareif Adamu – Georgia Perimeter

Charles Shedrick – Atlanta Metro

Coach of the Year – Alfred Barney – Georgia Perimeter

Defensive Player of the Year – Asauhn Dixon-Tatum – Chattahoochee Tech

Freshman of the Year – Jarvis Williams – Gordon College