Miners' Taylor named to Division II Bulletin's all-freshman team

Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor, the freshman point guard for the University of Missouri-Rolla men's basketball team, has been selected to Division II Bulletin's all-freshman team for the 2006-07 season.

Taylor, who hails from Webster Groves, Mo., averaged 9.4 points and a team-high 3.1 assists while starting all but one game at the point guard position for the Miners this year. He had the Miners' top scoring game of the season with a 27-point effort at Kentucky Wesleyan and owned a 1.1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio during the 2006-07 season.

He was one of 10 freshmen nationwide -- and the only one from a Great Lakes Valley Conference school -- selected to the squad by the national publication for basketball at the NCAA Division II level. Taylor was selected as the GLVC's "Freshman of the Year" following the season.