2010-11 (M) Basketball Roster

0 Donald Sims

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Gaffney, S.C.
  • High School Fork Union Military Academy

Biography

As a Senior (2010-11)
• First team all-Southern Conference member.
• First team all-District 22 (National Association of Basketball Coaches).
• Two-time SoCon Player of the Week and two-time Player of the Month (November and February).
• Became the fourth ASU player to score 500-points in back-to-back seasons.
• Became ASU’s all-time leading scorer and passed 1,800 career points with 24 against Milligan, along with a career-high 9 rebounds and seven assists.
• Scored his 2,000th career point at Elon.
• Finished his career with six career program records to his name, including: points (2,185), three-pointers (358), free throw percentage (89.2), free throws (545), three-point attempts (883) and field goal attempts (1,477).
• Also ranks in ASU's top-10 in six other career stats.
• Became just the third player in program history to record two 40-point games with 40 at Mississippi State. Added five assists and sank seven three-pointers.
• Tallied 30 points on 9-of-15 shooting against Western Carolina with 8-of-10 foul shots and three assists.
• Posted his third 30-point game of the season with 32 points, five boards and six assists against Charleston.
• Tallied 28 points and seven boards at Samford. 
• Tallied 27 points on 9-of-19 shooting with four three-pointers at Vanderbilt. Added two assists and two steals.
• Totaled 25 points with five treys against UNCG.
• Scored 24 points with eight assists against Colorado St.
• Reached 23 points with six rebounds and five assists in the overtime win at UNCG.
• Totaled 21 points, six boards and four assists in just 23 minutes against Montreat.
• Sank 4-of-8 shots and all eight free throw attempts for 18 points, seven assists and four boards at Tulsa.

As a Junior (2009-10)
• SoCon Malcolm U. Pitt Player of the Year
• First team all-SoCon.
• SoCon Tournament first team.
• All-CollegeInsider.com Tournament team member.
• NABC all-district honoree and NCSSIA all-state first team member.
• CollegeInsider.com SoCon Most Valuable Player.
• Southern Conference Player of the Month (Feb.).
• Set school’s single-season records for points (754), three-pointers (123) and free-throw percentage (95.1).
• Led the nation in three-pointers and free-throw percentage and ranked 24th in scoring (20.4 ppg).
• Finished the season ranked 10th nationally with a 42.7 three-point field goal percentage.
• Became the ninth ASU player to score 1,500 career points with 30 at Marshall.
• Only Mountaineer to ever win SoCon Player of the Week three times in a season.
• All five field goals came from downtown as he scored 25 points against Tennessee Tech (Feb. 20).
• Scored 30 points (11-14 FG) against GSU (Feb. 13).
• Scored 25 points on 9-of-14 shooting against Davidson on Feb. 11. Sank both three-point attempts and all five FTs.
• Notched 28 points on 9-of-11 shooting against WCU on Jan. 23.
• Scored a career-high 44 points on 13-of-19 shooting at Davidson to complement his 13-of-13 free throws (Jan. 9).
• Scored 16 points to reach 1,000 for his career and added a season-best seven assists at Campbell.
• Scored 23 points on 7-of-10 shooting with seven three-pointers against Milligan (Dec. 17).
• Scored 25 points on 7-of-9 shooting at Wofford (Dec. 7).

As a Sophomore (2008-09)
• Led the team with 29 points against Davidson at the SoCon Tournament, with 12 free throws and five treys.
• Sank nine treys, including two in the final minute, en route to 35 points against Chattanooga (Feb. 26).
• Came off the bench for 13 points and two assists — including the game-winning dish — at UNCG.
• Set a then-career high with 29 points with six three-pointers at Georgia Southern. Also had a season-best four rebounds in the game.
• Led the Apps with 20 points on 5-of-13 shooting with four treys and three assists against Furman (Jan. 31).
• Reached double-figure points for the fifth game in a row with 19 points against Wofford (Jan. 29).
• Led the Apps with 15 points on 4-of-12 shooting at Charleston in 37 minutes on the floor.
• Made his third start of the season and led the Apps with 14 points at Samford.
• Set a season high with six assists at Chattanooga.
• Rimmed in a buzzer-beating three-pointer to send the Jan. 10 UNCG game to overtime.
• Knocked down all five first-half shots against Milligan for a team-best 17 points.
• Scored a team-high 18 points (15 in the second half) with a career-high nine free throws to lead ASU to the win at Wofford.
• Led ASU with 20 points at Niagara.
• Had a team-high 24 points at UNCW.

As a Freshman (2007-08)
• Named to the SoCon media and coaches’ all-freshman team.
• Scored more points than any ASU freshman since 1976-77 (Walter Anderson, 382) with 355.
• Set the ASU freshman three-pointer record (67).
• Averaged 11.5 points and shot .435 from three-point range, sixth in the league.
• Named the SoCon Player of the Week on Jan. 20.
• Had ASU’s top scoring performance of the season with 28 points in the win over Chattanooga.
• Moved into ASU’s starting lineup on Dec. 30.
• Led ASU to its win at Arkansas with 24 points on 7-of-9 shooting, including 4-of-5 from behind the arc. Drained a deep three-pointer with 1:19 left to kill a Razorback rally and hit two free throws with 20 seconds left to seal the win.
• ASU’s top free throw shooter, he made 28-straight free throws from Nov. 21 to Jan. 5 and finished the season shooting .879 from the line.
• Despite being silent for much of the win at Wofford, he grabbed a critical loose ball in the final 15 seconds, was fouled, made both free throws and on the ensuing possession grabbed a defensive board to preserve the 52-49 in front of friends and family in the Upstate.
• Led ASU in January with 14.6 ppg and 3.7 assists.
• In his first start at East Tennessee State, he scored 13 points with six rebounds and nine assists.
• Scored 20 points in his second collegiate game against Lipscomb on 6-of-8 shooting and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line.
• Also had 23 points with six three-pointers in the Jan. 26 loss at Chattanooga.

Fork Union
• Averaged 22.8 points and six assists per game to lead head coach Fletcher Arritt’s squad to a 22-8 record in his second season with the Blue Devils.
• Played with current Mountaineer Jeremi Booth.

Gaffney H.S.
• Led his squad to three-consecutive South Carolina AAAA titles, the only team in South Carolina history to accomplish that feat.
• Amassed an 81-3 record in his three seasons.
• Averaged 21 points per game and was named first team AAAA all-state.
• Named the Spartanburg Herald-Journal Player of the Year and was a participant in the North Carolina/South Carolina All-Star Game.
• Was a teammate of Minnesota Viking Sidney Rice.

Personal
• Majoring in health promotion.
• Full name is Donald Erick Sims.
• Born April 25, 1987.
• Son of Robbin Sims.

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Historical Player Information

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    2008-09Sophomore

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    2009-10Junior

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    2010-11Senior

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    6'1" 170 lbs
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