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Feb. 24, 2000
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Colin Ducharme of the University of Virginia hasbeen selected to the 2000 GTE Academic All-District III Men’s BasketballTeam. Other members of the team include Shane Battier of Duke, MattGladieux of Coastal Carolina, Nathan Jameson of UNC-Greensboro andJosephLumpkin of the College of Charleston.
District III is comprised of all Division I schools inFlorida,Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. To be eligibleforAcademic All-District recognition, a student-athlete must have acumulativegrade point average of 3.2 or higher. These players are now eligibleforthe national GTE Academic All-America Men’s Basketball Team, which willbeannounced March 14th.
Ducharme, a 6-9 center/forward from Richmond, Va., is a physicsmajor. A red-shirt junior, he has played in 25 games for the Cavaliersthis season, starting two. He is averaging 1.8 points and 1.7 reboundsagame, while shooting 44.4 percent (16-36) from the field and 72.2percent(13-18) from the free throw line. Ducharme is third on the team inblockedshots with 11 and ranks in a tie for sixth on Virginia’s career blockedshots list with 86.
Virginia currently has an overall record of 18-8 and an 8-5recordin the Atlantic Coast Conference.