High Point junior forward Danny Gathings has been named to the 2004 Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America team.

Gathings, from Winston-Salem, N.C., was the Big South's Player of the Year in 2004 as well as the MVP of the 2004 Big South Tournament. He is the first High Point player to earn All-America status at the NCAA Division I level.

Gathings led the Big South with 12 double-doubles, which ranked 16th nationally this season. He ranked among Big South leaders in scoring (15.8 ppg, 4th), rebounding (8.0 rpg, 2nd), field-goal percentage (.531, 3rd) steals (1.60 spg, 11th), and free throw percentage (.686, 11th).

Gathings will enter his senior season with 922 points scored in two seasons at HPU (and 1,061 total, which includes his freshman year at Virginia Tech).

"This is a great honor for me," Gathings said. "I'm proud and excited to receive this award, but it wouldn’t have been possible without the support and hard work of my coaches and teammates. We had a great season, and I can’t wait for next year."

In their first season under head coach Bart Lundy, the Panthers went 19-11 and were the nation’s third-most improved team during the regular season. HPU advanced to the finals of the Big South Tournament for the second time in three years.

Other standouts to earn honorable mention All-America honors included Kentucky's Gerald Fitch, Duke's Luol Deng and J.J. Redick, Oklahoma State's Tony Allen, Vanderbilt 's Matt Freije, and Pittsburgh's Carl Krauser.

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