April 4, 2008
Bronx, N.Y. -
Fordham University senior forward Bryant Dunston (Queens, N.Y./St. John's Prep) has been selected as one of 64 senior college basketball student-athletes to participate in the 2008 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (P.I.T.) to be held from April 9-12 in Portsmouth, Virginia.
The Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (P.I.T.) is the nation's oldest amateur basketball tournament. It is recognized by NBA and European scouts as the premier showcase for future professional players. The P.I.T. is the only tournament for college seniors to participate in and be evaluated by the National Basketball Association prior to the NBA's pre-draft camp in Orlando.
On the season, Dunston led the Rams in scoring, averaging 15.5 ppg, and rebounding, averaging an Atlantic 10 best 9.8 rpg. He also led the 2007-08 squad in blocks with 79 and was second in field goal percentage (.252) while recording 57 assists and 29 steals. Besides rebounding, Dunston ranks among the Atlantic 10 leaders in scoring (11th), field goal percentage (second) and blocks (second).
Dunston, who was also named to the 2008 Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team, recorded an Atlantic 10-best 15 doubles-doubles this year, including eight in the last ten games, to bring his career double-double total to 40.
Over his four-year career, Dunston appeared in all 120 career games, starting 118, amassing 1,832 career points, good for second place on the Fordham all-time scoring list. He also pulled down 993 career rebounds, good for third all-time at Rose Hill, and this winter he became Fordham's career blocked shots leader, graduating with 294 career rejections.
Dunston, the 2005 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the year, received All-Atlantic 10 accolades all four years at Fordham, earning First Team honors as a sophomore in 2005-06 and Second Team honors in 2004-05 and in 2006-07.
Dunston is one of nine student-athletes from the Atlantic 10 Conference who will participate in the 56th annual P.I.T. He joins Xavier teammates Stanley Burrell, Josh Duncan and Drew Lavender will be joined by Parfait Bitee of Rhode Island; Saint Joseph's Pat Calathes; Massachusetts' Gary Forbes; Brian Roberts of Dayton; and Temple's Mark Tyndale.
Over 50 student-athletes who participated in the P.I.T. have gone on to either play and/or coach in the NBA, including former A-10 standouts Cuttino Mobley (Rhode Island) and Rasual Butler (La Salle).
