Bryant Dunston Playing with Armenia National Team

Bronx, N.Y. – Former Fordham men's basketball standout Bryant Dunston is currently competing as a member of the Armenian National Team at the 2016 European Championship for Small Countries being played in Moldova.
 
Dunston, who played last season with Anadolu Efes in Turkey where he tallied 9.9 points, 6.0 rebounds per game in Turkish League and 7.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in the EuroLeague, is leading Armenia in rebounding (6.7 rpg) and is tied for second on the team in assists (2.3 apg). He recorded a double-double with eleven points and 13 rebounds in a game with Andorra on Wednesday, adding four assists and four blocks.
 
Armenia finished 2-1 in group play and will find out its semifinal opponent on Friday. Semifinals are slated for Saturday.
 
In 2015, Dunston was named the Best Defender Trophy winner by Turkish Airlines EuroLeague head coaches, his second consecutive Best Defender Award. He was just the second player to be voted the competition's best defender more than once, joining six-time winner Dimitris Diamantidis.
 
Dunston burst onto the Fordham scene as a rookie in 2004-2005, being named the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year that season, one of three Rams to earn that honor, as well the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Rookie of the Year. He accumulated 431 points that season, the second most by a Fordham freshman at the time, leading the Rams in both scoring and rebounding.
 
After leading the NIT All-Star team to a perfect 7-0 record on a tour of England and Ireland the summer following his freshman season, Dunston earned First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors as a sophomore. He led the Rams to their best ever finish in the Atlantic 10 conference, placing sixth in the regular season and then advancing to the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Championship for the first time where he earned All-Championship Team honors. Dunston finished the year averaging a team-high 16.1 ppg, fifth best in the conference, while also averaging a team-high 7.6 rpg, fourth best in the A-10.
 
As a junior in 2006-2007, Dunston was named Second Team All-Atlantic 10 and Second Team All-District for the second straight year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). He averaged 14.5 ppg along with a team-best 7.2 rpg.
 
Dunston, who was who was inducted into the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014, capped his career in 2007-2008 by earning second team All-Atlantic 10 accolades for the second straight year, as well as being named to the Atlantic 10 All-Defensive team and United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) All-District II. He also was co-recipient of the 2008 Vincent T. Lombardi Memorial Award as the school's top male athlete. He led the team in scoring (15.5 ppg) and rebounding, averaging an Atlantic 10 best 9.8 rpg. He also led the Atlantic 10 with 15 doubles-doubles.
 
Over his four-year career, Dunston appeared in 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 following his graduation. Dunston is also Fordham's career blocked shots leader with 294 rejections.
 
Dunston was inducted into the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.