EAST GREENSBORO – Acting men's basketball coach Will Jones has earned Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Coach of the Year, it was announced by the league office Friday afternoon. Jones led the Aggies to a 12-4 conference record and the No. 2 seed in next week's conference tournament.
 
In addition, the Aggies received two first-team All-MEAC selections in Kameron Langley (6-2, 205, junior point guard, Greensboro, N.C.) and Ronald Jackson (6-8, 205, senior wing player, Clay County, Fla.). It marks the first time since the 1987-88 season that the Aggies have had multiple first-team selections. It also marks the first time the Aggies have had a first-team selection since 2010-11 when Thomas Coleman earned the honor. The Aggies have not had a player of the year since 1988. Fred Cleveland, Jr. (5-10, 155, freshman guard, Chicago, Ill.) was named to the MEAC all-rookie team. 


   
 

 Jones took over the program before the Aggies were scheduled to play at the Fighting Illini of Illinois. Under Jones, the Aggies went 13-5 and led the league in eight statistical categories in conference games only (scoring offense, 3-point field goal percentage defense, rebounding offense, assists, steals, turnover margin, assist-to-turnover ratio, and defensive rebounds). 
 
N.C. A&T averaged 80.6 points in those 16 games, over four more points than second-place Bethune-Cookman (76.5).
 
Jones helped further the Aggies home winning streak against conference opponents to 25 games including wins over two teams that were in first place heading into the game – Norfolk State and N.C. Central.
 
Langley is averaging 9.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game this season. He broke the Aggies all-time assist record as a junior previously and is now just six assists shy of the conference's all-time record of 622 (Larry Yarbray, Coppin State). 
 
The junior also broke the Aggies single-season assist record, one that he set last year (208). Langley finished the regular season leading the country with 232 total assists and third in assists per game. He also recorded two triple-doubles this year, one of only two players in the country to record more than one. 
 
He earned conference player of the week honors twice, the only Aggie to do so.
 
Jackson led the Aggies all year long averaging a team-high 14.7 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. He finishes averaging a double-double, he will be the first Aggie to do so since Bruce Jenkins in 2001-02. Jackson recorded 14 double-doubles, tied for 22^nd in the country. 
 
He is sixth in the conference in scoring and second in rebounding. He earned conference defensive player of the week honors twice. In their first meeting on Feb. 17, he held eventual conference player of the year Jibri Blount (N.C. Central) to just eight points on 3-for-11 shooting while posting a career-high 28 points himself.
 
Jackson recorded double-figure rebounds 17 times over the year including a career-high 18 at Morgan State on Jan. 20.
 
Cleveland, played in 28 games with one start averaging 8.9 points per game as a freshman. He earned conference rookie of the week honors twice and made the Don Haskins Invitational All-Tournament Team after averaging 17.5 points over a two-game stretch including a career-high 21 against Kent State on Dec. 17. 
 
The Aggies will open the 2020 MEAC Basketball Championship Tournament on March 11 at 8 p.m., when they face the winner of the Delaware State/Howard game at the Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va.