Maryland GreenHawks Draft Byron Mouton And Travis Lay
October 30, 2009 - Premier Basketball League (PBL)
Maryland GreenHawks News Release
225lbs guard/forward from the University of Maryland with the third overall pick in Thursday's 2009 PBL Draft.
The Premier Basketball League's annual draft took place at the ESPN Zone in downtown Chicago, with the GreenHawks basketball operations staff led by General Manager Adam Dantus and Head Coach Ryan Krueger on hand representing the team.
"Byron brings a tremendous amount of experience and leadership to our team," Dantus said. "We think that he is a tremendous well rounded player with a high basketball IQ and will fit in very well with our team."
After two successful seasons at Tulane, Byron transferred to the University of Maryland during his junior year and worked his way into the starting line-up where he played alongside Steve Blake, Juan Dixon, Chris Wilcox and Lonny Baxter, helping lead Maryland to the NCAA Final Four.
During his senior year, Byron started 35 of 36 games and averaged 11.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists while helping Maryland to the school's first ever National Championship. That year he was named Honorable Mention All-ACC.
Over his college career, Byron scored a total of 1,473 career points at the NCAA Division I level and was named to the All-Consolation Team at the 2002 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament after averaging 22.0 points and 7.5 rebounds.
The GreenHawks used their second round pick (10th overall) to select Travis Lay, a 6'5" 215lbs forward from American University.
"Like Byron, Travis is another incredibly hard working player who well be a huge asset to our team," said Dantus. "Our goal was to bring in players who are leaders that played at well renown collegiate programs and we feel like we accomplished these objectives with both of our selections."
Travis played four years at American University in Washington DC, leading the Eagles to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history during his senior season.
In 2006-07, Travis played in 29 games shooting 49.3 percent from the field. He tallied a career-high 15 points, adding a then-career-high 10 rebounds for his first career double-double, in a win at Lafayette (1/27) and topped his career-high in rebounds with 13 versus Colgate in the Patriot League Quarterfinals (2/28) while playing a career-high 31 minutes. Travis majored in Political Science and Justice, finishing with a 3.9 grade point average, earning a bid on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before American University, Travis was a four-year standout at Bullis High School where he was named First Team All- County his last two seasons and First Team All-Interstate Athletic Conference as a junior. As a senior, he averaged 17.8 points, 13.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game while shooting 47% from the floor. He led Bullis to the IAC championships in 2002 and 2003.
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