NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk State's Jeff Short, North Carolina Central's Jordan Parks and Maryland Eastern Shore's Mike Myers wwere added to the Lou Henson Award mid-season watch list this week by CollegeInsider.com. The award is presented annually to the top mid-major player in Division I basketball.

Short, a native of the Bronx, N.Y., ranks first in the MEAC and 16th in the country in scoring at 20.1 points per game. A year after sitting out as a transfer from Fordham, Short also ranks first in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (42.5) and in the top five in 3-point field goals made, free throw percentage, field goal percentage and minutes.

On the year, Short is averaging 20.1 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.0 steals while shooting 51.5 percent overall, 42.5 percent from 3-point range and 84.1 percent from the foul line.

A native of Queens, New York, Parks leads the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and ranks fourth in the nation in field-goal percentage (64.1 percent), while ranking seventh in the league in scoring at 14.6 points per game and eighth rebounding at 7.1 boards per game.

In the conclusion of last season, NCCU’s Jeremy Ingram was selected as to the 2014 Lou Henson All-American Team.

The Lou Henson Award is named in honor of Henson, who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State, and he is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four.

The finalists of the 2015 Lou Henson Award will be announced in March, and the winner will be named on April 3 in Indianapolis, the site of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship.

For the complete list, visit http://www.louhensonaward.com/