Arkansas Pine Bluff Basketball: In-depth look at senior guard Martaveous McKnight

Although not as well known, SWAC Basketball has some good talent. The best may be Martaveous McKnight, a lethal scorer for Arkansas Pine Bluff.

In the college basketball landscape, there are a few conferences who often appear to be overmatched against the bigger schools, with the SWAC being one of them. It consists entirely of historically black colleges usually struggles to make ends meet. The teams in the conference have a smaller athletic budget than virtually every other major conference and most mid-major conferences. The players in the SWAC conference do fight an uphill battle to get respect in the college basketball landscape. Despite all that the conference does have some great players who don’t get noticed as much as they should.

Arkansas Pine Bluff had a decent season in the SWAC conference last year. Even though they were eliminated in the conference tournament, the Golden Lions are still able to claim they own the current player of the year in the conference. Martaveous McKnight is the best player in the SWAC conference, and virtually no one has heard of him.

The senior guard had a fantastic season for the Golden Lions a season ago. He led the Lions in scoring as well as leading them in a multitude of other categories. The Golden Lions hope that McKnight can continue his stellar play to help lead the Lions to the top of the conference and an appearance in the NCAA tournament. Head coach George Ivory is going to make sure the senior guard has the ball virtually every time down the floor. When McKnight has the ball good things always seem to happen for the Lions. The Lions need the guard to perform at a high level if they want to win games this year.