Mr. Basketball

Alexander adds ASWA’s top award to postseason list, gives Oxford a trifecta of top award winners in basketball, football and baseball.

By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today

MONTGOMERY — Joel Van Meter warned everyone who would listen five years ago. Oxford’s long-time coach promised that Jaylen Alexander, then an eighth-grader, would do big things.

Six weeks after leading Oxford to its first Final Four appearance in boys’ basketball and state championship in basketball, Alexander has been voted as the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s Mr. Basketball.

The ASWA announced top award winners for basketball during today’s banquet at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel. Alexander prevailed in a vote of the ASWA’s prep committee. 

Alexander becomes the first Mr. Basketball from a school in Calhoun County.

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