Meet The Gamecocks
23 ADAMS DARIAN
GUARD 6-3 200 GRADUATE STUDENT MONTGOMERY, ALA. CARVER HIGH SCHOOL TROY UNIVERSITY
JSU CAREER 2020-21: Started all 27 games for JSU in his first season...earned First-Team All-Ohio Valley Conference after recorded 424 points, 125 rebounds, and 26 steals for the year...averaged a team-high 15.7 points per game while shooting 42 percent from the field...led the Gamecocks in scoring with 18 point on Nov. 27 vs. Florida Atlantic...improved his career-high to 21 points against Carver College on Dec. 27, and later tied versus Tennessee State on Jan. 14...became the first Gamecock with 10 assists in a single game since Malcolm Drumwright on Jan. 10, 2017...picked up his first double-double of the season and second of his career with 18 points and 10 assists against Belmont on Jan. 16, finishing one rebound shy of a triple-double... scored a career-high 30 points vs. Murray State on Feb. 25.
PRIOR TO JSU Troy University - Four Seasons 2019-20: Played in 25 games and started 21 as a junior... averaged 12.1 points per game,
scoring a career-high 303 points in his third season on the court for the Trojans... twice scored a single game career-high 20 points as a junior... he tallied his first 20-point game at Texas A&M on eight baskets and four 3-pointers... his last 20-point game was Jan. 11, 2020 at Arkansas State... dished out a career-high eight assists at Chattanooga on Dec. 15, 2019... hit a career-best five 3-pointers at Texas State... finished the season first in free-throw percentage at .828 (48-for-58) and second in field goals (99), 3-point field goals (57), free throws (48), total points (303), rebounds (111) and assists (82)... did not play the final four games of the season.
2018-19: Started all 30 games… averaged 7.9 points and 3.0 rebounds per game… tied with Javan Johnson for the most minutes played this season in 890… led the team in assists per game (3.3), good for 11th in the Sun Belt, and total assists (98)… led the team in free-throw percentage (84.2)… grabbed the second most steals on the team (26)… finished
third in the Sun Belt in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9)… scored in double figures in 12 games, including a career-high 17 points against South Alabama (Feb. 2)… recorded at least four assists in 10 games, including dropping a careerhigh eight dimes twice (Jan. 5 and Jan. 24)… made a career-high seven field goals against South Alabama (Feb. 2)… dropped 13 points with eight assists and a career-high two blocks against App State (Jan. 5).
2017-18: Played in 32 games... averaged 2.9 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game... scored a season-high 10 points against UT-Arlington on 3-of-4 from the field with two threes... grabbed a season-high 13 rebounds against Brewton-Parker... racked up a seasonhigh five assists against North Dakota... played 34 minutes against Hawai’i and tallied five points, two boards, an assist and a steal. 2016-17: Redshirted his freshman season.
HIGH SCHOOL Played at Saint Jude Educational Institute and George Washington Carver High School... part of two state title winning teams at Saint Jude sophomore year and Carver junior year... George Washington Carver was a combined 57-9 the two seasons Adams was on the team... named all-metro twice and all-state twice... averaged 14 points per game his junior season and 17 points per game senior year.
PERSONAL Born March 11, 1998, in Mesa, Ariz ... son of Yolanda and Clark Adams ... has one brother, Desmond Deramus, who plays for AUM... earned his degree in human services from Troy University.
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