Three members of the 2009-10 Emory University men's basketball squad have been selected to the All-University Athletic Association Team.  The all-league honorees were chosen by the conference coaches.

Sophomore Austin Claunch (Cypress, TX) headlines the trio with a first-team selection while seniors Daniel Curtin (Great Barrington, MA) and Chad Hixon (Snellville, GA) gained honorable-mention berths. 

The 5-foot-9 Claunch enjoyed an excellent all-around season, ranking among the top 10 UAA performers in seven statistical categories.  Claunch averaged a team-high 12.6 points per game, good for ninth place on the UAA ladder, and ended the year scoring in double figures on 19 occasions while finishing as the team's top scorer in six contests.  He held down second place in the conference with a 6.0 per-game average in assists and his season total of 151 established a school record.  Emory's floor general tied a school game record when he doled out 11 assists against Oglethorpe in the season opener on November 19 in helping the Eagles to an 85-81 overtime win. Claunch topped all league players with a 90.4 percent mark from the foul, hitting 75-of-83 from the stripe, and established a school record with 38 consecutive makes at one point during the season.  Starting with the second half of the Hanover game (Dec. 19), Claunch closed out the year hitting an astounding 58 of his last 59 foul shots.  He also led the squad with 50 steals, second among UAA performers, and he registered 19 outings of multiple thefts.  The conference leader in minutes played (36.0 mpg),  he was runner-up in the league in the always important assist/turnover ratio category (2.4) and was sixth in three-point shooting (40.2%).

Curtin, a starter in all 25 games, finished second on the team's score sheet with a 10.6 points-per-game-average that tied for 19^th place among UAA cagers.  A double-figure scorer in 11 games, he was the Eagles' top scorer in five affairs and recorded two of the team's top four scoring marks of the year, 24 points against Carnegie Mellon (Jan. 8) and 22 points vs. Greensboro College (Dec. 17).  The 6-foot sharpshooter further enhanced his reputation as one of the UAA's premier long-range shooters, knocking down a team-high 39 three-point field goals while his 43.8 percent effort (39-of-89) from beyond the arc in overall play placed him second on the UAA list.  Career-wise, he drained 122 three-point field goals and is eighth on the school's all-time chart, and his 37.0 percent success from distance is ninth all-time at the school.

Hixon, a two-year member of the program following a stint at Oxford at Emory, captured his second straight honorable-mention nod after starting 23 of the 24 games and ranking third on the team in scoring (8.5 ppg) and first in rebounding (6.3 rpg), good for seventh place among UAA players.  The 6-foot-3 forward led the club in rebounding in 13 games and turned in three contests of 10 or more boards.  His career-high 13 caroms against Hanover represented the high-water mark by an Emory player this year and he concluded the campaign by picking off seven or more rebounds in nine games.  He contributed 10 double-figure scoring games and tied for second on the team with 25 steals.  Career-wise, Hixon finished 21^st on the school's all-time list with 306 rebounds.

Finally, head coach Jason Zimmerman, along with assistant coaches Chris Murphy and Ben Wright, were tabbed as the co-recipients of the league's Coaching Staff of the Year.  It is first time since the 1989-90 season that an Emory coaching staff had been recognized for the honor.

Emory finished the year with an overall record of 15-10 including a 7-7 slate in the UAA, good for a third-place tie.  The team's overall win total was the highest since the 2004-05 campaign while its victory mark in the conference was the best since 2000-01.