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Hawkins and Harris are heading to Indianapolis

March 26, 2015

INDIANAPOLIS - Senior guards Corey Hawkins and Kelsey Harris have been selected to participate in the State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships. The two will compete in a nationally televised event, during Final Four weekend, against some of the best shooters in college basketball.

Sean Farnham will call this year's event live from Hinkle Fieldhouse, located on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, on Thursday, April 2, starting at 4 p.m. (PT).

The Marines Men's 3-Point Championship, Women's 3-Point Championship, Fitbit Battle of the Champions (men's winner vs. women's winner) and Denny's Slam Dunk Championship will air live on ESPN.

Tickets for the State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championship are available at Ticketmaster.com.

Thursday's announcement marked the second time in the event's 27-year history that two players from the same school will compete in their respective 3-point championship.

Hawkins, men's basketball's first-ever national three-point champion, finished his final season at UC Davis with a .488 percentage from long range. Due to his shooting prowess from behind the arc, the Goodyear, Ariz., native also posted the seventh-highest scoring average in the country (20.9 ppg) and collected his second Big West scoring title in the last three years.

Also ranked No. 26 in the nation averaging 2.86 three-point field goals per game, Hawkins led all Big West players with his shooting stats from the start of the 2014-15 season, until the Aggies' final game against Stanford in the National Invitation Tournament - his team's inaugural Div. I postseason game.

Since his 40-point outburst at Hawai'i in 2012 - Hawkins set a single-game school record on 10 of 14 shooting that evening, and tied a school record with eight threes that evening - the No. 2 scorer in program history has become one of the most prolific shooters from three in the Big West Conference, and the nation.

In addition to posting top school and league single season and career three-point marks - this year's Big West Player of the Year shot .413 from three throughout his three-year career at UC Davis after transferring from Arizona State in 2011 - Hawkins is the primary reason why the Aggies captured a national team three-point title for the first time in school history. Men's basketball also set the highest team shooting percentage from three since the arc was pushed back to its current distance in 2008.

Harris, ranked among the top five nationally in three-point percentage since the start of Big West play, led the country from behind the arc for three consecutive weeks in January, and ended her season ranked No. 3 in the nation.

The first Aggie to lead the league in three-point percentage since UC Davis joined the conference in 2007-08, Harris set Big West and UC Davis career records by shooting .435 (172-for-395) from beyond the arc in her two seasons, while tying her own school single-season record with 86 three-pointers in 2014-15.

She added a school single-season record by shooting .483 from long distance this season - a mark that also ranks third on the league's single-season list - shattering the previous record held by Lori Hurlbut, who shot .430 for the Aggies in 1998.

Adding to her record-setting season, Harris exploded for two more marks, setting a school single-game, and tying a Big West Tournament single-game, record against Long Beach State in the quarterfinals, hitting 8-of-10 from beyond the arc en route to a career-high 26 points and a 70-67 victory over the 49ers.

Visit CollegeSlam.com, Facebook.com/CollegeSlam or follow the handle @CollegeSLAM on Twitter for up-to-the-minute information on this year's State Farm College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships.

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Players Mentioned

Corey Hawkins

#3 Corey Hawkins

6' 3"
Sophomore
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Kelsey Harris

#33 Kelsey Harris

5' 10"
Junior
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