IRVING, Texas – The UTSA men’s basketball team has garnered its first all-conference selection since joining the American Athletic Conference, as league officials announced on Tuesday that Primo Spears has been named to the All-AAC Second Team.
A senior guard from Hartford, Connecticut, Spears led the Roadrunners in scoring and was among the premier scorers in both The American and the NCAA throughout the season. Currently ranked 23rd in the nation and second in the conference at 19.8 points per game, Spears spent 14 weeks in the national top 10 and reached as high as the No. 3 scorer in the nation.
Shooting 39.8 percent from the field and 36.3 percent beyond the arc, Spears has also been one of the elite free throw shooters in the country, helping UTSA to a continuous top-three national team ranking. He’s currently sitting at third in the AAC with an 85.3-percent average at the charity stripe.
Across his 29 games this season, Spears has logged double-figures in 26 outings and crested 20 points in 14 contests, including a 40-point outburst against Tulsa, along with eight rebounds and five assists. That marks the second-most single-game points by an AAC player and is tied for the 20th-best point total in the NCAA this season
In total, Spears has notched 574 points on the season, but that is not his only contribution to the Roadrunners, as he paces the squad with a team-high (6th/AAC) 4.0 assists per game (116 total) while also securing the second-most steals (49) for an AAC sixth-ranked 1.7 steals per outing. Averaging 36:34 on the floor, Spears leads The American in minutes per game and is 15th nationally.
Coming to UTSA this season from Florida State, Spears has now accumulated 1,720 points on 618 made field goals, 427 assists and 153 steals in 115 career games.
Spears becomes the first all-conference honoree for the Roadrunners since joining The American, and the first all-conference honoree to reach the second team since the 2020-21 season, when Jhivvan Jackson (first) and Keaton Wallace (second) were awarded All-Conference USA accolades.
With the regular season in the books, Spears will look to lead the Roadrunners in the American Athletic Conference Championship. UTSA’s postseason journey begins at 8 p.m. Thursday against East Carolina, with the matchup televised nationally on ESPNU from Dickies Arena in Fort Worth.
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