ST. LOUIS -- Corey Frazier, a Charleston High graduate, has won the Sixth Man Award for St. Louis University's basketball team.

Frazier, a 6-foot-1 senior guard, has averaged 5.4 points per game off the bench this season for the Billikens. The former all-stater at Charleston rejoined the team in mid-January after sitting out the first part of the season due to academic ineligibility.

"I'm as proud of `Fraz' as any player I've ever been associated with at this program," said SLU coach Charlie Spoonhour. "When things have been hard for him, he persevered. He's given our team a huge lift in the second half of the season."

SLU will play Massachusetts at 1:45 p.m. Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Atlanta, Ga.