2023-24: Brenegan, the nation's leader in threes, earned his second academic all-district honor after turning in the best three-point shooting season in school history.  He also adds it to second-team All-SAC honors. Nick Brenegan's 3.97 made triples per game are the most in the country.  He buried 108 this season, also first nationally among all divisions by pure volume.  Brenegan is the first C-N player to hit 100 threes in a season, breaking Ish Sanders' 12-year-old single-season record of 99.  Brenegan is the 12th player in South Atlantic Conference history with a 100-three-point season. Brenegan sits in ninth in league history. For the year, Brenegan averaged 17.3 points per game, good for eighth in the conference.  He had 24 double-digit scoring efforts this year, nine games where he has crested 20 and two where he topped 30. Brenegan was named national player of the week on Jan. 9 following a historic performance against Newberry. The junior guard torched Newberry for 64 points, canning 18-of-27 threes.  He singlehandedly outscored Newberry in the Eagles' 103-51 win. The 64 points reset the Carson-Newman and South Atlantic Conference single-game scoring record held by the Eagles' Charles Clark since 2017.  Clark went for 54 against Coker.  It marks just the fifth 60-point night in NCAA Division II since 1975 and the 15th if you include Division I.  Overall, Brenegan's night is the 15th-highest scoring night in Division II history. The bulk of Brenegan's bonkers night came from range.  He broke the NCAA Division I and II records for threes made in a game with 18.  However, he was stupefyingly efficient, going 18-of-27 from deep.  He was 21-of-34 from the field overall and a perfect 4-of-4 at the line. Brenegan had 21 points at the break before surging for a massive 43-points in the second half.  The 43-point second half breaks Clarks' record for points in a half. Clark had 36 in the second half in his record-setting performance against Coker.  Taking Brenegan's second half by itself, he would still have the sixth-highest single-game scoring mark.  He made 12 of his 15 three-point shots in the second half.  The 12 threes would have been the second-most in a single-game in school history. Included in that stretch was a string of 10 consecutive made triples that tied NCAA Division II mark for consecutive threes made in a game. With 21 made field goals, Brenegan also breaks Mike Ogan's 50-year-old record for shots made in a game, set in 1974 with 19 against Lincoln Memorial.  His 34 shots attempted breaks WA Wright's mark of 32 on Jan, 20, 1968 against Georgia Southern. His 21 made baskets are the most in league history, tied with Denzail Jones' (Anderson against Newberry on March 3, 2012) league mark.

HONORS: 

• CSC Academic All-District 
• NABC Honors Court 
• D2ADA Academic Achievement Award 
• SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll 
• Bevo Francis Award Top 100
• All-SAC 2nd Team
• SAC Player of the Week (1/1, 1/8)
• TSWA Player of the Week (1/1, 1/8)
• D2CIDA National Player of the Week (1/8) 
• Preseason All-SAC 3rd Team

2023-23: Brenegan was injured for the early portions of the season, but turned it on in the back off of his redshirt-sophomore campaign.  The Greenville, S.C.-native scored in double-digits in a career-best seven consecutive games to close the regular season.  He averaged 8.3 points per game on 46.6 percent shooting from the field, 40.6 percent shooting from the three and 84.6 percent shooting from the stripe.  He had a career-best 23-point effort at Wingate on Feb. 18. Brenegan started the final six games of the season. As a starter, he averaged 16.83 points per game on a 49.2/48.3/85.7 slash line.  He averaged 2.5 made threes per game in that stretch.  He knocked down a career-best five threes against Wingate (Feb. 18) and had four rebounds on three occassions, at Belmont Abbey (Jan. 4), at Mars Hill (Feb. 8) and against Emory & Henry (Feb. 22).  He dished out multiple assists in all six games he started, including a season-high four at MHU, at Wingate and against E&H.  Overall, he had seven games where he scored in double figures.  

HONORS: 

• CSC Academic All-District

2021-22: The younger Brenegan brother appeared in all 31 games for Carson-Newman making his first starts of his career. Brenegan entered the starting lineup against Erskine (1/1).  The three-point specialist averaged 5.2 points per game while canning 39.8 percent of his shots and 40.4 percent of his threes.  Brenegan made 42 triples on 104 attempts.  He made a three in a career-best eight straight games from Dec. 1 - Jan. 5.  The Wade Hampton product had six games where he buried three or more threes.  Brenegan reset his career high in a start at Anderson (1/24). he canned 6-of-9  threes en route to scoring 20 on the Trojans.  That was one of four double-digit scooring efforts on the year for Brenegan. He also topped 10 points against Lees-McRae (11/13), Erskine (1/1) and Limestone (2/19).  He had is first career five-rebound game against the Saints.  He handed out four assists, a new career high, on two occasions, at UVA Wise (12/8) and at home against Mars Hill (12/15).  

2020-21: Brenegan came off the bench in 20 games for Carson-Newman in his freshman season.  An efficient marksman, Brenegan knocked down 48.2 percent of his shots and a team-best 46.5 percent of his threes.  He averaged 4.3 points per game while scoring in double digits twice - a 16-point night  against Benedict (2/15) and a 10-point effort at Mars Hill (2/18).  He knocked down multiple threes in seven games, including four straight from Feb. 1 through Feb. 10.  He had a season-best four boards in a home game against Mars Hill (2/17).  He also dished out three assists that game, a feat that he matched at Lincoln Memorial (1/27).  

HIGH SCHOOL: A high school teammate of fellow commit Tyler Bowens at Wade Hampton, the duo helped the generals to a region title in 2020.  They also appeared in the state title game that year. Brenegan was a two-time all-conference player and two-time all-county player.  He earned all-state honors as a junior and senior. He scored more than 1,000 points in his high school career. 

PERSONAL: The son of Amy and John Brenegan, he plans to study biology at Carson-Newman.  Younger brother of Carson-Newman guard Luke Brenegan. His father played basketball at the University of South Dakota.  Brenegan finished his high school career at Wade Hampton with a 4.818 GPA.