Dallan (Deebo) Coleman of West Nassau wins Florida Dairy Farmers Mr. Basketball

Leader of the first-ever final four trip for his school.

Second place on Northeast Florida's all-time boys basketball scoring list.

And now, Mr. Basketball.

Following a scoreboard-shattering high school career that vaulted West Nassau into the state final four, Dallan (Deebo) Coleman capped his four years with the Warriors Friday, winning the Florida Dairy Farmers Mr. Basketball award.

"It was one of the goals that I always had ever since I got here," he said.

Coleman averaged 24.7 points, 9.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists while leading the Warriors into the Class 4A Florida High School Athletic Association semifinals for the first time ever.

He's the second consecutive Mr. Basketball from Northeast Florida, following Paxon's Isaiah Adams last year, and the third all-time in the area, after Adams and Jackson's James Collins in 1993.

Signed with Georgia Tech, he led West Nassau's midseason turnaround with 14 consecutive victories.

He finished with a near-majority of statewide first-place votes in Mr. Basketball balloting, with 10 first-place votes and 138 points. Coleman, already named the state's top player for Class 4A, was followed by Charlotte's Tre Carroll, Orlando Oak Ridge's Mike James and Spring Hill Bishop McLaughlin's Emanuel Sharp.

Now, he's got some hardware on the way before he heads to ACC Tournament champion Georgia Tech over the summer.

The scoring numbers only tell part of the story for Coleman.

Since his freshman year, when he averaged 19.8 points for the Warriors, he's long ranked among the area's most explosive scorers. But he improved as a rebounder — he compiled 745 for his career, after averaging just 2.5 in his first season — and as a provider, going from 0.8 assists per game to more than four. He had 38 double-doubles at West Nassau, 19 of those this season.

"I felt like I got better all four years, never got complacent with success the previous year," he said. "I just always tried to get better and come back a different player the next season."

For Coleman, the news was the best wake-up call he could have imagined.

With the day off from school, he said he hadn't been awake for long when he heard his phone bombarded with notifications. Pretty soon, his family knew.

"It was just a teary-eyed moment," said Ran Coleman, his father and West Nassau's head coach.

Coleman finished his West Nassau career with 2,539 points, second in the region's history behind only Fletcher's Myron Anthony during the 1990s.

"We definitely put Callahan on the map," he said.