All Americans

[CCIWchamps]

#30 Tim McCrary     

Points/game: 18.2 
Rebounds/game: 8.9
Assists/game: 4.8

Games played: 28
Minutes/game: 34.1
FG Pct: 54.2
3FG Pct: 0.0
FT Pct: 68.1
Turnovers/game: 3.1
Assist/turnover ratio: 1.5
Steals/game: 1.3
Blocks/game: 1.1

[magicman]

Blake Schultz of Williams College was announced on Tuesday as the 13th winner of the Jostens Trophy. Schultz is the 2nd Williams player to receive the award as Michael Nogelo was the first Eph to win the Jostens Trophy back in 1998, the 1st year it was given out.

[nescac1]

Congrats to Schultz, well deserved.  He isn't as good a basketball player as the prior Eph winner, Mike Nogelo (arguably the best ever at Williams and certainly the best since the Ephs began competing in the NCAA's), but his all-around accomplishments are even more impressive, which is really saying something.  Schultz will likely finish as one of the top five all time scorers at Williams. 

Looking at team and individual success, both he and James Wang are obvious all-American candidates.  Both have absolutely ridiculous shooting numbers for guards who are high-volume shooters.  Both take a lot of shots (for Schultz, his turn-around fadeaway jumper, for Wang, heavily contested drives over much bigger guys inside) that would make you cringe as they are shooting if you didn't know better, yet somehow go in more than half the time. 

Schultz averages 18.6 points and 4 boards shooting .52/.52/.84
Wang averages 17 points, 4 boards, and nearly 5 assists shooting .57/.50/.86. 

Both are very good defenders as well, particularly Schultz, who averages 1.5 steals per game, and usually guards the opponent's top perimeter scorer.

[nescac1]

Looking at all-region teams, here is my guess for first team all-American (can there be three guards or do there have to be two forwards)?:

G Djurkovich (no-brainer), Wallis, Ian Franks (if three guards is doable, G and C seem a lot deeper than F this year)
F Schultz (no-brainer)
C Sanborn (no-brainer)

Either McCrary, Marsh or McNally slips in at forward if can't have a three guard offense ...

[Pat Coleman]

Yes, there can be three guards.

[BJ - DSU SID]

Looking at all-region teams, here is my guess for first team all-American (can there be three guards or do there have to be two forwards)?:

G Djurkovich (no-brainer), Wallis, Ian Franks (if three guards is doable, G and C seem a lot deeper than F this year)
F Schultz (no-brainer)
C Sanborn (no-brainer)

Either McCrary, Marsh or McNally slips in at forward if can't have a three guard offense ...

I think Darnell Braswell (DeSales) is in the First-Team conversation.  He is a guard in our three-guard offense who plays the SF position in a traditional set-up (IE - down low in a 2-3 zone situation).

[Hugenerd]

NABC named their all-district and All-American teams today:

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nabc/genrel/auto_pdf/2010D3All-America.pdf

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nabc/genrel/auto_pdf/2010D3All-District.pdf

All-Americans

1st Team
Tyler Sanborn, Guilford, 6-9, Senior, Center, Elkin, N.C.
Blake Schultz, Williams, 6-3, Senior, Guard/Forward, Atherton, Calif.
Ian Franks, Wooster, 6-4, Junior, Guard, Greenwich, Ohio
Dustin Mitchell, UW-Whitewater, 6-9, Senior, Forward/Center, Lac Du Flambeau, Wis.
Marcel Esonwune, York (NY), 6-6, Junior, Forward/Center, Lagos, Nigeria
Darnell Braswell, DeSales, 6-1, Senior, Guard, Allentown, Pa.
Corey McAdam, Nazareth, 6-1, Senior, Guard, Fairport, N.Y.
Steve Djurickovic, Carthage, 6-3, Junior, Guard, Pleasant Prairie, Wis.

2nd Team
Trey Drake, North Carolina Wesleyan, 5-8, Senior, Guard, Emporia, Va.
Noel Hollingsworth, MIT, 6-9, Sophomore, Forward, Salt Lake City, Utah
Kyle Meyer, Ohio Northern, 6-5, Senior, Forward, Columbus Grove, Ohio
Nate Montgomery, Whitworth, 6-8, Senior, Center, Sammamish, Wash.
Abdoulaye Ouedraogo, William Paterson, 6-8, Senior, Forward, Newark, N.J.
James McNally, Franklin & Marshall, 6-6, Junior, Forward, Bridgewater, N.J.
Josh Sharlow, St. Lawrence, 5-9, Senior, Guard, Norwood, N.Y.
John Hoch, Carroll, 5-10, Senior, Guard, Colgate, Wis.

3rd Team
Greg Hernandez, Maryville, 6-6, Senior, Center, Miami, Fla.
Adam Choice, Colby, 6-5, Senior, Forward, Newport, R.I.
Michael McClary, Olivet, 6-5, Junior, Center, Bellaire, Mich.
Tyler Nicolai, St. Thomas, 5-11, Junior, Guard, Minnetonka, Minn.
Richard Jean-Baptiste, Brooklyn, 6-4, Senior, Forward, Queens, N.Y.
Nick Brady, York (PA), 6-2, Senior, Guard, Hanover, Pa.
Brian Beckford, Oneonta, 6-9, Senior, Forward, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sean Wallis, Washington University (St. Louis), 6-2, Graduate, Guard, Northbrook, Ill.

NABC selects All-Americans a bit different than D3hoops.  They pick one player from each region to each All-America team.  So the best player in each region is 1st team, 2nd best is 2nd team, and 3rd best is 3rd team.

[Just Bill]

NABC selects All-Americans a bit different than D3hoops.  They pick one player from each region to each All-America team.  So the best player in each region is 1st team, 2nd best is 2nd team, and 3rd best is 3rd team.

Which is as stupid as can be...

[Ralph Turner]

NABC selects All-Americans a bit different than D3hoops.  They pick one player from each region to each All-America team.  So the best player in each region is 1st team, 2nd best is 2nd team, and 3rd best is 3rd team.

Which is as stupid as can be...

Well I think that there is small town in west Texas that runs a 3-2-3 zone defense that really shuts down most offenses.   

[Just Bill]

I don't even mind the eight players on a team. It's just ridiculous that the best player in one region must automatically be better than the second best player in ANY region.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

I don't even mind the eight players on a team. It's just ridiculous that the best player in one region must automatically be better than the second best player in ANY region.

Guess we should be glad the NABC's logic isn't used in selecting the tournament teams.

[Warren Thompson]

NABC selects All-Americans a bit different than D3hoops.  They pick one player from each region to each All-America team.  So the best player in each region is 1st team, 2nd best is 2nd team, and 3rd best is 3rd team.

Which is as stupid as can be...

Well I think that there is small town in west Texas that runs a 3-2-3 zone defense that really shuts down most offenses.  

Ralph, you're right on. That town is West-of-Nothing, Texas, situated virtually on the border with New Mexico in what is known locally, for obvious reasons, as "Scorpion and Buzzard Alley."

The 3-2-3 zone they play employs every male student in the school.  

[Hugenerd]

DIII News has named their All-American Team.  Sanborn named POY.

http://www.smallcollegehoops.com/Home_files/D3NAATeam10.pdf

[Pat Coleman]

I guess if we named 35 honorable mentions we would get a lot fewer complaints.

I don't think Steve Djurickovic should be second team to anyone, fwiw.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I guess if we named 35 honorable mentions we would get a lot fewer complaints.

I don't think Steve Djurickovic should be second team to anyone, fwiw.

If you had five teams PLUS 35 HMs, yet still could not find room for either Doug Sexauer or Sean Johnson of Elite Eight IWU, I'd have a complaint!

While a case could be made for either Sanborn or Djurickovic (perhaps even Blake Schultz) for POY, leaving Steve D. off the first team automatically disqualifies the selections to me.