PORTLAND, Ore. (Mar. 2) – Alaska Anchorage senior Travis Thompson has been voted to the All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference First Team for the second year in a row as the league announced its men’s basketball postseason honors Monday.
Thompson was joined among the award winners by backcourt mate Brian McGill, who picked up honorable mention accolades.
A 6-1 guard, Thompson is the GNAC’s fourth-leading scorer with 17.2 points per game, shooting 44.1 percent from the three-point line and 82.5 percent at the free-throw stripe. The local Dimond High School product is also dishing 3.3 assists per game as he ranks among the NCAA Div. II top 25 stats leaders in three-point percentage, three-pointers per game (3.2) and assist/turnover ratio (2.8).
Thompson has scored more than 20 points on 11 occasions this year, moving up to No. 3 on UAA’s all-time scoring list and No. 12 on the GNAC list with 1,662 for his career. Also the school and GNAC career three-point king, he became the first player in league history to surpass 300 three-pointers (302) with six treys in Saturday’s regular-season finale victory over Saint Martin’s.
An All-GNAC Second Team selection as a sophomore in 2011-12 before redshirting the following year, Thompson was the only repeat first-team pick from the 2013-14 campaign.
McGill – who earned All-GNAC Second Team honors as a sophomore last year – made honorable mention this time around. The 6-2 point guard from Clackamas, Ore., ranks third in the GNAC and 26th nationally with 5.4 assists per game, while ranking 12th in the league with 14.2 points per game. After just two seasons in a Seawolf uniform, McGill ranks in UAA’s career top 10 in total assists (7th, 322), assists per game (3rd, 5.6) and three-point percentage (6th, .448).
The All-GNAC teams and special awards are voted upon by the league’s 10 head coaches. Western Oregon’s Andy Avgi was voted GNAC Player of the Year, while WOU’s Brady Bergeson was chosen Coach of the Year.
The Seawolves are one of six GNAC teams remaining alive for the upcoming league tournament, which comes with an automatic NCAA Tournament berth for the winner. Fourth-seed UAA (16-12, 12-6 GNAC) will play 5th-seeded Western Washington (18-10, 11-7) at 5:30 p.m. Alaska time in Thursday’s quarterfinal round in Billings, Mont.
2014-15 GNAC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
First Team: *Andy Avgi, Western Oregon (F, 6-6, Jr., Woodburn, OR); +Travis Thompson, Alaska Anchorage (G, 6-1, Sr., Anchorage, AK); Dom Williams, Central Washington (G, 5-11, Sr., Tacoma, WA); Riley Stockton, Seattle Pacific (G, 6-4, Sr., Spokane, WA); Julian Nichols, Western Oregon (G, 6-2, Jr., Upland, WA); Anye Turner, Western Washington (F, 6-7, Sr., Olympia, WA). *Unanimous
Second Team: Sango Niang, Simon Fraser (G, 6-0, Sr., Paris, France); Jeffrey Parker, Western Washington (F, 6-6, So., Richmond, CA); Corey Hutsen, Seattle Pacific (C, 6-8, Sr., Sammamish, WA); Kevin Rima, Northwest Nazarene (F, 6-7, Sr., Fairbanks, AK); Joseph Stroud, Central Washington (F, 6-8, Jr., Seattle, WA); Ricardo Maxwell, Western Washington (G, 5-10, Jr., Cincinnati, OH).
Honorable Mention: Brian McGill, Alaska Anchorage (G, 6-2, Jr., Clackamas, OR); Almir Hadzisehovic, Alaska (C, 6-8, Jr., Belgrade, Serbia); Ashton Edwards, Alaska (G, 6-0, Jr., Compton, CA); Jace Anderson, MSU Billings (G, 5-10, So., Whitewater, MT); Erik Kinney, Northwest Nazarene (G, 6-4, Jr., Fairfield, CA); Alex Birketoft, Northwest Nazarene (F, 6-8, Fr., Oelstykke, Denmark); Riley Carel, Saint Martin’s (G, 6-2, Sr., Enumclaw, WA); Mitch Penner, Seattle Pacific (F, 6-5, Jr., Seattle, WA); Matt Borton, Seattle Pacific (F, 6-5, Sr., Yakima, WA); Shawn Reid, Seattle Pacific (F, 6-4, Sr., Post Falls, ID); Jordan Wiley, Western Oregon (G, 6-6, Jr., McKenzie, OR); Lewis Thomas, Western Oregon (F, 6-8, Sr., Perth, Australia).
SPECIAL AWARDS: Player of the Year – Andy Avgi, Western Oregon. Defensive Player of the Year – Riley Stockton, Seattle Pacific. Newcomer of the Year – Julian Nichols, Western Oregon. Freshman of the Year – Alex Birketoft, Northwest Nazarene
Coach of the Year – Brady Bergeson, Western Oregon.
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Nate Sagan
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University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 786-1295 / nate@uaa.alaska.edu
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