UAA's Wiggs earns 1st Team All-West Region honors

UAA's Wiggs earns 1st Team All-West Region honors

BILLINGS, Mont. (Mar. 14) – Alaska Anchorage junior Sekou ‘Suki’ Wiggs was recognized among the top five men’s players in the NCAA Div. II West Region on Monday, earning D2CCA First Team All-Region honors in voting by sports information directors.

A transfer from the University of Idaho, the 6-4 guard was a unanimous All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference First Team selection and the GNAC Newcomer of the Year after leading the league and ranking 11th nationally with 24.1 points per game. Wiggs also posted league ranks of third in rebounding (7.3 rpg), ninth in assists (3.3 apg), third in steals (1.6 spg), first in defensive rebounding (6.2 drpg) and first in minutes (34.9 mpg).

Along with the other four first-team honorees, Wiggs now advances to the national ballot for D2CCA All-America honors.

The Seattle (O’Dea HS) native started the season with a UAA- and GNAC-record streak of 21 straight 20-plus scoring efforts – the longest streak in NCAA Div. II in the least four seasons – and finished the season with nine such efforts in a row.

After scoring 85 points in the last three games, he rose to No. 2 on UAA’s single-season scoring list with 770 points, while crushing the previous school record for free throws with 243. Wiggs scored at least 30 points on six occasions and posted eight double-doubles, while also leading the Seawolves with 21 blocks.

Wiggs – who broke Glenn Robinson’s 23-year-old GCI Great Alaska Shootout scoring record with a 98-point explosion against three D-I opponents in November – becomes the first Seawolf to earn first-team all-region honors since Taylor Rohde in 2011-12.

UAA finished 21-11 overall this season and tied for third place in the GNAC with a 14-6 mark.

2015-16 D2CCA Men’s Basketball All-West Region Teams

First Team

Name                                        School                         Ht.              Year                   Position                        Hometown

Andy Avgi                                Western Oregon    6-6              Senior               Forward                       Woodburn, OR

Michael Smith                       Cal Baptist                 6-4              Junior                Guard                           San Francisco, CA

Robert Duncan                      Chico State               6-3              Junior                Guard                           Granite Bay, CA

Sekou ‘Suki’ Wiggs             Alaska Anchorage  6-4              Junior               Guard                           Seattle, WA

Jordan Faison                        Cal Poly Pomona    6-7              Senior               Forward                       Lake Forest, CA

 

Second Team

Name                                        School                         Ht.              Year                   Position                        Hometown

Mitch Penner                        Seattle Pacific          6-5              Senior               Forward                       Seattle, WA

Drew Dyer                              UC San Diego           6-6              Senior               Forward                       Aurora, CO

Rakim Brown                         Humboldt State      6-6              Senior               Forward                       Fresno, CA

Mark Ogden Jr.                     Dixie State                6-9              Senior               Forward                       Spring Valley, CA

Gelaun Wheelwright          Cal Baptist                 6-2              Senior               Guard                           Riverside, CA

 

Player of the Year: Andy Avgi, Western Oregon University.

 

 

 

Nate Sagan
Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Dr.
Anchorage, AK  99508
(907) 786-1295 / nate@uaa.alaska.edu
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