KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Four men's basketball student-athletes from the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District teams the organization announced. Complete NABC All-District Teams
SCAC Player of the Year, Nick Rose of Colorado College, highlighted the league's selections. Rose was named second team All-West. The senior from Lakewood, Colo., who was a First-Team all-SCAC selection a year ago, led the league in scoring for the second consecutive season. Averaging 21.7 points per game (the fifth-highest single-season total in SCAC history), Rose become just the fifth player in conference history to earn back-to-back scoring titles.
He recorded four games of 30 or more points and 13 games of 20 or more during the 2010-11 season. Rose scored 1,069 points the last two seasons combined – the most points by any player in league history in a two-year stretch. His 1,494 career point total ranks 13th all-time in league history.
After a sophomore campaign in which he averaged less than eight minutes of action and 2.7 points per game, Centre College junior Greg Ross (NABC second team All-South) burst on the scene to score a career-high 27 points in Centre's second game of the 2010-11 season, a 62-48 victory over LaGrange. That performance proved to be a precursor of things to come as Ross posted seven total 20+ point efforts (including an SCAC tournament record 38 against Hendrix in the quarterfinals) and led the Colonels in scoring, averaging 15.6 points per game (tied for second in the SCAC) while shooting 51.3 percent from the field and 86.2 percent from the charity stripe (second in the SCAC). He also grabbed 6.8 rebounds per contest – good for fifth in the SCAC.
Olgethorpe University' Todd Ward, a senior from New Milford, Conn., was named to the All-South second team a day after being named second team All-South region by D3hoops.com., Ward posted a league-high 13 double-doubles during the regular season. He averaged 15.5 points (fourth in the SCAC) and 9.1 rebounds per game (second in the SCAC) for the Petrels and shot 53.6 percent from the field (second in the SCAC).
Ward is a three-time all-SCAC First Team selection - the first Oglethorpe player to ever accomplish the feat. In his final game at the SCAC tournament, Ward became the league's all-time leading rebounder by grabbing his 858th career rebound in the Petrels' semifinal loss to Centre. Ward went on to grab two more rebounds on the night to push the all-time mark for rebounding superiority to 860.
Senior Luke Caldarera of Trinity University garnered second team All-South honors from the NABC. Caldarera led Trinity in scoring and rebounding for the second consecutive year, averaging 13.8 points (ninth in the SCAC) and 6.2 rebounds (eighth in the SCAC) per game. Caldarera, an NABC all-district selection last season, is the first Trinity player to earn First Team all-SCAC honors three times in a career since Quintin Mason garnered First Team honors in 1998-99, 1999-00 and 2000-01.
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