WEST HAVEN, Conn. – West Liberty University males’s basketball standout Bryce Butler acquired one more important award Monday afternoon when he was named to the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners’ Association (D2CCA) Men’s Basketball All-America Team for the second consecutive season.

The D2CCA All-America Team is voted on by the sports activities info administrators from the greater than 300 NCAA Division II colleges and consists of three 5-man models and a 6-man honorable point out checklist.

The 6-5 junior guard from Latrobe, Pa. is not any stranger to repeat awards as he has been named Mountain East Conference and NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Player of the Year in every of the previous two seasons. With greater than 1,800 profession factors beneath his belt, Butler has led Coach Ben Howlett’s Hilltoppers to back-to-back MEC regular-season and event championships.

With Butler main the way in which, West Liberty breezed to its seventh Atlantic Region championship prior to now 13 years with Butler’s 30-point explosion keying a 70-53 rout of No. 3-ranked Indiana (Pa.) within the regional championship recreation. That punched WLU’s ticket to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight championship event in Evansville, Ind. the place the No. 2-seeded Hilltoppers (31-3) will tip off in opposition to No. 7 seed New Haven, Conn. (23-10) on Tuesday within the 3:30 p.m. (EDT) quarterfinal.

Voted Most Valuable Player of the MEC and Atlantic Region Tournaments, Butler has hit double-figures in each recreation this season and leads West Liberty in scoring (22.6 ppg.) and rebounding (7.7 rpg.). His 311 discipline targets rank No. 1 amongst all NCAA Division II gamers – simply two shy of Seger Bonifant’s faculty document of 313 made pictures within the 2014-15 season – and he’s No. 2 nationally with 768 whole factors. The versatile scorer additionally ranks among the many Top 30 rebounders within the nation and stands simply exterior the Top 50 in assists.

The Hilltopper taking pictures star was the lone MEC participant to achieve All-America standing within the nationwide balloting and one among solely three All-America honorees hailing from the Atlantic Region. Pitt-Johnstown’s John Paul Kromka and Shawndale Jones of California (Pa.) had been accorded honorable point out standing. Black Hills State senior ahead Joel Scott was voted Ron Lenz National Player of the Year.