The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced Tuesday morning the rosters for the 2015 Reese's Division III College All-Star game, which will be played as part of the 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship this weekend. Albertus Magnus senior Victor Ljuljdjuraj (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) has been selected to the Reese's West All-Star Team.
The game will be played on Saturday, March 21 at 12:30 p.m. prior to the NCAA Division III Championship game, which begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.
The teams are composed of two senior student-athletes from each of the eight regions in Division III and two seniors who have been selected by online voting on D3hoops.com.
Ljuljdjuraj was recently chosen as a D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region First Team selection after earning Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player and Defensive Player of the Year honors. He was also named the GNAC Tournament Most Valuable Player.
The following information is from the NABC:
Division III is the largest membership division in the NCAA, with approximately 450 member schools, 43 voting conferences and over 170,000 student-athletes.
Here are the rosters for the 2015 Reese's Division III College All-Star game:
Reese'sWEST ALL-STAR TEAM – Coach: Dr. Ira Zeff, Blackburn/Nebraska Wesleyan
|
NAME |
HT/WT |
POS |
SCHOOL |
REGION |
|
Victor Ljuljdjuraj |
6-8/220 |
C |
Albertus Magnus |
Northeast |
|
Michael Lofton Jr. |
6-5/215 |
F |
Bridgewater State (MA) |
Northeast |
|
Quardell Young |
6-0/180 |
G |
UW-Whitewater |
Central |
|
Dylan Overstreet |
6-4/185 |
G |
Illinois Wesleyan |
Central |
|
Connor Merrill |
6-6/200 |
F |
Skidmore |
East |
|
Dalton Walsh |
6-8/190 |
F |
Alfred |
East |
|
Arik Smith |
6-3/210 |
G |
Cal Lutheran |
West |
|
Sterling Nielsen |
6-1/195 |
G |
St. Olaf |
West |
|
Marcus Alipate |
6-0/175 |
G |
University of St. Thomas |
West |
Reese'sEAST ALL-STAR TEAM – Coach: Mac Petty, Wabash College
|
NAME |
HT/WT |
POS |
SCHOOL |
REGION |
|
David Louison |
6-4/211 |
F |
St. Joseph's (Brooklyn) |
Atlantic |
|
Aaron Walton-Moss |
6-3/165 |
G |
Cabrini |
Atlantic |
|
Granville Gittens |
6-6/210 |
F |
Baruch College |
Atlantic |
|
Larry Thomas |
6-1/170 |
G |
Birmingham-Southern |
South |
|
Alex Foster |
6-8/210 |
F |
Emory |
South |
|
Bernard Edwards Jr |
6-5/225 |
G/F |
Defiance |
Great Lakes |
|
Jordan Brink |
6-3/185 |
G |
Calvin |
Great Lakes |
|
Gerald Wixted |
6-8/215 |
F |
Dickinson |
Mid-Atlantic |
|
Nick LaGuerre |
6-3/195 |
G |
St. Mary's (MD) |
Mid-Atlantic |
About the National Association of Basketball Coaches
Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Forrest "Phog" Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently has almost 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches. All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today's student-athletes. The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education. Additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, can be found at www.nabc.org.
