POY – Raequan Battle (‘Cats) - Best player on the best team. He is averaging 17ppg. He is shooting just 33% on threes and I expect this to be higher come conference. MSU is going to be very interesting as it is very hard to put up numbers with such a deep team. Last year’s POY Jubrile Belo is averaging 12.6p/6.0r on 62FG% but is only playing 22mpg (tied for 3rd on the team). Belo and Battle are the only ‘Cats averaging double figures.
First Team
Isaac Jones (Idaho) – This goes against my personal belief of not putting “great stats/awful team” guys on All-Conference teams, but him and Divante Moffitt (see below) are single handedly making Idaho somewhat competitive and that is tough to do. Jones has been so good, I considered naming him POY. 19p/7.5r on 72FG% is dominant. Idaho has also played one of the worst non-conference schedules in the country, so I am interested to see if he can keep it up during Conference play.
Josh Bannan – Bannan being Bannan. That’s the write-up.
Jalen Cone (NAU) – Cone is also single-handedly keeping NAU competitive. He is not my personal cup of tea as he is kind of a chucker (41FG%), but respect where respect is due. He has the conference’s best performance in his 45-point game against Southern Utah. NAU has probably the conference’s 2nd best win against UCSB (only behind Weber beating Utah State) and lost to 2 games to #104 Utah Valley by a total of 9 points which would have been the conference’s 3rd best win. You take Cone off NAU and they are an extremely non-competitive zero-win team against D-1 competition. Not sure what other BSC player you can say that about.
Cam Parker (PSU) – PSU (#171 Air Force/#170 Cal Baptist) is one of 3 conference teams with two sub-175 wins (Weber and MSU). PSU also has two victories over Oregon St. (I know, I know, but they are still Pac-12 and those wins are rare for the conference) and a heart-breaking 3pt loss at Santa Clara. This coming with 7 of their top 9 guys being transfers so quality PG play is needed to hold it together. Parker is 11th in conference in scoring, 2nd in assists and tied for 1st in FT%. His 76 FTM is 3rd in the country all of this this coming against one of the country’s toughest Non-Con schedules.
Dalton Knecht (UNC) - If the conference had a Most Improved Player award, then here is your winner. Knecht is averaging 17.8p/8.1r and shooting 40% from three on 70 attempts. He obviously is the beneficiary of the attention given to Kountz and the overall playmaking of Matt Johnson, but he has stepped his game up in a big way. This was already a scary team with Johnson and Kountz, but Knecht has kicked them up a notch. If UNC starts practicing defense over the Christmas break they will be flat out nasty. I sure hope Bodie Hume is making money somewhere. I can’t imagine how good they would be if he was still around.
2nd Team
Zach Chappell (Sac)
Divante Moffitt (UI)
Jubrile Belo – (Cats)
Dillon Jones – (WSU)
Daylen Kountz (UNC)
Honorable Mention (no order)
Callum McRae (Sac)
D. Thomas
Moody
Matt Johnson (UNC)
Whitney
Jorell Satterfield (PSU)
Steele Venters (EWU)
Brock McKenzie (ISU)
First Team
Isaac Jones (Idaho) – This goes against my personal belief of not putting “great stats/awful team” guys on All-Conference teams, but him and Divante Moffitt (see below) are single handedly making Idaho somewhat competitive and that is tough to do. Jones has been so good, I considered naming him POY. 19p/7.5r on 72FG% is dominant. Idaho has also played one of the worst non-conference schedules in the country, so I am interested to see if he can keep it up during Conference play.
Josh Bannan – Bannan being Bannan. That’s the write-up.
Jalen Cone (NAU) – Cone is also single-handedly keeping NAU competitive. He is not my personal cup of tea as he is kind of a chucker (41FG%), but respect where respect is due. He has the conference’s best performance in his 45-point game against Southern Utah. NAU has probably the conference’s 2nd best win against UCSB (only behind Weber beating Utah State) and lost to 2 games to #104 Utah Valley by a total of 9 points which would have been the conference’s 3rd best win. You take Cone off NAU and they are an extremely non-competitive zero-win team against D-1 competition. Not sure what other BSC player you can say that about.
Cam Parker (PSU) – PSU (#171 Air Force/#170 Cal Baptist) is one of 3 conference teams with two sub-175 wins (Weber and MSU). PSU also has two victories over Oregon St. (I know, I know, but they are still Pac-12 and those wins are rare for the conference) and a heart-breaking 3pt loss at Santa Clara. This coming with 7 of their top 9 guys being transfers so quality PG play is needed to hold it together. Parker is 11th in conference in scoring, 2nd in assists and tied for 1st in FT%. His 76 FTM is 3rd in the country all of this this coming against one of the country’s toughest Non-Con schedules.
Dalton Knecht (UNC) - If the conference had a Most Improved Player award, then here is your winner. Knecht is averaging 17.8p/8.1r and shooting 40% from three on 70 attempts. He obviously is the beneficiary of the attention given to Kountz and the overall playmaking of Matt Johnson, but he has stepped his game up in a big way. This was already a scary team with Johnson and Kountz, but Knecht has kicked them up a notch. If UNC starts practicing defense over the Christmas break they will be flat out nasty. I sure hope Bodie Hume is making money somewhere. I can’t imagine how good they would be if he was still around.
2nd Team
Zach Chappell (Sac)
Divante Moffitt (UI)
Jubrile Belo – (Cats)
Dillon Jones – (WSU)
Daylen Kountz (UNC)
Honorable Mention (no order)
Callum McRae (Sac)
D. Thomas
Moody
Matt Johnson (UNC)
Whitney
Jorell Satterfield (PSU)
Steele Venters (EWU)
Brock McKenzie (ISU)
