Six from MAAC Men's Basketball Named to NABC All-District Teams
KANSAS CITY, MO – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 2018-19 NABC Division I All-District Teams. NABC member coaches recognized six MAAC men's basketball student-athletes.
Cameron Young of Quinnipiac University and Jalen Pickett of Siena College earned NABC All-District 1 First Team honors. Takal Molson from Canisius College, E.J. Crawford and Rickey McGill from Iona College, and Marvin Prochet from Niagara University made the Second Team All-District in District 1.
Young was the unanimous Player of the Year in the MAAC this season and was a unanimous First Team All-MAAC selection. Young established a new single-game MAAC scoring record with 55 points against Siena in a triple-overtime Quinnipiac win. The Los Angeles native also set a new Division I scoring record at Quinnipiac with 728 points.
Pickett took home Rookie of the Year honors, which he was the unanimous choice. The first-year Saint claimed a conference record 11 Rookie of the Week honors. The Rochester, New York native averaged 16.1 points, 6.4 assists, and 2.1 steals this season when he was also named First Team All-MAAC becoming the first freshman since Lionel Simmons in 1986-87 to make the first team as a freshman.
Canisius’s Molson was named First Team All-MAAC after leading the Golden Griffins and ranking third in the MAAC at 16.9 per game. Crawford and McGill, both First Team All-MAAC selections, helped Iona win a fourth consecutive MAAC Championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Prochet averaged 15.7 points and 7.3 rebounds for Niagara in his senior season.
About the National Association of Basketball Coaches:
Located in Kansas City, MO, the NABC was founded in 1927 by 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 nearly 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.com.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 38
th year of competition during the 2018-19 academic year. Current Conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.