KANSAS CITY, Mo. (March 26, 2019) — The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced today the 2019 NABC Coaches’ Division II All-America team. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC in Division II, these student-athletes represent the most outstanding basketball players across America in NCAA Division II.
Northwest Missouri State University senior Joey Witthus (Chanhassen, Minnesota) becomes the third different Bearcat to earn NABC All-America honors. DeShaun Cooper (2014) and Justin Pitts (2017, 2018) are the previous Bearcats to earn NABC All-America status.
Witthus, the MIAA player of the year and most outstanding player at the MIAA tournament, is averaging a team-best 21.5 points per game and shooting 50.8 percent from the field. Witthus has buried an-MIAA high 108 three-pointers, and he is shooting 45.7 percent from beyond the three-point arc. Witthus also leads Northwest in free throws made (157) and is shooting 85.3 percent from the free throw line.
Witthus has scored 731 points this season. He needs 23 more points to equal the Northwest single-season scoring record set by Justin Pitts (754) in 2016-17.
Northwest will take on Mercyhurst at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana, in the Elite Eight.
2019 NABC COACHES’ DIVISION II ALL-AMERICA TEAM
Gage Davis, St. Cloud State, 6-4, Senior, Guard, Bolingbrook, Ill.
Jacobo Diaz, IUP, 6-9, Senior, Forward, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Adam Eberhard, Bellarmine, 6-8, Senior, Forward, Evansville, Ind.
Tim Guers, Saint Anselm, 6-3, Senior, Guard, Langhorne, Pa.
Chris Hansen, UCSD, 6-7, Junior, C, Lafayette, Calif.
Amir Hinton, Shaw, 6-5, Junior, Guard, Philadelphia, Pa.
Daulton Hommes, Point Loma Nazarene, 6-8, Junior, Guard, Lynden, Wash.
Ryan Richmond, Bentley, 6-1, Senior, Guard, Toronto, Ont., Canada
Johnathan Lawton, Florida Southern, 6-2, Senior, Guard, Williamstown, N.J.
Kendale McCullum, Lewis, 6-1, Senior, Guard, Elgin, Ill.
Brandon Parker, Francis Marion, 6-3, Senior, Forward, Sumter, S.C.
Ryan Quaid, West Texas A&M, 6-6, Senior, Guard, Fort Collins, Col.
Marquill Smith, West Georgia, 6-4, Senior, Guard, Miami Gardens, Fla.
Ben Sonnefeld, Colorado School of Mines, 6-3, Senior, Guard, Katy, Texas
Shaun Willett, Queens, 6-4, Senior, Forward, Palm Bay, Fla.
Joey Witthus, Northwest Missouri State, 6-7, Senior, Guard, Chanhassen, Minn.