Tuesday, March 21, 2023

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two weeks after earning D2CCA All-West Region honors, Seattle Pacific junior forward Shaw Anderson and Montana State Billings senior guard Carrington Wiggins are adding National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-West Region honors to their resumes.

Anderson and Wiggins became consensus First Team All-West Region selections, adding the NABC award on Monday. Saint Martin’s junior guard Kyle Greeley was elected to the second team. The NABC team was selected by head coaches from the region’s three conferences.

Anderson led the GNAC and was third in the West Region in scoring, averaging 20.1 points per game to help lead Seattle Pacific to a 17-11 record. He also ranked sixth in the conference with a .853 free throw percentage and ninth with a .412 three-point percentage. Anderson finishes with 12 games of 20 or more points, including a 32-point effort against Cal Poly Pomona on Nov. 12 and 29 points in the GNAC Championships against Northwest Nazarene on Mar. 12.

The GNAC Player of the Year, Wiggins finished second to Anderson in the GNAC in scoring at 17.9 points per game as he helped lead Montana State Billings to its first NCAA West Regional berth since 2012. Wiggins ranks sixth among Division II players with a .921 free-throw percentage (117-217). He also led the conference with 1.9 steals per game and ranked seventh with two three-pointers made per game. Wiggins finished the season with 12 games of 20 or more points, topped by 29 points at Western Washington on Feb. 4.

Greeley finished the year ranked fifth in the GNAC in scoring at 14.8 points per game as he helped lead Saint Martin’s to its second consecutive GNAC regular-season championship. He also ranked sixth in the conference with a .436 three-point percentage and seventh in both field goal percentage (.548) and free-throw percentage (.755). Greeley finished the season with eight games with 20 or more points, which included 28 points against Chaminade on Dec. 18 and 27 points in the NCAA West Regional against Academy of Art in Mar. 10.