KERRVILLE, TX: Kamden Ross of Schreiner Men's Basketball, a junior forward from Cibolo, Texas, has been named the 2023-2024 SCAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.
Ross finished his outstanding 2023-2024 season leading the Mountaineers in total points, points per game, total rebounds, rebounds per game, blocks, and blocks per game. He also finished the season averaging a double-double with 18.3 PPG and 13.2 RPG and finished with 17 double-doubles on the season, including two 20/20 games.
From the SCAC
"In exclusive voting by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), junior center Kamden Ross of Schreiner University was selected as SCAC Men's Basketball Player-of-the-Year… Ross was also awarded the league's Defensive Player-of-the-Year award… Ross, a native of Cibolo, Texas, currently leads the league in both scoring (18.8 points per game) and rebounding (13.5 rebounds per game) heading into this weekend's conference tournament. The reigning SCAC Tournament MVP was even more dominant in conference games this season, averaging 20.1 points and 14.2 rebounds per contest with both marks topping the league. His 886 career rebounds are already the second-most in league history and his career rebounding average of 11.1 sits atop the conference's all-time career rankings. Ross also leads the conference in field goal percentage this season (among players with four or more made FGs per game), shooting at a 63.5 percent clip. If he were to finish atop the SCAC in all three categories, he would become just the second player in league history to do so, joining James Sapp of Centenary College who pulled off the triple sweep in 2016-17. Ross is also currently second in the conference in both blocks (36) and blocks per game (1.5). The junior was a two-time SCAC Player-of-the-Week during the season, including in Week 11 when he posted the first 20/20 performance in a league game since 2008 when he finished with 24 points and 21 rebounds in a 90-76 win against Texas Lutheran. He replicated that feat a week later with 36 points and 20 rebounds against Dallas. His 17 double/doubles this season are tied for the sixth most in all of NCAA Division III.
Ross is the third different men's player from Schreiner to earn SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors, following AJ Myres in 2013-14 and Keenan Gumbs in 2017-18. He is just the second player in league history to be named Player-of-the-Year and Defensive Player-of-the-Year in the same season, joining Myres who earned both honors in 2013-14."
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