KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Gonzaga's
Graham Ike and
Ryan Nembhard were named NABC First Team All-Pacific District Tuesday.
Ike earned first team honors for the second straight season. The All-District honors are voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division I. Ike and Nembhard were both named First Team All-West Coast Conference for the second straight year recently.
The NABC introduced a new model for its Division I district alignment this season, with schools arranged by state rather than by conference. The modernized NABC Division I district alignment features 10 geographic regions that each encompass multiple states. Every Division I school in each given state belongs to that state's corresponding district.
Ike is fourth in the conference scoring 17.1 points per game, shooting a league best 59.9 percent from the field. He made 61.1 percent from the field during WCC play, which also topped the league. The Aurora, Colo., native's 7.9 rebounds per conference game ranked third. He ranks eighth making 79.7 percent from the free-throw line, while shooting the fifth-most attempts. The senior scored in double-figures in 27 of the 33 games this season, reaching 20 or more 13 times.
Nembhard is the national leader in assists at 325. He is one of 21 players in NCAA Div. I history with at least 300 assists in a single season. The senior broke the conference's single season assist record, in and out of WCC play, the program single season record, and matched the league's and program's single game assist records. His 863 career assists are not only the most by an active player, but 24th all-time in NCAA Div. 1 history.
Pacific District
First Team
Tyler Bilodeau, UCLA
Miles Byrd, San Diego State
Graham Ike, Gonzaga
Bent Leuchten, UC Irvine
Augustas Marciulionis, Saint Mary's
Ryan Nembhard, Gonzaga
Great Osobor, Washington
Maxime Raynaud, Stanford
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones, UC San Diego
Malik Thomas, San Francisco
Second Team
Nate Bittle, Oregon
Desmond Claude, USC
Dominique Daniels Jr., Cal Baptist
Barrington Hargress, UC Riverside
Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe, Seattle
Paulius Murauskas, Saint Mary's
Michael Rataj, Oregon State
Jackson Shelstad, Oregon
Andrej Stojakovic, Cal
Devin Tillis, UC Irvine
Coach of the Year: Eric Olen, UC San Diego
