Kalsow, Bennett Named to All-WIAC Men�s
Basketball Squad
Every team was represented on the 10-member
All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men�s basketball squad,
but UW-Stevens Point was the only team with two selections as juniors Jason
Kalsow and Nick Bennett both earned first team honors.
The Pointers enter this week�s NCAA Division III
tournament with a 23-5 overall record after claiming their first WIAC
tournament title since 2000. UW-Stevens Point is now 111-27 over the past
five seasons after winning the WIAC regular season crown the previous four
years.
The all-conference squad was made up of the
league�s top 10 individual scorers. Kalsow ranked second in the league at
17.9 points per game and Bennett was seventh at 15.4 points per game.
Kalsow, a Huntley, Ill. native, earned his second
straight all-conference honor and did much more than score this year for the
Pointers. He also ranks third in the league in rebounding at 7.6 per game
and third in assists at 3.6 per game. Kalsow was fourth in field goal
percentage at 53.8 percent and scored in double figures in every game. He
has started every game the past three years and now has 1,140 career points.
Bennett, a Stevens Point Area Senior High
graduate, is one of the league�s top shooters, ranking second in free throw
shooting at 85.2 percent, fifth in three-point shooting at 45.8 percent and
sixth in field goal percentage at 48.2 percent. It is the second straight
year he has ranked in the top six of the league in all three categories.
Bennett hit a three-pointer in 26 of the team�s 28 games.
UW-River Falls senior Rich Melzer was the Player of the Year for the second
straight year and Falcons� coach Rick Bowen earned Coach of the Year honors. |
