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NABC has released the 2022-23 NABC Division I All-District Teams and District Coaches of the Year, with the District 21 teams comprising 10 Southern Conference student-athletes and Western Carolina’s Justin Gray named the District 21 Coach of the Year.
The All-District honors are voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division I.
Consensus SoCon Player of the Year Jalen Slawson of Furman was joined on the all-district first team by Paladin teammate Mike Bothwell, UNCG’s Keyshaun Langley, Samford’s Logan Dye and Chattanooga’s Jake Stephens.
The second team included The Citadel’s Stephen Clark, Samford’s Ques Glove, Western Carolina’s Tre Jackson and Vonterius Woolbright and Wofford’s B.J. Mack.
Bothwell earned his third all-district selection, as he was a first-team pick in 2021 and a second-team selection last season. Slawson and Stephens earned first-team honors for the second straight season, while Glover was a second-team pick last year and Mack was a first-team selection in 2022.
Gray led a Western Carolina squad that was picked eighth in the SoCon preseason polls to a fourth-place finish and a spot in the semifinals of the Ingles SoCon Basketball Championship, where it lost in overtime to eventual tournament champion Furman.
Western Carolina will make its fourth postseason appearance in school history on Saturday when it faces Charlotte at 5:30 p.m. in the Discount Tire College Basketball Invitational in Daytona Beach, Florida. That contest can be streamed live on FloHoops.
No. 13 seed Furman, making its first NCAA appearance in 43 years, will take on No. 4 seed Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship on Thursday in Orlando, Florida, at 12:40 p.m. ET on truTV.
District 21
First Team
Mike Bothwell – Furman
Logan Dye – Samford
Keyshaun Langley – UNCG
Jalen Slawson – Furman
Jake Stephens – Chattanooga
Second Team
Stephen Clark – The Citadel
Ques Glover – Samford
Tre Jackson – Western Carolina
B.J. Mack – Wofford
Vonterius Woolbright – Western Carolina
Coach of the Year: Justin Gray – Western Carolina