KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- ACU guard
Corwin Ragland only spent one season wearing a Wildcat basketball uniform, but he made it count, leading the Wildcats to their best season in almost 10 years.
And his play didn't go unnoticed by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, which on Tuesday announced that Ragland had been voted second team all-South Central Region. Ragland was the only Wildcat player honored on the NABC team, which was selected on by member coaches of the organization.
Ragland finished second on the team in scoring at 17.1 points per game as he helped the Wildcats to a 20-9 record, the program's first 20-win season since the 1998-99 team won 21 games. Ragland was the driving force behind a team that finished fourth in the Lone Star Conference South Division and qualified for the LSC Post-Season Tournament for the first time since 1998. The Wildcats knocked off Southwestern Oklahoma State, 108-98, in double-overtime, in the tournament quarterfinals for the program's first LSC Post-Season Tournament win since March 1998.
Ragland was a first team all-LSC South Division selection and was a one-time selection as the LSC South Division Player of the Week. The transfer from Stephen F. Austin is joined on the second team by DeAndre Townsend of Emporia State, Marcus Hubbard of Angelo State, Nate Perry of SW Oklahoma State and Jim Grabowski of Southwest Baptist.
LSC North Division MVP Sam Belt of Central Oklahoma leads the first team, which also includes West Texas A&M guard Robert Lee, Texas A&M-Commerce center Scooby Johnson, Tarleton State guard Avery Patterson, Pittsburg State's Cory Abercrombie and Southwest Baptist's Matt Rogers. West Texas A&M head coach Rick Cooper was voted the region's Coach of the Year.
