2021-22 All-RSC Men's Basketball Teams & Awards Announced
2021-22 All-RSC Men's Basketball Teams & Awards Announced
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- The 2021-22 All-River States Conference Men's Basketball Teams & Awards are announced at RiverStatesConference.com. Indiana University Kokomo headlines the honorees with RSC Player of the Year Desean Hampton and RSC Coach of the Year Eric Echelbarger.
The All-RSC Men's Basketball First & Second Teams consist of 10 players each. The selections were made with voting from the 13 head coaches in the RSC. Also named was the RSC Men's Basketball Champions of Character Team with one player from each school named for best displaying the NAIA five character values of respect, responsibility, integrity, servant leadership and sportsmanship.
Hampton was chosen RSC Player of the Year as the top vote-getter in the conference. His teammate Trequan Spivey, a fellow senior for the Cougars, came in second in the voting. Hampton, a 6-5 native of Speedway, Ind., averages a double-double of 12.7 points, 11.3 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game. A force on offense, defense and the boards, Hampton shoots 61 percent from the field.
Echelbarger, in his fourth season as IU Kokomo head coach, has the Cougars in the RSC Championship finals at 28-3 overall, 17-1 RSC. IU Kokomo is ranked No. 22 in the NAIA Top 25, and the Cougars are already in the NAIA National Championship as RSC Regular Season and RSC West Division champs.
IU Southeast sophomore guard Ahmad Price was chosen as RSC Newcomer of the Year. A sophomore from Louisville, Ky., the Lincoln Trail CC transfer averaged 17.5 points per game and shot 59 percent from the field. He led in votes among new players to the conference this year and made the All-RSC Second Team.
Spivey joined Hampton on the All-RSC First Team to give the Cougars two players selected on the top team. Alice Lloyd (Ky.) College also had two players on the first team with forward Will Philpot and guard Noah Young. University of Rio Grande (Ohio) had two on the first team with guard Miki Tadic and forward Shiloah Blevins.
The first team also included Midway (Ky.) University senior forward Raekwon Evans, IU Southeast senior guard Glenn Hill, Jr., WVU Tech freshman forward Thomas Hailey and Point Park (Pa.) University senior guard Sherron Schifino.
WVU Tech led the All-RSC Second Team with three selections while there were two each from IU East and IU Southeast. See below for the complete listing of the awards.
2021-22 ALL-RSC MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAMS & AWARDS
RSC Player of the Year -- Desean Hampton, Sr., F, IU Kokomo
RSC Newcomer of the Year -- Ahmad Price, So., G, IU Southeast
RSC Coach of the Year -- Eric Echelbarger, IU Kokomo
ALL-RSC MEN'S BASKETBALL FIRST TEAM
| Name | School | Pos. | Cl. |
| Desean Hampton | IU Kokomo | F | Sr. |
| Trequan Spivey | IU Kokomo | G | Sr. |
| Will Philpot | Alice Lloyd | F | Jr. |
| Miki Tadic | Rio Grande | G | So. |
| Raekwon Evans | Midway | F | Sr. |
| Noah Young | Alice Lloyd | G | Sr. |
| Glenn Hill Jr. | IU Southeast | G | Sr. |
| Thomas Hailey | WVU Tech | F | Fr. |
| Shiloah Blevins | Rio Grande | F | So. |
| Sherron Schifino | Point Park | G | Sr. |
ALL-RSC MEN'S BASKETBALL SECOND TEAM
| Name | School | Pos. | Cl. |
| Garrett Silcott | IU East | G | Jr. |
| Tay Smith | Brescia | G | Fr. |
| Andrew Work | WVU Tech | F | So. |
| Damon Tobler | Alice Lloyd | F | So. |
| Jared Osborne | IU Southeast | G | Sr. |
| Tamon Scruggs | WVU Tech | G | Sr. |
| Ahmad Price | IU Southeast | G | So. |
| Donnie Miller | Midway | G | So. |
| Jehu Lafeuillee | IU East | F | Sr. |
| Andreas Jonsson | WVU Tech | G | Sr. |
RSC MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS OF CHARACTER TEAM
| School | Name |
| Alice Lloyd College | Colyn Sturgill |
| Brescia University | Daniel Rusiecki |
| Carlow University | Malcolm Randall |
| Indiana University East | Jehu LaFeuillee |
| Indiana University Kokomo | Xavier Hines |
| Indiana University Southeast | Jared Osborne |
| Midway University | DJ Lujan |
| Oakland City University | DJ Redding |
| Ohio Christian University | Keason Lowe |
| Point Park University | Jesse Calloway |
| Saint Mary of the Woods College | Jamarius (J.J.) Evans |
| University of Rio Grande | Caleb Wallis |
| WVU Tech | Luke Vass |