Sheldon Pace was given his 2nd all-American award in less than a week.

[NABC All-Americans]

KANSAS CITY, MO. ... Picking up his second all-American award in a week, senior Sheldon Pace was named to the NABC NCAA Division II All-American team. There were 16 players voted to this team.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) selected these 16 players to be all-Americans. Coaches and members of the NABC chose the 2006 all-Americans. Just yesterday, Pace was given his first all-American award of the year by being named to the Daktronics NCAA Division II all-American 2nd Team by the sports information directors of america.

Pace, who was named to the South Central Regional all-Tournament team, was one of two MIAA players on the NABC all-American team as Micheal Hicks from Central MIssouri State made the team, too. Pace finished the season averaging 13.9 points per game, 8.2 assists per game, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.1 steals per game. He now holds the SBU single season record for steals (70) and assists (265). Both of the records were over 15 years old that were broken.

He finished 2nd in the Bob Cousy Award fan voting with a weighed total of 135,293 votes behind the University of Illinois' Dee Brown votes of 218,619.

Claiming the MIAA MVP and MIAA Defensive Player of the Year, Pace was unanimously voted onto the all-MIAA First-Team for a second year in a row and the MIAA all-Defensive team. He was the MIAA Player of the Week four times for his play and voted the MIAA Tournament MVP and to the MIAA all-Tournament team. In the region, he made the Daktronics all-South Central Region First-Team and the all-South Central Regional Tournament team.

SBU finished the year at 27-5 and #6 in the nation. They won the MIAA regular season championship, outright, and then claimed the MIAA Tournament championship. Both championships were the first for SBU in 15 years. The Bearcats then maded the NCAA Tournament and were the #1 seed in the South Central Regional Tournament in which they hosted.

NABC All-America Team

Daruis Hargrove Virginia Union University

Duane Crockett Virginia Union University

Michael Hicks Central Missouri State University

Turner Trofholz University of South Dakota

Luke Anderson Minnesota State University - Mankato

Sullivan Sykes Saint Joseph’s College

Dustin Pfeifer University of Findlay

Shaun McKie Salem International University

DeMario Grier Pfeiffer University

Jasper Johnson Delta State University

Jason Smith University of Alabama - Huntsville

Grant Dykstra Western Washington University

Tony Binetti Seattle Pacific University

Stacey Moragne University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Tayron Thomas Philadelphia University