Staff Report
Senior guard Ruben Douglas of the UNM men's basketball team was named Mountain West Conference Player of the Year Monday.
Douglas torched the MWC, averaging a record 32.1 PPG in conference games. He leads the nation in scoring with 28.1 PPG.
He was also a unanimous selection to the All-Mountain West First-Team. Douglas was the only player who made the First-Team last year to be selected again this season.
Douglas becomes the third Lobo to win conference player of the year. Clayton Shields won it in 1998 and Greg Brown took home the honors in 1994 in the Western Athletic Conference.
Freshman guard Mark Walters was honored for his outstanding play this year, earning Mountain West Honorable Mention. Walters scored 9.4 PPG and brought down 5.7 RPG.
Get content from The Daily Lobo delivered to your inbox
The women's basketball team also earned several accolades on Monday.
Senior center Jordan Adams was named to the All-Mountain West First Team.
She led UNM with 15.6 PPG while pulling down 6.4 RPG.
Senior forward Chelsea Grear was named to the second team for her strong play this season. Grear scored 10.7 PPG and grabbed a team-high 6.5 RPG.
Sophomore point guard Mandi Moore was named to the third team. Moore ran the show for UNM and many of her intangible contributions did not show up on the stat sheet. She averaged 8.1 PPG and 5.1 RPG.
Moore also averaged nearly seven assists per contest and played an exhausting 35.7 minutes a game.
Joining Douglas on the first team for the men is UNLV guard Marcus Banks, BYU forward Travis Hansen and Wyoming's tandem of Uche Nsonwu-Amadi and Donta Richardson.
BYU's Erin Thorn, Utah's Kim Smith, UNLV's Constance Jinks and CSU's Ashley Augspurger joined Adams on the women's MWC First Team. Smith was the women's Player of the Year as well as Newcomer of the Year.
BYU's men's coach Steve Cleveland and Utah's Elaine Elliot were name the conference coaches of the year.
