Men's Basketball: Two Honored by AP
March 27, 2006 09:21 PM | General
March 27, 2006
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University seniors Mike Gansey and Kevin Pittsnogle were named to the Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America Men’s Basketball team, announced today.
Pittsnogle, a 6-foot-11-inch center, averaged 19.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game to help the Mountaineers to a 22-11 record and the school’s second straight NCAA tournament “Sweet 16” appearance, where they lost to Texas.
The Martinsburg native shot 47.6 percent from the floor including 40.1 percent from 3-point range. Pittsnogle finished his career with 1,708 points to rank sixth among all WVU scorers.
Gansey, a 6-foot-4-inch forward from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, averaged 16.8 points and a team-best 5.7 rebounds per game. Gansey shot 55 percent from the floor including 42.9 percent from 3-point distance. The St. Bonaventure transfer scored 976 points in two seasons at West Virginia
The AP first team All-America squad features Duke standouts J.J. Redick and Sheldon Williams, as well as Villanova’s Randy Foye, Washington’s Brandon Roy and Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison.
The second team is comprised of Illinois’s Dee Brown, Memphis Rodney Carney, Connecticut’s Rudy Gay, Texas’s P.J. Tucker and California’s Leon Powell.
The third team is made up of Boston College’s Craig Smith, LSU’ Glen Davis, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, Nevada’s Nick Fazekas and Villanova’s Allan Ray.
