Black Hills State University Athletics

PRONUNCIATION


Honors and Awards
2023-24 D2CCA Honorable Mention All-American
2023-24 D2CCA First Team All-South Central Region
2023-24 NABC Second Team All-South Central Region
2023-24 All-RMAC First Team
2022-23 All-RMAC Second Team
 
2023-24: D2CCA Honorable Mention All-American ... D2CCA First Team All-South Central Region performer ... NABC Second Team All-South Central Region honors ... First Team All-Conference honoree ...Two-time RMAC Offensive Player of the Week (Feb. 19, March 4) ... scored his 1,000th career point as a Yellow Jacket at Fort Lewis (Feb. 23) ...

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With his 13th point against the Skyhawks tonight, ?????????????? ???????????????? scored his 1,000th career point as a Yellow Jacket!

He's now scored 1,000+ points at two different schools, both being in the @RMAC_SPORTS!#ClimbTheHills x @BHSUMBB pic.twitter.com/dsgyrg0Y33

— Black Hills State Athletics (@BHSUAthletics) February 24, 2024

2022-23: Appeared in and started all 35 games for the Yellow Jackets … was second on the team with 32.0 minutes per game while averaging 13.5 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game … ranked 23rd in the nation and led the RMAC with 89 made threes, and ranked third in the RMAC in three point percentage (42.4), third in made threes per game (2.54), eighth in total points (472) and ninth in made field goals (171) … had a season-best 25 points, nine made field goals and two blocks against Minnesota Duluth (3/21) … made a season-high six threes against Metro State (2/4) and six rebounds against New Mexico Highlands (1/20) … he and teammate Matthew Ragsdale combined for the most total points in a season by a pair of NCAA teammates who also played on the same high school team with 1,277 combined points, surpassing the previous highest combined total of 1,047 points, accumulated by Dick (535 points) and Tom Van Arsdale (512) in the 1963-64 season at Indiana after playing high school basketball together at Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis, Ind.
 
Western Colorado: In 2021-22 season, was named All-RMAC first team and voted to the Conference Commissioner's Association (CCA) NCAA Division II All-South Central Region Men's Basketball Second Team ... broke WCU men’s basketball single-game record with 53-point game at BHSU (12/3/21) … scored 21.5 points per game on 44.5 percent shooting from the field ... made 35.7 percent of his shots from the three-point line … grabbed 115 rebounds … in 2020-21 season, was named All-RMAC second team and RMAC All-Academic ... averaged 20.8 points per game ... shot 49.1 percent from the field … in 2019-20 season, was named All-RMAC Honorable Mention ... averaged 12.4 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.7 3-pointers per game ... his 44.4 3-point percentage ranked 25th in NCAA Division II … over his three-year career at Western Colorado, Ragsdale became the eighth player in the history of the program to surpass the 1,000 point mark.

High School: Played at Lewis-Palmer High School in Colorado with Yellow Jacket teammate, Joel Scott ... team went undefeated 28-0 to win the Colorado 4A State Championship his senior year after finishing runner-up the year before ... averaged 17.5 points, 2.5 assists and 2.5 rebounds as a senior, along with shooting 49 percent from 3-point range and 57 percent overall from the field ... earned First Team All-State (4A CHSAA), First Team All-Conference (PPAC), All-USA Colorado Team, played in The Show All-Star game, Colorado Springs 4A/5A All-Star game and earned state championship MVP in senior year.