ROLLA, MO  --  Missouri S&T Men's Basketball has three honorees in this year's National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District awards, with Head Coach Bill Walker, junior forward Andrew Young (Ballwin, MO/Marquette), and senior guard Lovell Williams (Rogers, MN/Maple Grove) all being named in the release earlier today.

Coach Walker has been named the NABC Midwest Region Coach of the Year, one of nine coaches in the nation to be named a regional coach of the year. The Miners were picked to finish 10th in the Great Lakes Valley Conference preseason poll after a 15-12 campaign in 2023-24 that ended in S&T narrowly missing the GLVC Championship. Coach Walker and the Miners quickly exceeded expectations this season, starting the year 7-0. After suffering their first loss of the season to St. Mary's (Texas), they would rebound by defeating #3 West Liberty, starting a 12-game win streak that lasted from late December into early February and saw the team rank as high as #5 in the NABC poll. S&T would end the regular season 23-4, earning the title of GLVC Regular Season champions and earning the #1 seed in both the GLVC championship and the Midwest Regional. The Miners' final record of 25-6 ties the S&T school record for most wins in a season.

Young was named to the NABC Midwest Region First Team for his record-setting season. The 6'9" junior set a program record for blocks in a season with 54, as well as leading S&T in points per game (16.7) and rebounds per game (7.6). He recorded nine double-doubles this season, a personal best and the most in a season by a Miner in roughly two decades.

Williams rounded out the Miners' honorees, making Midwest Region Second Team for his work as S&T's primary point guard this season. He recorded the second-most assists in an S&T single season this year, picking up 163 assists to finish second in the GLVC in assists per game with 5.4. Williams thrived not only on offense this year but on defense as well, setting personal season-highs of 30 blocks and 48 steals with Coach Walker calling him "the best two-way player that he has ever coached."

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