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Thompson named GNAC preseason player of the year

UAA senior guard Travis Thompson was voted the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Men's Pre-Season Player of the Year by the conference's head coaches.

Thompson, a 6-foot-1 Dimond High grad, was one of eight unanimous selections to the 15-player preseason all-conference team.

Thompson averaged 21.3 points per game last season and is the only returning first-team All-GNAC selection. He went 109 of 259 from 3-point range and is currently 40th on the conference's all-time scoring list with 1,197 career points.

Also named to the team as a unanimous selection was UAA guard Brian McGill, a 6-foot-2 guard from Clackamas, Oregon. McGill was second in the GNAC last season in assists (5.9 per game) and 11th in scoring (15.6 points per game).

UAF senior guard Joe Slocum was also named to the team, as was Northwest Nazarene's Kevin Rima, a 6-foot-7 senior forward from Fairbanks who graduated from Hutchison High in 2010.

UAA will play an exhibition game against a team of former Seawolves on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Alaska Airlines Center. The Seawolves' season gets underway Nov. 7-8 with a two-game series against Concordia (Oregon). Tipoff is at 7 p.m. both nights.

GNAC Preseason All-Conference Team

*Travis Thompson, Sr., G, UAA; *Sango Niang, Sr., G, SFU; *Andy Argi, Jr., F, WOU; *Kevin Rima, Sr., F, NNU; Riley Stockton, Sr., G, SPU; *Cory Hutsen, Sr., F, SPU; Anye Turner, Sr., F, WWU; *Brian McGill, Jr., G, UAA; *Austin Hudson, Sr., F, MSUB; *Joe Slocum, Sr., G, UAF; Jeffrey Parker, So., F, WWU; Devon Alexander, Jr., G, WOU; Ryan Rogers, Sr., F, SMU; Ricardo Maxwell, Jr., G, WWU; Joey Schrieber, So., F, WWU

* Unanimous

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