AMES, Iowa – Iowa State senior Georges Niang has been named a National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Second-Team honoree, announced Monday by the organization.
Niang, who was a third-team pick by the NABC as a junior, finished his senior season averaging 20.5 points per game, the most by any Cyclone since Craig Brackins averaged 20.2 points in 2009. Niang also averaged a career-high 6.2 rebounds and shot 54.6 percent from the floor, 39.2 percent from 3-point range and 80.7 percent from the free-throw line.
Niang is just the 24th player since 1994-95 and the first since Creighton’s Doug McDermott did it in 2013-14 to average 20.0 points, 6.0 rebounds while also shooting at least 50 percent from the field and 80 percent at the line.
He scored in double figures in all 35 games, posting 17 games with 20 or more points and four games with 30 or more.
NABC All-America First Team
Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia
Buddy Hield, Oklahoma
Brice Johnson, North Carolina
Ben Simmons, LSU
Denzel Valentine, Michigan State
NABC All-America Second Team
Kris Dunn, Providence
Perry Ellis, Kansas
Georges Niang, Iowa State
Jakob Poeltl, Utah
Tyler Ulis, Kentucky
NABC All-America Third Team
Grayson Allen, Duke
Kay Felder, Oakland
Yogi Ferrell, Indiana
Josh Hart, Villanova
Jarrod Uthoff, Iowa
