PAC releases Men's Basketball All-Conference teams, award winners
Saint Vincent's Jaylon Bell was voted the league's Player of the Year, while Grove City's Steve Lamie captured Coach of the Year honors

PAC releases Men's Basketball All-Conference teams, award winners

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GREENVILLE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) announced its 2015-16 All-PAC Men's Basketball teams and yearly award winners Tuesday.

Saint Vincent College senior guard Jaylon Bell (Ocoee, Fla. / West Orange) was voted the league's Player of the Year, while Grove City College 18th-year head coach Steve Lamie was voted the conference's Coach of the Year.

Chatham University and first-year head coach Andrew Garcia were selected as this season's PAC Team Sportsmanship Award winner.

The all-conference teams, as well as the PAC's yearly award winners, are determined, by vote, of the conference's 10 head coaches.

Bell ranks fourth in the PAC in scoring average (16.6 points per game), second in assists (114), assists per game (4.4), steals (61) and steals per game (2.3), third in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9), sixth in minutes played per game (32.2) and 15th in made three-point field goals (32). He currently has one 30-point game and eight 20-point scoring efforts this season. Bell's 61 steals rank 22nd among NCAA Division III counterparts this season.

Bell is Saint Vincent's second Player of the Year honoree (Dillon Stith, 2014) since gaining full league membership in 2010-11. 

Lamie, a four-time PAC Coach of the Year (2016, 2010, 2004, 1999), led the Wolverines to program records for regular season wins (18), conference wins (13) and road wins (10) this season. Picked to finish eighth in this year’s preseason coaches’ poll, Grove City led the league in scoring defense (65.1 points/game), field goal percentage defense (3.96%) and rebound margin (+7.7). He has led the Wolverines to four PAC titles.

Saint Vincent (22-6) earned the conference's automatic qualifying bid to the Division III Men's Basketball Championship for the fourth-straight season and will travel to Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) champion John Carroll University (25-3) Friday evening. Grove City (18-8) accepted an invitation to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III South Championship Tournament Monday. Awarded the No. 6 seed in an eight-team draw, the Wolverines will visit Penn State Behrend (20-5), the No. 3 seed, Wednesday night in Erie. Tip-off at the Junker Center will be 7 p.m. It will be Grove City's first postseason appearance in six years.

2015-16 PAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year: Saint Vincent College senior guard Jaylon Bell (Ocoee, Fla. / West Orange)
2015-16 PAC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year: Grove City College 18th-year head coach Steve Lamie
2015-16 PAC Men's Basketball Team Sportsmanship Award: Chatham University and first-year head coach Andrew Garcia

Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) 2015-16 Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams
First Team
Name School Position Height Year Hometown / High School
Antonio Rudolph Bethany College G 6-2 Jr. New Castle, Pa. / New Castle
Jaylon Bell Saint Vincent College G 5-11 Sr. Ocoee, Fla. / West Orange
Pat Jones Saint Vincent College G 6-3 Sr. Frostburg, Md. / Bishop Walsh
Khari Bess Thiel College G 6-1 Sr. Waldorf, Md. / Maurice J. McDonough
Luke Kochka Thiel College F 6-5 Sr. Monroeville, Pa. / Gateway
 
Second Team
Name School Position Height Year Hometown/High School
Ethan Adamczyk Geneva College G/F 6-4 Sr. Uniontown, Ohio / Lake
Joe Vermilya Grove City College G 6-2 Sr. Sylvania, Ohio / Southview
Simon Clifford Thomas More College F/C 6-6 Jr. Louisville, Ky. / DuPont Manual
B.J. Durham Waynesburg University G 5-10 Sr. West Friendship, Md. / Marriotts Ridge
D.J. Ritchie Waynesburg University W 6-5 Sr. Oakland, Md. / Southern Garrett
 
Honorable Mentions
Name School Position Height Year Hometown/High School
Calique Jones Bethany College G 6-0 So. Pittsburgh, Pa. / Obama Academy
Chaese Vaudrin Geneva College G 6-3 Jr. Uniontown, Ohio / Lake
Andrew Beckman Grove City College C 6-6 So. Shelby, Mich. / Shelby
JC Howard Saint Vincent College G 6-2 Sr. Pittsburgh, Pa. / North Allegheny
Daniel Williams
 Thomas More College G 5-10 So. Louisville, Ky. / Jeffersontown
Jarret Vrabel Westminster College F 6-6 So. Canfield, Ohio / Canfield