HELENA, Mont. -- Carroll College men's basketball coach
Kurt Paulson was named the Frontier Conference Coach of the Year and Saints senior forward
Match Burnham was named Player of the Year, commissioner Kent Paulson announced on Wednesday.
Carroll freshman
Shamrock Campbell was named Co-Freshmen of the Year alongside Providence center Jaxen Hashley.
Three Saints were named first team all-conference. Junior guard
Dane Warp and senior guard
Matt Wyman joined Burnham on the first team.
Burnham, of Spangle, Washington, averaged 19.9 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 52 percent from the field, 40 percent from the three-point line and 86 percent from the foul line. He posted five games where he scored 30 or more points.
Out of Havre, Montana, Warp averaged 17.1 points per game, 4.7 rebounds and led the team in assists at 3.1 per game. Warp posted the only known triple-double in Saints this story this season when he scored 45 points, pulled down 11 rebounds and had 11 assists against Salish Kootenai College on Nov. 23.
A Great Falls, Montana, native, Wyman was second on the team in scoring with 17.3 points per game. He averaged 5.7 rebounds and was No. 2 in assists at three per game. He led the Saints in field-goal percentage at 60 percent, while shooting 43 percent from deep and 80 percent from the foul line.
Senior guard
Ife Kalejaiye was named second team all-conference. He averaged 12.6 points, three rebounds, 2.4 assists and led the team in steals per game at 1.7. Kalejaiye led the Saints' perimeter defense and shot well on offense, shooting 45 percent from the field, 43 percent from the three-point line and 78 percent from the foul line.
Campbell, out of Spokane, Washington, started in 30 of 32 games for the Saints. He played the most of any Saint at 1,096 minutes played. He ran the Saints' offense and averaged nine points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. He shot 51 percent from the field, 46 percent from three, and 82 percent from the foul line.
Matt Wyman was also named the Saints' Champion of Character.
The Saints (25-7) won the Frontier Conference regular season title and finished runner-up in the postseason. Carroll will advance to the NAIA tournament and learn of its seeding next Wednesday during the NAIA's Selection Show.
