AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — Marietta College placed three players on the 2020 All-Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Basketball team announced Thursday (Feb. 27) morning by the league office. The Pioneers are currently 21-5 overall, ranked No. 21 nationally and are the No. 2 seed in the OAC Tournament.
Junior
Jason Ellis (Marion, Ohio/Marion Harding) was named to the first team, while junior
Tim Kreeger (Delphos, Ohio/Delphos St. Johns) earned second team honors and sophomore
Lukas Isaly (Clarington, Ohio/River) was honorable mention. Ellis is making his second appearance on the all-conference team after earning honorable mentions accolades last season.
Ellis currently leads the Pioneers in scoring averaging 16.5 points per game, good for sixth in the OAC. He is second in the conference in free throw shooting converting 86.1% of his attempts at the charity stripe. Ellis poured in a career-high 51 points in Marietta's early season win over John Carroll and he is nine points shy of scoring his 800th career point in the Navy Blue and White.
Kreeger, a first-time all-conference honoree, has become a dominant force in the paint for the Pioneers. He is second on the team in scoring averaging 12.5 points and leads MC with 6.6 rebounds per game. He ranks fourth in the OAC in both rebounding (6.6 rpg) and field goal percentage (56.7%) and is third in the conference averaging 1.0 blocks per night.
Also making his first appearance on the all-conference team, Isaly is the Pioneers' starting point guard and is one of the all-around shooters in the conference. He is third on the team in scoring averaging 12.2 points per outing. Isaly is fifth in the OAC in three-point shooting sinking 45.1% of his shots beyond the arc. His 79.4% free throw shooting is tenth-best in the league.
The Pioneers have posted their tenth straight winning season and sixth season in a row with over 20 wins, both streaks are program records.
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