Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Black Hills State’s Joel Scott is the 2021-22 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, the league announced Wednesday. Scott’s award was announced alongside the 2021-22 RMAC Men’s Basketball All-Conference rosters. RMAC individual awards and all-conference rosters are voted on by the league’s 15 head coaches. Coaches are not permitted to vote for themselves or their own players.
 
Scott claims the league’s top honor after a dominant junior season in which he led the Yellow Jackets to a regular-season title while averaging 22.8 points per game in regular-season play, a mark that leads the RMAC and ranks ninth in the nation. He has pulled down double-doubles in 17 of his 26 appearances this season and leads the nation with 8.9 defensive rebounds per contest. In addition to his scoring average, Scott is also pulling down 10.8 rebounds per game to average a double-double on the season. The Monument, Colo., native has registered 12 performances with 25+ points this season, one game with 41 points and one 50-point game.
 
Colorado School of Mines’ Adam Krasovec claims the league’s Freshman of the Year award after averaging 7.4 points throughout the regular season. In his first year with the Orediggers, he has made an immediate impact, starting in 20 of his 24 appearances. Krasovec is shooting 51.1 percent from the field and 43.2 percent from three-point range. The big man has scored in double figures in 10 games throughout the season and is averaging 17.3 minutes per contest.
 
Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Laolu Oke is the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year after a dominant sophomore season. Oke has earned the league’s Defensive Player of the Week award an astounding nine times throughout the 2021-22 campaign. He has proven incredible on the glass and ranks third in the nation for rebounds per game (11.6). His 18 double-doubles lead the RMAC, rank second in the country and stand as an MSU Denver single-season record. Oke is averaging 7.7 defensive rebounds per game and surpassed another single-season program record for the Roadrunners with 325 total rebounds. Additionally, the Aurora, Colo., native has amassed 47 steals and 21 blocks throughout his sophomore campaign.
 
Black Hills State head coach Ryan Thompson is the RMAC Coach of the Year after leading the Yellow Jackets to the regular-season championship. His squad cruised through its conference schedule and finished with a 17-4 mark in RMAC play. BHSU is riding a four-game win streak and will host the remainder of the 2022 RMAC Men’s Basketball Tournament after downing New Mexico Highlands 102-76 in the quarterfinal round.
 
Colorado Mesa leads the way with five selections among the all-conference rosters, followed by Black Hills State with three honorees. Fort Lewis, New Mexico Highlands and University of Colorado Colorado Springs each accounted for two selections apiece. Colorado Christian, Colorado School of Mines, CSU Pueblo, MSU Denver, Regis and Western Colorado round out the all-conference rosters with one selection each.