Bose Named First Team All-District by National Association of Basketball Coaches
Anatoly Bose was named one of the top players in the district for the second straight year by the NABC

Bose Named First Team All-District by National Association of Basketball Coaches

2011 National Association of Basketball Coaches All District Teams

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Awards continue to pile up for Nicholls State University men's basketball player Anatoly Bose.  One day after picking up his third career all-conference honor, the senior guard/forward was named first team all-region for the second consecutive year as the National Association of Basketball Coaches named Bose to the All-District 23 First Team for the second consecutive season on Wednesday afternoon.

Bose is now eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams, to be announced on Saturday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m. (EDT) at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston during the NABC Convention and NCAA Final Four.

The Sydney, Australia native owns a 22.0 point/game average and begins the week ranked eighth in the nation in that category.  Bose has ranked as high as second in the nation in scoring average and has never ranked lower than tenth.  Bose has scored 20 or more points in 19 of 27 games this season and became just the third player in school history with 2,000 career points by racking up 2,025 points through the end of the regular season.

Bose heads into the 2011 Southland Conference Tournament needing 60 points to pass Lamar's BB Davis for tenth on the league's career scoring list and 100 points to pass former Colonel Reggie Jackson for the ninth best point total in conference history and the best career point total in Nicholls' NCAA Division I history.

A prolonged postseason run would help Bose continue to climb the conference scoring lists.  The Colonels will make their third consecutive postseason appearance, tying a school record, when Nicholls faces regular season champion and No. 1 seed McNeese State in the opening round of the 2011 State Farm Southland Conference Tournament tonight. 

Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. tonight at the Leonard E. Merrell Center in Katy, Texas.  The game can be heard in the New Orleans-Houma-Thibodaux area on the Colonel Sports Radio Network, including flagship stations KLRZ 100.3 FM and KLEB 1600 AM.  A free live streaming video webcast will be made available for every game of the tournament at www.southland.org.