College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Men's Basketball Teams
Wayne State College men's basketball players
Jordan Janssen and
Cody McCullough have been named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Men's Basketball Teams released Tuesday morning. Academic All-District honorees have to maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or better.
Janssen, a 6-7 fifth-year forward from Lincoln East HS, maintains a 3.77 post graduate grade point average while obtaining a master's degree in business administration. On the court this season, he leads Wayne State in most offensive categories averaging 20.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per contest. Janssen ranks third in the league in rebounding and fourth in scoring while also ranking sixth in field goal percentage (.541), seventh in blocked shots (1.0), tied for 11
th in assists per game (3.1) and 13
th in free throw percentage (.783).
He has scored double figures in all 27 games played this season and has seven double-doubles with 16 games of 20 or more points including three games of 30 or more and has been named NSIC South Division Men's Basketball Player of the Week four times this season.
McCullough, a 6-8 sophomore forward from Ankeny, Iowa (Centennial HS), carries a 3.74 grade point average majoring in finance and economics. This season, he is averaging 8.0 points and 7.8 rebounds a game this season with five double-doubles. McCullough ranks fourth in the NSIC in blocked shots per game (1.2) and is tied for fifth in rebounds and has eight games this season with 10 or more rebounds while shooting 47.8 percent from the field and 79.5 percent at the free throw line for the Wildcats.
Wayne State is 18-10 on the season and crowned NSIC South Division Champions with a 13-9 league mark. The Wildcats will face either Augustana or Bemidji State at 7 p.m. Saturday evening in the quarterfinals of the NSIC Men's Basketball Tournament at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls.
