KANSAS CITY, Mo. (March 21, 2012) – Senior Braydon Hobbs of Bellarmine University has been selected as the 2012 Division II Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Hobbs, a NABC Coaches' Division II All-America selection this season, will receive his award at the AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game awards show on Sunday, April 1, at the New Orleans Theatre at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La.

The 6-5 guard from New Albany, Ind., has helped his team to a second straight appearance in the NCAA® Division II Elite Eight this week at The Bank of Kentucky Center at Northern Kentucky University. Coach Scott Davenport's team is the defending NCAA Division II champion, having captured the title last March in Springfield, Mass.

Hobbs is the consummate all-purpose player for the Knights and was the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Player of the Year this season while being named to the inaugural GLVC all-defensive team. He was the lone unanimous all-conference selection and was named national player of the year by Basketball Times.

Among the NCAA Division II leaders in three-point field goal percentage and assist-to-turnover ratio, he holds several career marks at Bellarmine. He also is nationally ranked in assists per game and is in the top 20 for all-time assists in Division II. Hobbs, who has ranked among the national leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio in all of his four seasons, has started each of the 131 games he has played in over his career with a 12.4 scoring average, 215 steals, 94 blocks, 713 assists and 275 three-point field goals.

The NABC also announced  the 2012 NABC Coaches' Division II All-America teams. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, these student-athletes represent the finest basketball players across America.

2012 NABC COACHES' DIVISION II ALL-AMERICA TEAM

Stefan Bonneau, C.W. Post, 5-10, Senior, Guard, Middletown, N.Y.

Scott Dennis, Christian Brothers, 6-6, Senior, Guard, Cincinnati, Ohio

James Ellisor, Bemidji State, 6-5, Senior, Forward, Glendale, Ariz.

Brett Green, Colorado School of Mines, 6-4, Junior, Guard/Forward, Peyton, Col.

Eric Jean-Guillaume, Franklin Pierce, 6-0, Junior, Guard, Stamford, Conn.

Braydon Hobbs, Bellarmine, 6-5, Senior, Guard, New Albany, Ind.

Reggie Jones, Cal State Stanislaus, 6-9, Senior, Forward, Paterson, N.J.

Jeremy Kendle, Bellarmine, 6-2, Junior, Guard, Jeffersonville, Ind.

Josh Magette, Alabama-Huntsville, 6-1, Senior, Guard, Birmingham, Ala.

Will McNeill, Washburn, 6-1, Junior, Guard, Alexandria, La.

Paul “PJ” Reyes, Charleston (WV), 6-5, Senior, Guard, Taylor, Mich.

D.J. Rivera, Montevallo, 6-4, Senior, Guard, Philadelphia, Pa.

Taylor Rohde, Alaska-Anchorage, 6-9, Senior, Forward/Center, Phoenix, Ariz.

Ashton Smith, IUP, 6-2, Senior, Guard, Scarborough, Ont., Canada

Keane Thomann, Missouri Southern, 6-11, Senior, Center, Olney, Ill.

Dwight Tolbert, Lander, 6-5, Senior, Wing, Tifton, Ga.

About the National Association of Basketball Coaches

Located in Kansas City, MO, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Forrest “Phog” Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently claims nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches. All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today's student-athletes. The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education. Additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, can be found at www.nabc.org.