CORVALLIS, Ore. – The 2021-22 Cascade Collegiate Conference Men’s Basketball postseason awards were announced Wednesday by the conference office.
After sweeping the regular-season conference championship and the CCC Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship, presented by U.S. Bank, ninth-ranked College of Idaho highlighted the postseason awards. Ricardo Time was named the WVT Laboratory Player of the Year, Drew Wyman picked up Freshman of the Year, and Colby Blaine grabbed his second Coach of the Year honor. Eastern Oregon University’s Phillip Malatare was named the Newcomer of the Year and Oregon Tech’s Kaison Faust rounded out the individual awards with Defensive Player of the Year. Multnomah University won the Les Schwab Team Sportsmanship Award.
Time, a senior guard from Palm Beach, Fla., helped the Coyotes win their fourth CCC tournament title and 10
th conference crown, averaging 12.7 points per game, which leads the Coyotes. He has scored in double figures in 23 contests and boasts a 44.1 shooting percentage heading into the NAIA tournament. Time leads the CCC in free throw percentage with an 88.3 and averages 2.0 three-pointers per game, which ranks seventh in conference.
Wyman, a freshman guard from Great Falls, Mont., had a stellar collegiate debut, averaging 11.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. He finished the year shooting 47.8-percent and scored in double figures in 12 games, including a career-high 23 at Bushnell University.
Under Blaine, the Coyotes boast a CCC-best +15.1 scoring margin and lead the conference in scoring defense, limiting opponents to 63.2 points per game (seventh in the NAIA). C of I heads into the championship game with a 28-4 overall record and coasting an 11-game winning streak. The Coyotes have a ton of momentum in their wake heading into their 24
th all-time trip to nationals, averaging 85.8 points per game over the past 11 games.
Malatare, a junior guard from Arlee, Mont., transferred to EOU from North Idaho College and immediately made an impact for the Mounties. He was named the CCC Player of the Week three times this year and sits second in the conference with a 19.3 points per game average. Malatare averages 5.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.4 steals per game, ranking 13
th, 10
th and eighth in the CCC respectively.
Faust, a junior guard from Medford, Ore., helped the Hustlin’ Owls grab the CCC’s second automatic qualifier for the NAIA Tournament after picking up the conference tournament’s second seed. Off the glass, Faust averages 5.4 rebounds as the Owls’ top rebounder. With Faust’s help boxing out, the Owls hold opponents to 30.5 rebounds per game (which leads the CCC) and boast a +9.1 rebounding margin (third in conference). Offensively, Faust boasts a 60.1 shooting percentage and averages 9.8 points per game.
The full list of the 2021-22 CCC All-Conference team can be found
here.