Five Panther basketball players earn CSC Academic All-District recognition

GREENWOOD, Ind. --- Three women's basketball athletes and two men's basketball athletes were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Teams as announced by CSC on Tuesday.

The CSC Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. In addition to the honorees, men's basketball forward Tytan Anderson was selected as a finalist For Academic All-American honors.

Guards Kayba Laube and Taryn Wharton, as well as forwards Ryley Goebel, Tytan Anderson and Kyle Pock were selected by the CSC as members of the 2023-24 Academic All-District Team.

Nomination criteria include holding a cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.50 or better, being a sophomore standing or higher both academically and athletically and playing a key role in the lineup with participation in at least 90% of all scheduled team competitions or starts in 66% of games.

An Eldridge, Iowa native, Anderson led the Panther men's basketball team with 15.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game to help UNI record a 20-win season and reach the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). The First Team All-Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) honoree and MVC All-Defensive Team selection was also named the 2025 MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and an MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team selection.

Laube, a senior from Marion, Iowa, averaged 12.8 points a game and shot 46% from beyond the three-point arc. She notably scored a career-high 34 points with a school record ten made three pointers against Pittsburgh this season, and also broke the UNI women's basketball record for career three-point shots made (285).

Wharton, a junior hailing from Bellevue, Nebraska, posted a career-high 7.2 points with 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists a game this season while shooting 43% from the floor. She notably scored a career-high 18 points against Illinois State last month with a season-high five rebounds and five assists vs. Valparaiso at home, along with three steals on the road against the Beacons.

Goebel, an Urbana, Iowa native and junior forward, made history as the first player in MVC women's basketball history to record a 70 steal, 70 block season, a feat only accomplished by 18 other athletes in NCAA history. She scored a career-high 21 points in the Panthers' road game at UIC while averaging at career-best 10.2 points per game average on the year, and also recorded a season-high five steals, as well as a career-high five blocks against Drake in early March.

Pock, a sophomore from Bolivar, Missouri, averaged two points a game in his second season with the UNI men's basketball team, appearing in 32 of 33 games. Shooting 35.2% from three-point range (19-of-54), Pock was also an MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team selection this year.

College Sports Communicators' Academic All-America Team selections will be voted on and announced in mid-April.

ABOUT COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS
College Sports Communicators was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.

From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.

UNI basketball action can be followed all season long on social media on Facebook (UNI Women's Basketball / UNI Men's Basketball), X (@UNIwbb / (@UNImbb), and on Instagram (@uni_wbb / (@uni_basketball). The 2024-25 schedules and rosters, along with the latest Panther news and information can be found online at UNIpanthers.com.

Calendar

Upcoming Events