SAN LUIS OBISPO \u2013 Seven Cal Poly basketball players received Big West Winter Academic All-Conference team recognition Tuesday afternoon with the Mustangs men\u2019s program earning a program record four selections.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In order to qualify for inclusion, student-athletes (excluding true freshmen and first-year transfers) had to maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA through the most recent academic term while also competing in at least 50 percent of their program\u2019s competitions.<\/p>\n
The complete listing of Cal Poly\u2019s seven Big West Winter Academic All-Conference team honorees is below.<\/p>\n
From the Cal Poly men\u2019s basketball program, sophomore guard Peter Bandelj \u2013 who finished third in the lineup at 13.0 points per game \u2013 paired his All-Big West honorable mention award with Tuesday\u2019s academic all-conference honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bandelj was joined by sophomore Guzman Vasilic (7.6 points per game; 17 starts) and juniors Jackson Mosley (6.5 points per game in 17 appearances) and Kieran Elliott (4.9 points per game; 10 starts).<\/p>\n
The Cal Poly women\u2019s program was represented sophomore guard Jordan Billing (16 starts in 26 appearances) and sophomore forwards Avery Knapp (83.3 percent free throw mark; 4.0 points per game) and Nora Perez (5.7 points, 4.2 rebounds per game).<\/p>\n
All seven players earned their first career Big West Winter Academic All-Conference team honor on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s Basketball (4)
Peter Bandelj, So. \u2013 Psychology (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Kieran Elliott, Jr. \u2013 Interdisciplinary Studies (Lubbock, Texas)
Guzman Vasilic, Jr. \u2013 Business Administration (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Jackson Mosley, Jr. \u2013 Mechanical Engineering (La Ca\u00f1ada, Calif.)<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Basketball (3)
Jordan Billing, So. \u2013 Journalism (Gold Coast, Australia)
Avery Knapp, So. \u2013 Business Administration (Danville, Calif.)
Nora Perez, So. \u2013 Biomedical Engineering (Donostia\/San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO \u2013 Seven Cal Poly basketball players received Big West Winter Academic All-Conference team recognition Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-607304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}