Bowling Green State University Athletics
Nate Miller Named To NABC All-District Team
March 06, 2009 | Men's Basketball
March 6, 2009
Kansas City, Mo. - Bowling Green senior forward Nate Miller was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I All-District team, recognizing the nation's best men's collegiate basketball student-athletes.
Miller has had a fantastic season, guiding the Bowling Green Falcons to a 17-13 overall record and a 10-5 mark in the Mid-American Conference, placing the team in a tie for first at the top of the MAC standings with one game remaining. He leads the team in scoring (12.7 points per game), rebounding (7.3 rebounds per game) and steals (2.0 per game). He leads the MAC in steals and ranks in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding, and field goal percentage.
By scoring a career-high 22 points against Canisius, Miller became the 37th player in program history to reach 1,000 for his career. He is one of only four players in school history with 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 125 steals, doing all of that in just three seasons after transferring from UNC-Wilmington after his freshman campaign. Most recently, he scored 12 points, grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds and added five steals in the team's overtime loss to Miami.
Miller is the first Falcon to be selected to the NABC Division I All-District team since Josh Almanson was a second-team selection in 2005. The last first-team selection was Keith McLeod in 2002.
Miller joins Miami's Michael Bramos, Ohio's Jerome Tillman, Buffalo's Rodney Pierce, and Western Michigan's David Kool on the district 14 first team. Kent State's Al Fisher and Chris Singletary, Toledo's Tyrone Kent, Central Michigan's Jordan Bitzer, and Miami's Tyler Dierkers make up the second team.
Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, the 240 student-athletes who were selected to the 24 all-district teams are now eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams to be announced Saturday, April 4 at Hoop City in the COBO Center at 10 a.m. as part of the 2009 NABC Convention in Detroit.
