2009 All-Fraternity All-American Basketball Team
The honorees represent schools from NCAA Divisions I, II and III. Names were submitted to the North-American Interfraternity Conference by fraternity headquarters, Greek advisors and sports information directors. Additional research was done by Jay Langhammer at Jlangha132@aol.com.
First Team
DEVON GIBSON, Sigma Phi Epsilon-Texas at San Antonio
All-Southland
Conference third team; All-Southland Conference Tournament first team; scored
333 points (12.3 average); 100 rebounds (3.7), 90 assists and 82 steals
ORLANDO MENDEZ-VALDES, Pi Kappa Alpha-Western Kentucky
Division I
All-American honorable mention; Hershey's Collegiate All-Star Game; All-Sun
Belt Conference first team; scored 484 points (14.2) with 141 rebounds (4.1),
140 assists, 101 3-point goals and 39 steals
MITCHELL MEYER, Phi Gamma Delta-Hanover
All-Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference first team, HCAC scoring leader, Hanover MVP;
scored 473 points (18.9) with 209 rebounds (8.4) and 21 blocked shots
MIKE MOORE, Phi Kappa Psi-DePauw
Division
III All-American second team; Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of
the Year; scored 526 points (20.2) with 102 rebounds (3.9), 86 assists, 86
3-point goals and 30 steals
SAM SIMMONS, Kappa Alpha Psi-RPI
D3hoops.com
All-East Region first team; Liberty League Player of the Year; Liberty League
scoring and rebounding leader; scored 496 points (18.4) with 220 rebounds
(8.1), 48 assists, 46 steals and 32 blocked shots
Coach of the Year
JAY WRIGHT, Sigma Chi-Villanova
Big East
Coach of the Year; led his 30-8 team to the NCAA Division I Final Four
Honorable Mention
Players
Connor Atchley, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Texas; Allen Bediako, Delta Tau Delta-Kenyon; Casey Berry, Kappa Alpha
Order-University of the South; Steve
Bielich, Sigma Nu-Westminster PA; Rob
Bledsoe, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Rhodes; Tom
Callen, Phi Kappa Psi-DePauw; Mike
Case, Phi Gamma Delta-Hanover; Jared
Catron, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Franklin; Joe
Cromwell, Delta Tau Delta-LaGrange; Jordan
DeMercy, Pi Kappa Alpha-Florida State; Taylor
Dial, Phi Gamma Delta-Hanover; Andrew
Farber-Miller, Phi Gamma Delta-Johns Hopkins; Anthony Fernandez, Sigma Nu-Emory; Ben Goetsch, Beta Theta Pi-Washington & Lee; Kurt Graeber, Theta Delta
Chi-Dartmouth; Chase Haltom, Beta
Theta Pi-Wabash; Josh Johnson, Pi Kappa
Alpha-Presbyterian; Steve Lemasters,
Phi Kappa Psi-DePauw; David Maltz,
Beta Theta Pi-Wesleyan; Mark Messenger,
Birmingham-Southern Sigma Nu; Kevin
Murray, Phi Kappa Psi-Wittenberg;
David Nowicki, Phi Gamma Delta-Wittenberg; Dan O'Leary, Phi Gamma Delta-Hanover; Brad Pursell, Delta Tau Delta-University of the South; B.J. Raymond, Alpha Phi Alpha-Xavier; Alex
Richey, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Oglethorpe; Tim Rupp, Zeta Psi-RPI; Dean Shroyer, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon-Rhodes; Mark Snyder, Phi
Gamma Delta-Wittenberg; Jason Warncke,
Kappa Alpha Order-Westminster MO; Nic
Whitfield, Delta Tau Delta-LaGrange;
John Yochum, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Franklin
Coaches
Jim Boeheim, Delta Upsilon-Syracuse; Jim Boylen, Sigma Nu-Utah; Scott Drew, Delta Tau Delta-Baylor; Mark Edwards, Beta Theta Pi-Washington
MO; Bill Fenlon, Delta Tau
Delta-DePauw; Mike Montgomery, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon-Cal-Berkeley; Tom Penders,
Theta Xi-Houston; Rick Pitino,
Lambda Chi Alpha-Louisville; Kevin
Stallings, Pi Kappa Alpha-Vanderbilt; Brad
Stevens, Alpha Tau Omega-Butler;
Brooks Thompson, Sigma Chi-Texas-San Antonio