COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's basketball student-athletes Padiet Wang and Geoff Kelly were voted to the 2019-20 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men's Basketball All-Academic Team, announced today by the league office.  Both natives of Aurora, Colo., Wang was named to the first team while Kelly received Honor Roll honors.
 
Logan Elers, a senior forward from South Dakota Mines has been named the 2019-20 Men's Basketball Academic Player of the Year.  Elers, along with the other First Team All-Academic members, were voted on by the conference's sports information directors. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must carry a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and must have been an active student at the institution for at least two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters.
 
Earning his third RMAC All-Academic award and the second straight year to be voted to the first team, senior guard Padiet Wang owns a 3.586 grade point average in Business.  A recent member of the UCCS 1,000-point club, Wang ranks third in the league in steals (2.0 per game), fourth in field goal percentage (49.8 percent), sixth in points per game (16.8 per game) and 11^th in assists/turnover ratio (1.1).  A 2018-19 selection to the All-RMAC Second Team and the 2017-18 All-RMAC Honorable Mention team, Wang has started all 20 games this season and has scored at least 10 points in 18 games, and at least 20 points in six games, including a career high 30 points that was recorded this past Saturday night in a home win over CSU-Pueblo.
 
Redshirt-junior Geoff Kelly is making his third consecutive appearance on the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.  Kelly, who is majoring in Business and holds a 3.897 GPA, has seen action in 16 games and started 14, averaging 7.6 points per game.  He is shooting the ball at a 46 percent clip (40-of-87) from the floor and 41.1 percent from long range (23-of-56).  He has made multiple treys in six games this season, including a season high four threes at Regis on Dec. 13.
 
With four weeks remaining in the regular season, the Mountain Lions are tied for fourth place in the league standings (13-7, 9-6 RMAC).  UCCS will begin a four-game road trip this weekend at MSU Denver on Feb. 7 and Chadron State College on Feb. 8.