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MBB Obi Agbim NABC First-Team All-Region Graphic - Mar. 18, 2024

Agbim tabbed with NABC First-Team All-Region honors

3/25/2024 9:00:00 AM

By: Hayden Mangan, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Lewis guard Obi Agbim picked up First-Team All-South Central Region honors from the National Association of Basketball Coaches on Monday.

Now a two-time All-Region talent, Agbim was the spearhead of Fort Lewis' no-starters offense that averaged 86.1 points this season on a combined 48.9 percent shooting from the field. In addition, Agbim becomes just the fourth player in program history to earn NABC First-Team honors in the South-Central region.

Standing at six-foot-three and a native of Houston, Texas, Agbim has been an integral part of the Skyhawks roster over the past two seasons and has helped guide Fort Lewis to a program record 29-4 overall record in back-to-back years.

This season, Agbim was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Jan. 22, 2024, named First-Team All-RMAC, the 2024 RMAC Tournament's Most Valuable Player, and was a Division II Conference Commissioners Association Second-Team All-South Central Regional selection two Fridays ago.

Agbim averaged 15.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.9 assists, and 1.4 steals per game while shooting at clips of 44.3 percent from the field, 35.5 percent from the three-point line, and 83.6 percent at the free throw line for 511 total points on the season. Most notably, Agbim went for a career-high 33 points on a phenomenal 10-12 shooting (83.3 percent) including a perfect 4-4 from downtown to capture the program's second-straight RMAC Tournament Championship last weekend.

West Texas A&M Head Coach Tom Brown was named the NABC South-Central Coach of the Year. Colorado Mesa's Trevor Baskin was the only other First-Team selection from the RMAC while CMU's Mac Riniker and Colorado School of Mines' Majok Deng each earned Second-Team nods.

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