KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced today that Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyan University has been selected as the 2021 NABC NAIA Player of the Year powered by ShotTracker.
The player of the year in the All-Crossroads League, Mangas led the NAIA in scoring this season with a 29.5 average as a starter in all 33 games. The Wildcats’ senior had a single-game high of 51 points against Oakland City in November and scored 40-plus points twice and more than 30 points in 17 games. Mangas, a 6-4 guard from Warsaw, Ind., hit on 60 percent of his field goal attempts, 39 percent of his three-point attempts and 85 percent of his free throws. He had a team high 164 assists, with 62 steals, 7.4 rebounds per game and 25 blocks for Coach Greg Tonagel’s conference champions.
