ALBANY, N.Y. – The honors keep pouring in for West Liberty University men's basketball standout and the third-year sophomore picked up his biggest one yet on Monday afternoon when he was one of 15 players named to the 2021-22 Division II Conference Commissioners' Association (D2CCA) Men's Basketball All-America Team.
    The D2CCA All-America Team is voted on by the sports information directors from the more than 300 NCAA Division II schools and consists of three 5-man units. A second-team All-America selection, Butler was the only sophomore among the 10 first- and second-team selections.
    The All-America honor comes as no surprise for the 6-5 jumping jack from Latrobe, Pa. Honored earlier this spring as the Mountain East Conference and NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Player of the Year, Butler played a key role in helping lead West Liberty to a sweep of the MEC regular-season and tournament championships and an NCAA Division II-best 13^th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid.
    The second-leading scorer and leading rebounder (18.1 ppg., 7.5 rpg.) on a West Liberty team that won its 14^th national scoring title in the past 17 seasons while finishing the year ranked No. 2 in the nation by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Butler was at his best when the spotlight shined the brightest. Virtually unstoppable on the low block, he ranked among the Top 10 nationally with 246 made field goals and placed among the nation's Top 20 players in NCAA Division II field-goal percentage (246-397, .620). A first-team NCAA Division II Academic All-District honoree and a 1,000-point scorer, Butler hit double-figures in 30 of 31 games for the 29-3 Hilltoppers and finished the season with a team-high 11 double-doubles.
    The WLU sophomore was the only MEC player to attain All-America status in the nationwide D2CCA balloting and one of only three honorees from the Atlantic Region. Philip Alston of California (Pa.) was a third-team selection while Armoni Foster of Atlantic Region champion Indiana (Pa.) received honorable mention. Nova Southeastern junior Sekou Sylla was the Ron Lenz National Player of the Year.
  Name                                         School                                         Pos.        Ht.          Cl.             Hometown
Sekou Sylla*                             Nova Southeastern                   F              6-5          Jr.              Brooklyn, N.Y.
Trevor Hudgins                        NW Missouri State                    G             6-0          Jr.              Manhattan, Kan.
Andrew Sischo                         Daemen (N.Y.)                            F              6-9          Gr.                                                     Guilderland, N.Y.
Jaizec Lottie                              Flagler (Fla.)                                G             6-2          Sr.             Aurora, Colo.
Patrick Carter                           Hillsdale (Mich.)                         F              6-8          Jr.              Brookfield, Wis.
    *-Ron Lenz National Player of the Year Name                                         School                                         Pos.        Ht.          Cl.             Hometown
Parker Hicks                             Lubbock Christian                      F              6-6          Sr.             Decatur, Texas
Joel Scott                                  Black Hills State                         F              6-7          Jr.                                                     Monument, Colo.
BRYCE BUTLER                         WEST LIBERTY                            G             6-5          SO.            LATROBE, PA.
Tyler Riemersma                     Augustana                                   F              6-8          Sr.                                                     Bloomington, Minn.
Tray Buchanan                         Emporia State                            G             6-1          Gr.             Rock Island, Ill. Name                                         School                                         Pos.        Ht.          Cl.             Hometown
Malik Duffy                               Chico State (Calif.)                     F              6-8          Sr.                                                     Sacramento, Calif.
Philip Alston                             California (Pa.)                           F              6-6          So.             Columbus, Ohio
RJ Sunahara                              Nova Southeastern                   F              6-8          So.             Bay Village, Ohio
Kaden Anderson                      Point Loma (Calif.)                    F              6-8          Jr.              Enumclaw, Wash.
Adam Dworsky                        SE Oklahoma State                    G             5-11        Sr.             Flower Mound, Texas      Armoni Foster, Indiana (Pa.), Julius Brown, West Texas A&M, Tyree Boykin, Union (Tenn.), Austin Andrews, Minnesota-Duluth, Romeo Crouch, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)