Complete All-MIAC Team

WINONA, Minn. — For Saint Mary's University's Will Wright, it was a fitting final chapter to a storybook collegiate career.

For Chris Palmer (Faribault, Minn.) it was another brilliant chapter in what also promises to be a storybook collegiate career.

Wright was named to the All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference First Team for the third consecutive season on Monday, while Palmer — an All-First Year and honorable-mention All-MIAC picked a year ago — joined his senior teammate on the All-MIAC First Team.

A four-year starter for the Cardinals, Wright closed out his senior season third in the conference in scoring, averaging 16.7 points-per-game, while also leading the league in minutes played at 35.9 mpg.

Wright — who scored in double figures in SMU's last 13 games, 23 times this season and 89 times in his 100-game career — leaves SMU as the program's fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,772 career points.

Palmer picked up right where he left off following a stellar freshman campaign last season, as the sophomore forward ranked second in the MIAC in both scoring (17.5 ppg) and rebounding (9.5 rpg). Palmer led the league, and was ninth in all of NCAA Division III, in free throw percentage, going 143-for-159 (.899) from the charity stripe — including a 21-for-23 performance against Macalester on Jan. 29 that tied the MIAC single-game record for free throws made, originally set in 1957.

Palmer boasted 11 double-doubles this season — and also posted four other games with 10 or more points and nine rebounds — and has accumulated 20 double-doubles in his two-year collegiate career. He scored a season- and career-high 37 points against Bethel on Dec. 6. It was the first of two games in which Palmer eclipsed the 30-point barrier this season — he also netted 31 points against Macalester on Jan. 29.

Wright and Palmer were two of 15 players named to the All-MIAC First Team. Hamline's Carl Hipp was tabbed as the MIAC Player of the Year, while Carleton's Caleb Rosenow and Guy Kalland earned Sixth Man of the Year and Coach of the Year honors, respectively.

As part of the conference-wide sportsmanship initiative, the MIAC also announced the fifth annual All-MIAC Sportsmanship team for men's basketball, which included SMU's Lukas Holland (La Crosse, Wis.).