March 7, 2005
SPOKANE, Wash. - Seattle University junior Bernard Seals became just the second player from Seattle University be selected to the all-Great Northwest Athletic Conference team, which was announced on Monday afternoon. Seals was a second-team selection.
Seals joins Darnell Lyons from 2003 as the only other Redhawk to earn the honor since the beginning of the league in 2001-02. Seattle has yet to earn a first-team all-conference selection, and two other players have been named honorable mention -- Lyons in 2002 and Jeffrey McDaniel in 2004.
Seals completed the season as Seattle's top scorer and was No. 2 in the GNAC in scoring at 19.6 points per game. That total of 19.6 points per game is the highest scoring average by a Seattle University player in 15 years since John King averaged 20.3 points per game in the 1990-91 season. It is also the 21st highest single-season scoring average in school history behind all-time greats such as John O'Brien's three 20-plus point-per-game seasons and Elgin Baylor's pair of 30-plus point-per-game campaigns.
Seals also led the GNAC in 3-pointers made at 3.08 per game, No. 10 in 3-point percentage at 40.5 percent, and No. 16 in steals at 1.12 per game. Seals also tied Seattle's school record for most 3-pointers made in a game with nine against Western Washington last week. He also scored 44 points in a game against Alaska-Fairbanks which is the most points scored by a GNAC player this season and the third-most in the league's history.
The all-GNAC first team was made up of players who finished first-through-fourth in the league standings. Alaska-Fairbanks' Brad Oleson was named GNAC Player of the Year, and he was joined on the first team by Ryan Diggs and Grant Dykstra of Western Washington, Jason Chivers of Seattle Pacific, and Mesut Ademoglu of Northwest Nazarene.
The second team was Seals, along with Kevin Tyner and Evan Kieling of Western Oregon, Niko Nunogawa of Saint Martin's, Kevin Johnson of Humboldt State, and Kyle Boast of Central Washington.