West Virginia guard Alex Ruoff has been named as one of five players selected to the 2008-09 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's Basketball First Team as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Ruoff earns first team honors for the first time after being chosen to the third team last season. He joins Jason Holsinger of Evansville, Aaron Linn of Gardner-Webb, Bryan Mullins of Southern Illinois and Brett Winkelman of North Dakota State on the first team.
Ruoff is a history major with a 3.79 G.P.A. A native of Spring Hill, Fla., he is a three-year starter at guard who became the 42nd player in WVU history to score 1,000 career points. His the Mountaineers’ second-leading scorer with a 16.1 average. An outstanding three-point shooter, he has 245 career three-pointers, a mark that is just shy of the school record.
Rouff, who also leads WVU with 3.6 assists per game and a .793 free throw percentage, is the only senior on the Mountaineers team and has led them to a 19-8 record. He was selected as the recipient of the 2008 BIG EAST Scholar Athlete Sport Excellence Award and spent time this past summer visiting a camp for kids with cancer.
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