{"id":9029,"date":"2019-03-25T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:22:46","slug":"basketball-star-coplin-named-2019-nabc-division-iii-national-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/basketball-star-coplin-named-2019-nabc-division-iii-national-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Star Coplin Named 2019 NABC Division III National Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9030\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/D2CoCayU4AACLAh-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/D2CoCayU4AACLAh-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/D2CoCayU4AACLAh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/D2CoCayU4AACLAh-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/D2CoCayU4AACLAh.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booker Coplin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Association of Basketball Coaches named Augsburg guard\u00a0<span class=\"Text_Bold\">Booker Coplin &#8217;20<\/span>, a junior from Shakopee, the Division III Men\u2019s National Player of the Year, the Star Tribune reported.\u00a0Coplin led the Auggies to a 19-9 record and was the MIAC\u2019s scoring and rebounding champion, averaging 28 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, according to the Star Tribune.\u00a0Coplin finished second in both total points and points per game among NCAA Division III players nationally. Last month, Coplin was also named\u00a0MIAC Player of Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/augsburg-guard-booker-coplin-named-player-of-year-in-division-iii-men-s-basketball\/507385722\/\">See full story at Star Tribune&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/augsburg-guard-booker-coplin-named-miac-player-of-year\/506412522\/\">See the MIAC Player of the Year story\u00a0at Star Tribune&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Basketball Coaches named Augsburg guard\u00a0Booker Coplin &#8217;20, a junior from Shakopee, the Division III Men\u2019s National Player of the Year, the Star Tribune reported.\u00a0Coplin led the Auggies to a 19-9 record and was the MIAC\u2019s scoring and rebounding champion, averaging 28 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, according to the Star &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}