Feb. 20, 2003
Two Men's Basketball Players Are Named To The Verizon All-District Teams
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Bulldog basketball players Matt Beran (Victor, Iowa) and Jiri Mikl (Ostrava, Czech Republic) were among the 15 players on the Verizon Academic All-America District VII teams that were announced today.
Beran was selected to the Verizon academic all-district second-team. It is the first time that he has received the academic all-district honor. The junior forward has a 3.81 GPA and is an accounting major. Beran also received academic honors last year when he was named to the MIAA commissioner's academic honor roll.
On the court, Beran has been the top Truman player this season and is currently averaging 14.5 points, 8.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists a game. He is eighth in the MIAA in scoring, third in rebounding and seventh with a .487 field goal percentage. Beran, who had a career-high 31 points earlier this season, has scored in double-figures in 16 of the 22 games he has played in and has six double-doubles on the year.
Mikl was named to the Verizon academic all-district third-team. He is a three-time recipient of this award after receiving second-team honors in 2001 and third-team honors last season. Mikl has also been named to the MIAA commissioner's academic honor roll the past two years and was an MIAA presidential scholar as a sophomore. Mikl will graduate this spring with a business administration/finance major. He currently has a 3.81 GPA.
Mikl will leave Truman as one of its most accurate three-point shooters of all-time. He currently has 144 career three-pointers, seventh in school history, and has a career .415 three-point percentage. This year, he is second on the team with 11.5 points a game and has pulled down 2.5 rebounds a contest. Mikl is ninth in the MIAA with a .364 three-point percentage and is averaging 1.7 three-point field goals per game.