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In the Minnesota College Athletic Conference, men's basketball teams in the Southern Division found themselves chasing St. Cloud Technical & Community College in the race for the regular season championship. 

In the end, top honors went to the Cyclones, clocking in at 12-2 in MCAC play, while Rochester Community & Technical College and Riverland Community College tied in the runner-up spot, both with 11-3 records.  Ridgewater College finished fourth in the Southern Division at 8-6, claiming with it the final playoff slot. Anoka-Ramsey finished fifth, followed by Minnesota West CTC, M State-Fergus Falls and Western Technical College. 

In a highly competitive Divisional season,  three MCAC Southern Division teams were featured in the 2019-20 NJCAA Division III Men's Basketball Top 15 poll in various weeks, with SCTCC, RCTC and Riverland each garnering notice from the national committee throughout the season.  

Recently, coaches took time to honor the top players in the MCAC Southern Division ranks; click here for the 2019-20 MCAC Southern All-Division teams, or read on for a listing on the 2019-20 honorees.

Andy Cone, head coach for SCTCC, was tabbed the adidas/Nicklasson Athletic Coach-of-the-Year in the MCAC Southern Division by his peers. 

MCAC Men's Basketball

2019-20 Southern All-Division Team

Coach-of-the-Year: Andy Cone, St. Cloud Technical & Community College

For more on MCAC Men's Basketball, please go to: https://www.mcacsports.org/sports/mbkb/index

NJCAA Basketball, including National Top15 Poll and Player-of-the-Week releases can be found at: https://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/index

The Minnesota College Athletic Conference is the organizational body for NJCAA-affiliated two-year technical and community college athletic programs in the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, as well as select member colleges in North Dakota and Wisconsin.  The mission of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference is to advance intercollegiate athletics by providing an engaging and supportive environment for success of our student athletes and competition among member institutions.  The MCAC is committed to the guiding principles of encouraging the development and success of student athletes, promoting the integrity, honesty and loyalty to member schools as well as upholding the sustainability of conference athletic programs.

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