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Saskatoon, Sask. - Andrew Spagrud was named First Team All-Conference Tuesday as the Canada West office released it's men's basketball award winners. The University of Saskatchewan fifth-year senior forward became the second Huskie, the first was Byron Tokarchuk, to earn first team honours during four seasons.

Spagrud broke the Canada West Conference career scoring record during his last conference game against Calgary on February 9th. He finished that night with 28 points, setting the record with 2182 careeer points in conference play. That broke the 12-year old mark set by former Calgary guard Richard Bohne of 2171.

This season Spagrud finished fifth in the conference in scoring, averaging 20.9 points per game in conference play. He also finished second in the conference in rebounding, grabbing 10.7 boards per game.

Huskie forward Andrew Spagrud

He also ranked third in the league in steals with 2.6 per game, and 14th in field goal percentage.

A three-time All-Canadian, Spagrud also led the conference with 20 double-doubles (13 in conference play) and offensive rebounds (3.67 per game).

He cracked the 30-point mark four times this season, and set a career-high with 20 rebounds at Fraser Valley on November 2nd.

He set numerous school season and career records this season. He broke the school's all-time scoring record on December 29th at Broward, breaking Tokarchuk's record that had stood for almost 20 years. He finished his career with 3826 points in 186 career games. Tokarchuk previously held the record with 3445 points in 171 career games. He also broke Tokarchuk's school record of 1644 career rebounds by grabbing 1763.

This is the fourth straight season that he has been named First Team All-Conference. He was also the Canada West Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2004-05. As a freshman was named to the second team as well as being the conference and national Freshman of the Year.

A complete list of Canada West award winners can be found below.

Player of the Year
Alex Steele, Alberta (G, 6-4, 5th, Edmonton, AB)

First Team All-Conference
Alex Steele, Alberta (G, 6-4, 5th, Edmonton, AB)
Erfan Nasajpour, Winnipeg (G, 5-9, 5th, Winnipeg, MB)
Andrew Spagrud, Saskatchewan (F, 6-8, 5th, Saskatoon, SK)
Greg Wallis, Simon Fraser (F, 6-7, 5th, Victoria, BC)
Dany Charlery, Brandon (G, 6-3, 3rd, Montreal, QC)

Second Team All-Conference
Henry Bekkering, Calgary (F, 6-6, 4th, Taber, AB)
Chris Dyck, UBC (G, 6-2, 4th, Winnipeg, MB)
Adam Hartman, Brandon (F, 6-5, 5th, Virden, MB)
Isaac Ansah, Manitoba (G, 6-1, 4th, Winnipeg, MB)
Tyler Hass, Victoria (F, 6-6, 4th, Victoria, BC)

Freshman of the Year
Tyler Fidler, Calgary (G, 6-9, 1st, Calgary, AB)

Defensive Player of the Year
Yul Michel, Brandon (G, 6-1, 5th, Montreal, QC)

Ken Shields - TSN Award Nominee
Matt Oplako, Winnipeg (F, 6-6, 5th, Winnipeg, MB)

Coach of the Year
Don Horwood, Alberta