Jamestown (UJ )

With a career full of numerous individual honors and accolades, Mason Walters added yet another to his list.

Walters was named NAIA Men’s Basketball National Player of the Year, headlining the list of All-Americans for the 2022-23 season.

Walters finished the year averaging 26.6 points and 9.4 rebounds per game as Jamestown (27-7) advanced to the NAIA National Round of 16 for the third consecutive season. Among all NAIA players in 2022-23, Walters was first with 904 points and 347 made field goals. His 26.6 points per game was second, and he was fourth in both defensive rebounds (235) and total rebounds (321). He was tenth in free throws made with 163, 13th in blocks (63), 19th in field goal percentage (.638), and 20th in rebounds per game (9.4).

He is the first Jimmie since Brandon Wilkens in 2003-04 to be named NAIA National Player of the Year, and is a first-team All-American for the third straight year.

Walters is UJ’s all-time leading scorer with 2,662 points and rebounder with 1,239 rebounds. This year he set Jimmie single-season records for points (904) and points per game (26.6), and finshes his career with the highest scoring average at 22.4 points per game.