AUSTIN, Tex. --- UNI senior Tytan Anderson has been selected to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Second Team, as announced by CSC on Tuesday.
Honoring 15 of the nation's top Division I student-athletes for their academic success and achievements from the 2024-25 school year, Anderson is the 59th Academic All-American selection in UNI history and sixth member of the men's basketball program to receive the honor. Anderson also joins Lauren Heinsch (women's soccer) and Kira Fallert (volleyball) as Northern Iowa's third Academic All-American honoree this year.
An Eldridge, Iowa native, Anderson earned First Team All-Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) recognition, along with MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors and an MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team selection this year after posting a team-high 15.5 points per game average. Along with a team-best 6.5 rebounds a game while shooting 57.7% from the field. Leading the Panthers with 18 total blocks, Anderson, the 2023 MVC Most Improved Team captain and two-time MVC Honor Roll recipient, is also the conference's leader in made free throws and free throw attempts.
Anderson was named the MVC Player of the Week of Dec. 30, 2024 and notably scored a career-high 27 points at both Valparaiso and Belmont this season. He has notched six games with 20+ points this year and has scored in double-digit figures in all but four contests this year, having scored at least one point in his last 97 games dating back to the 2022-23 season.
2024-25 CSC ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS (Division I Men's Basketball)
First Team
- Steven Ashworth (Creighton)
- Tamin Lipsey (Iowa State)
- RJ Luis Jr. (St. John's)
- Nick Martinelli (Northwestern)
- Stevie Mitchell (Marquette)
Second Team
- Jaden Akins (Michigan State)
- Tytan Anderson (UNI)
- Tyson Degenhart (Boise State)
- Zuby Ejiofor (St. John's)
- Sion James (Duke)
- Gibson Jimerson (Saint Louis)
- Michael Rataj (Oregon State)
- Blaise Threatt (Weber State)
Third Team
- Masen Miller (North Dakota State)
- Payton Sandfort (Iowa)
ABOUT COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS
College Sports Communicators was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.