Nichols College junior Jakigh Dottin has been named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division III All-America Third Team.
The 2021-22 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Player of the Year and CCC First Team selection, Dottin led the Bison and finished fourth in CCC in scoring at 19.4 ppg. The Cambridge, Mass. native scored in double-figures in 24 of the 25 games he appeared in, including 13 games with 20+ points and two 30-point efforts against Western New England (37 points on January 19; 35 points on February 12). Earlier this week, Dottin was named to the D3hoops.com Men's All-Region II First Team and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division III District 2 First Team.
Dottin – who was named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week on January 25 – dished out five-or-more assists in 11 outings, highlighted by nine-assist efforts against Anna Maria (Nov. 13) and Salve Regina (Dec. 1). His game-tying three at end of regulation in an OT win against Endicott on February 16 helped secure the No. 1 seed for Bison in conference playoffs, where they defeated Wentworth, Suffolk, and Salve Regina to capture their fifth-straight conference title.
Dottin becomes the third men's basketball student-athlete in program history to garner All-America honors, joining Marcos Echevarria (2018-19) and DeAnte Bruton (2019-20), both of whom were named to the D3hoops.com All-America Second Team in consecutive seasons.
