Five Beavers Earn Pac-12 All-Academic Honors

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Five Oregon State men's basketball student-athletes received Pac-12 All-Academic honors, the conference office announced Tuesday.

Gligorije Rakocevic, Zach Reichle and Stephen Thompson Jr. were named to the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team, Ethan Thompson was selected to the Second Team, and Tres Tinkle earned honorable mention recognition.

Rakocevic and Thompson Jr. are the first Oregon State players to earn Pac-12 All-Academic First Team honors three times. Thompson Jr. was recently named the 2018-19 Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year.

Tinkle was selected to the Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team the past two years. Reichle and Thompson both earned Pac-12 All-Academic recognition in their first year of eligibility.

Oregon State had five selections this year, while Stanford had four, Colorado had three, Utah had two, and Arizona, Arizona State, California and Washington State each had one.

This is the third straight year Oregon State had the most selections of any school in the conference.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be either a starter or significant contributor. The Pac-12 All-Academic regulations define a "starter or significant substitute" as having participated in 50 percent of a team's scheduled contests, except in unusual circumstances, such as injury.

First Team
Gligorije Rakocevic, a senior from Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, has a 3.66 cumulative GPA in digital communication arts.

Zach Reichle, a sophomore from Wilsonville, Ore., has a 3.78 cumulative GPA in business information systems.

Stephen Thompson Jr., who is pursuing his masters' in Interdisciplinary studies, earned his bachelor's degree in digital communication arts with a 3.57 cumulative GPA in just three years.

Second Team
Ethan Thompson, a sophomore from Los Angeles, Calif., has a 3.55 cumulative GPA in digital media communications.

Honorable Mention
Tres Tinkle, a redshirt junior from Missoula, Mont., has a 3.25 cumulative GPA in speech communication.

Oregon State men's basketball players have now earned conference All-Academic honors 42 times. It's the 16th consecutive year a Beaver student-athlete has received Pac-12 Men's Basketball All-Academic recognition.

Oregon State Players To Receive Pac-12 All-Academic Honors
1986 — Steve Woodside
1988 — Bill Sherwood
1990 — Teo Alibegovic
1991 — Teo Alibegovic
1995 — J.D. Vetter
1996 — J.D. Vetter
2000 — Jason Heide
2000 — Josh Steinthal
2004 — Lamar Hurd (hm)
2005 — Jim Hanchett
2005 — Lamar Hurd (2nd)
2006 — Lamar Hurd
2006 — Angelo Tsagarakis (hm)
2007 — Angelo Tsagarakis (2nd)
2008 — Roeland Schaftenaar (2nd)
2009 — Roeland Schaftenaar (2nd)
2010 — Roeland Schaftenaar
2011 — Angus Brandt
2011 — Rhys Murphy
2012 — Rhys Murphy
2012 — Angus Brandt (hm)
2013 — Angus Brandt (hm)
2014 — Angus Brandt (2nd)
2014 — Olaf Schaftenaar (hm)
2015 — Malcolm Duvivier (hm)
2016 — Malcolm Duvivier (2nd)
2017 — Daine Muller
2017 — Gligorije Rakocevic
2017 — Stephen Thompson Jr.
2017 — Tres Tinkle (2nd)
2017 — Matt Dahlen (hm)
2017 — Drew Eubanks (hm)
2017 — Tanner Sanders (hm)
2018 — Gligorije Rakocevic
2018 — Stephen Thompson Jr.
2018 — Tres Tinkle (2nd)
2018 — Drew Eubanks (hm)
2019 — Gligorije Rakocevic
2019 — Zach Reichle
2019 — Ethan Thompson (2nd)
2019 — Stephen Thompson Jr. (2nd)
2019 — Tres Tinkle (hm)

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Players Mentioned

Matt Dahlen

Malcolm Duvivier

Drew Eubanks

Daine Muller

Gligorije Rakocevic

Zach Reichle

Tanner Sanders

Olaf Schaftenaar

Ethan Thompson

Stephen Thompson Jr.

Tres Tinkle

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