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CUW's Landers, MSOE's Dopirak Named CSC Division III Men's Basketball Academic All-America

Dopirak Named CSC Division III Academic All-America Team Member of the Year

GREENWOOD, Ind. – College Sports Communicators (CSC) has announced its Academic All-America® teams for the 2025-26 men's basketball season. 

Milwaukee School of Engineering senior guard Mason Dopirak headlines the awards, being named the CSC Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for NCAA Division III. Concordia University Wisconsin senior forward Logan Landers was a second-team selection.

Dopirak, who holds a perfect 4.00 GPA as a biomedical engineering major, was the lone 4.00 GPA representative on the 2025-26 Division III Academic All-America® men’s basketball team.

Dopirak capped off his stellar career for the Raiders by earning D3hoops.com All-America third-team honors and NABC All-America second-team accolades during the 2025-26 season. Selected the 2025-26 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Player of the Year by the league's coaches, he led the NACC in scoring and ranked fourth in the country, averaging 26.1 points per game, while shooting 51.6 percent from the field (221-of-428), 43.1 percent from three-point range (56-of-130) and 90.0 percent from the free throw line (180-of-200). On February 4, Dopirak eclipsed the 2,000 career points mark, finishing his career with 2,175 points, which is third in program history and second in conference history.

The native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, guided the Raiders to the team’s best finish in eight seasons as they finished the season 19-7 overall and grabbed a share of the regular season title with a 16-2 mark in conference play.

Landers, a native of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, delivered one of the most dominant seasons in Division III this year. He tied the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference single-season record with 655 total points while averaging 25.2 points per game. He also set a new conference single-season mark with 227 made free throws.
 
Despite suffering an injury in his final game, Landers still ranked among the top 10 nationally in six statistical categories, putting a bow on a season that was elite from start to finish.
 
Last month, he claimed all-America honors from D3Hoops.com and all-region honors from D3Hoops.com and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

Landers is the second Falcon in program history to be named a CSC Academic All-American, joining Jordan Johnson, who earned the honor in 2021 and 2022. Landers, a business major, holds a 3.85 grade-point average.
 
The Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025-26 Division III Academic All-America® program.

2025-26 Academic All-America® Men's Basketball ~ NCAA Division III

FIRST TEAM School Yr. GPA Major
Mason Dopirak Milwaukee School of Engineering Sr. 4.00 Biomedical Engineering
Mason Funk Illinois Wesleyan University Jr. 3.95 Biology
Scott Gyimesi (2) Tufts University Sr. 3.91 Economics
Marcus Montagnino (3) Endicott College Gr. 3.60/3.84 Sport Leadership (G)
Jack Plesser Union College Jr. 3.92 Economics
SECOND TEAM School Yr. GPA Major
Lucas Gordon University of Redlands Sr. 3.84 Business Administration
Logan Landers Concordia Wisconsin Sr. 3.85 Business
Soren Richardson Wheaton College (Ill.) Jr. 3.72 Christian Formation & Ministry
Matthew Solomon The College of New Jersey Sr. 3.76 Marketing
Henry Vetter Trinity College (CT) Sr. 3.55 Film Studies
THIRD TEAM School Yr. GPA Major
Ethan Fauss Emory University Jr. 3.59 Business Administration
Elijah Kinney Endicott College Jr. 3.50 Exercise Science
Justin Molen Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jr. 3.83 Chemical Engineering
Ben Nyquist Whitworth University Sr. 3.98 Business Management
Elias Rodl Brandeis University Sr. 3.84 Business

(2) – Academic All-America® second team in 2024-25
(3) – Academic All-America® third team in 2024-25