Middlebury men's basketball player Alex Sobel has been named the D3hoops.com Player of the Year and was selected as both a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and D3hoops.com All-American.
 
SOBEL'S HIGHLIGHTS

• Sobel becomes the first Panther in program history to earn player of the year honors and has been tabbed to the NABC All-American team for the first time in his career. Last year, Sobel was named to the D3hoops.com fourth team, moving up to the first team this season. 
• The senior earned NABC First-Team All-District honors and D3hoops.com First-Team All-Region accolades for the second-consecutive year. The Panther was also named the NABC District 1 Player of the Year and the D3hoops.com Region 1 Most Outstanding Player.
• He became the first player in conference history to be selected as both the NESCAC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season. 
• The senior was the fourth Panther to earn the league's player of the year laurel and the program's fifth defensive player of the year. He also landed a spot among the All-NESCAC First-Team honorees for the second-straight year.
• Sobel had a phenomenal senior campaign for the Panthers on both ends of the floor, sprinkling his name throughout the Middlebury single-season and career record books.
• He was second in Division III this winter in total blocks (101) and blocks per game (3.88). 
• The forward recorded at least one blocked shot in each of his last 51 games.
• Sobel also filled up the scoring column this winter, notably eclipsing the 1,000 career-point mark to become the 26th player in program history to surpass that plateau.
• He ended his career with 1,227 points, placing him 11th in Middlebury's record book
• The Panther led the NESCAC averaging 19.4 points per contest and scored 20 or more points in 11 games this season. 
• He also tallied double-figure point totals in all 26 games this year and 36 straight.
• Sobel also sat atop the NESCAC ranks with 11.8 rebounds per contest. His 307 rebounds in 2022-23 ranked fourth in the single-season book.
• He finished his career third in program history with 814 boards.
• Sobel had 39 career double-doubles, ranking him ninth among active Division III players. He posted 17 of those this season, placing him 12th nationally.
• The forward led the team and ranked eighth in the NESCAC with 82 assists.
• Sobel was tabbed the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Division III National Player of the Week twice and the NESCAC Player of the Week three times this season.

 The complete list of NABC teams may be found here, while the list of D3hoops.com awardees are listed here.