OVC Basketball: 2022-23 midseason all-conference team selections

During the most wide-open season in recent OVC Basketball history, our midseason all-conference team looks only vaguely similar to the league’s official preseason team. The OVC’s preseason team included ten players. Ours is a more traditional three, five-man teams.

Two of the league’s first-teamers don’t make any of our teams so seven of our midseason all-conference teams are outperforming previously honored players.

The Ohio Valley Conference lost three traditional programs to other leagues and drew in three new members into the seventy-five-year-old conference. Lindenwood University, Little Rock, and Southern Indiana replaced Austin Peay, Belmont, and Murray State.

During the season’s first seven weeks, seven different members of our teams were honored as players or co-players of the week. Two of them have landed newcomer of the week titles. Our three teams include the league’s top twelve scorers, top two assist man, its three best free-throw sharpshooters, the most prolific defensive rebounder, most successful three-point sniper, and its iron man.

While you won’t find the OVC’s top rebounder, highest percentage shooter, top stealer, three-point percentage marksman or top shot blocker, we take into account the wide range of contributions players make for their respective teams.

Our most disappointing omission from the midseason all-conference teams is Southeast Missouri’s Kobe Clark. The 6’6 Georgetown transfer brings so much to the Redhawk (5-8) arsenal that we practically feel dirty leaving him off the third team.

Clark does not rank in the top thirty among the league’s leading scorers but is the OVC’s third-leading rebounder, is ninth in assists, tied for fifth in steals, is playing the second most minutes per game, and is the top blocker of shots. The St. Louis native is a defensive stopper and an energy producer. Clark has a serious shot at landing on the OVC’s end-of-season all-newcomer team.