KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches released the 2025-26 Division III All-District Teams Tuesday, March 17, with sophomore Noah Cleveland (Normal, Ill.-Normal Community) headlining the announcement. Cleveland represented the No. 8 Illinois Wesleyan University men's basketball team as the District 8 Player of the Year, while also garnering First Team All-District 8 status. 

Cleveland, the first Titan to be named the district player of the year since Matthew Leritz (2022), was one of four College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin student-athletes named to the District 8 teams. Carthage's Ryan Johnson, Wheaton's Soren Richardson, and Elmhurst's Dominic Trelenberg were second team selections. 

One of the top big-men in Division III, Cleveland has burst onto the scene in his first year of collegiate basketball. A unanimous First Team All-CCIW selection, he made history as the league's first student-athlete to take home Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year honors in the same season. The Normal, Ill. product was a four-time CCIW Player of the Week selection and was voted to the D3hoops Team of the Week three times throughout the year. 

A double-double machine, Cleveland has racked up 16 on the season, good for sixth-most in Division III. He is averaging 18.8 points and 11.4 rebounds per game, while adding in 52 assists, 49 blocks, and 43 steals. Cleveland has posted 11 20-point games, including topping 30 points on three occasions. 

The Titans travel to Fort Wayne, Ind. this Thursday, March 19, for an Elite Eight showdown with No. 2 Emory University. Tipoff is slated for 3:30 p.m. ET inside the Allen War Memorial Coliseum.

2025-26 NABC All-District Teams
* Denotes District Player of the Year

District 1
First Team
Ray Cuevas, Bowdoin
Scott Gyimesi, Tufts*
Jarrel Okorougo, Trinity (CT)
Kenneth Rogers Jr., Westfield State
Henry Vetter, Trinity (CT)
Remijo Wani, Saint Joseph's (ME)

Second Team
Zach McLaughlin, Maine Farmington
Sam Pohlman, Wesleyan
Babacar Pouye, Bates
Jason Reynolds, Maine Farmington
Zach Wolinski, Wesleyan

Coach of the Year: Joe Reilly, Wesleyan

District 2
First Team
Elijah Kinney, Endicott
Justin Molen, WPI
Marcus Montagnino, Endicott*
Timmy Mulvey, Babson
Cameron Perkins, UMass Boston
Elias Rodl, Brandeis

Second Team
Thomas Ferdinando, Babson
Dimetri Iafrate, Wheaton (MA)
Ralph Laurent, UMass Boston
Timmy O'Toole, Babson
Thomas Whelan, Southern Maine

Coach of the Year: Kevin Bettencourt, Endicott

District 3
First Team
Aaron Coston, SUNY Cortland
Shea Fitzgerald, Vassar
Jack Plesser, Union
Anthony Rose, SUNY Poly
Zevi Samet, Yeshiva*
Reem Welch, Plattsburgh State

Second Team
Tomiwa Adetosoye, Rochester
Kendall Arcuri, SUNY Cortland
Deacon Judd, Oswego State
Lamar Lovelace, Keuka
Jaylen Savage, Nazareth

Coach of the Year: Maurice Kearney, SUNY Cortland

District 4
First Team
Camden Hurst, Lancaster Bible
Nick Koch, TCNJ
Jacob Morales, Montclair State
Amar Ndiaye, Lehman
Matthew Solomon, TCNJ
Jayden Thomas, DeSales*

Second Team
Harmehar Chhabra, Stevens
Carnegie Johnson, NYU
Nas Johnson, Arcadia
Tommy Scholl, Stevens
Jaylon Simpson, Cairn
Coach of the Year: Justin Potts, Montclair State

District 5
First Team
Donte Dupriest, Neumann
Kevin Nowoswiat, Franklin & Marshall
Jayden Rowe, York (PA)
CJ Ruoff, Catholic
Mohamed Toure, Ursinus
Jevon Yarbrough, Hood*

Second Team
Austin Finarelli, Elizabethtown
Charlie Jackson, Johns Hopkins
Lucas Lesko, Wilkes
Qadir Mitchell, Albright
Marquis Ratcliff, Moravian

Coach of the Year: Chad Dickman, Hood

District 6
First Team
Omari DeVeaux, Virginia Wesleyan*
Jair Knight, Emory
Chase Morgan, Maryville
Ben Pearce, Emory
Kye Robinson, Mary Washington
Jabril Robinson, Randolph-Macon

Second Team
Jackson Bell, Roanoke
Fletcher Bigham, Sewanee
Jamarcus Brown, Lynchburg
Toa Hollenbeck, Christopher Newport
Doug Smith, Pfeiffer

Coach of the Year: Jason Zimmerman, Emory

District 7
First Team
Sawyer Butler, Franciscan
Luke Chicone, John Carroll*
Elijah Farrington, Mount Union
Julian Heckman, Otterbein
Jalen Overway, Calvin
Trent Rozich, Pitt Greensburg

Second Team
Duane Davis, Muskingum
Nikola Dimitrijevic, Carnegie Mellon
Parker Hovey, Hope
Nathan Richardson, Olivet
Kellon Smith, Denison

Co-Coaches of the Year: Sam Hargraves, Olivet and Andy Winters, Otterbein

District 8
First Team
Hunter Barr, Transylvania
Noah Cleveland, Illinois Wesleyan*
Mason Dopirak, MSOE
Connor May, WashU
Shane Regan, Chicago
Nick Roper, Chicago

Second Team
Trey Huguley, MUW
Ryan Johnson, Carthage
Logan Landers, Concordia (WI)
Soren Richardson, Wheaton (IL)
Dominic Trelenberg, Elmhurst

Coach of the Year: Mike McGrath, Chicago

District 9
First Team
Myles Barnette, Gustavus Adolphus
Zay Brown, Monmouth
Jacob Cook, Concordia Moorhead
Sam Grieger, UW-La Crosse*
Collin Madson, UW-Whitewater
Cooper Nailor, Coe

Second Team
Josiah Butler, UW-Stevens Point
Dustin Derousseau, UW-La Crosse
Jack Haynes, Loras
Carrington McNeal, North Central (MN)
Grady Thompson, Dubuque

Coach of the Year: Justin DeGrood, Gustavus Adolphus

District 10
First Team
Stephen Behil, Whitworth
Lucas Gordon, Redlands
Hudson Johnson, Mary Hardin-Baylor*
Angel Johnson, St. Thomas (TX)
Tanner Overby, Willamette
Joey Ramirez, Concordia (TX)

Second Team
Cruz Billings, Chapman
Will Bronson, Trinity (TX)
Chris Bryant, Hardin-Simmons
Joseph Espy, UC Santa Cruz
Will Householter, CMS

Coach of the Year: Anthony Medina, St. Thomas (TX)