CHICAGO (March 5, 2020)– Three Loyola University Chicago student-athletes have been named to the Missouri Valley Conference's Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete teams, which were revealed today by the league office. Junior center Cameron Krutwig (Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs) garnered first-team recognition, while redshirt junior swingman Tate Hall (Greenfield, Ind./Greenfield-Central/Indianapolis) took home second-team honors and senior guard Bruno Skokna (Zagreb, Croatia) earned honorable mention status.
 
Loyola was one of three schools to have three or more student-athletes represented on the MVC Scholar-Athlete teams along with Bradley (4) and Northern Iowa (3).
 
Krutwig, who last month was tabbed CoSIDA Academic All-District 5, earned MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team honors for the second straight season, marking the fourth consecutive year Loyola has placed a student-athlete on the first team. The 6-foot-9 center was named First Team All-MVC earlier this week and has had an outstanding season on the court, leading the Ramblers with 15.3 points, 8.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game. Off the court, he carries a 3.42 grade-point average as an entrepreneurship major.
 
Hall, who is in his first season of eligibility after transferring from the University of Indianapolis, took home Third Team All-MVC and MVC All-Newcomer accolades earlier this week and enters this weekend's MVC Championship with per-game averages of 13.0 ppg, 3.9 rpg ,2.2 apg and 1.5 spg. In the classroom, the finance major owns a 3.46 GPA and was a MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award recipient in 2018-19.
 
This marks the second straight year Skokna was named Honorable Mention MVC Scholar-Athlete. The finance major is tallying 1.7 ppg off the bench this season and will leave Loyola as the winningest four-year player in program history with 91 victories and counting. At the 2018 MVC Championship, Skokna received the MVC Elite 18 Award for having the highest GPA of student-athletes competing at the championship.
 
The 2019-20 MVC Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete teams are listed below.
 
First Team
Barret Benson, Southern Illinois
AJ Green, Northern Iowa
Nate Kennell, Bradley
Cameron Krutwig, Loyola
Austin Phyfe, Northern Iowa
 
Second Team
Koch Bar, Bradley
Elijah Childs, Bradley
Tate Hall, Loyola
Tyreke Key, Indiana State
John Kiser, Valparaiso
Garrett Sturtz, Drake
 
Honorable Mention
Justin Dahl, Northern Iowa
Ja'Shon Henry, Bradley
Evan Kuhlman, Evansville
Bruno Skokna, Loyola