SAULT STE. MARIE - Lake Superior State senior guard Derek Billing has earned his second Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-District IV award.

Billing (Anna, Ohio), who maintains a 3.59 grade point average in exercise science, was one of three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference representatives to make the all-district team. The others were Michigan Tech senior Austin Armga and junior Ben Stelzer. Bryce Foster of Missouri-St. Louis and Keisten Jones of Bellarmine also made the team.

Heading into tonight's game at Northern Michigan, Billing ranks fifth in the GLIAC and 22nd nationally in scoring at 22.2 points per game. He is eighth in the league in average three-point field goals per game (2.3) and ninth in free-throw percentage (85.4). He leads the GLIAC in average free throws made per game at 7.3.

Billing ranks third in LSSU career three-point field goals (244), fifth in career free-throw percentage (.815) and 10th in scoring (1,539).

Billing is one of four players averaging 10 or more points per game for the 17-3 Lakers.