Milan Momcilovic of Pewaukee wins co-Mr. Basketball WBCA award

Pewaukee senior Milan Momcilovic was announced Friday morning as the co-recipient of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association’s Mr. Basketball Award, along with De Pere senior John Kinziger.

Momcilovic and Kinziger were chosen from a field of six finalists that also included: Levi Birkholz of Lakeside Lutheran, Marcus Hall of D.C. Everest, Gavyn Hurley of Middleton and Jeremy Lorenz of Brillion.

The 6-foot-8 Iowa State commit Momcilovic was also named Gatorade Wisconsin Boys Basketball Player of the Year on Wednesday. This season for the Pirates, he has averaged 23 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.2 blocks and one steal per game. Pewaukee (25-3) earned the top seed in the WIAA Division 2 state tournament, and are scheduled to face No. 4 seed Nicolet (24-4) at 1:35 p.m. Friday at the Kohl Center in Madison for their state semifinal matchup.

Kinziger, an Illinois State commit, has averaged 18.8 points, 5.6 assists, 5.3 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 0.6 blocks per game this season for De Pere. The Redbirds (28-0) also earned the top overall seed in D1, and are scheduled to face No. 4 seed Kettle Moraine (18-10) at 6:35 p.m. Friday in their WIAA state semifinal.

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Mr. Basketball was last shared between two winners in 2016, as Sam Hauser and Trevor Anderson of Stevens Point split the award. The year before that in 2015, Diamond Stone of Dominican and Henry Ellenson of Rice Lake split the title. The award, given annually since 1982, was split only one other time in 2007, between Keaton Nankivil of Madison Memorial and Scott Christopherson of Aquinas.

Momcilovic joins recent greater Milwaukee-area winners Seth Trimble of Menomonee Falls (2022) and Brandin Podziemski of St. John’s Northwestern Military Academies (2021).