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2007-08 Roster Season Preview Boris Meno Thomas Sander Jason Richards Can Civi Andrew Lovedale Max Paulhus Gosselin William Archambault Bryant Barr Stephen Curry Dan Nelms Stephen Rossiter Ben Allison Aaron Bond Brendan McKillop
The hisTory Books National Rankings Wildcat All-Americans Wildcat Honors / Awards Retired Jerseys 1,000-Point Scorers Individual / Team Records Career Top Ten All-Time Roster All-Time Record Vs. Opponents All-Time Results
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The 2007-08 Davidson men’s basketball media guide features senior tri-captains Boris Meno, Jason Richards and Thomas Sander.
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Davidson College Davidson, N.C. 28035 1837 1700 Wildcats Red and Black John M. Belk Arena (5,700) NCAA Division I Southern Tom Ross, Davidson ’72 Jim Murphy, Davidson ’78 704.894.2800 704.894.2375
hisTory First Year of Men’s Basketball 1907-08 All-Time Record 1,191-1,088 NCAA Tournament Appearances (Last) 9 (2007) NIT Appearances (Last) 4 (2005) Last Postseason Appearance 2007 NCAA Results Lost, 70-82 vs. Maryland (4 Seed) First Round -- March 15, 2007 (Buffalo, N.Y.)
CoaChing sTaff Head Coach Bob McKillop, Hofstra ’72 Record at Davidson (Years) 311-218 (18) Career Record Same Basketball Office Phone 704.894.2369 Associate Head Coach Matt Matheny, Davidson ’93 (15th) Assistant Coach Jim Fox, SUNY-Geneseo ’95 (7th) Assistant Coach Tim Sweeney, Rochester ’03 (2nd) Dir. of BB Operations Jeremy Henney, Indiana ’02 (2nd)
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sporTs informaTion Sports Information Director Marc Gignac Office Phone 704.894.2123 Cell Phone 980.297.9981 E-mail magignac@davidson.edu Assistant SID (MBB Contact) Joey Beeler Office Phone 704.894.2931 Cell Phone 980.297.8242 E-mail jobeeler@davidson.edu Fax 704.894.2636 Press Row 704.892.3324 Mailing Address Box 7158, Davidson, NC 28035 Overnight Address 209 Ridge Road, Davidson, NC 28036
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Chambersbuilding Davidson College Fast Facts Alenda Lux Ubi Orta Libertas. “Let Learning Be Cherished Where Liberty Has Arisen”
“The primary purpose of Davidson College is to assist students in developing humane instincts and disciplined and creative minds for lives of leadership and service.” 4
l Located in Davidson, N.C., 20 miles north of Charlotte l 450-acre main campus; 106-acre Lake Campus l 1700 students (850 male, 850 female) l Students from 45 states and Washington, D.C.; 34 countries l 92 percent live on campus l More than 96 percent return for sophomore year l 10:1 student to faculty ratio l Average class: 15 l 162 full-time faculty; 100 percent with highest degree l 20 majors, 12 academic concentrations and Interdisciplinary Studies. l Competing in 21 sports at NCAA Division I level l Over 70 percent of graduates participated in study abroad l Endowment: $487 million as of June 30, 2007
Did you know? l More than one-quarter of all Davidson students study abroad. Davidson sponsors programs in France, Germany, England, India, Spain, Mexico, Cyprus, Ghana, Greece and Italy. l Davidson is governed by an Honor Code. All tests are self-scheduled and unproctored, the library operates without a security check, and the student Honor Council arbitrates alleged Honor Code offenses. l Within five years of graduation, the majority of Davidson alumni have returned for graduate study. l Nearly one-quarter of Davidson’s 1,700 students are athletes. l Davidson is the first liberal arts college to eliminate loans in financial aid packages. l Davidson students are provided with free laundry service.
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“The improvements Davidson basketball has made in the weight room has to be credited to the new facility, and recently, to our new head strength coach — already we look stronger and faster. Since I have been here the Davidson weight program has increased my strength, agility and speed. I have noticed a huge difference on the playing court every year.” Thomas Sander ‘08
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sTRengTh & ConDiTioning Davidson opened the Ernie Doe Weight Room in the fall of 2005. A state-of-the-art, 5,000square-ft. facility dedicated to the needs of the college’s 21 varsity athletic teams, the weight room includes 16 power racks and eight lifting platforms, as well as other cutting-edge lifting and conditioning equipment. The Wildcats’ head strength and conditioning coach, Craig Swieton, carries out the goal of Davidson’s strength and conditioning program — to increase the strength, power, speed, conditioning levels and flexibility of all student-athletes, helping reduce the risk of injury. Each team program, specifically designed by Swieton, aims to improve the sport energy utilization system and to increase the strength and power to the primary muscle groups used in that specific sport.
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noplacelikehome belkarena The Baker Sports Complex and John M. Belk Arena — with 5,700 seats for basketball — is the centerpiece of the Wildcats’ athletics facilities and the heart of Davidson basketball. Nine NCAA Tournament banners, numerous Southern Conference championship pennants, four NIT flags and retired jerseys with names like Hetzel, Snyder, Gerdy, Cobb and Rucker hang from the rafters that reflect the Wildcats’ proud basketball history. The Wildcats have enjoyed tremendous success in Belk Arena, posting a winning record on their home court for the past 16 seasons — including a perfect 13-0 slate in 2003-04. As the Wildcats have hosted some of the nation’s top teams, including opponents from the ACC, SEC, Big East, Atlantic 10 and Conference USA, Belk Arena has become a sanctuary for the ‘Cats — and the exact opposite for their opponents.
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L Pct. 10 .231 7 .462 6 .571 4 .714 1 .923 4 .692 1 .929 4 .714 3 .769 2 .818 3 .750 4 .692 2 .846 2 846 0 1.000 3 .786 1 .933 1 .929 58 .757
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The Wildcats have won 73 of 82 home games over the last six seasons and currently boast a 181-58 (.757) overall record in Belk Arena. That record is even more impressive since rejoining the SoCon in 1992-93 at 168-35 (.828).
“Even though Belk Arena holds 6,000, it feels like we just played in an NBA arena. The fans are in the game from start to finish and give us a boost every time we step on the court. Our success at home is an attribute to our fans.” Stephen Curry ‘10
Davidson’s overtime victory over Penn on Nov. 28, 2000, was the Wildcats’ 100th victory in Belk Arena.
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bakersporTsComplex The Baker Sports Complex houses Belk Arena — home to the men’s basketball program, several other athletic facilities and the athletic department offices.
Teamroom The Wildcats’ team room includes a film room, as well as a player lounge and study.
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Named in honor of John M. Belk ’43 — a former captain of the Wildcats’ teams, a Davidson College trustee for more than 15 years and former mayor of Charlotte, Belk Arena is the home of men’s basketball at Davidson College. In addition to the 5,700-seat arena, the complex includes the Carl and Louise Knobloch Tennis Center, Cannon Natatorium, Dickson Administrative Wing and Finley Education Center, plus the Charles W. Parker Wrestling Room, a weight room, sports medicine center, four racquetball courts and one squash court.
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Davidson students explore the liberal arts curriculum in depth and enjoy close faculty collaboration. With 1,700 students, the college is large enough for a diverse and invigorating intellectual engagement, but small enough to foster individual experience and opportunity. Davidson offers over 850 courses offered and supports 21 majors and 12 academic concentrations. Students may participate in pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-dentistry or dual-degree engineering programs or may design their own independent study classes or interdisciplinary majors. Students may also apply for funds to support research and travel, and many opportunities exist for summer research positions with Davidson faculty.
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Davidson leads the industry on affordability initiatives by meeting 100 percent of demonstrated financial need with a combination of grants and student employment. At Davidson, financial aid packages do not include a loan component. Davidson believes that its educational offerings should be affordable for every admitted student, regardless of a family’s financial means. Thanks to Davidson’s commitment to need-blind admission, a student’s character, accomplishments and academic potential are the only factors in the decision—not ability to pay.
well-knownalumni naTional Roger Brown ‘78, Berkeley Music School president Patricia Cornwell ‘79, Internationally-known crime fiction writer Martin Eakes ‘76, head of Self-Help Credit Union Wyche Fowler ‘62, former U.S. Congressional representative and U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia Jim Haynes ‘79, Legal Counsel, Department of Defense Ken Krieg ‘83, Executive Secretary to Senior Executive Council, Department of Defense Paul Leonard ‘62, former chair of the board, Habitat for Humanity International Sheri Reynolds ‘89, novelist Dean Rusk ‘36, former U.S. Secretary of State Steve Salyer ‘72, former head of Corporation for Public Broadcasting; now head of Salzburg Institute Tony Snow ‘77, White House Press Secretary John Spratt ‘64, U.S. Congressional representative from S.C. Todd Thomson ‘82, CFO, Citigroup, Inc. William Winkenwerder ‘76, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs regional John Belk ‘43, former Charlotte Mayor and business leader Janet Ward Black ‘83, President, North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association Edward Crutchfield ‘62, former CEO, First Union bank Jim Holshouser ‘56, former N.C. Governor Elizabeth Kiss ‘83, President, Agnes Scott College Jim Martin ‘57, former N.C. Governor Doug Oldenburg ‘56, former Presbyterian Church moderator Jana Sampson ‘96, pop singer
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Davidson College was recently named one of 25 “New Ivies” by Newsweek magazine, along with the likes of New York University, the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia and UCLA. The magazine selected the schools based on admissions statistics as well as interviews with administrators, faculty, students and alumni.
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Davidson counts 23 Rhodes Scholars amongst its alumni. Established by the late Cecil Rhodes in 1902, the prestigiuos scholarship provides support for study at England’s Oxford University for students from around the world who are outstanding intellectually, and show qualities of moral leadership and social purpose.
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This time last year, Davidson basketball could have passed the plate among its Southern Conference brethren and maybe come away with a sympathy card or two. Well, on second thought, maybe not. Still, Davidson had graduated seven seniors from the 2006 Southern Conference champions, a team that went on to lead Big Ten champion Ohio State at halftime in the NCAA tournament before losing a close game. Included among those seven seniors lost were the team's two leading scorers and its leader in assists. Last year's Wildcats were picked to finish fourth in the SoCon South Division. There were no expectations for the team except those held by coach Bob McKillop, his staff and players. They were not ready to surrender an inch. Not only were they not buying what the prognosticators were peddling, they turned it around and used it as motivation. The Davidson basketball family adopted a one-word slogan before the start of last season, which was, “Surprise.” Led by three superb junior leaders, a sophomore defensive stopper, and a freshman sensation who would go on to become the conference's Rookie of the Year, the Wildcats won a school-record 29 games, swept through the conference regular season
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with a record of 17-1, and then dominated in the league tournament to win a second straight invitation to the NCAA tournament. A Davidson team that was given no chance to hang a championship banner became even better than the excellent team of the season before. It was a sweet season, all right. But it ended last March in snowy Buffalo. Underdog Davidson had powerful Maryland breaking out in cold sweats in the NCAA tournament. The Wildcats were up by eight in the second half, but the last three minutes of the game swung Maryland's way, and resulted in a Terps victory. It was a game Davidson thought it could have won. Should have finished the deal but didn't. Not long after the charter flight from Buffalo brought the coaches and team home, coaches and players started getting ready for this season. Sophomore Will Archambault has watched tape of the Maryland game 10 or 15 times. It's typical of the strong feeling the players have about that game. They want to learn from their mistakes. Getting to the NCAA tournament is great; getting there and winning some games is the goal. While Davidson won't surprise anyone this season, or sneak up on any of the
national powers on its schedule, opponents should not count on complacency setting in. It didn't happen in the off-season, and it won't happen during the season. That's a virtual guarantee. It's not to suggest that Davidson is a lock to win a certain number of games, or hang another championship banner in Belk Arena. Nothing like that. But any failure the team might have will not be brought on by complacency. Everyone connected with the program worked too hard and smart getting ready for the season to be complacent about anything. “We respect every team on our schedule,” senior point guard Jason Richards said. “This season will have to stand on its own legs. Last season is over.” The 2007-08 Wildcats return every scholarship player from last year's splendid team, plus three freshmen who one day will help McKillop win a lot more games as Davidson's head coach. The three primary team leaders are seniors Thomas Sander, point guard Richards, and Boris Meno. The defensive stopper referred to above is junior Max Paulhus Gosselin. Last year's freshman star, Stephen Curry, is a little bigger, somewhat stronger, a touch quicker than last year. The ingredients are there for a memo-
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Front Row (L-R): Jim Fox, Can Civi, Stephen Rossiter, Boris Meno, Jason Richards, Thomas Sander, Andrew Lovedale, Max Paulhus Gosselin, Jeremy Henney Back Row (L-R): Ray Beltz, Brendan McKillop, Aaron Bond, William Archambault, Ben Allison, Bob McKillop, Dan Nelms, Bryant Barr, Mike Schmidt, Stephen Curry, Tim Sweeney
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rable season, even by the standards set my McKillop and his players. But there are questions, and the one that stands out most prominently is this: How will Davidson handle the pressure this season of playing as a marked team? The bull'seye is painted brightly on the Davidson uniform jersey. McKillop and his players refuse to try to silence the expectations or the basketball excitement that has swept the community and campus for months. Bring it on, they say, and let's see how we handle it. “We worked hard to get in this position, one where we've received national recognition,” Thomas Sander said. “There's no reason for us to feel pressure.” That's the approach that Davidson took into the campaign. Not cocky, not in the least. Not complacent, not a chance. Confident and maybe a little bit sassy? Why not? They've earned that, too.
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Hubert Davis, a former star at North Carolina and a 12-year NBA veteran who is now an ESPN commentator, observed two Davidson practices in October and said he believed the backcourt duo of Richards and Curry ranks among the best in college basketball. “Jason reshaped his body during the off-season with hard work and dedication,” Coach McKillop said. “He is determined to make this his best Davidson season.” The more you see Richards play, the more you appreciate his game. “I watched Jason play and practice his first three years here,” said Davidson freshman guard Brendan McKillop, “but you really don't know how good he is until you get on the court with him. His court vision is extraordinary.”
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Richards was one of the best point guards in the nation last year in his assist to error ratio. He is quicker and stronger than last season. He dropped 10 pounds of body weight but added muscle and strength with his off-season regimen. He is poised and experienced, and knows when to push it and when to slow down a gear. “He has an incredible feel for the game,” Coach McKillop said, “and is a superb leader for our team.” Steph Curry will have a hard time improving on his spectacular freshman season. But don't be surprised if he does. He had a great summer of basketball, including playing for the USA-under 19 team in the World Championships held in
Novi Sad, Serbia. He came to preseason practice in top shape, and his attitude signaled a determination that he's far from satisfied about his own play or his team's. Curry has won national attention for his exciting play as well as his fearlessness. He also won a lofty compliment from Coach McKillop, who says, “Steph is already the most complete and most talented player that I've coached at Davidson. He has uncanny ability that ranges far beyond his basketball skills and athleticism. His extremely high basketball IQ gives him that rare combination of having great basketball skills, athleticism and high intelligence. He is fearless, confident, and humble. He is the perfect fit for the Davidson basketball system and the equally perfect ambassador for the kind of program we desire. He is a model of excellence.” Max Paulhus Gosselin, now a junior,
has improved to the point that he's developed into a confident team leader, a young man who doesn't hesitate to call himself a defensive stopper. “Max keeps getting better because of his passion for excellence,” McKillop said. “His high energy will be a catalyst for our defense, rebounding and running. He's an extremely versatile player who has made himself technically better.” Will Archambault, a sophomore, has the size, strength and offensive versatility to be a special player. McKillop is counting on as much. “He is the most gifted physical talent that we have on the team,” the coach said. “We expect him to be able to score inside and outside, and his skills should help him generate points on the glass, in transition, and create offense from his defense.” Sophomore Bryant Barr suffered a bout of mononucleosis in August. It slowed some of his preseason work, but McKillop said it was a temporary setback. “Bryant, through his hard work and dedication, has made great progress in his athleticism, strength and overall confidence. His quick feet will assist him in becoming a good defender, and his ability to knock down shots will make opponents go out and guard him.” Can Civi, a hardworking, tough junior, is a player that “burns with desire,” according to McKillop. “His work ethic certainly gets the coaching staff's attention,” McKillop said. “His challenge is to be able to quarterback the team within our system, and set the tone for our defense from his point guard position.” Freshman Brendan McKillop, the coach's son, has observed Davidson basketball all his life. “I'm very impressed with the consistency of his shot,” his coach said. “He's learning the role of quarterback while learning a new system.
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McKillop calls senior Thomas Sander “The General” because of his toughness and superb leadership skills. “He is the anchor of our post,” the coach said. “He has a high basketball IQ, and his toughness and determination make him an excellent rebounder and defender. He was extremely well coached in high school, and he brought those traits with him to Davidson and improved on them.” Sander can score in transition, step out and hit the 3-point basket, and trigger the fast break with his defensive rebounding. Boris Meno, another senior frontcourt player, wins praise from his coach because of his physical ability and his unselfish approach to helping his team win. “Boris is confident and ready,” McKillop said, “to make this his best year. His defensive versatility enables him to guard players inside and outside. He is an integral part of our senior leadership group.” Andrew Lovedale, a junior, has gained much confidence. Davidson's radio announcer gave Lovedale the sobriquet of “The Big Cat” because of his strength, speed and determination. “Andrew understands our system better each day,” McKillop said. “He's a tenacious defender, an excellent rebounder, and will get points for us by the way he runs in transition. He realizes the strengths of his game and
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He is gaining confidence, and has a chance to be a contributing factor for us this season.” Ben Allison, a freshman from England, is an athletic player who works hard and demonstrated equal efficiency with post and perimeter skills. “Ben's skills, athleticism and work ethic give him a real chance to make a significant contribution to our program,” McKillop said.
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He's a quick learner who will improve as he learns our system and it becomes second nature to him.” Freshman Aaron Bond was hurt for much of preseason practice, but Coach McKillop says of him: “I'm impressed with his shooting, knack for scoring, and commitment to be a solid defender.” Bond is a versatile player who will continue to improve as he learns Davidson's way of playing.
focuses on playing to those strengths.” Steve Rossiter, a redshirt sophomore, is probably the most improved player on Davidson's team. “He's much quicker and more active, and his basketball instincts are superb,” McKillop said. Always a player who cheered on his teammates from the bench, Rossiter is expected to get additional playing time this season. “He is emerging as one of our future leaders,” McKillop said. Dan Nelms, sophomore, is just a step behind Rossiter for the most improved. His work ethic wins the respect of teammates and coaches. “Dan is willing to play any role on our team,” McKillop said. “He wants to be the very best that he can be.
court with the fury of a perfect storm. But he has asked his players to improve in that area this season by playing at an even faster pace without deviating from the system or turning the ball over. “Our experience and talent should help us greatly in this area of play,” McKillop said. ** Point guard Richards puts it this way: “We need to treat each possession like it's gold.” ** McKillop and his associate head coach Matt Matheny have put together another challenging schedule. It will test the Wildcats the entire season. McKillop says this year's schedule is the most rigorous a team of his has faced. “Several of our opponents are nationally ranked,” he said. “Just look at the number of National Championship banners won and Final Four appearances earned by our opponents. Can we play against teams this good and maintain our confidence throughout the season? The way we handle this will be one of the keys to our season.” For sure, the schedule will put the Wildcats where McKillop is most comfortable - on the Broadway stage. ** While Davidson is talented, deep and experienced, it will not achieve its goals if it maintains the status quo. All teams get better or go backwards. It's the nature of the athletic beast. “Can we improve, day to day and over the entire season?” McKillop asked. “We must improve on a daily basis to get to where we want to go.” ** This is McKillop's 19th Davidson team. It could be his best one. Could be. That decision is still out. If it turns out to be the case, it'll be because the journey was taken a step at a time, eyes on the target, and daily improvement becomes a reality. McKillop, his coaches and players, all embrace the challenge. It's post time in the village.
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MENO’S MOM SAID FIRMLY, ‘DON’T GIVE UP’ Boris Meno's transition from his homeland of France to the United States to play basketball and finish his high school education was hardly an easy one. He was a young man when he came to Philadelphia in 2002. Although he took English in school in France and excelled at it, he quickly learned that Americans didn't speak that way. So there he was, a stranger in a foreign country, going to high school where he understood almost nothing that was being said, and then somehow had to figure out how to complete his school assignments. He wasn't exactly overwhelmed, either, with the number of people who rushed to help him. He was pretty much on his own, at least temporarily. From the time Meno watched an NBA game on television from his home in France, he knew that he wanted to come to the United States to go to school, play college basketball, and maybe one day get a chance to play professionally in America. It was his dream, one that his mother did not grasp fully. After all, basketball was played in France, too, so why couldn't Meno just play at home, go to school, and forego all these complications of going to a new country far away? “Although my mom didn't completely understand why I wanted to come to America, she didn't prohibit me from doing it,” Meno recalls. She saw how determined her son was, how he was up early each morning to run, play basketball, and condition himself. A young man didn't work that hard unless he was serious about his mission, and Meno was. A little intimidated, yes, but very determined. His mother sensed this in a way only a mother can. Love plus instincts equals understanding. Still, before he could come to America, Meno had to get a student visa from the U.S. Embassy in France. The entire interview was conducted in English, and Meno recalls being stumped. His response to each question was, “Repeat, please.” The man conducting the interview grew exasperated and told Meno that he didn't know nearly enough English to study in the United States and denied his visa. Meno was back the next day. This time a woman at the embassy questioned him and was much more helpful. Student visa granted. Meno's mother took him to the airport, to put her son on an airplane for a trip to another life in a strange land where there would be many more questions than answers. She told Boris she would not cry at the airport. “But she did cry,” Meno says. “She cried a lot, which made my departure even more difficult.” Meno's life at The Shipley School in Philadelphia was anything but easy. In addition to the language barrier, he had left all of his friends in France. He was homesick and discouraged, so much so that he wanted to give up this experiment and return to France. After six months in America, he told his mother that he wanted to come home. “No,” she said firmly. “You made the decision to go to America, so you need to make it work.” Maybe Meno was shocked by his mother's reaction to his request to come
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home. Maybe he needed the jolt that the denial provided. Probably it was just a mother being wiser about matters of this sort than anyone else. “I probably would have gone back to France if my mom had said it was okay,” Meno says. When high school basketball started in Philadelphia and the team had some success, Meno found people more willing to help him. Funny how that works, isn't it? He had a good year of basketball. College recruiters saw his potential. But once his high school senior year was over, another siren sounded. Meno couldn't graduate, he was told, until he took a summer course in English. Until he got that message, he thought he was headed to St. Joseph's in Philadelphia to go to school and play college basketball. “It would have been a big mistake,” Meno said. “I made the decision because I liked the city of Philadelphia a lot.” Fate intervened. Meno decided on a year of prep school at Northfield-Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. Now that he understood English better, he excelled academically and was a very good basketball player, good enough that he drew attention from the likes of North Carolina, UConn, Providence, Michigan State, Davidson, College of Charleston and others. His final three college choices were Davidson, College of Charleston and Michigan State. He visited Charleston and Davidson, cancelled the trip to Michigan State. Davdson coach Bob McKillop and associate head coach Matt Matheny went to France twice to visit with Meno's mother. She was deeply impressed, so much so that she told her son, “Stop this foolishness. Go to Davidson.” “Some coaches told me, 'Come to our school and be a star.' Everybody wants to hear that, but at the end of the day, you need the truth. Coach McKillop didn't promise me mountains. He said I would have to work for playing time, and if I got it, I would have earned it.” Meno is a starter, a tri-captain, Davidson's most accomplished shot blocker and rebounder. He majors in French. He says his life in America and at Davidson has taught him humility and the value of hard work. Although he's an excellent student, he says he's probably “through with school after this year.” He wants to play professional basketball, then maybe teach school and coach basketball. “I would like to give back some of what I've learned,” he says. But before all those grownup decisions, there's one year left at Davidson. His senior year. His dream is to make it his best. Knowing how far he's come and how much he's improved, you wouldn't bet against him. Not against Boris Meno.
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2006-07highs 36 vs. Ohio, 12/21 9 last time vs. UNCG, 2/3 16 vs. Ohio, 12/21 2 vs. Ohio, 12/21 4 vs. Ohio, 12/21 7 at Wofford, 1/13 8 last vs. W. Carolina, 1/27 8 vs. Colby, 11/21 13 vs. Ohio, 12/21 18 vs. Colby, 11/21 3 vs. Ill.-Chicago, 11/15 7 at The Citadel, 2/24 4 last at The Citadel, 2/24 4 at UNCG, 12/4
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FEATURE ON JASON RICHARDS Jason Richards wouldn't know what to do without sports. It's in his blood, and his family's blood. His father, Tom Richards, was a point guard on the 1974 University of Pittsburgh team that lost in the NCAA tournament to eventual national champion NC State, which featured the great David Thompson. His mother, Mary Beth, was a forward on Pitt's women's basketball team. And his sister, Lindsay, was a McDonald's High School All-American who went on to play basketball at the University of Iowa. After his senior season at Barrington High School in Illinois, where he broke 12 individual school basketball records, it was time to decide on a college. Big decision. Richards wanted a great academic school that also took basketball seriously. He considered Colgate, Furman, Ohio, Yale, Columbia and Davidson. His first recruiting trip was to Davidson. Gorgeous campus, friendly people, cool little town, Charlotte only a few minutes away, top-flight academics. He found those things and more. He found a basketball family. The first day of his visit, Kenny Grant, Davidson's returning point guard and the man Richards could be competing with for playing time, took Richards aside and filled him in. Gave him the inside scoop, what to do and not to do. A strong friendship was forged. “The players on the team welcomed me with open arms,” Richards recalls. “There was a real team atmosphere here. I could feel it from the minute I met the players. The coaches … they were terrific. Coach McKillop gave me straight answers to all my questions. Everything about Davidson just felt right to me.” Especially the way he was treated by Kenny Grant. “I can't thank Kenny enough for what he did for me while he was here,” says Richards, who played behind Grant at point guard for two seasons. “He was my mentor. I learned a lot from him, and it made my transition from high school to college basketball so much easier.” Richards is trying to do for freshman Brendan McKillop what Grant did for him. Last summer you could see the two of them sweating in the sweltering heat while working out in the training room together, or playing basketball at Baker. “I see it as sort of returning the favor, trying to help Brendan in the same ways that Kenny helped me.” It's the Davidson Way, the program designed and nurtured by coach Bob McKillop. Seamless and unselfish, one for all. “When you help others,” the coach tells his players, “you also help yourself.” Richards learned the lesson well. As a senior, he preaches it. After playing behind Grant for two seasons, Richards emerged as a star at point guard last season. He was second in the nation in assists, led the SoCon in assist to turnover ratio, was voted first-team All Conference by the league's coaches, made the SoCon All-Tournament team. “I sort of surprised myself at how well I did,” he confesses. Richards has a hard time believing that this is his last season of Davidson basketball. Senior leadership comes with the territory. He relishes the challenge. “Although we have most of our players back from last sea-
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son,” Richards says, “this is still a new team. Thomas (Sander), Boris (Meno) and I have accomplished a lot, but we want more. We want to go to the NCAA tournament and win some games. Our players worked hard in the off-season, and I think all of us have improved.” Richards and his fellow seniors have won 72 games at Davidson and lost only 25. They are 43 wins and six losses in the SoCon. They've been to the NCAA tournament twice, the postseason NIT once. After winning a school record 29 games last season, the expectations for this year's Davidson team are out the window. Richards says he and his teammates won't let expectations stifle them. “We know we'll have a target on our back,” Richards said. “That's okay. It's nice, really. Coach asked us after last season if we wanted to become a top team. We all said yes, so he went out and put this tough schedule together. Our goal is to get better every day. That's the way we need to approach the entire season. The Southern Conference is a very tough league, and we'll need to be at our best each game.” Richards says he and his teammates “grew a lot as a team” when they took Maryland to the wire in the NCAA tournament last March before seeing the game slip away late. “We got up eight in the second half,” Richards says. “Maybe we became too happy with our success. We really feel we could have won our last two NCAA tournament games against Ohio State and Maryland. I think it certainly showed our young players that we're capable of competing with the best in the nation. At the same time, it showed all of us that we have to finish games and be at our best for 40 minutes.” Richards started getting ready for the season the day after the Maryland game last March. He spent most of the summer in Davidson working out. He came to practice this season 10 pounds lighter but with more muscle. He called it a 12-month commitment that featured proper diet, conditioning, running three or four miles a day -- and a whole lot of basketball. History is his academic major. After graduation, he wants to continue his basketball playing, and after that, possibly a career in sports marketing. As he embarks on his senior season, Richards thinks back to the spring of his senior year in high school when he was selecting a college. Such is always a huge decision for a young person, at times quite a gamble. For Davidson's starting point guard, it's been like a storybook. “I mean it sincerely when I say I couldn't have experienced anything that would top my time at Davidson,” Richards says. “If you would let me write a script for my college life, I couldn't improve on it. It's been that special. It's been what Coach McKillop told me it would, and a whole lot more. We're a family here.” In retrospect, maybe Richards would change one thing about his Davidson career. “Maybe so,” he concedes. “We want to return to the NCAA tournament and win some games. That would make it perfect.”
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2006-07highs 40 at Duke, 11/25 8 last at Ga. Southern, 1/23 17 at Duke, 11/25 6 at Western Carolina, 2/17 13 vs. Colby, 11/21 12 at Georgia Southern, 1/23 14 at Georgia Southern, 1/23 3 vs. Furman, 2/22 7 at Chattanooga, 12/18 8 last at Elon, 1/30 19 vs. Mount Saint Mary, 12/15 9 vs. Appalachian State, 1/20 1 last at UNCG, 12/4 5 vs. Chattanooga, 3/1 32 at Ga. Southern, 1/23
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SANDER NEARLY GAVE UP HIS BASKETBALL DREAM Thomas Sander had a terrific basketball season as a junior at Elder High in Cincinnati. He was named first-team All-Greater Catholic League as well as honorable mention all-district. He was being recruited by more than a handful of colleges, although not by his childhood favorite - Xavier. Things were going as planned. Or, were they? Thinking that some of the college coaches who were recruiting him were blowing more smoke than talking to him honestly, Sander made the startling decision not to play basketball his senior season at Elder. Instead, he would just attend his local University of Cincinnati as a regular student. He was one of the best students in his class, and if basketball was not going to be a part of his college life, then so be it. Sander had played sports all his life. He played football, basketball and baseball in junior high. Stuck exclusively to basketball in high school. His father played football at Xavier, and Thomas was a regular at Xavier basketball games for his entire boyhood. He recalls the coaches there during that time: Pete Gillen, Skip Prosser, Thad Motta. He loved that team. So giving up basketball was a big deal for him. “Just before the start of practice my senior season, I began thinking about my decision again,” Sander says. “I asked myself, 'Why am I not playing?' When I thought it all out, I decided to play my senior season, not sure where it would lead me.” Lucky Davidson. Davidson coach Bob McKillop and assistant coach Jim Fox knew about Sander and traveled to Cincinnati on a fairly regular basis to watch him play. They liked his toughness, unselfish approach to the game, leadership skills and ability to score inside against collapsing defenses. They also admired his academic position of top five percent in the Elder High senior class. While Sander thought that some college recruiters were “fake,” and was turned off by them, the approach of McKillop and Fox hit him in the face like a fresh summer breeze. “They were genuine and honest with me,” Sander said. “They looked me in the eye and told me the truth, even if all of it wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear.” On his recruiting visit to Davidson during April of his high school senior year, the village put on its best spring show, which didn't hurt, either. The cherry blossoms left a pink trail along the brick sidewalks. Sander was impressed with the coaches, the family atmosphere of Davidson's players, the academics, the lovely little town, Belk Arena. All of it. Call it a slam dunk. Sander committed to the Wildcats on the visit - and there's never been a regret, not a one. “My Davidson experience has been unbelievable,” he says. “While our basketball team is very close, we also have friends on campus who have nothing to do with basketball. As for Coach McKillop, he's a great ambassador for Davidson. He's genuine, likes to know what's going on. He shows up everywhere: games, at class, for different speakers. Family and God are very important to him, and he's passionate about basketball.”
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This is not to say there haven't been some disappointments for Sander along the way. “My freshman season, we went 16-0 in conference, didn't win the tournament and didn't get to go to the NCAA tournament,” Sander said. “My sophomore season, we won the conference tournament and got to go to the NCAAs to play Ohio State. That was cool, even though we lost. Last year, going to the tournament was not enough. We wanted to win a game.” After winning a Davidson-record 29 games last season, and sweeping through the Southern Conference regular season and postseason tournament, Sander was excited about Davidson's first-round NCAA tournament draw. Maryland was one of the best teams in the storied Atlantic Coast Conference. Sander thought Davidson would win the game. He was certain about it. He had reasons to feel that way. Davidson led 52-44 with just over 17 minutes to play. Maryland's lead was only four with 2:50 to play and Davidson had the ball. “We got five straight stops,” Sander recalls, “and then took some bad shots. We got out of our system just long enough to let the game to slip away.” With the sting of that loss still on his heart, Sander worked hard during the spring and summer. Now he and close friends Jason Richards and Boris Meno are senior leaders. They had the same leadership role last season, so nothing really new there. But now he's a senior. “I can't believe how fast it went by,” he says. Sander is an excellent student, a curious and articulate young man. He loves to read, watches the Discovery Channel on television, enjoys finance, banking and economics. He thinks he'd like to work in Charlotte, New York or Cincinnati after graduation. He's not sure if he wants to play basketball beyond this season. “Basketball has been very important to me,” he says. “I wouldn't have left Cincinnati had it not been for basketball. I wouldn't have come to Davidson. I wouldn't have experienced living in the South. I wouldn't have the friends on campus that I have now. I enjoy basketball so much, but I'm not sure I would choose to play overseas after this year. I'll wait and see on that.” Meanwhile, Sander knows the dream of going back to the NCAA tournament will be a long and difficult journey. Plenty of roadblocks are ahead. He's prepared himself well. He knows there are no guarantees, not in this sport, not in this life. But when it comes to examining Thomas Sander's career, we do know this. Lucky Davidson.
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Second the club with a field goal percentage of .495.
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Holds a career shooting percentage of 54.0 from the floor, which ranks seventh on Davidson’s all-time list.
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His 81 offensive boards ranked him second on the team behind fellow frontcourt player Boris Meno, who grabbed 88.
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Improved on his free-throw percentage more than 15 percent to finish the campaign with a .732 clip.
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Averaged 13.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game at the Arizona State Sleep America Classic to join fellow tri-captains Boris Meno and Jason Richards on the AllTournament Team.
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2005-06seasonhighlighTs In just his second season with the Wildcats, Sander shot 61percent from the floor while playing in every game including 12 starts out of Davidson’s last 13 games.
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2006-07highs 37 last at UNCG, 12/4 12 vs. Central Conn. St., 11/12 20 vs. Elon, 12/1 3 last at Ga. Southern, 1/23 6 last at Georgia Southern, 1/23 11 vs. E. Michigan, 11/10 15 vs. E. Michigan, 11/10 7 at Elon, 1/30 9 vs. Elon, 12/1 14 vs. Elon, 12/1 6 at Elon, 1/30 5 last vs. W. Carolina, 1/27 2 vs. Ohio, 12/21 3 last vs. Charleston, 3/3 30 vs. Elon, 12/1
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CIVI HOPES DAVIDSON’S SEASON IS A LONG ONE Most of Can Civi's playing time at this point in his Davidson career has come in practice, which might not thrill him, but he's not complaining, either. He's a competitor who long dreamed of playing college basketball in America, and competitors want to be on the court, not on the bench. However, Civi's hard work in practice, his spirit and desire, his toughness and competitiveness, are not overlooked by Davidson coach Bob McKillop, who says of his junior point guard: “Can loves Davidson and his teammates. He's strong, tough, competes hard in practice each day, and his hard work and unselfishness help make us a better team. He has made significant contributions to our success.” Civi has been part of two Davidson teams that won 49 games and two Southern Conference championships. When as a young boy he first thought of playing college basketball in the United States, his dream was to participate in the NCAA tournament. Both of Civi's teams have done that. Civi grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, and attended Uskudar American Academy. All of his teachers taught their classes in English, which would later become a great benefit to Civi. Civi first started playing basketball at the age of 10. He played for Efes Pilsea, one of the best basketball programs in Europe, and spent eight years with that group. He says he fell in love with basketball when he first went to a summer basketball camp as a young boy. Up until then his sporting life had been limited to soccer and swimming. But once he laced up his basketball sneakers, that was pretty much it. Basketball was his game. And as he plays as a college junior in Division 1 basketball, he says the more he's around the game and involved in it, the more he loves it. Several things whetted Civi's appetite about playing college basketball in the United States. He knew the Atsur brothers, Enre and Engin, who played for his Efes Pilsea club team. Enre came to America and played at Western Carolina while Engin became a key member of the basketball team at NC State. In addition, Civi began watching NBA games on television. The more basketball he saw, and the more he heard about European players such as the Atsurs having success in the sport in America, the more determined Civi was to play here. One day Civi said to his father, “I'm going to go to the United States to play college basketball.” Kids are always saying things to their parents like that, so Mr. Civi didn't take it too seriously at first. But as he learned how determined his son was to accomplish the goal, he investigated what such a life might be like for his son. One of Mr. Civi's friends knew Ali Ton, a former Davidson point guard, who spoke highly of the academic and basketball life at Davidson, and highly recommended it. Coach McKillop saw Civi play at basketball camp and was impressed. A scholarship to Davidson was offered and accepted. “I was thrilled with the chance to come to
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Davidson,” Civi said. “Davidson was definitely my choice.” As noted earlier, teachers who spoke English taught all of Civi's classes at Uskudar American Academy. It proved to be a huge advantage for Civi when he arrived at Davidson to begin school. There was no language barrier to overcome such as there was for his teammate Boris Meno when he came to America from France. That's not to say that leaving Turkey for the United States didn't present some problems. There were issues, plenty of them. “It's not easy to leave your family and friends behind and go to another country,” Civi said. “I struggled with some things my freshman year and felt I had to face them pretty much alone. It's tough for me to talk to people about my problems.” He persevered and grew stronger from the experience. Overall, how did he find life in America? “Amazing,” he replied. “I couldn't believe how nice everyone was to me. I would pass a stranger on the street and he'd say, 'Hi.' That's different from the way it is in Istanbul.” Civi also had to adjust to what Americans eat and how fast they eat it. His mother did almost all of the cooking for him and his family, and he grew up eating lots of vegetables. Olive oil is favored in Turkey, butter in the United States. Civi also saw many fried foods featured in America. He was truly amazed at how quickly Americans swallowed their food, often eating as if they're double-parked. Civi was used to the European style where family and friends often take two or three hours to eat a meal. They do more talking and visiting than eating, and they aren't rushed the way we seem to be here. “We talk and chill out more at our meals,” he says. Civi's basketball continues to improve as he goes against teammates Jason Richards and Steph Curry in practice each day. His competitive drive gets quite a workout as he competes against one of the best backcourts in all of college basketball. “Playing against them has helped me a lot,” Civi says. “Trying to guard Steph is a real challenge. Drop off him and he'll shoot over you; crowd him and he'll drive to the basket and get his shot.” Civi says American basketball is a tougher, more physical game than he experienced growing up in Turkey. “Practices are harder here,” he says. “With Coach McKillop, the mental side of the game is just as important as the physical side.” Civi is an Economics major and says he plans to live in the United States after his college days are done. While he's not sure what he wants to do after graduation, he hopes to play basketball as long as he can, and his dream for his team is to be playing deep into the month of March. “It is such a dream for me to be getting an education and playing basketball for Davidson,” he says. “Things have worked out well.”
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LOVEDALE’S CALLING IS TO HELP THOSE IN NEED They call Andrew Lovedale the “Big Cat,” and for good reason. At 6-8, 220, he runs the court in long, graceful strides that cover a lot of hardwood in mere seconds. Powerful and quick, he's a superb shot blocker and rebounder, and improves each day as an offensive player. The best athlete on Davidson's team, and one of the best in the entire Southern Conference? Absolutely. Listen to his teammate, senior Thomas Sander: “Going against Andrew is always a challenge. He's so strong and quick. One day it's going to dawn on him how talented he really is.” Teammates, coaches and friends who describe Lovedale use words such as “nice,” “humble,” “polite.” He is all of those things, as well as extremely intelligent and articulate. Faith, family, school, basketball … his priorities are solid. Charismatic is another word that could be used to describe him. He loves music and his favorite is gospel. He writes gospel songs and one day hopes to do it regularly. He writes his best “when I feel the inspiration to praise God.” He played the keyboard in church and also enjoys the drums. He sang at his church back home in Nigeria, both as a member of the choir and as a soloist. At the age of 15 he directed a group of women singers in his church. In addition to gospel, ask him what kind of music he most enjoys, and he replies, “The kind that make sense, songs that relate something to you.” Lovedale says he feels blessed by the opportunity given him to attend school and play basketball at Davidson. His goal now, and for the future, is to give back. A lot of people talk of doing it; Lovedale walks the walk. He spends an inordinate amount of time helping those in need. On a trip to Nigeria last summer, he carried five bags with him. They were filled with stuff his teammates donated that he took home for needy youth: shoes, T-shirts, Davidson basketball gear. Young people awaited Lovedale when he arrived there. It's now a ritual in Lovedale's Nigeria home. When the youth get word of him coming home, they flock to greet him. “I opened the bag and they just grabbed things,” he recalls. “Some took shoes that didn't even fit and wore them. It was something, seeing young people walking around Nigeria in Davidson basketball gear.” Lovedale looks at the opportunity he is getting now this way: “It's not all for me, but to help others. I want to pass down what I know and have. You don't have to be rich to impact someone's life. Living by example, a word of encouragement … those things could change a life forever.” He's majoring in political science. He doesn't have political ambitions of his own, but he cites “political and economic challenges” facing Nigeria and says he would like to serve in an advisory position to help the leaders make life better for the people. Lovedale was late coming to basketball. He was a soccer and table tennis star as a youngster. He didn't get his first basketball until 2000, and didn't start playing the
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sport until 2001. He left Nigeria for Manchester, England, to play high school basketball for coach Joe Forber, who knew Davidson coach Bob McKillop. Lovedale also met former Davidson player Terrell Ivory in England. He heard nothing but rave reviews about Davidson College. When he met McKillop and received a scholarship offer, he accepted before he had ever seen the campus. “I was just happy to get the opportunity,” he says. He admits that he felt lost when he first reported for a Davidson practice. Some basketball terms, such as “elbow” and “back-cut,” were a mystery to him. In this case, the “elbow” was a position on the court near the foul line, not the middle part of his arm. All of this took some getting used to. Also, the competition he faced here came from athletes who were more skilled in basketball than the ones he had previously played against. Instead of just unleashing his rare athletic skills, he found himself painting by the numbers - thinking, thinking, thinking - trying to find his correct spot on the court. Elbow? “Where in the world is that?” Back-cut? “Where'd my man disappear to?” “I learn something new from every practice,” Lovedale said, “but I know most of the terms now. I'm playing more by instincts instead of having to think each time before I do something.” Lovedale says he owes gratitude to Davidson big men Boris Meno and Thomas Sander for helping him during his adjustment to a new environment. “Boris was so encouraging and athletic,” Lovedale said, “and Thomas is the smartest player I've ever met or gone against.” With two years and two Southern Conference championships under his belt, Lovedale looks ahead. Now, nobody could find an arrogant or cocky bone in this young man's body. But after being in the NCAA tournament for two straight years, and coming so close to beating both Ohio State and Maryland in the postseason, he wants more. Not just a step more, or two steps more. He wants the grand prize. “I want to go all the way,” he says. “Why not? We have worked hard enough as a team to do it. We have the guys that can play well enough to do it. I stayed in Nigeria only two weeks last summer so I could be here working out with my teammates. When we were not together, we emailed each other to make sure that everyone was doing his workouts.” Meanwhile, Lovedale says he isn't sure where he will reside after Davidson and basketball are in his rearview mirror. But he does know this, and he knows it clearly, “I will always be of service to my home country, and do my best to help other people.” A look into Andrew Lovedale's eyes seals the deal. His life will be in service to others less fortunate. As good as he is in basketball, living by example is what he does best.
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u Recorded his first of five double figure rebounding performances with 12 in Davidson’s season-opening win against Eastern Michigan. u In 19 minutes at then-ranked No. 8/9 Duke, Lovedale was just one point shy of a double-double scoring nine points while grabbing 10 rebounds. u Made his first career start in Davidson’s SoCon opener, recording his first double-double with a personal-best 16 points and 17 rebounds in a career-high 33 minutes versus Elon on Dec. 1, 2007.
Careerhighs 33 vs. Elon, 12/1/06 7 vs. Elon, 12/1/06 11 vs. Elon, 12/1/06 1 last at Duke, 11/25/06 2 at Charleston, 2/12/07 4 vs. W. Carolina, 1/27/07 6 vs. Chattanooga, 2/6/07 5 at Duke, 11/25/06 9 last vs. W. Carolina, 1/27/07 17 vs. Elon, 12/1/06 3 at Missouri, 11/19/06 5 at Missouri, 11/19/06 2 last Charleston, 2/12/07 4 vs. Colby, 11/21/06 16 vs. Elon, 12/1/06
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PAULHUS GOSSELIN DIGS DEEP ON DEFENSE Max Paulhus Gosselin's basketball philosophy is uncomplicated. While others close to the game might study statistics carefully, the only statistic that means anything to him is the score at the end of the game. “It's about winning,” the Davidson junior says. “It's about winning and nothing else. All of that other stuff doesn't matter.” Run a personality profile on Paulhus Gosselin and this is what would be revealed: Every bone in his body reeks of unselfishness. He never puts himself, or any personal goals, ahead of the team's welfare. His determination to impose his will on an opponent is stronger than 40 acres of garlic. But doesn't everyone like to be recognized for his good deeds? So, Max, don't you ever resent not getting as much attention as those who score the most points? Just a tiny bit of resentment, isn't it buried deep in your heart? He smiles, shakes his head. His eyes reveal confusion as to why such a question would even be asked. “Twenty-nine and five is my answer to that,” Paulhus Gosselin says, citing Davidson's record number of victories last season. “Winning championships is my answer to that. I was part of the team that won the (SoCon) championship, and my name is recorded there with the rest of my teammates. Let's put it this way. If I played the game of my life, scored 35 points, and we lost, what would be gained? It would still be a loss. It would be worthless.” That's the way Paulhus Gosselin views his basketball universe. It's a team game - and it's all about the team. Last season was a remarkable one for the Wildcats, and Paulhus Gosselin was an integral part of the success. Twenty-nine wins is big time in any league, at any level. Looking back at all this success, was Paulhus Gosselin satisfied? “Satisfied is not the proper word,” Paulhus Gosselin replied. “I wasn't satisfied, and neither were my teammates. I was happy for the team, proud of the chemistry we had throughout the season, and the effort we gave. I was proud of all the guys because we competed and improved. But satisfied? No, we weren't satisfied.” It's no coincidence that Paulhus Gosselin has played on two Davidson teams that won Southern Conference championships and subsequently scared the wits out of excellent teams from the Big Ten and ACC in the NCAA tournament. No coincidence at all. Every championship team needs a selfless player that defends with passion, sets screens, hustles for loose balls, and doesn't hunt his shot. That pretty much describes Paulhus Gosselin's DNA. Max is a junior now, a magnificent leader who has won the admiration of his teammates and coaches. He has emerged as a leader, a responsibility that he welcomes. If he were writing the story, how would he describe himself as a player? “One who wants to win all the time,” he begins. “That pretty much sums it up. My first year here, I didn't have much of a role. Last year, I became a defensive stopper. This year, I want to be better on defense. We play a team defense and take a lot of pride in
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it. I know exactly where my help is coming from on each play.” This gets a little tricky. In no way, none at all, is Paulhus Gosselin boastful or cocky, but he is confident. Becoming more confident, too. He understands his role on Davidson's team, but doesn't feel fenced in, or limited. If teams forget about him on offense, as UT-Chattanooga did last season, Max has the skills to punish them on offense. His hustle often enables him to beat the defense down the court for easy baskets. One of his prettiest such baskets came in the NCAA tournament against Maryland last March when he took a long bounce pass, and going at full speed, put the ball in the basket, giving the underdog Wildcats an eight-point second-half lead. But defense is his forte. He understands it, embraces it. It takes the consummate team player to buy into making defense his specialty. Even though some basketball observers maintain that anyone can play defense as long as they have the determination to do so, it is a myth that doesn't stand up to examination. Name a good defender who didn't have excellent foot movement as well as the vision and instincts to see man and ball, all the time fighting through screens and guarding against backdoor cuts. It takes talent, skill and determination. Defense doesn't get enough credit from fans and media, but coaches appreciate it and honor those who play it best. “Getting a defensive stop is empowering,” Paulhus Gosselin says, a smile lighting up his face. “When we get a stop, it lifts us up and demoralizes our opponent. It slows them down and makes us go faster. It takes unselfishness to play team defense, and then that unselfishness carries over to offense, too.” He credits his high school coach in Quebec, John Dangelas, for first motivating him to play defense. “Coach Dangelas forced defense on me,” Paulhus Gosselin said. “Once I caught on, I felt I could do it every day. It's no doubt that he contributed greatly to me being able to come to Davidson and play basketball.” While expectations for Davidson were rampant in the preseason, Paulhus Gosselin wasn't buying. He won't allow himself to look that far ahead. That's looking for trouble, as he sees it. Winning is a process, the culmination of many individual and team improvements. It's a seasonlong journey. “Expectations are not even in my mind,” he said. “My goal is for us to get better as a team, have fun, and stick together, especially in times of adversity. Always stick together.” That's Max Paulhus Gosselin's basketball universe, all right. It all translates to winning.
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ARCHAMBAULT READY TO SHOW HIS OWN GAME Will Archambault, a Davidson sophomore from Montreal, is a movie aficionado. He loves everything about the theatre, the entire ambience, even the smell of the popcorn cooking in the lobby. His preference of films leans to classic action movies and modern comedy. But there's one tape he's seen the most, viewed it even more times than his favorite movie, Face-Off, even though it has an ending that he despises. He estimates that he's seen it, start to finish, 10 times, maybe as many as 15. It's the tape of Davidson's loss in the NCAA tournament last season to Maryland. Why watch it so many times? “Because there's so much to learn from it,” Archambault said. “We could have won that game; we think we should have won it. We lost because so many little things that we did wrong added up in the final analysis to be something big. The tape shows that.” The loss to the Terps hurt Archambault long after it was over. The bright side is that it motivated him and his teammates to improve, to correct the flaws that turned a near upset of an ACC power into a disappointing season-ending loss. “I hate losing,” he says, almost spitting out the words. “I can't even stand to think about losing. I remember my mood after the Maryland game, and it wasn't very good.” Archambault believes that he gets his competitive drive from his father, Germain Archambault, who is a chemical engineer. As president of a Montreal company that specializes in recycling plastic, Germain Archambault knows the difference between winning and losing in the business world is often as fine as a piece of thread. It's the same way in college basketball; the reason drills are repeated over and over. One play, like the 3-point bomb that Archambault dropped on Wofford last season, can sometimes mean the difference between winning and losing. Will Archambault's competitive desire also was fueled while playing high school basketball at Champlain St. Lambert, on the same team with Davidson teammate Max Paulhus Gosselin, for coach John Dangelas. “He's sent a lot of players to D-1 schools in the States,” Archambault says of his high school coach. “He gets his player prepared for college basketball. He coaches and runs his program the way it's done in the States. For instance, academic progress is monitored closely, and if a player is not doing the job, he doesn't play.” As important as basketball is to Archambault, it hasn't always been a part of his life. Soccer was his first sport of choice. Basketball wasn't on his mind until seven years ago when an acquaintance, seeing he was tall for his age, asked him to give the sport a try. Archambault tried it, liked it, took training that increased his vertical jump by 13 inches in 12 weeks, and had a growth spurt that took his height from 6-1 to its current 6-6. An impressive high school career, which saw him make first-team Quebec All-Star and win a spot on the AllCanadian All-Star team, brought college recruiters to his doorstep. His finalists were West Virginia, Richmond, Rice
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and Davidson. He visited the University of Richmond, where he loved the campus and its beauty but didn't fall head over heels in love with the city. The recruiting visit to Davidson pretty much sealed the deal for the Wildcats. He liked what he saw and experienced. “As far as basketball was concerned, I didn't care if I went to a big school or a small one,” Archambault said. “Academically, I preferred a small school because of having fewer students in each class.” Basketball entered prominently into the decision, too. Archambault didn't like the idea of spending his entire freshman season sitting on the bench. While he knew playing time was not guaranteed, he also knew Davidson had graduated seven seniors from the previous season, so at the least he would have a chance to play his first year. He made the most of the opportunity, and showing a knack for scoring inside as well as beyond the arc, he played an average of about 20 minutes a game while averaging almost eight points. Davidson's academic load also took some getting used to. “I learned that I was taking only four classes my first semester,” he recalls. “I thought, 'This is cake,' because in high school I took twice that number. In the first class I attended, the professor said a two-page essay would be due when we met again in two days. In my second class on the first day, the assignment was to read 60 pages before the next class, to finish an entire book in a week. My first year was kind of brutal.” Like most young college students, Archambault has changed majors from biology to psychology, then to political science. He's an excellent student who's finding his niche. He didn't know his fellow freshman recruits - Stephen Curry, Dan Nelms, Bryant Barr - until he arrived on campus. They have become close friends since and often eat together, go to movies, maybe even take a trip in the offseason. In addition to watching movies, one of Archambault's interests is weight lifting. It helped him become bigger and stronger than a year ago, which serves him well when he takes smaller defenders inside to post them up. His first few years of basketball saw him play inside exclusively. He began to get the green light to shoot the 3-pointer about five years ago, and now his inside-outside skills make him hard to guard. The three seniors on the Davidson team - Thomas Sander, Jason Richards and Boris Meno - are excellent leaders, Archambault says, “who lead by the way they play. They lead by showing us the right way to play.” With a year of college basketball under his belt, Archambault hopes to show more of his own stuff this season. Maybe that would land a place in his growing collection as his favorite.
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BARR LIKES WHAT HE SEES IN ’CATS’ FUTURE Bryant Barr knew it would be quite an adjustment coming from high school basketball in Maine to Davidson, a Division 1 program that competes in the tough Southern Conference and spends much of November and December challenging the likes of North Carolina, Duke, UCLA and NC State. He was as excited as he was apprehensive about the opportunity. He came to Davidson for two weeks in the summer prior to his freshman year, mostly to get acclimated. He met classmate Steph Curry on the trip, and the two of them became fast friends and ultimately campus roommates. “That summer trip was good for me,” Barr said, “because I was convinced that I would fit in well here. “The basketball adjustment for me was a pretty big deal, because I was suddenly competing against quicker, stronger and more talented players on the D-1 level than I'd ever gone against in high school.” Like most freshmen that play basketball at this level, Barr's confidence was shaken initially. He kept working at it, though, waiting for his chance. It came in the 10th game of Davidson's season against cross-county rival Charlotte. Barr's teammate, Will Archambault, injured a foot while preparing for that game and had to sit it out. Barr was pretty sure that he would have to take some of Archambault's playing time against the 49ers. He was right. He played 21 minutes, hit three 3-point field goals, scored 11 points, and won a standing ovation from the Davidson's partisans for his allaround excellent performance in a resounding victory. “That game did a lot for me,” Barr recalls. “It made me feel that I could play at this level and help my team. Our team hadn't been very highly regarded in the preseason rankings and such, but I think that game went a good ways in establishing us as a good team in the eyes of many people.” A young player doesn't gain confidence by taking a pill, or wishing for it. It's a formula that goes something like this: Hard work, plus success equals confidence. There was a confidence-building moment in the Charlotte game for Barr. He was forced into a defensive switch, which pitted him against Charlotte's standout scorer, Lee Goldwire. Barr played him tough, got the defensive stop, which caused a mini-celebration from Coach McKillop. Barr saw how pleased his coach was, and it gave him satisfaction as well as confidence. Barr says his freshman season exceeded his expectations his own and those he had for his team. He played more than he thought he would when the season began. And his team, picked to finish fourth in the SoCon South Division, won the league championship en route to a 29-win season and a second straight berth in the NCAA tournament. Not resting on any laurels, the Falmouth, Maine, sophomore dedicated himself to an off-season of hard work. To help, he stayed in Davidson for most of the summer to work out and be around many of his teammates. He felt good about his progress, real good. He was told before the summer began that he needed to get stronger, mentally tougher, and to spend much time working on his defense. “My goals were to make improvements in those areas,”
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Barr said. “My shooting's pretty good, but I had plenty to work on. I'm never going to be the quickest player in the world, but I felt my quickness had improved and was coming along pretty good.” Adversity hit during the second week of August. Barr was knocked down by a serious bout with mononucleosis, a wicked illness that makes every muscle and joint ache while sapping the victim's energy. This isn't like the 24-hour flu. It takes time to get over it. It stopped Barr's off-season preparation dead in its tracks. Indeed, it was three months before he felt well enough to practice at full speed. “I worked hard on my defense before I became sick,” Barr said. “We pride ourselves on playing team defense at Davidson. We take a great deal of pride in it, work hard on it, and without it, we probably wouldn't be nearly as effective.” As he looked forward to his sophomore season, Barr thought about what could be for Davidson basketball. Like most of his teammates, he's not crazy about the “mid-major” designation the media assign to teams like Davidson. “There's nothing mid-major about our schedule,” he said. “Coach (Matt) Matheny worked hard to get us a schedule like we have. All of the players wanted to play against the best. It'll be challenging and fun to see what we can do.” Even though his freshman season was a success, Barr played pretty much in anonymity. That's understandable when you consider the Wildcats had three outstanding junior starters and leaders in Boris Meno, Thomas Sander and Jason Richards. A defensive stopper in Max Paulhus Gosselin. Plus, the 'Cats featured a freshman sensation in Stephen Curry, who gained national attention because of his spectacular play. Barr didn't have a problem with any of it. He recalls one trip to Charlotte with his roommate Curry shortly after the season ended. A city bus driver, upon seeing Curry, stopped his vehicle, opened the door and congratulated Curry on his great season and his performance against Maryland in the NCAA tournament. “Steph helps all of us get recognition,” Barr says, “and also brings attention to Davidson and our basketball program in general. He is one of the most humble people I've ever known. If you didn't know who he was, you'd have no idea that he was such a great basketball player.” Barr also knows, that as a young player still learning, he's fortunate to have Sander, Meno and Richards to mentor him. “They are so good at talking to the underclassmen and helping us,” he said. “They don't hesitate to get in our face if it's called for, but they're also great at explaining things. We learn from watching how smart and hard they play. They never slack off.” As good as last season was, Barr knows that it'll be one step at a time this season, no shortcuts. The target is squarely on Davidson's back. The young man from Maine feels prepared for the journey. Prepared and eager.
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CURRY FLOURISHES WHEN PRESSURE IS GREATEST Pressure is an interesting thing, as is the way athletes respond to it. Some thrive on it while others wilt under its onslaught. Davidson's Stephen Curry received a graduate degree in how to handle pressure during his freshman season with the Wildcats. It manifested itself in two forms before Curry ever played a game of college basketball. There was the personal pressure of earning playing time, being able to play against college athletes who were bigger, quicker and stronger than he had gone against in high school, and doing the things he would need to do in order for Davidson's young team to have a chance for success. Remember, Davidson graduated seven seniors from the previous year's Southern Conference champions. “I pretty much knew that I would play right away,” Curry says of his rookie season. “I worked hard to get ready. I didn't put any pressure on myself to meet any certain individual goals. I just wanted to do the best I could.” The pressure of being a freshman, playing a lot, helping his team beat expectations didn't faze the young man from Charlotte. That stage, while very public, was enjoyable. There was another spotlight, however, that was different. The pressure of comparisons. Curry's father, Dell, starred in basketball at Virginia Tech and then went on to have 16 superlative seasons in the NBA, where he gained the reputation - justifiably so - of being one of the best shooters ever in professional basketball. “The media latched onto the story about my dad and me,” Stephen says. “That was a different kind of pressure.” Each time Davidson made a road trip, there seemed to be a story about Curry and his father. An example is a story on ESPN.com that ran under the headline, “Ex-NBA shooter's son is star frosh at Davidson.” From a Rhode Island newspaper, this headline: “Davidson's Curry has his father's 3-point genes.” And from SI.com: “Curry has the genes, maturity of a pro.” On and on, a daily story in the media. While that kind of attention would stifle many, and make others walk around with an exaggerated opinion of their own importance, it did neither to Steph Curry. One reason is because of the close relationship between Curry and his father, as well as the way his parents raised the Davidson star. His mom and dad gave him a great perspective on life. While basketball has been a vital part of Steph Curry's life for as long as he can remember, there's much more to him than that. There was another element to handling the pressure, too, one that only Curry felt and kept to himself until now. It came in Davidson's first game at Ann Arbor, Michigan last season. Playing in his first collegiate game, Curry was racing around like a rocket having mechanical problems as Davidson fell behind Eastern Michigan by 16 points at halftime. Curry handled the ball in the first 20 minutes as if it were radioactive, ending the game with 13 turnovers. The Wildcats rallied in the second half, however, and recorded the first of their 29 victories. Curry was on the court for 35 of the 40 minutes. 'The way Coach McKillop treated me in that first game really boosted my confidence,” Curry says. “I was having my problems, but he stuck with me. We came back in the second half and won, and I had some big steals. If I had been taken out and left on the bench because of my poor play, I might have gotten down on myself and lost some confidence. I think to start the season like that took a lot of pressure off me.” Curry also read and heard many times last season how the socalled “big boys” of college basketball erred by not recruiting him. While he says he has no animosity towards any school for not offering him a scholarship, he doesn't appreciate the implication that Davidson doesn't belong in that “big boy” category.
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“I read a story before this season that said we had one of the top trios in low Division 1 basketball,” Curry said. “That hurt a little bit. We certainly don't look at ourselves as a 'low' D-1 team. My motivation isn't to show up any other school, but to help put Davidson basketball on the map where it belongs. We have a great program here.” After a summer that included playing for the USA under 19 World Championship team, Curry came home talking about how much the experience made him appreciate Davidson basketball even more. “It's all about the team here, all about each other,” Curry explains. “It starts with the coaching staff and the way they handle things and overflows to us. After we win a game at home and go back to the campus, we actually know the people who are congratulating us. It's just a big family here that extends from our locker room throughout the entire community.” Curry also realizes that some programs - probably most programs - would not have been as accepting of a freshman getting the lion's share of attention as were his Davidson teammates. The Davidson veterans celebrated Curry's individual success openly and without resentment. “It's funny you bring that up, because I've actually thought about it,” Curry said. “The veteran players had been here longer than I had, had worked hard and invested so much in the program, yet they were very accepting of me. I certainly couldn't get anything accomplished without the guys on our team. If teams put too much attention on me, somebody else on our team will drop 30 on them.” Curry cited the 32 points that Jason Richards scored against Georgia Southern last season to back up is claim. “Their players were calling out my name, telling each other where I was,” Curry said. “While they were paying all that attention to me, J-Rich killed them with his scoring and overall play.” Curry has established a special bond with Richards, the team's senior point guard. They seem to play with one heartbeat, knowing where to go when the other has the ball, to read the other's eyes and know what's coming next. “Playing with J-Rich is a lot of fun,” Curry says. “Each of us can score, pass, and we know without even thinking where the other will be on the court. We're on the same page so much that it just seems natural.” Curry's freshman statistics and individual honors are recorded elsewhere on these pages. They glitter and hold great promise for the future. But he's about winning, not statistics, and the loss to Maryland in the NCAA tournament last March was a long time leaving his mind and soul. “I'd say it took at least a month for me to get over that loss and start thinking about this season,” Curry said. “Some people say I got tired at the end of that game, and maybe I did. It motivated me to work extra hard in the off-season to make sure I can play 40 minutes with complete intensity this year. All of our players took that approach in the off-season.” Curry has grown about an inch and a half since last season, put on some muscle. His summer was so busy with basketball that he says he never had a chance to get lazy. Last season he was used mostly at two-guard but played some point when Richards needed rest or was in foul trouble. No matter what position he's playing, Curry says he wants to be the aggressor and put the defense on its heels. After winning 29 games last season, Curry knows the target is on Davidson's back. “We all know the expectations are high,” he says, “and we also know that we'll have to play better than last season to meet them. We have a tough schedule, but we're going to compete. We know we can play with anybody.”
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NELMS WOULD LIKE TO LAND THIS ‘BIG ONE’ Davidson sophomore Dan Nelms never gave college basketball a thought until he began playing AAU ball during high school in Lake Forest, Ill., near Chicago. He lettered for two years at Lake Forest High, during which time he was also playing AAU. Still, after his junior high school season, college basketball was not on his personal radar screen. He wanted to go to college and study engineering, and he preferred a school with a big enrollment. He applied for early admission to Florida, Harvard, Lehigh and Penn. His basketball goals really began to crystallize during his senior high school season. The more he played, and the more success he had, the more convinced he became that he wanted to give college basketball a try. Nelms was tall, played hard, and his skills were improving. His experience in AAU ball certainly helped him, he said. Upon graduation from Lake Forest, he knew he wanted to play college basketball, so he decided to take a year of prep school at Phillips Exeter Academy to improve his chances. “I went to Phillips primarily to play basketball,” Nelms says, “and I really focused on it while I was there.” Davidson first heard of Nelms through his AAU play. Coach McKillop scouted him in prep school and liked what he saw. Although the coach knew Nelms had a ways to go before he would be ready to contribute significantly at the Division 1 level, he saw immense potential in the big man's game. He was also quite impressed with how hard Nelms worked and how much basketball meant to him. Nelms recalls Coach McKillop asking him, “Do you want to play professional basketball?” The question caught Nelms off-guard. He hadn't thought much about those prospects. But he found himself nodding his head to McKillop's question. Yeah, he wanted to play pro basketball. Nelms made an October recruiting visit to Davidson. Instead of a big school, he found himself walking the gorgeous campus of a top liberal arts college that has an enrollment of approximately 1,700 students. “Even though I preferred a big school with a great engineering department, I found Davidson to be a great place,” Nelms says. “I really liked all of the players and the coaches.” Nelms was so impressed with Davidson that he didn't want to make a decision that he would later regret. He went home from his recruiting visit to think things over. He was getting attention from other schools, but the more he thought about Davidson, the more positive he felt about the school and the basketball program. He gave the Wildcats an early commitment. An Economics major, Nelms has adjusted to Davidson's size and likes it. “Davidson is great for me,” he said. “It's where I can get to my highest level. I love playing basketball, and I plan to play as hard as I can and go to the highest level that my talent will take me. I want to play basketball for as long as I can.” Nelms says that while some college teams “separate after they leave the court, we're a team on and off the court here. We do a lot of things together off the court, hang out
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a lot.” Nelms rooms with Davidson teammate Max Paulhus Gosselin. He says the veteran players helped him adjust during his freshman season. He went against Thomas Sander just about every day in practice, and Nelms says watching the way Sander takes care of details taught him that if you do that in Davidson's system, you could become an effective player. Nelms came to Davidson with an impressive freshman class, including the highly celebrated Stephen Curry. He and Curry, along with teammates Stephen Rossiter and Bryant Barr, went to Florida over Easter break last spring to stay in the Nelms family home near Gainesville. On the way back to campus, they had on some Davidson basketball clothes when they stopped at an Arby's in Georgia for a sandwich. Some kids in the restaurant spotted Nelms, Rossiter and Barr and questioned them about playing for the Wildcats. Meanwhile, they asked, “Do y'all know Steph Curry?” Curry was on the other side of the restaurant getting a soda. “As soon as we pointed them towards Steph, they all left us and went over to him and got him to autograph some napkins,” Nelms recalls, smiling at the acclaim his fellow freshman has earned. Nelms went back home last summer and worked out at his AAU facility, which has multiple basketball courts, including two NBA courts. He had access to a personal trainer, and figures he spent five to six hours each day working on his game. That dedication to the game is one of the things that attracted Davidson to him. Dan is the son of David and Daryl Nelms. David is CEO of Discover Card. Dan's brother, Steve, is a high school student, and older brother Brad is a senior at the University of Wisconsin. His family catches as many Davidson games in person as they can. When he's not working on basketball matters, Nelms loves all water sports. His family enjoys the time it spends in Florida, and they go as often as possible. Nelms says he does all kind of fishing: salt water, grouper, sharks. Sharks? Have you ever caught any? “Yeah, I've caught some.” Big ones? He laughs. “The big ones usually get away.” Nelms and his teammates, coming off two consecutive Southern Conference championships and NCAA appearances, have another big season of their own. And this is one he's hoping doesn't get away. He and the Wildcats like to think that they have some unfinished business. Nelms hesitates to talk about specific goals, for him or the team. “I want us to work hard, play as well as we can, and treat each possession like it's the most important one we'll ever have.” For a young man who wasn't even thinking about a career in college basketball two years ago, Dan Nelms has come a long ways in a short time.
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ROSSITER IN FULL SUPPORT OF HIS ‘BEST FRIENDS’ Let's face it, most college basketball fans have very little understanding about how much work players and coaches put into planning and preparing for a game. Case in point: Davidson's players began preparing for this season less than a week after losing to Maryland in the NCAA tournament last March. One of the many unsung heroes on Davidson's team is Stephen Rossiter, 6-7, a redshirt sophomore who works just as hard in preparation as any of the team's starters. While Rossiter played in all but two of Davidson's 34 games last season, his playing time was limited to an average of 7.3 minutes a game. But statistics don't begin to reveal the importance of Rossiter to Davidson's success. He not only works hard in practice to make his own game better, his goal each day is to practice well enough to make starters Thomas Sander and Boris Meno improve. Rossiter's unrelenting play in practice creates a game-like atmosphere for Davidson's starting big men. “I realize that many of my contributions come in practice,” Rossiter says. “When I play well in practice, I'm not only helping myself, I'm also helping Boris and Thomas become better players. Coach McKillop knows the importance of that work.” Rossiter injured a foot in preseason practice of his freshman season and didn't play in any of Davidson's games. He was granted a medical redshirt. While competing at the Division 1 level for the first time last season, Rossiter's constant hustle and improvement was a source of encouragement for Davidson's coaches. Rossiter played high school basketball for Monsignor Farrell in Staten Island, N.Y. He also played in many AAU tournaments in the summer before his senior high school season, and that's when Davidson heard about him. “When Coach McKillop first talked to me about Davidson, he was straight with me,” Rossiter said. “He let me know that he was recruiting some other people at my position, but if for some reason they didn't choose Davidson, there was a good possibility that he would offer me a scholarship.” McKillop was in the stands late in the season of Rossiter's senior year when the opponent was St. Joseph's By the Sea. Rossiter remembers the night well. “I had one of my worst games,” he says. But after the game was over, Rossiter got news that made up for his poor performance and then some. Coach McKillop offered him a scholarship to Davidson. “He told me that he was impressed with the way I kept my spirits up and cheered on my teammates, even though I was having a bad game,” Rossiter said. “I was extremely excited to get the scholarship offer.” Rossiter was almost certain he'd accept, but he wanted to make a couple of other recruiting visits before making his final decision. He went to Monmouth after visiting Davidson, mostly to make a comparison of the two. Rossiter stayed with Jason Richards and Thomas Sander on his official visit to Davidson in April 2005. Those two
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and the rest of Davidson's players made him feel like he was already part of the team. “I liked everything about Davidson,” he says, “the players, coaches, arena, small school atmosphere. Deciding to come here was easy.” While Rossiter is by nature a happy young man who is easy to get along with, don't entertain the idea that he is satisfied sitting on the bench and playing sparingly. He's as competitive as any of his teammates. “Sure, I want to play more,” he says. “But when I have teammates at my position that are playing better, I understand they're going to play more. I get my chances in practice and in games, and it's up to me to take advantage of those opportunities. When I enter the game off the bench, my goal is to help the team maintain a high level of play. I try to do my part in seeing to it that the team doesn't lose a step while I'm out there.” Those who attend Davidson's games can see Rossiter leading cheers from the bench, and being one of the first to greet a teammate when he comes out of the game. There's not an envious bone in his body. And when he's on the court, he gives Davidson a burst of energy, especially in rebounding and defense. “The guys on the team are my best friends,” he says. “It's easy to cheer for them, because I know what great guys they are and how hard they work. Take Steph (Curry), for instance. He gets all kinds of attention from the media and fans. When we go out, people are all over him for autographs and to talk to him. He handles it so well. He's as down-to-earth as any person you'd ever meet. I feel great that he's having so much success.” Rossiter loves sports, especially the New York Yankees, and likes to travel. One of his goals is to tour Europe someday. He says he's not sure if basketball will be in his plans beyond Davidson. “Basketball is still so much fun for me,” he says. “Many of our guys get chances to play in Europe after graduation. That could be for me, but I'm not sure about it yet.” Rossiter says playing in the NCAA tournament is a thrill. He calls the NCAA tournament the biggest sports event of the year next to the Super Bowl. “I love being the small school, the underdog,” he said. “The big schools get so much attention, but when they play us, they go away knowing that we can play, too. Every player on the team likes the tough schedule that we face this year. Coach McKillop and the rest of the coaches prepare us well for each game we play. Playing against so many good team makes us better, gets up better prepared.” How would he rate his Davidson career to this point? “I love this place … basketball, the challenging academics, the entire atmosphere of the college. When I went home last spring, a lot of people were talking about Davidson basketball. They saw us play Maryland on television in the NCAA tournament and were impressed. I hope we can give them even more to talk about this year.”
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DAVIDSON REMINDS ALLISON OF HOME Ben Allison is a long ways from home, but it doesn't feel like it. The Davidson freshman arrived on campus from a small English village located about an hour's train ride from London. “Everything is bigger here,” he says, “the buildings, the cars, the portions of food.” But the town of Davidson, he says, has a pace and rhythm much like the setting of the boarding school he attended in England the past two years. “I'm not a big-city boy,” Allison says, “so Davidson feels a lot like home.” Allison played high school basketball for coach Woody Kenny in England. Kenny had attended Providence College in Rhode Island, so he had the background to advise Allison wisely about college basketball in the United States. “I had known since I was very young that I wanted to come to the United States to attend college and play basketball.” He played most of his basketball in England for his club team the Haywards Heath Eagles. His outstanding athletic skills, and a growth spurt that took him from 6-1 at age 16 to 6-8 at age 19, caught the attention of many college coaches, including Davidson's Bob McKillop.
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McKillop went to England to see Allison play, and his presence made quite an impression on the young man. “Not many American college coaches would travel that far to see me play,” Allison said. In addition, Allison's history teacher at school was a Davidson graduate, and Coach Kenny knew Coach McKillop. More and more, it seemed, the path was leading him to Davidson. While Allison investigated going to prep school, or maybe a junior college, Davidson's pursuit of him struck a chord. “Davidson showed more interest than everybody else,” Allison said. “It was all very genuine, and when I got the opportunity to come here, I jumped at it.” Allison says competing against Division 1 players is more intense “than any of my previous basketball training.” He says Davidson's academic pace “presents busy days that are packed with studying and basketball. But that's all good. I like it that way.” What are his early impressions of Davidson basketball and life in the States? “I love it here,” he says. “The training schedule is much more intense than back home, but I expected it to be the case. And the people over here are so much more passionate about basketball, which I love.”
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BOND WANTS TO GET HEALTHY AND CONTRIBUTE Aaron Bond, one of three freshmen on this year's Davidson team, has played against some of the top talent in basketball and he also knows a thing or two about winning. A swing player from Ashburn, Va., Bond played some AAU basketball with the spectacular Kevin Durant, who was the second player taken in the NBA draft after one season at Texas, North Carolina point guard Tywon Lawson, one of the fastest players in college basketball, and Georgetown star Roy Hibbert. Bond led his team to conference championships in both his junior and senior seasons, and at Georgetown Prep he averaged 14 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists. He was named AllConference and All-County two years in a row. His excellent play brought college recruiters to his doorstep. He made visits to Bucknell, Virginia, Holy Cross and Davidson, and cancelled a trip to Santa Clara. What swung him Davidson's way? “I fell in love with the campus,” he said, “and Coach McKillop was so authentic with me.” Bond's high school, Stonebridge High, had approximately 2,000 students. He set out on his college tour thinking that he wanted to attend a large school. But he says he's adjusted well to
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MCKILLOP LIKES DAVIDSON’S ‘BASKETBALL FAMILY’ Freshman Brendan McKillop, son of Davidson head coach Bob McKillop, has watched the Wildcats play and practice his entire life. So when he began preseason practice with his teammates in October, he wasn't surprised at how demanding his father was about the smallest of details. “We emphasize details that we didn't even think about in high school,” Brendan McKillop said. “Each possession in the college game is extremely important, and we treat each one like gold.” McKillop has received excellent help from Jason Richards, Davidson's senior point guard who worked out with McKillop during much of last summer. “It's incredible for me to have the opportunity to learn from Jason. He is clearly one of the top point guards in college basketball, and I learn so much from him by the way he changes speeds, the angles he takes to get to the basket, and the way he finishes plays. I watched him play for three years and knew he was good. But to play with him … it's amazing how well he sees the court.” McKillop had a breakout senior season at Charlotte Catholic High School when he averaged 26 points and five assists. He was thinking seriously of spending a year in prep school, but then multiple colleges became interested in him as a student-athlete,
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prompting him to go straight from Charlotte Catholic High to college. Davidson was not in his plans at first. In fact, he had pretty much decided not to follow his older brother Matt's footsteps at Davidson. But then a funny thing happened. He went to the Southern Conference tournament, which Davidson won, and to the NCAA tournament and saw the Wildcats compete furiously against Maryland before losing. “When I saw the way the team reacted in the tournaments, I changed my mind,” Brendan says. “It showed me again what I already knew: the basketball program here is a family, and I couldn't see it being like this anywhere else. I felt strongly that Davidson was the place I wanted to be.” McKillop says Charlotte Catholic prepared him well for the academic challenge that Davidson presents. “We did a lot of writing in our classes at Catholic,” Brendan says, “and that has helped here, because Davidson professors believe in giving writing assignments.” “I'm still learning to balance my time between academics and basketball,” Brendan said, “and if I'm lucky, to work in a little nap every now and then.”
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Championships 1996 souThern ConferenCe North Division Regular Season 1997 souThern ConferenCe North Division Regular Season 1998 souThern ConferenCe North Division Regular Season Southern Conference Tournament 2002 souThern ConferenCe North Division Regular Season Southern Conference Tournament 2003 souThern ConferenCe North Division Regular Season 2004 souThern ConferenCe South Division Regular Season 2005 souThern ConferenCe South Division Regular Season 2006 souThern ConferenCe Southern Conference Tournament 2007 souThern ConferenCe South Division Regular Season Southern Conference Tournament
CoaChinghonors soCon CoaCh of The year 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2007 hugh Durham finalisT 2007 All-time winningest coach in Davidson and Southern Conference history with 311 victories and 171 league victories. 62 of 62 seniors have graduated during the McKillop era.
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Humility comes in strange packages. Reluctantly accepting the fact that his playing career was over, he took a job teaching history and coaching basketball the country's top liberal arts colleges and competes in the demanding Southern at Holy Trinity High in Long Island in Conference along with a ridiculously 1972. After a sparking 86-25 record as tough non-conference schedule.” coach, in 1978 McKillop was offered McKillop accepted the challenge of assistant coaching positions at the rebuilding Davidson basketball and University of Pennsylvania and became its head Davidson where coach in 1989. He Eddie Biedenbach “Bob McKillop is a very well respected coach, not only in the United States, but internationally. McKillop just proceeded cautioushad just been gets it. He understands the game, and how it should be ly at first, as he named head played, and he understands the players, and how they learned to mesh coach. In making should be led. The only thing that McKillop lacks as a what fit at his decision, coach is a media spotlight. People that know basketball Davidson with his McKillop recalled know Bob McKillop. He is truly one of the very best.” personal philosohis last game for Jay Bilas, ESPN Basketball Analyst phy. “Davidson is a East Carolina, the special place, a loss to Davidson, unique place,” McKillop says. “In the way the fans celebrated the champirecruiting and staffing, we must have the onship. In making his decision between right fit, otherwise it could lead to frusPenn and Davidson, he visited the tration and immediate failure.” Davidson campus in North Davidson has a special blend of acaMecklenburg, was stricken with its beaudemics, social life and athletics. Not all ty and charm, as well as the mission of good players with excellent grades are a the college, and the uniqueness of the fit. McKillop's ability to put the proper village. “Davidson, here I come!” The people in place has been a leading reaWildcats went 8-19 that season. Penn son that he has succeeded at such a high went to the NCAA Final Four. Oh, well. level at Davidson. After one year on the Davidson staff, One of McKillop's former Davidson a great high school opportunity beckplayers, Martin Ides, now in his sixth oned at Long Island Lutheran High School. McKillop went there as head bas- season of playing professional basketball in Europe, says: “There are many things ketball coach, director of summer programs, and for two years served as inter- that set Coach McKillop apart from all the coaches I've had…However, what I im headmaster. He compiled a record there of 182-51. In his high school coach- appreciate most is what Coach calls our ing career, he won five New York State championships, coached five high school All-Americas, one of whom was Matt Doherty, former head coach at North Carolina and now in the same position at SMU. “Bob McKillop is easily one of the nation's best coaches,” Doherty says. “What he has done at Davidson is truly remarkable. He recruits top-flight students for one of
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St. John's vs. NYU. He loved going to 27, a 2002 Davidson graduate, games at Alumni Hall and Madison Matthew, 24, who graduated from Square Garden and dreamed of playing Davidson two years ago after playing for NYU, a powerhouse at the time. for his father for four years, and is an Although he's been in North Carolina Eho says. assistant basketball coach at Emory for 19 years, he hasn't lost the sharp Terrell Ivory often was present when University for head coach Jason edges of his New York brogue. His McKillop was recruiting his brother, Zimmerman, a former player and assisphone mail message begins, “How ya Titus, who eventually chose Penn State tant coach under McKillop at doin'?” His metaphors, which he often over Davidson. “Even though Titus Davidson, and Brendan, 19, a freshman uses, speak of “Broadway stages,” and didn't go to Davidson, when my father on this year's Davidson team. “magical carpet rides.” died, Coach McKillop was at the funer“Davidson College is a special His coaching career at Davidson has al,” Terrell said. “I said then that I place,” McKillop says. “One reason our been scintillating by any barometer. wanted to play for this man. He's like a teams have been so united and close is His Davidson record is 311-218. He's second father to me.” Terrell, now an because we reflect the total Davidson coached assistant coach at Blair philosophy. Our players remain close “Bob McKillop has quietly done as good a coaching Davidson Academy, came to long after they leave Davidson.” job as any coach at any level in the country. With longer than Davidson as a walk-on, When McKillop thinks back to playthat statement, he is quite possibly the most any basketearned a scholarship ing against Davidson in 1969, he underrated coach in the nation.” ball coach, and contributed to reflects on the job former coach Lefty won more Driesell did in putting the Wildcats in Rick Barnes, University of Texas Head Coach many wins. games there McKillop runs sevthe nation's Top 10 and twice taking than any coach, and his 174 Southern eral miles most days, never gains an them to the NCAA Elite Eight. “What Conference wins are more than any ounce, and as his assistants can attest, Lefty Driesell and his players did is coach in league history. He's been conoften gets so lost in his work that he one of the greatest stories in college ference Coach of the Year six times, has can go a full day without eating. basketball history,” McKillop says. won eight Southern Conference diviSweets are a weakness, though, and he It was the “Broadway stage,” is sion titles, four tournament champiattacks a bag of chocolate chip cookies what it was, and McKillop the dreamer onships, and taken his team to four the way a woodpecker works on a thinks there can be an encore. NCAA tournaments and three postseasugar maple. son NITs. All this winning hasn't come McKillop and his wife Cathy, a at any academic sacrifice, as 95 percent knowledgeable basketball person in her have graduated from Davidson and own right, have three children - Kerrin, 100 percent have graduated from college. bobmCkillop’soverallreCord Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski calls overall ConferenCe ConferenCe McKillop “a sensational coach.” Texas year sChool W l pCT. 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He stresses fun2004-05 23 9 .719 16 0 1.000 1st South Division damentals, is a disciplinarian as well as 2005-06 20 11 .645 10 5 .666 2nd South Division a stickler for details, but his players 2006-07 29 5 .853 17 1 .944 1st South Division DaviDson 311 218 .588 183 87 .678 always know he cares. high sChool 268 79 .779 Jouni Eho, one of McKillop's former players now playing overseas, was nCaa TournamenT — 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007 married in the summer of 2005. niT — 1994, 1996, 2005 McKillop attended the ceremony - in Finland. “That was very special to me,”
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Jeff harris Neurologist Huntsville, Ala. alan hunTer Century Chemical Controller Jonesboro, Ga. a.J. morgan Sports Producer Bollinger Insurance Caldwell, N.J.
paul DenmonD Insurance Agent Metropolitan Life Insurance Houston, Texas paul DroBniTCh Director of Corporate Development Turner Corporation Dallas, Texas sTerling freeman Executive Director Wildacres Leadership Durham, N.C. paul ryBiski Marketing Representative Bell South Sydney, Australia
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Classof1996 Chris alperT NBDL - Dir. of Basketball Operations New York, N.Y. Pro Basketball — France Jeff anDerson World Group Mortgage Charlotte, N.C. Quinn harWooD Youth Pastor Amateur Support Tustin, Calif. Pro Basketball — CBA mark mCguire Professor — John Abbott College Quebec, Canada Ph.D. — Cornell University
Jay sChmiTT Director of Business Development Strategic Benefits Advisors Atlanta, Ga.
DeTlef musCh Pro Basketball France, Italy, Germany
BranDon Williams NBA — Director of Player Development New York, N.Y. NBA — Atlanta, New York, San Antonio, Golden State; CBA, France, Greece, Germany, Italy
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Classof1991 Turner gilmore Attorney, Teacher, Sports Agent Pembroke Pines, Fla. Thomas hellanD Sports Consultant Blue Sombrero Atlanta, Ga. Darry sTriCklanD Asst. Principal and Head Coach Bell Multicultural High School Washington, D.C.
Janko naraT Computer Programmer Lucent Technologies Columbia, Md. Pro Basketball — Slovenia Chris shielDs Financial Advisor Blue Cross/Blue Shield Durham, N.C. Jason Zimmerman Head Basketball Coach Emory University Atlanta, Ga.
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Classof1998 Billy armsTrong Camp Director Pro Players Basketball Instruction New Jersey Pro Basketball — Kosovo, Belgium
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miChael Bree Irish Junior National Coach Pro Basketball — France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Poland
Chris sTeC Assistant Director Falling Creek Camp Tuxedo, N.C.
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Class of 1999 DaviD Burns Circulation Manager Charlotte Observer Cornelius, N.C. Ben eBong Pro Basketball — CBA, Australia, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Turkey ChaDD holmes Middle School Teacher Fort Myers, Fla. Pro Basketball — Ireland
marTin iDes Pro Basketball — Czech Republic, Italy, Greece Chris pearson Pro Basketball — France, Italy, Greece fernanDo Tonella Investment Banking Financial Consultant Factset Europe, Ltd. London, England Pro Basketball — France
Classof2003 peTe anDerer Fisher Investments San Francisco, Calif. Pro Basketball — Germany
ali Ton Assistant Basketball Coach Radford University Radford, Va. Pro Basketball — Turkey
Classof2000 Jeff Bergmann Financial Advisor Bank One Chicago, Ill.
Classof2006 eriC BlanCeTT Trade Support Specialist Bank of America Charlotte, N.C. Chris Clunie Project Assistant External Affairs and Corporate Development Spurs Sports & Entertainment San Antonio Spurs San Antonio, Texas kenny granT Pro Basketball — France ian Johnson Pro Basketball — Spain, Sweden maTT mCkillop Assistant Basketball Coach Emory University Atlanta, Ga. Pro Basketball — Czech Republic Jason morTon Wellington Management Company Philadelphia, Pa. BrenDan WinTers Pro Basketball — France, Germany
miChel lusakueno Bank of America Charlotte, N.C.
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lanDry kosmalski Head Basketball Coach / Dean of Students The Webb School Knoxville, Tenn. Pro Basketball — Sweden, France
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Wayne BernarD Pro Basketball — Israel, Greece, Sweden, France, Finland
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Terrell ivory Assistant Basketball Coach Blair Academy Blairstown, N.J. Pro Basketball — England
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lamar hull Pro Basketball — England John falConi Associate Database Specialist The Nielsen Company Wilton, Conn.
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After one of Davidson’s 29 victories in a championship season last year, coach Bob McKillop was analyzing the game on his postgame radio show when he said, “I want to emphasize how much Coach Matheny contributed to our winning tonight. His excellent scouting and the way he communicated the information to our players were invaluable.” A 1993 Davidson graduate and former Wildcat football and basketball captain, Matheny has been an assistant coach on McKillop’s staff since Aug. 1, 1993. Davidson has won 254 games during their stint together on the bench, averaged 18 wins a season, won four SoCon tournament championships and played in three NCAA tournaments. Now the program’s associate head coach, Matheny has been involved in more victories than any assistant coach in Davidson’s history. He’s been by McKillop’s side as the Wildcats have won Southern Conference division championships in eight of the last 12 years, and now are considered the team to beat from year to year. “Coach Matheny is a symbol of what our program tries to represent,” Coach McKillop says. “He’s smart, hard working and team oriented. And, he wears Davidson on his heart.” Matheny loves preparing for games: the scouting of the opponent, drafting a plan for the players, and then relaying that plan to the team in video sessions and on the court. He excels in all those areas. His rapport with the players is so strong that a visitor could hear a pin drop when he imparts scouting information to them in pre-game meetings. Although he now excels in his chosen profession, coaching was not always Matheny’s goal. He grew up in Statesville about 20 miles from the Davidson campus. He was a star student and football, basketball and tennis standout at North Iredell High School. He had intentions of going to Wake Forest or Duke, but those plans changed when Davidson recruited him as a football player. He had never seen the Davidson campus until he visited as a high school senior, liked it, and enrolled as a student-
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athlete. He was a quarterback and wide receiver on the football team, a point guard on the basketball team. After graduation in the spring of 1993, Matheny went to Germany to play a summer of American football. McKillop contacted him there and offered him a job as an assistant coach on the Davidson staff. Matheny accepted and joined Steve Shurina and Larry Garloch on McKillop’s staff. The detour in career plans even surprised Matheny. He graduated from Davidson with the full intentions of going to law school. But even though he was recruited to Davidson to play football, and joined the basketball team as a walk-on, basketball was always his first love. If he were going to coach, he knew basketball would be his sport. But even when he joined the coaching staff, he thought the job would be a stopover between coaching and law school. “The more I coached, the more I grew to love it,” Matheny says. “A coach can play an influential role in the life of a college athlete.” Matheny’s goal is to become a head coach of his own program. McKillop has prepared him well, allowing Matheny to become immersed in every single area of college coaching. He is the point man for Davidson’s scheduling, works extensively with recruiting, excels at public relations, and is superb as an on-the-court teacher. “Coach McKillop has allowed me to work in all areas,” Matheny says, “and I’ve learned so much from him, in the way he has built a leading program with high integrity.” A highly competitive person, Matheny says losing is tougher on him now than it was earlier in his coaching career, because he has so much invested now. “When we lose, it makes me want to work harder,” he says. “That’s another thing I learned from Coach McKillop.” Matheny and the former Jennifer Collins were married in June 2001. They are parents of Brock, born in April 2004 who is now a popular figure at Davidson’s home games. Jennifer is a licensed Real Estate Broker. The Matheny family lives in Davidson.
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ASSISTANT COACH JIM FOX
name BirThDaTe BirThplaCe Wife College Degree high sChool
James Patrick Fox October 2, 1973 Queens, N.Y. Single SUNY-Geneseo ’95 Political Science Chaminade
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Jim Fox has been an assistant coach on Bob McKillop’s Davidson basketball staff during some of the program’s most successful seasons. Now in his sixth year as a Davidson assistant, Fox has been on the bench as Davidson compiled an 117-57 overall record, 76-21 versus teams in the Southern Conference, won three conference tournament championships, played in three NCAA tournaments and one postseason NIT. “It’s no coincidence that our program has enjoyed consistent success since Jim Fox joined our staff in August 2001,” Coach McKillop says. “Jim has developed into a superb recruiter and coupled with his understanding of the game, he has become a very valuable member of our staff.” Now the second assistant on the Davidson staff, Fox, a native of Levittown, N.Y., spent five years as associate head coach at St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y. He served one year as the school’s athletic director, and as the head coach of the freshman team, directed the St. Dominic frosh to an impressive record of 55-1 and four consecutive Catholic High School championships. He also taught government, economics and criminal justice and psychology at the high school. Fox graduated in 1995 from the State University of New York at Geneseo College, earning his degree in political science. Fox father’s retired as a chief U.S. Probation Officer and his mother retired as a school principal at a Catholic elementary school on Long Island. In his off time, Fox’s father ran a youth basketball program on Long Island, and Fox began coaching in the program when he was still in high school. Coaching was in his blood, but so was federal law enforcement. He interned with
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the U.S. Secret Service between his junior and senior college years, and seriously thought about joining the service as a career. Fox saw how much his father loved basketball and enjoyed the work, which influenced him to give coaching a try, which he did at St. Dominic. He’s glad he did. In addition to coaching at St. Dominic, Fox was also head coach and director of the Long Island Lightning AAU Basketball Club, where one of his players was Matt McKillop, Coach McKillop’s son and a three-year starter at Davidson who graduated last spring. Fox coached more than 20 young men who went on to play college basketball. Fox’s father now runs the Island Garden, where Coach Fox and his brother, Jeff, have their own basketball camp for two weeks each summer - the Fox Offensive Skills Basketball Camp. Fox has had a long acquaintance with Coach McKillop, first meeting him when McKillop was a highly successful coach at Long Island Lutheran High School. When McKillop offered Fox a job at Davidson, Fox quickly accepted. “I knew Coach McKillop as a person and a coach,” Fox says, “and I knew working for him and learning from him would be great for my career. Coach lets his assistants get involved in all areas of coaching. The work ethic in the Davidson program runs from the coaches to the players. Everyone is working towards a common goal: to get to the NCAA tournament and be successful in it.” Fox is single and lives in Davidson. His brother, Jeff, is a lawyer, and his sister, Jen, is a nurse. His parents travel to see Davidson play several times each year. Coach Fox loves golf, tennis, politics and rooting for his beloved New York Yankees.
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T IM S WEENEY name Timothy G. Sweeney BirThDaTe August 7, 1980 BirThplaCe Teaneck, N.J. Wife Single College Rochester ’03 Degree Political Science high sChool The Peddie School
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Tim Sweeney enters his second season as an assistant coach with the men’s basketball program. “Tim brings the experience of being a successful player and coach from a terrific school and basketball program like the University of Rochester,” McKillop commented. “He is a superb addition to our staff.” Sweeney, a 2003 graduate of the University of Rochester with a degree in political science, spent the past three seasons as an assistant at his alma mater as the Yellowjackets went 66-16 overall and won two University Athletic Association titles. In his first season on the staff, Rochester went 25-2 and advanced to the Division III regional semifinal while the coaching staff earned honors from the UAA the NABC East Region and the New York State Basketball Association as the Coaching Staff of the Year. The following season, the Yellowjackets posted a 25-5 mark and advanced to the Division III championship game. Sweeney’s duties covered anything and everything in the office, including recruiting coordinator as which he helped bring a pair of all-conference performers and four others that played in the regular rotation this past season. He also assisted with practice preparation, in-game strategy and scouting reports, plus oversaw the film exchange and monitored the student-athletes’ academic progress. A four-year starter at Rochester, Sweeney was the team captain as a senior and led the squad to a 24-6 record and the NCAA Division III semifinals in 2002, and a 23-4 mark and the regional semifinals in 2003. He averaged seven points a game over the two seasons and nearly four assists while shooting 38.9 percent from three-point range and over 80 percent from
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the charity stripe. Sweeney graduated among the top 10 at Rochester all-time in three-point field goals made, assists and free throw percentage. Sweeney was named All-UAA in each of his four campaigns and earned the Lysle Garnish Award for academic and athletic excellence as a junior. The three-time member of the UAA All-Academic Team was also named to the Dean’s List in seven of his eight semesters. “Davidson represents both top notch athletes along with committed students,” said Sweeney. “It is enjoyable to work with student athletes who work hard and continually strive to improve. I want to contribute in helping Davidson maintain its reputation as a top basketball program that competes year in and year out for conference championships and the NCAA tournament.” Sweeney’s experience is not relegated to the University of Rochester; he has served as a coach at numerous camps along the East Coast, including Davidson, Villanova, Princeton and Hofstra. Swenney is single and currently resides in Davidson.
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DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS JEREMY HENNEY
J EREMY H ENNEY DireCTor of BaskeTBall operaTions
Thehenneyfile name Jeremy Henry Henney BirThDaTe October 11, 1978 BirThplaCe Fort Wayne, Ind. Wife Kala College Indiana ’02 Degree Secondary Education high sChool Northrop
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A former assistant at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Jeremy Hennery enters his second year as the Director of Basketball Operations. “Jeremy brings additional energy and enthusiasm to our already very hardworking staff,” commented McKillop, who is entering his 18th season at the helm of the Wildcats. A native of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Henney joins the men’s basketball staff from Lenoir-Rhyne College where he served as an assistant coach for Coach John Lentz. Prior to his most recent position, he was an Economics/Government teacher at Fred T. Foard High School in Newton, N.C. Along with his instructional duties inside the classroom, Henney was an assistant coach with the boy’s basketball team from 2002-2006. Along with taking part in the daily operations of the men’s basketball office, Henney’s primary responsibilities at Davidson are team travel arrangements and film exchange. “This is a tremendous opportunity for me to work at an institution that has such a rich basketball tradition, said Henney. “I feel very fortunate to work and learn under Coach Mckillop.” Henney is no stranger to the Davidson men’s basketball program having served as a camp instructor at Bob McKillop’s Boys’ Basketball Camp for the last three summers. He has also worked as a counselor/coach at the Naval Academy Basketball Camp and Kids Across America Summer Camp in Branson, Mo. “His eagerness to learn and his loyalty to our program has been in evidence during the many years he worked at our basketball camp and observed our practices. He is already a valuable addition
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2007-08 OPPONENTS
2007-08 opponents
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appalaChian足sTaTe
CharloTTe
ChaTTanooga
nov. 26 & feb. 27
Dec. 5
Jan. 19 & feb. 2
general informaTion
2007-08 OPPONENTS
loCaTion: Boone, N.C. enrollmenT: 15,000 Colors: Black and Gold niCkname: Mountaineers ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Holmes Center aThleTiC DireCTor: Charlie Cobb BaskeTBall siD: Ty Patton phone: (828) 262-7162 email: pattonts@appstate.edu WeBsiTe: www.GoAsu.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Houston Fancher reCorD aT sChool: 106-105 Career reCorD: 150-146 assisTanT CoaChes: Matt McMahon, Richard Morgan, Ahmad Smith 2006-07 reCorD: 25-8 (15-3)
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Bobby Lutz reCorD aT sChool: 168-112 Career reCorD: 349-203 assisTanT CoaChes: Rob Moxley, Bobby Kummer, Chris Cheeks 2006-07 reCorD: 14-16 (7-9)
general informaTion loCaTion: Chattanooga, Tenn. enrollmenT: 9,558 Colors: Navy, Old Gold and Silver niCkname: Mocs ConferenCe: Southern home arena: McKenzie Arena (11,218) aThleTiC DireCTor: Rick Hart BaskeTBall siD: Jeff Romero phone: (423) 425-5292 email: Jeff-Romero@UTC.edu WeBsiTe: www.GoMocs.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: John Shulman reCorD aT sChool: 54-42 Career reCorD: 54-42 assisTanT CoaChes: Brent Jolley, Rodney English 2006-07 reCorD: 15-18 (6-12)
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Coll.足of足CharlesTon
duke
Dec. 13 & Jan. 24
Jan. 26 & feb. 9
Dec. 1
general informaTion loCaTion: Charleston, S.C. enrollmenT: 1,900 Colors: Citadel Blue and White niCkname: Bulldogs ConferenCe: Southern home arena: McAlister Field House (6,000) aThleTiC DireCTor: Les Robinson BaskeTBall siD: Noelle Orr phone: (843) 953-5353 email: Noelle.Orr@citadel.edu WeBsiTe: www.citadelsports.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Ed Conroy reCorD aT sChool: 7-23 Career reCorD: 7-23 assisTanT CoaChes: Andy Fox, Doug Novak 2006-07 reCorD: 7-23 (4-15)
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general informaTion loCaTion: Charlotte, N.C. enrollmenT: 21,519 Colors: Green and White niCkname: 49ers ConferenCe: Atlantic 10 home arena: Halton Arena aThleTiC DireCTor: Judy Rose BaskeTBall siD: Thomas E. Whitestone phone: (704) 687-6310 email: tewhites@email.uncc.edu WeBsiTe: www.charlotte49ers.com
general informaTion loCaTion: Charleston, S.C. enrollmenT: 11,617 Colors: Maroon, Gold and White niCkname: Cougars ConferenCe: Southern home arena: John Kresse Arena (3,500) aThleTiC DireCTor: Jerry Baker BaskeTBall siD: Tony Ciuffo phone: (843) 475-1139 email: ciuffo@cofc.edu WeBsiTe: www.cofcsports.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Bobby Cremins reCorD aT sChool: 22-11 Career reCorD: 476-318 assisTanT CoaChes: Mark Byington, Fred Dupree, Andrew Wilson 2006-07 reCorD: 22-11 (13-5)
general informaTion loCaTion: Durham, N.C. enrollmenT: 6,244 Colors: Royal Blue and White niCkname: Blue Devils ConferenCe: Atlantic Coast home arena: Cameron Indoor (9,314) aThleTiC DireCTor: Joe Alleva BaskeTBall siD: Jon Jackson phone: (919) 684-2633 email: sid@duke.edu WeBsiTe: www.goduke.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Mike Krzyzewski reCorD aT sChool: 702-202 Career reCorD: 775-261 assisTanT CoaChes: Johnny Dawkins, Chris Collins, Steve Wojciechowski 2006-07 reCorD: 22-11 (8-8)
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Jan. 9 & feb. 6
nov. 9
Jan. 16 & feb. 16
general informaTion loCaTion: Atlanta, Ga. enrollmenT: 12,338 Colors: Blue and Gold niCkname: Eagles ConferenCe: UAA home arena: aThleTiC DireCTor: BaskeTBall siD: phone: email: WeBsiTe: www.go.emory.edu
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heaD CoaCh: Ernie Nestor reCorD aT sChool: 42-78 Career reCorD: 110-159 assisTanT CoaChes: Michael Preston, Joel Justus, David Willson 2006-07 reCorD: 7-23 (5-13)
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Jeff Jackson reCorD aT sChool: 15-16 Career reCorD: 36-76 assisTanT CoaChes: Mark Price, James Strong, Nicholas Sanders 2006-07 reCorD: 15-16 (8-10)
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norTh足Carolina
n.C.足CenTral
Jan. 3 & march 1
nov. 14
nov. 24
general informaTion
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loCaTion: Statesboro, Ga. enrollmenT: 16,646 Colors: Blue and White niCkname: Eagles ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Hanner Fieldhouse (4,358) aThleTiC DireCTor: Sam Baker BaskeTBall siD: Matt Horne phone: (912) 681-5288 email: prosterman@georgiasouthern.edu WeBsiTe: www.georgiasoutherneagles.com
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loCaTion: Chapel Hill, N.C. enrollmenT: 27,700 Colors: Carolina Blue & White niCkname: Tar Heels ConferenCe: Atlantic Coast home arena: Dean E. Smith Center (21,750) aThleTiC DireCTor: Dick Baddour BaskeTBall siD: Steve Kirschner phone: (919) 962-2123 email: stevekirschner@unc.edu WeBsiTe: tarheelblue.cstv.com
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heaD CoaCh: Jeff Price reCorD aT sChool: 137-99 Career reCorD: 273-141 assisTanT CoaChes: Carl Nash, Elwin McRoy, Nolan Myrick 2006-07 reCorD: 15-16 (7-11)
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general informaTion loCaTion: Greenville, S.C. enrollmenT: 2,630 Colors: Purple and White niCkname: Paladins ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Timmons Arena (2,800) aThleTiC DireCTor: Gary Clark BaskeTBall siD: Hunter Reid phone: (864) 294-2376 email: hunter.reid@furman.edu WeBsiTe: www.furmanpaladins.com
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general informaTion loCaTion: Elon, N.C. enrollmenT: 5,230 Colors: Maroon and Gold niCkname: Phoenix ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Alumni Gym (1,558) aThleTiC DireCTor: Dave Blank BaskeTBall siD: Chris Rash phone: (336) 278-6712 email: crash@elon.edu WeBsiTe: www.elonphoenix.com
general informaTion loCaTion: Durham, N.C. enrollmenT: 8,675 Colors: Maroon and Grey niCkname: Eagles ConferenCe: Mid-Eastern Atlantic home arena: McClendon-McDougald Gym aThleTiC DireCTor: William Hayes BaskeTBall siD: Kyle Serba phone: (919) 530 -7054 email: kserba@nccu.edu WeBsiTe: www.nccu.edu/athletics
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Henry Dickerson reCorD aT sChool: 39-45 Career reCorD: 111-118 assisTanT CoaChes: MarQus Johnson, Randy McMillan, Umar Muhammad 2006-07 reCorD: 13-15 (8-12)
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n.C.足sTaTe
uCla
feb. 9 & feb. 19
Dec. 21
Dec. 8
general informaTion
2007-08 OPPONENTS
loCaTion: Greensboro, N.C. enrollmenT: 16,788 Colors: Gold, White and Navy niCkname: Spartans ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Fleming Gym (1,813) aThleTiC DireCTor: Nelson E. Bobb BaskeTBall siD: Mike Hirschman phone: (336) 334-5615 email: mwhirsch@uncg.edu WeBsiTe: www.uncgspartans.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Mike Dement reCorD aT sChool: 82-88 Career reCorD: 288-276 assisTanT CoaChes: Rod Jensen, Kevin Easley, Brian Judski 2006-07 reCorD: 16-14 (12-6)
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Sidney Lowe reCorD aT sChool: 20-16 Career reCorD: 5-11 assisTanT CoaChes: Monte Howe, Larry Harris, Pete Strickland 2006-07 reCorD: 20-16 (5-11)
general informaTion loCaTion: Los Angeles, Calif. enrollmenT: 38,000 Colors: Blue and Gold niCkname: Bruins ConferenCe: Pacific-10 home arena: Pauley Pavilion (12,800) aThleTiC DireCTor: Daniel Guerrero BaskeTBall siD: Marc Dellins phone: (310) 206-6831 email: mdellins@athletics.ucla.edu WeBsiTe: www.uclabruins.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Ben Howland reCorD aT sChool: 91-41 Career reCorD: 259-140 assisTanT CoaChes: Donny Daniels, Scott Duncan, Scott Garson 2006-07 reCorD: 30-6 (15-3)
wesTern足Carolina
wesTern足miChigan
wofford
Jan. 5 & Jan. 21
nov. 21
Jan. 12 & Jan. 30
general informaTion loCaTion: Cullowhee, N.C. enrollmenT: 9,000 Colors: Purple and Gold niCkname: Catamounts ConferenCe: Southern home arena: Ramsey Activity Center (7,826) aThleTiC DireCTor: Chip Smith BaskeTBall siD: Mike Cawood phone: (828) 227-2339 email: cawood@email.wcu.edu WeBsiTe: www.catamountsports.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Larry Hunter reCorD aT sChool: 24-37 Career reCorD: 533-261 assisTanT CoaChes: Bobby Woollum, Dustin Ford, Anquell McCollum 2006-07 reCorD: 11-20 (7-11)
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general informaTion loCaTion: Raleigh, N.C. enrollmenT: 29,416 Colors: Red and White niCkname: Wolfpack ConferenCe: Atlantic Coast home arena: RBC Center (19,722) aThleTiC DireCTor: Lee Fowler BaskeTBall siD: Brian Reinhardt phone: (919) 515 -8953 email: brian_reinhardt@ncsu.edu WeBsiTe: www.gopack.com
general informaTion loCaTion: Kalamazoo, Mich. enrollmenT: 24,841 Colors: Brown and Gold niCkname: Broncos ConferenCe: Mid-American home arena: University Arena (5,421) aThleTiC DireCTor: Kathy Beauregard BaskeTBall siD: Matt Holmes phone: (269) 387-3168 email: matt.holmes@wmich.edu WeBsiTe: www.wmubroncos.com
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Steve Hawkins reCorD aT sChool: 76-51 Career reCorD: 213-162 assisTanT CoaChes: Clayton Bates, Cornell Mann, Andy Hipsher 2006-07 reCorD: 16-16 (9-7)
general informaTion loCaTion: Spartanburg, S.C. enrollmenT: 1,250 Colors: Old Gold and Black niCkname: Terriers ConferenCe: Atlantic Coast home arena: Benjamin Johnson Arena (3,500) aThleTiC DireCTor: Richard Johnson BaskeTBall siD: Brent Williamson phone: (864) 597-4093 email: williamsondb@wofford.edu WeBsiTe: www.wofford.edu/athletics
CoaChing sTaff heaD CoaCh: Mike Young reCorD aT sChool: 58-87 Career reCorD: 58-87 assisTanT CoaChes: Paul Harrison, Geoff Shyatt 2006-07 reCorD: 10-20 (5-13)
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DRIESELL, MCKILLOP ERAS STAND OUT IN DAVIDSON’S 100 YEARS
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVIDSON BASKETBALL
Each man who ever wore the uniform of Davidson basketball, and each coach who ever sat on the bench to direct the Wildcats, deserves recognition and honor. That stipulation is made here at the top, at the very beginning, as we celebrate 100 years of Davidson College basketball with the playing of the 2007-08 season. Norman Shepard, for instance, coached Davidson for 12 seasons, from 1938 to 1949, and produced teams that won 19 games in two seasons, 18 games in two seasons, and 17 games once. Tom Scott coached the Wildcats for five seasons, and while his record was not spectacular, he was considered one of the most influential athletic directors in America, and it was he who hired Lefty Driesell, an obscure high school coach, to succeed him as Davidson's head coach. Talk about good executive decisions! Terry Holland, Driesell's first Davidson recruit, coached the Wildcats for five seasons, had a record of 92-43 and won one Southern Conference championship. Many other former coaches made major contributions in their own ways. Countless players made headlines for their excellent play and brought glory to the red and black. Space limitations, of course, prevent us from detailing all the achievements of so many. Any objective evaluation of men's basketball at Davidson would likely come to the conclusion that two men and two coaching eras stand out as the crowning achievements of Davidson basketball. Charles G. (Lefty) Driesell, Davidson's coach for nine glorious seasons, is one.
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Bob McKillop, in his 19th season as head coach of the Wildcats, is the other. Driesell took over the Davidson program from Dr. Scott in 1960-61. Never one to tread lightly entering a room, Driesell's Wildcats shocked powerful Wake Forest 65-59 in the first game he ever coached at Davidson. Driesell didn't come to Davidson to win every now and then, or to pull an upset occasionally. His mission - and it
was a mission - was to have the best program in the country. To accomplish that, he knew he'd have to hit the road and recruit players that could compete at the highest level of college basketball while meeting the rigorous academic standards of Davidson. That would have been enough to discourage most people, but Driesell had many doors slammed in his face in his days as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. There was always another door to knock on, another presentation to make, and the answer might be yes this time. Play the percentages,
Lefty thought then. Knock on enough doors and somebody is going to buy a set of books. It's the same philosophy he followed later in recruiting. There was another roadblock, a rather serious one. Davidson's basketball recruiting budget for the entire year was a whopping $500. That didn't deter Driesell, either. Made him a little bit angry, but didn't stall him. Here's one way he overcame it. The athletic department had a green Chevrolet station wagon. Driesell packed his personal belongings, drove it to an airport in Ohio, parked in the terminal lot and slept in the vehicle overnight. The next morning he went to the airport restroom and shaved, changed clothes and met the parents of high school star Don Davidson at one of the terminal gates. They didn't know until much later that he didn't fly in. Driesell knew that coaches from North Carolina and Duke wouldn't have to drive that far on a recruiting trip, and he wasn't going to give them an inch. Driesell proved to be one of the best recruiters ever. He brought the likes of Fred Hetzel, Dick Snyder, Mike Maloy, Jerry Kroll, Doug Cook, Barry Teague, Rodney Knowles, Don Davidson and countless others to Davidson. Most Davidson basketball historians would likely say that the best player in Davidson history is Hetzel, Snyder or Maloy, take your pick. Once he assembled the talent, Driesell coached them to play tough man defense, rebound and take good shots. He won 176 games at Davidson and lost only 65. His teams won three Southern Conference tournament championships, played in three NCAA tournaments, and missed on at least two more they should have made. For
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Driesell's last two Davidson teams got within a breath of making the Final Four. The 1967-68 team was 24-5, defeated St. John's and Columbia in the NCAA tournament before losing to North Carolina. In Driesell's last season at Davidson, the Wildcats were 27-3, ranked third in the nation in the last national poll, and beat Villanova and St. John's in the NCAA tournament. Davidson was one win away from the Final Four, but a two-point loss to nemesis North Carolina ended its season. The Driesell era saw the Wildcats playing before capacity crowds of 11,666 fans at the old Charlotte Coliseum. The excitement of having such a great basketball program flowed across the campus like rampaging rapids, all the time enhancing the spirits and morale of students, alumni and
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Charles “Lefty” Driesell guided the Wildcats to back-to-back regional final appearances in 1968 and 1969.
instance, in 1963-64, the 22-4 Wildcats lost in the SoCon tournament in Charlotte to VMI, 82-81. The teams had played twice in the regular season, with Davidson winning by 12 and 38 points. There was no comparison between the two teams, but that's tournament basketball. The best team often loses. Fans enjoy watching it for the same reason they pull over to the side of the road to get a better view of a train wreck. Davidson's 24-2 team of 1964-65, which Driesell said was one of his best, had won 23 games in a row when they were beaten in overtime by West Virginia in the SoCon tournament. Davidson didn't get a chance to play in the national tournament because of that loss. “That team would have been a serious contender for the national championship,” Lefty says, still smarting from the loss that ended his season.
friends of the college. Driesell's Wildcats were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and other national publications, and the widespread publicity dramatically increased the number of student applications to Davidson. Driesell's goal was to play the best and beat them. He broke a long Ohio State home winning streak by routing the Buckeyes, 95-73. It was televised back to the Charlotte area, and helped create even more excitement about Lefty and his team. The 1965 team beat Wake Forest, Ohio State, Virginia, Alabama, and NYU. The Driesell Era is known as “The Glory Years.” Driesell and his players made a mark that will stand out as long as the sport is played at Davidson. It's no exaggeration to say that Lefty's miracle at Davidson is one of the greatest achievements in college basketball hisory. Times change, of course. Rules are different, the environment changes. Bob McKillop faces obstacles today that weren't there 35 years ago. Recruiting, for example, has changed completely. While it used to be possible by hard work to whisk away star players that many schools didn't know about, there's no way to do it now. There are more recruiting services than there are fleas on a hound dog. Young players are ranked and written about from the time they enter junior high school. There are very few recruiting secrets out there. In fact, recruiting is a sport unto itself. There is no shortage whatsoever of recruiting nuts. They are in ample supply. McKillop's tenure at Davidson, still ongoing, has produced a record of 311 wins, 218 losses. He's won more games than any basketball coach in Davidson
“By far the greatest dimension of Davidson basketball is the bond that grows between the players from year to year. it's a unity forged through innumerable hours of work on the court and an enormous number of defining experiences off it. i am able to recall the hard-fought championships, the significant victories, and my best personal performances. But more than that it is the faces of my teammates that i see, the guys i spent four years of my life with, and all the laughs, jokes, pranks, and tears that we shared together. i can see how lucky we were to have so many great opportunities, and the way we seized them together… i'm still great friends with the guys i graduated with, and the bond that we share after four years of Davidson basketball is one that can never be replaced.” ian Johnson - Class of 2006 W
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history. His teams have won four SoCon tournament championships, dominated league play in the regular season, and participated in four NCAA tournaments. McKillop has been Southern Conference coach of the year six times, and his 174 wins against SoCon teams are the most by any coach ever. The consistency that he brings to his program is extraordinary. His brilliance in winning in conference play has made the Wildcats the one team in the league that wears a bull's-eye on its chest. If they would be honest about it, nearly every school in the SoCon would list Davidson as its number one rival. To win in this environment, where every road game is a festival, through thick and thin, in good times and bad, is what makes McKillop's program stand out. He and his staff work extremely hard in recruiting. They not only look for players with good basketball talent and excellent grades, but also for young men who will fit in well with the players already in the Davidson
program. If a player had scintillating basketball skills, but showed traits of being selfish or unconcerned about others, he wouldn't end up at Davidson. McKillop doesn't recruit problems. Talk to the young men in Davidson's program now, ask them why they came to Davidson, and to the man they will mention McKillop's honesty in recruiting as one of their major reasons for coming. Like Driesell, McKillop will not duck a fight. This season's schedule is a prime example: North Carolina, Duke, UCLA, NC State. All strong programs with multiple national championship banners hanging in their respective arenas. It's the kind of challenge McKillop likes for his team. Ian Johnson, a 2006 Davidson graduate, and one of the best offensive inside players McKillop has ever coached, is playing professional bas-
The all-time winningest coach in school and conference history, Bob McKillop has led Davidson to eight regular season crowns and seven postseason appearances.
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ketball in Sweden. When asked to comment on his playing days at Davidson under McKillop, he said: “By far the greatest dimension of Davidson basketball is the bond that grows between the players from year to year. It's a unity forged through innumerable hours of work on the court and an enormous number of defining experiences off it. I am able to recall the hard-fought championships, the significant victories, and my best personal performances. But more than that it is the faces of my teammates that I see, the guys I spent four years of my life with, and all the laughs, jokes, pranks, and tears that we shared together. I can see how lucky we were to have so many great opportunities, and the way we seized them together… I'm still great friends with the guys I graduated with, and the bond that we share after four years of Davidson basketball is one that can never be replaced.” McKillop's style is to keep basketball in perspective. Certainly, he's passionate about winning. He encourages his players to experience the total college life at Davidson, which one could discern from Ian Johnson's remarks. The McKillop era is still going strong. He is only 57, has the energy of a hummingbird, and should have many productive coaching years ahead. Driesell is retired from coaching and living in Virginia Beach, Va. McKillop marvels at what Driesell did at Davidson, and keeps reminders of Lefty's success sprinkled around his office as a reminder that it has been done, and can be repeated. What's wrong with dreaming? McKillop's team last year won 29 games, and by doing so broke the record for most wins in a season (27) by a Davidson team, which was set by Driesell's 1969 Wildcats. It would make no sense whatsoever to try to pick one era as superior to the other, Driesell vs. McKillop. Both have been superb in their own ways, surreal in their excellence. Driesell's “Glory Years” and McKillop's (Magic). Two great coaches along with their excellent players and assistant coaches have written most of the headlines for Davidson basketball's first 100 years. Theirs has been an inspiring story. And with McKillop, keep an open tab. The best might well be still out there for him and his program.
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There aren’t many teams that entered the 2007 Big Dance hotter than the Wildcats as they have won 13 straight and 25 of their last 26 contests. Davidson’s current is current 4th nationally behind Memphis, Winthrop, and Ohio State. Prior to their most recent stretch, the Wildcats reeled off 12th straight, which was second-best in the country before falling to Appalachian State.
soCon reCogniTion
Prior to last week’s Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament, the league handed out its annual postseason awards with four Wildcats receiving recognition. Head Coach Bob McKillop was named the Coach of the Year for a record sixth time by both the coaches and media, while Stephen Curry, Jason Richards and Thomas Sander were also tabbed.
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2006-07 SEASON REVIEW
29 poinTs = 29 Wins
Freshman Stephen Curry reached the 20-point mark for the 18th time in his young career with a game-high 29 points in leading the Wildcats to their ninth SoCon Championship and 29th win of the 2006-07 campaign. In Davidson’s semifinal defeat of Furman, it broke the previous school mark for wins in a season that was established by Lefty Driesell’s 1968-69 club that went 27-3.
Davidson’s freshmen combined for 51 points and 14 treys, led by Bryant Barr’s season-high 21 points, including seven from long range as the Wildcats capped off their regular season with an 87-70 victory over The Citadel. Barr missed just two of his tries from deep, while William Archambault was a perfect 4-for-4 with 12 points and Stephen Curry nailed three from downtown and finished with 18 points. The first-year trio has combined to hit 176 of Davidson’s single-season record 289 three-pointers.
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After recording a perfect mark in December for the first time since 1968, Davidson ran through the month of February with a flawless 7-0 record. Each of the Wildcats’ wins came in Southern Conference play by an average margin of 17.9 points per outing.
Davidson head coach Bob McKillop has been named a finalist for the 2007 Hugh Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award. The Hugh Durham Award is presented annually to the nation’s top mid-major coach, as voted on by a 20-member panel. The winner will be presented with the award at the Final Four in Atlanta, Ga. McKillop is one of 15 coaches to be named a finalist for the honor.
BaCk-To-BaCk-To-BaCk
The Wildcats' earned their 20th win of the 2006-07 season Saturday, February 3 in a 75-65 victory over SoCon rival UNC Greensboro. The triumph marked the third consecutive campaign Davidson has reached 20 wins and seventh time under Head Coach Bob McKillop. The last time the Wildcats strung together three straight 20-win seasons was from 1968-70.
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Davidson head coach Bob McKillop recorded his 300th career victory in the Wildcats 79-59 win over Western Carolina on Jan. 27, 2007. The all-time winningest coach in Davidson and Southern Conference history, McKillop collected his 100th victory on March 2, 1996 in a 92-77 win over Marshall and notched 200th triumph on Feb. 5, 2002 at UNCG. Earlier this season at Missouri, the five-time league Coach of the Year guided the Wildcats for the 500th time in his career.
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Stephen Curry’s third bucket from long range last night versus Furman broke Keydren Clark of St. Peter's NCAA Division I record for threepointers by a freshman. The previous standard was 109, Davidson’s freshman has 117 on the 2006-07 campaign.
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The backcourt of Stephen Curry and Jason Richards were instrumental and the catalyst of the Wildcat offense in their quarterfinal and semifinal victories in the 2007 Southern Conference Tournament. In Davidson’s opening win over Chattanooga, Curry and Richards each scored 20 points, while the 1-2 punch dropped a combined 50 on Furman to advance to the finals. For their outstanding play, the two were named to the All-Tounament Team with Curry earning tournament MVP recording 79 points in the event.
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half of 32 is 16
Jason Richards scored 16 straight first-half points for the Wildcats in their 101-92 come-from-behind victory at Georgia Southern on Jan. 23. The junior point guard finished the evening with a career-high 32 points going 8-for-13 from the floor including four threepointers and a 12-for-14 performance from the charity stripe. To go along with his record-setting night, Richards also dished out nine assists.
reCogniTion from si.Com
Wildcat shooting guard Stephen Curry received recognition from SI.com the Week of 1/15/07 as one of the NCAA’s Top 20 Freshmen for the 200607 campaign. The son of former NBA standout Dell Curry, was tabbed the ninth best frosh on the list. He finished second among first-year scoring leaders behind Texas’ Kevin Durant, who earned the site’s top spot.
20 someThing
In 27 of 34 contests, a member of the Davidson Wildcats has scored at least 20 points. Each of Davidson’s starters and Bryant Barr have hit the mark in leading the club to a 25-2 record when 20 points or more are scored by a player in Red & Black. Last year, Davidson reached the mark 19 times posting a 12-7 clip.
points and dished out eight assists in the opening win over Ohio in 37 minutes of action. Then less than 15 hours later, he scored 25 points in the championship game while playing 39 minutes. The exertion did show a bit in his foul shooting, as the career 80 percent shooter hit just 5-of-10 from the line, but it was enough to put away the host Sun Devils. For his efforts, he was named the CollegeInsider.com mid-major player of the week for the second straight week.
DeCemBer perfeCTion
Davidson registered a perfect 8-0 record in the month of December with victories over schools such as Charlotte, Chattanooga, Ohio and Arizona State. The last time the Wildcats had an undefeated 12th month was 1968, a year in which Davidson advanced to the regional championship game in the NCAA Tournament.
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Five different members of the Wildcats have recorded a double-double this season — Jason Richards, Boris Meno, Thomas Sander, Stephen Curry and Andrew Lovedale have each accomplished the feat at least once during the campaign. Richard’s have come by way of points and assists, while the others compiled the most common form. Only one school has bettered this total. Six members of Cal State Fullerton have charted double-doubles, while a handful of schools have equaled the Wildcats.
holiDay ClassiC Champs
With a 75-70 victory over host Arizona State, Davidson took home the Sleep American Holiday Classic title, just the second time in the last nine years that ASU has lost the championship game of its tournament. It was also the Wildcats’ first-ever triumph over a Pac-10 school.
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Point guard Jason Richards earned MVP honors at the Arizona State Holiday Classic by putting forth a Herculean effort. First he tallied 18
BaCkCourT Trio
The backcourt trio of Stephen Curry, Max Paulhus Gosselin and Jason Richards combined for 71 points to lead the Davidson Wildcats to their fifth straight victory in a 92-80 triumph at SoCon foe Chattanooga Monday evening. Curry finished with a gamehigh 30, Paulhus Gosselin recorded a career-high 22 and Richards added 19.
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Max Paulhus Gosselin set new scoring career-highs in three consecutive outings. Against cross-county rival Charlotte, he recorded 12 points and then dropped 14 on Mt. St. Mary six days later. Then, the 6-6 guard poured in 22 points including 16 in the first eight minutes to help lead the Wildcats to a 92-80 win at SoCon foe Chattanooga. During his scoring streak, Paulhus Gosselin shot 19-of-28 (67.8 percent) overall and 6-of-10 from long range.
passing The reCorDs
Jason Richards set a new school record for assists and tied the Southern Conference mark with 19 in Davidson’s 116-55 victory over Mount Saint Mary on Dec. 15. He broke Chris Dodds and Mike Sorrentino’s Wildcat mark of 17 that lasted 35 and 29 years, respectively. The 6-1 guard was just one assist shy of holding the SoCon record outright; he now shares a place in the record books with Keith “Mister” Jennings, who played at ETSU from 1987-91.
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2006-07 SEASON REVIEW
Davidson finally ended Charlotte’s three-year reign of the Hornets’ Nest Trophy with a 79-51 victory over the 49ers in the 35th all-time meeting between the two Mecklenburg County schools. The win was the third straight for the ‘Cats as they pleased 5,563 fans, the second largest crowd in Belk Arena history.
seTTing The Barr
Freshman Bryant Barr made the most of his playing time in the annual “Battle for the Hornets’ Nest” game. The native of Falmouth, Maine, finished with a season-high 11 points in 21 minutes of action vs. Charlotte. Barr connected on three buckets from long range, including back-to-back in a 12 second span to put the game away.
siXTh men
In Davidson’s thrilling 79-51 win over cross-county rival Charlotte Dec. 9, the Wildcats placed six players in double figures. Stephen Curry finished with a game-high 17, Boris Meno had 15, Max Paulhus Gosselin added a careerhigh 12 and a trio of players in Jason Richards, Thomas Sander and Bryant Barr each added 11. The last time six players finished a game in double digits for the Wildcats was on January 31, 2004 against UNCG.
soCon player of The...
So far during the 2006-07 SoCon men’s basketball season, Davidson players have earned four Player of the Week nods as well as been named November’s Player of the Month. Jason Richards (Dec. 19) and Thomas Sander (Dec. 5) have earned the weekly honor, while Stephen Curry (Nov. 20, Feb. 13, Feb. 22) has been tabbed both the Player of the Week and Month.
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Andrew Lovedale and Thomas Sander each recorded double-doubles and finished with career highs in both points and rebounds to lead the ‘Cats over Elon. Lovedale, a sophomore from Benin City, Nigeria, hit 7-of-11 attempts from the floor to score 16 points, breaking his previous career-best of nine that was set in the Wildcats last outing at Duke. The 6-8 forward also grabbed a game-high 17 rebounds, eight of which came on the offensive end of the floor. The second Wildcat to drop at least 30 points on an opponent this season, Sander finished with just that, drilling 10 shots from the floor including a pair from downtown. The native of Cincinnati also pulled down a personalbest 14 boards. The frontcourt duo of Lovedale and Sander combined for 46 points, 53 percent of the Wildcats’ offense, and 31 of Davidson’s 55 rebounds.
The riCh geTs riCharDs
Entering the game against Colby (Nov. 21), junior point guard Jason Richards was ranked third among SoCon assist leaders at 5.8 per game. Following the contest, he was atop the league category at 7.5 per outing thanks to 16 dimes, which was just one shy of tying the school record. The native of Barrington, Ill., also recorded a career-high 20 points on 7-of16 from the floor including five treys in the Wildcats 99-69 win over the Mules.
raining Threes, anD reCorDs
In a 30-point triumph over Colby College on Tuesday, Nov. 21, Davidson tied or broke four school records and shattered a Southern Conference mark. Freshman Stephen Curry set a new Wildcat individual record for threepointers attempted and made, hitting nine of his 20 attempts. As a club, Davidson broke the school and league mark for attempts from behind the three-point arc with 52. The 19 makes from deep tied a Davidson record that was established in a 105-48 triumph over Washington & Lee on Nov. 30, 2002. Former league member, East Tennessee State, posted the previous conference standard of 46 tries during the 1990-91 slate.
Forward Boris Meno grabbed a career-best 18 rebounds in Davidson's 99-69 victory over the Colby Mules. A junior from Paris, France, the tri-captain was well on his way to breaking the school record, until getting into foul trouble. In the first 20 minutes of the contest, Meno played 12 and grabbed 13 rebounds.
BehinD The “arC”ChamBaulT
In the Wildcats games against UIC and Mizzou, freshman William Archambault found his stroke from behind the three-point arc nailing 9-of16 from deep. In those game’s against Illinois-Chicago and Missouri he posted 19 and 17 points, respectively, to bump his season average into double figures. The native of St. Hubert, Quebec, is second on the club in three-point field goals behind Stephen Curry.
mCkillop CoaChes 500Th
Davidson’s game at Missouri was the 500th game for 18-year head coach Bob McKillop at Davidson College. He began his coaching tenure on Nov. 25, 1989 at Wake Forest. Since that loss to the Demon Deacons, McKillop has won 294 games, making him the school’s alltime winningest coach. He also ranks atop the SoCon in overall victories and conference triumphs with 269 and 157, respectively. Davidson didn’t begin competing in the Southern Conference until the 1992-93 season. McKillop has guided the ‘Cats in more games than any other Coach in Davidson men’s basketball history. Norman Shepard (1937-49) ranks second in games coached with 289, while Lefty Driesell (1960-69) and Bobby Hussey (1981-89) rank third and fourth at 241 and 235 games, respectively.
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Davidson’s lights-out shooting display of 58.1 percent (36-of-62) in its 10089 win over Illinois-Chicago (Nov. 15) was the highest Wildcat shooting percentage since knocking off Missouri to open the 2004-05 season. The Red & Black also scorched it from downtown hitting 12-of-21 (57.1 percent), their best outing in nearly two years. Davidson’s final shooting totals were sparked by a second-half clip of 70 percent (21-of-30), which included making 8-of-10 treys. Stephen Curry poured in 23 secondhalf points to finish with a game-high 27 and lead four Wildcats in double figures. Thomas Sander (23), William Archambault (19) and Boris Meno were the others to surpass the 10-point scoring plateau in the win over the Flames.
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The Wildcats 100-89 home-opening win over Illinois-Chicago on Nov. 15 was their 15th straight win to begin a new slate at John Belk Arena. Davidson opened the facility in 1989 and dropped its first three before beginning the current streak on Dec. 2, 1992 against St. Joseph’s (Maine). Overall, Davidson boasts a 181-58 (.757) mark in Belk Arena, and a 164-35 (.824) mark since winning its first home opener.
Curry up To The “Challenge”
Freshman guard Stephen Curry started his collegiate career in stellar fashion recording a total of 63 points in the three-game John Thompson Foundation Challenge. The 6-1 guard opened the event with 15 points in Davidson’s come-frombehind win over Eastern Michigan including consecutive threes to propel the ‘Cats before dropping 32 points on host Michigan Saturday, Nov. 11. Curry capped off the JTFC with 16 points to help the Wildcats cruise to a 91-64 victory against Central Connecticut State. To go along with his points total, the Charlotte Christian product grabbed 20 rebounds, dished out 12 assists and recorded six steals. For his play in the season-opening event, Curry was voted to the John Thompson Foundation All-Challenge team by media representatives covering the round robin tournament.
poWer sanDer
Thomas Sander connected on 12-of17 from the floor for a career-high 26 points in Davidson’s 91-64 triumph over Central Connecticut State on the final day of the JTFC. Sander, a 6-8 forward from Cincinnati, Ohio, shattered his previous personal-best of 19 points that was set in the Wildcats thrilling come-from-behind triumph Friday evening against Eastern Michigan in both team’s season debut. Along with his final points total, he knocked down two buckets from downtown and led Davidson with eight boards in 31 minutes of action. At the 12:55 mark in the second half, Davidson hit the Blue Devils with an 183 streak that was sparked by 13 consecutive points from Sander. Of his 12 successful shots, two of them were from downtown. Prior to the season Sander had only knocked down one career three-pointer.
CapTain CaTs ComeBaCk
Junior tri-captains Boris Meno, Jason Richards and Thomas Sander showed their veteran leadership in leading a young Davidson club from as many as 17 down to a thrilling 81-77 seasonopening victory over Eastern Michigan. The trio all contributed in the 16-4 run over the first nine minutes of the second half that got the Wildcats back in the game.
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The Wildcats have canned at least one three in 399 consecutive games. The last time the Wildcats failed to hit a three-pointer in a game came on Jan. 15, 1994 in a 65-63 win at East Tennessee State. But there are three schools that have hit at least one trey in every game since the inception of the three-point line in 1986-87 — Vanderbilt, UNLV and Princeton .
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Davidson’s 13-player roster had combined for 245 games in their college careers, but just 30 starts prior to the season-opening John Thompson Foundation Challenge. sChool 1. Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2. Davidson 3. San Jose State 4. Southern Mississippi 5. Boston University
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Sporting News 2006-07 Men’s College Basketball Preview Magazine has named Wildcat freshman Stephen Curry the Southern Conference’s preseason newcomer of the year. The 6-1 guard is the son of former NBA player Dell Curry.
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2006-07 STATISTICS
DaTe Time Nov. 10 6:00 Nov. 11 4:00 Nov. 12 2:00 Nov. 15 7:00 Nov. 19 1:00 Nov. 21 7:00 Nov. 25 7:00 Dec. 01 7:00 Dec. 04 7:00 Dec. 09 7:30 Dec. 15 5:00 Dec. 18 7:00 Dec. 21 9:30 Dec. 22 2:00 Dec. 30 7:00 Jan. 06 7:00 Jan. 10 7:00 Jan. 13 7:00 Jan. 16 7:00 Jan. 20 2:00 Jan. 23 7:00 Jan. 27 7:00 Jan. 30 7:00 Feb. 03 2:00 Feb. 06 7:00 Feb. 12 7:00 Feb. 17 7:00 Feb. 20 7:00 Feb. 22 7:00 Feb. 24 1:05 March 1 2:00 March 2 6:00 March 3 6:00 March 15 12:20
opponenT vs. Eastern Michigan^ at Michigan^ vs. Central Conn. State^ Illinois-Chicago at Missouri Colby at 9/8 Duke Elon* at UNC Greensboro* Charlotte Mount St. Mary at Chattanooga* vs. Ohio# at Arizona State# Western Michigan College of Charleston* at Furman* at Wofford* The Citadel* Appalachian State* at Georgia Southern* Western Carolina* at Elon* UNC Greensboro* Chattanooga* at College of Charleston* at Western Carolina* Wofford* Furman* at The Citadel* vs. Chattanooga$ vs. Furman$ vs. Charleston$ vs. Maryland
sCore W/l 81-77 W 68-78 L 91-64 W 100-89 W 75-81 L 99-69 W 47-75 L 86-61 W 66-63 W 79-51 W 116-55 W 92-80 W 83-74 W 75-70 W 71-64 W 81-73 W 71-63 W 83-78 W 79-54 W 74-81 L 101-92 W 79-59 W 88-58 W 75-65 W 87-57 W 73-63 W 92-59 W 80-73 W 75-57 W 87-70 W 78-68 W 91-68 W 72-65 W 82-70 L
aTT. 8,426 8,762 8,958 2,688 5,319 2,237 9,314 3,109 1,178 5,563 2,231 2,930 4,331 4,113 3,519 4,254 2,984 1,438 4,254 5,580 2,489 4,438 1,248 4,588 3,017 3,784 1,087 3,741 3,912 1,122 2,559 9,459 8,009 18,646
Top sCorer Thomas Sander (19) Stephen Curry (20) Thomas Sander (26) Stephen Curry (27) William Archambault (17) Stephen Curry (29) Jason Richards (17) Thomas Sander (30) Boris Meno (19) Stephen Curry (17) Thomas Sander (24) Stephen Curry (30) Stephen Curry (19) Jason Richards (25) Stephen Curry (23) Thomas Sander (25) Thomas Sander (24) Boris Meno (25) Stephen Curry (17) S. Curry, J. Richards (15) Jason Richards (32) Stephen Curry (25) Stephen Curry (25) Stephen Curry (29) Stephen Curry (23) Stephen Curry (24) Stephen Curry (25) Stephen Curry (28) Stephen Curry (24) Bryant Barr (21) Stephen Curry, Jason Richards (20) Stephen Curry (30) Stephen Curry (29) Stephen Curry (30)
Top reBounDer Andrew Lovedale (12) Stephen Curry (9) Thomas Sander (8) Stephen Curry (9) Boris Meno (11) Boris Meno (18) Andrew Lovedale (10) Andrew Lovedale (17) Meno, William Archambault (6) Meno, Lovedale (10) Stephen Rossiter (10) Stephen Curry (11) Boris Meno (16) Meno, Lovedale, Archambault (5) Lovedale, Jason Richards (6) Thomas Sander (10) Sander, Max Paulhus Gosselin (9) Boris Meno (14) Boris Meno (8) M. Paulhus Gosselin, A. Lovedale (8) Thomas Sander (9) Boris Meno (14) Thomas Sander (13) Boris Meno (9) Andrew Lovedale (5) Thomas Sander (10) Boris Meno (11) Boris Meno (11) Boris Meno (8) Boris Meno (8) Thomas Sander (10) Boris Meno, Andrew Lovedale (7) Boris Meno (10) Boris Meno (9)
^ John Thompson Foundation Challenge; Ann Arbor, Mich. # Arizona State Sleep Inn Holiday Classic; Tempe, Ariz. $ Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, S.C. * Southern Conference Game reCorD All Games Conference Non-Conference
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home 13-1 8-1 5-0
aWay 10-3 9-0 1-3
neuTral 6-1 0-0 3-1
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ToTals 52,095 45,806 78,949 176,850
average 3,722 3,524 11,284 5,201
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pCT. .412 .407 .250 .333 .458 .318 .571 .524 .440 .333 .365 .318 .158 .556 .333 .429 .364 .235 .387 .333 .394 .300 .438 .464 .400 .273 .529 .250 .217 .375 .211 .250 .286 .435 .286 .375 .462 .400 .259 .474 .519 .357 .423 .318 .250 .217 .333 .455 .333 .333 .318 .320 .457 .438 .333 .424 .375 .333 .536 .333 .346 .320 .429 .375 .364 .346 .270 .353
fT-fTa 26-36 14-21 11-13 23-31 10-12 9-14 16-23 8-12 12-13 21-28 4-5 8-12 8-10 22-34 12-20 5-10 10-14 11-18 13-15 8-13 7-13 6-11 14-18 13-20 15-16 16-22 14-23 19-26 28-33 5-6 19-25 9-13 17-22 9-10 19-21 12-17 17-27 8-14 9-10 14-18 27-36 19-29 22-27 8-12 20-28 7-14 4-7 5-9 18-28 14-23 10-14 11-14 16-23 9-10 16-20 9-13 5-5 7-10 16-28 23-26 17-19 12-21 21-28 17-24 14-17 6-12 12-14 14-19
pCT. .722 .667 .846 .742 .833 .643 .696 .667 .923 .750 .800 .667 .800 .647 .600 .500 .714 .611 .867 .615 .538 .545 .778 .650 .938 .727 .609 .731 .848 .833 .760 .692 .773 .900 .905 .706 .630 .571 .900 .778 .750 .655 .815 .667 .714 .500 .571 .556 .643 .609 .714 .786 .696 .900 .800 .692 1.000 .700 .571 .885 .895 .571 .750 .708 .824 .500 .857 .737
or-Dr-Tr 14-30-44 13-21-34 13-21-34 10-25-35 7-32-39 12-24-36 11-30-41 5-17-22 11-29-40 8-21-29 24-31-55 5-28-33 16-18-34 12-29-41 18-37-55 4-23-27 14-19-33 15-29-44 12-33-45 6-26-32 24-31-55 8-16-24 9-35-44 11-31-42 15-37-52 13-28-41 6-21-27 17-25-42 9-20-29 10-33-43 11-23-34 10-26-36 14-25-39 8-16-24 17-32-49 13-25-38 16-23-39 6-22-28 17-20-37 12-24-36 10-30-40 16-24-40 7-29-36 12-25-37 21-39-60 7-25-32 14-21-35 5-21-26 14-15-29 4-23-27 15-26-41 11-22-33 11-30-41 10-27-37 21-28-49 6-22-28 11-28-39 6-24-30 11-28-39 5-14-19 11-23-34 21-25-46 12-26-38 7-24-31 16-21-37 6-29-35 13-22-35 19-35-54
pf 21 30 25 17 17 16 11 18 23 17 14 13 28 18 15 23 16 17 16 21 15 12 17 19 20 21 21 21 15 30 17 21 15 20 17 22 19 19 16 13 25 24 15 22 17 23 16 15 22 25 18 15 15 11 12 20 14 11 21 23 17 16 21 27 14 17 17 15
a 15 12 13 15 25 16 20 12 18 14 27 13 8 15 20 13 11 12 22 8 35 13 22 13 17 18 11 13 11 12 9 15 15 12 17 13 19 13 12 16 17 15 18 13 18 10 12 12 17 12 15 13 16 15 12 15 14 11 14 7 15 14 15 10 12 18 17 19
To 32 26 16 15 19 21 17 9 28 15 12 18 16 17 17 20 12 21 12 17 12 23 14 12 19 14 8 14 10 26 13 14 19 15 10 6 12 20 15 17 18 12 16 20 10 12 13 21 8 30 15 17 14 20 11 10 6 12 19 12 16 22 8 13 11 21 17 22
B 4 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 4 2 1 3 1 6 1 3 5 9 2 1 6 1 5 2 5 3 2 2 0 3 0 4 2 2 2 3 3 1 5 4 4 1 0 1 2 2 3 0 1 1 6 4 2 2 4 5 4 3 4 0 3 5 1 1 1 4 2 4
sT 8 18 4 9 8 8 5 10 8 14 8 4 6 9 9 10 12 2 6 4 11 5 7 3 3 11 5 3 13 3 9 5 8 7 2 4 12 8 11 10 7 9 11 10 6 4 9 3 14 2 9 5 7 7 3 5 6 3 5 10 12 6 7 4 8 6 13 8
1h 28 44 31 41 42 29 39 39 31 34 37 23 18 34 45 22 34 30 39 31 60 20 40 42 42 31 36 31 40 26 38 35 36 37 34 33 40 29 36 43 46 55 46 29 39 23 33 37 43 23 34 31 44 27 37 41 30 33 51 29 34 32 30 15 37 35 43 44
2h pTs 53 81 33 77 37 68 37 78 49 91 35 64 61 100 50 89 44 75 47 81 62 99 46 69 29 47 41 75 41 86 39 61 32 66 33 63 40 79 20 51 56 116 35 55 52 92 38 80 41 83 43 74 39 75 39 70 31 71 38 64 43 81 38 73 35 71 26 63 49 83 45 78 39 79 25 54 38 74 38 81 55 101 37 92 33 79 30 59 49 88 35 58 42 75 28 65 44 87 34 57 39 73 32 63 48 92 32 59 43 80 32 73 45 75 24 57 36 87 41 70 44 78 36 68 61 91 53 68 35 72 30 65 27 70 38 82
2006-07 STATISTICS
opponenT fg-fga Davidson 24-53 vs. EMU 26-63 Davidson at 25-62 Michigan 25-50 Davidson 35-64 vs. CCSU 24-65 Davidson vs. 36-62 Illinois-Chicago 35-68 Davidson 26-57 at Missouri 26-58 Davidson 38-90 vs. Colby 27-61 Davidson 18-63 at Duke 24-46 Davidson vs. 33-70 Elon 22-59 Davidson at 24-64 UNC Greensboro 24-54 Davidson vs. 27-64 Charlotte 17-53 Davidson vs. 48-84 Mount St. Mary Coll 20-56 Davidson at 32-69 Chattanooga 27-68 Davidson vs. 27-69 Ohio 26-70 Davidson 26-53 at Arizona State 23-57 Davidson vs. 19-57 Western Michigan 25-54 Davidson vs. 29-60 College of Charlesto 29-62 Davidson at 24-50 Furman 22-54 Davidson 29-69 at Wofford 27-70 Davidson vs. 25-57 The Citadel 19-44 Davidson vs. 29-69 Appalachian State 29-57 Davidson at 30-59 Georgia Southern 34-76 Davidson vs. 23-52 Western Carolina 22-58 Davidson 30-71 at Elon 23-63 Davidson vs. 31-64 UNC-Greensboro 25-48 Davidson vs. 30-62 Chattanooga 19-35 Davidson at 28-61 College of Charlesto 22-57 Davidson at 30-59 Western Carolina 21-58 Davidson vs. 29-69 Wofford 25-58 Davidson vs. 32-67 Furman 22-55 Davidson at 28-49 The Citadel 21-52 Davidson vs. 26-61 Chattanooga 24-64 Davidson vs. 29-60 Furman 21-50 Davidson vs. 25-67 College of Charlesto 25-49 Davidson vs. 24-70 Maryland 31-68
85
2006-07overallsTaTisTiCs # player
gp- gs min-avg fg-fga pCT 3g-3ga pCT
fT-fTa pCT or-Dr reB-avg pf-fo a To B
s pTs-avg
30 Stephen Curry
34- 33 1049- 30.9 242- 523
.463 122-299 .408 124-145 .855
32-125 157- 4.6
87- 4 95
95
6 62
730-21.5
2 Jason Richards
34- 34 1167- 34.3 145-349
.415
53-141 .376 116-143 .811
25-105 130-3.8
59- 1 249 106
2 52
459-13.5
15 Thomas Sander
33- 33 949- 28.8 158-325
.486
28- 85
.329
93-127 .732
81-129 210- 6.4
88- 4 38
61
6 35 437- 3.2
33- 33 869- 26.3 134-297
.451
16- 49
.327
78-103 .757
88-181 269- 8.2
86- 4 25
69 34 34
22 Will Archambault
33- 0 625- 18.9
90-220
.409
58-160 .363
22- 33 .667
21 - 70
91- 2.8
53- 0 28
40
41 Andrew Lovedale
34- 2 617- 18.1
70-151
.464
25- 47 .532
67-132 199- 5.9
85- 1 23
48 17 24 166- 4.9
5 Boris Meno
14 Max Paulhus Gosselin 34- 33 896- 26.4 24 Bryant Barr
1- 12
.083
362-11.0
5 14 260- 7.9
2006-07 STATISTICS
64-128
.500
20- 50
.400
15- 23 .652
51- 55
106- 3.1
75- 3 61
37 16 40 163- 4.8
33- 0
251- 7.6
37- 92
.402
25- 71
.352
16- 20 .800
13- 15
28-0.9
22- 0 20
13
23 Stephen Rossiter
32- 0
228- 7.1
19- 33
.576
1- 4
.250
10- 18 .556
30- 35
65-2.1
37- 0 12
11
5
5
49- 1.6
35 Dan Nelms
16- 0
53- 3.3
6- 18
.333
1- 5
.200
0- 2
.000
5- 10
15-0.9
5- 0
2
3
0
1
13- 0.8
25 John Falconi
18- 1
54- 3.0
3- 14
.214
3- 11
.273
0- 2
.000
4- 3
7-0.4
4- 0
2
2
0
1
9- 0.5
12 Can Civi
13- 0
30- 2.3
1- 3
.333
0- 0
.000
0- 0
.000
0- 2
2-0.2
1- 0
4
6
0
1
2- 0.2
20 Lamar Hull
10- 1
12- 1.2
0- 4
.000
0- 1
.000
0- 0
.000
0- 1
1-0.1
0- 0
0
1
0
0
0- 0.0
46- 48
94-2.8
TEAM
0
3
115- 3.5
3
ToTal
34
6800
969-2157 .449 328-888
.369 499-663 .753 465- 913 1378- 40.5 602- 17 559 495 91 272 2765- 81.3
opponenTs
34
6800
831-1961 .424 269-758
.355 405-592 .684 334- 822 1156- 34.0 662- 1 448 582 86 228 2336- 68.7
sCore By perioDs 1sT
2nD
oT
oT2
ToTal
Davidson
1293
1472
0
0
2765
Opponents
1108
1228
0
0
2336
2006-07souThernConferenCesTaTisTiCs # player
gp- gs min-avg fg-fga pCT 3g-3ga pCT
s pTs-avg
18- 17 573- 31.8 132-274
.482
63-156 .404
65- 77 .844
19- 63
82- 4.6 40- 1 44
35
1 30
392- 21.8
15 Thomas Sander
18- 18 507- 28.2
92-189
.487
13- 43
.302
57- 80 .713
51- 77 128- 7.1 45- 2 26
34
3 20
254- 14.1
2 Jason Richards
18- 18 619- 34.4
75-176
.426
27- 64
.422
61- 70 .871
14- 61
58
2 32
238- 13.2
5 Boris Meno
17- 17 437- 25.7
69-142
.486
7- 22
.318
45- 60 .750
40- 93 133- 7.8 47- 2 10
40 24 14
190- 11.2
22 Will Archambault
18- 0
328- 18.2
43-105
.410
26- 76
.342
11- 22 .500
10- 35
45- 2.5 30- 0 15
21
4
7
123- 6.8
41 Andrew Lovedale
18- 1
17- 32 .531
36- 72 108- 6.0 40- 1 10
18
9 11
97- 5.4
12
8 25
91- 5.1
75- 4.2 34- 0 128
349- 19.4
40- 76
.526
0- 8
.000
14 Max Paulhus Gosselin 18- 17 473- 26.3
35- 75
.467
15- 33
.455
6- 9
.667 30- 31
61- 3.4 36- 2 30
24 Bryant Barr
18- 0
131- 7.3
19- 49
.388
13- 38
.342
1- 3
.333
7- 8
15- 0.8 15- 0
8
7
0
1
52- 2.9
23 Stephen Rossiter
16- 0
111- 6.9
8- 17
.471
1- 4
.250
8- 16 .500
14- 11
25- 1.6 13- 0
5
6
2
4
25- 1.6
35 Dan Nelms
10- 0
25- 2.5
2- 9
.222
1- 3
.333
0- 2
.000
3- 5
8- 0.8
5- 0
0
2
0
1
5- 0.5
25 John Falconi
10- 1
22- 2.2
0- 4
.000
0- 2
.000
0- 2
.000
1- 3
4- 0.4
2- 0
0
0
0
1
0- 0.0
12 Can Civi
8- 0
15- 1.9
1- 2
.500
0- 0
.000
0- 0
.000
0- 1
1- 0.1
0- 0
2
6
0
1
2- 0.3
20 Lamar Hull
5- 1
8- 1.6
0- 3
.000
0- 1
.000
0- 0
.000
0- 0
0- 0.0
0- 0
0
0
0
0
0- 0.0
26- 28
54- 3.0
TEAM
86
fT-fTa pCT or-Dr reB-avg pf-fo a To B
30 Stephen Curry
3
ToTal
18
3600
516-1121 .460 166-450 .369 271-373 .727 251- 488 739- 41.1 307- 8 278 242 53 147 1469- 81.6
opponenTs
18
3600
432-1029 .420 145-403 .360 197-286 .689 162- 416 578- 32.1 353- 12 226 289 46 106 1206- 67.0
D A V I D S O N
sTanDings Appalachian State UNC Greensboro Western Carolina Chattanooga Elon
sTanDings Davidson College of Charleston Furman Georgia Southern Wofford The Citadel
W- l 15- 3 12- 6 7- 11 6- 12 5- 13
W17138754-
l 1 5 10 11 13 14
norTh Division ConferenCe pCT pf pa .833 76.7 65.8 .667 69.5 66.1 .389 70.3 74.8 .333 64.1 68.1 .278 63.4 68.9
W251611157-
l 8 14 20 18 23
souTh Division ConferenCe pCT pf pa .944 81.6 67.0 .722 68.6 63.9 .444 67.1 68.3 .389 67.5 69.4 .278 67.9 72.7 .222 56.9 68.6
W29221515107-
l 5 11 16 16 20 23
overall pCT .758 .533 .355 .455 .233
overall pCT .853 .667 .484 .484 .333 .233
pf 76.0 69.4 70.3 68.5 62.5
pa 67.8 68.5 73.6 68.4 70.4
pf 81.3 69.4 67.8 69.2 71.0 58.6
pa 68.7 65.6 68.6 68.3 75.2 68.0
SOCON STANDINGS / AWARDS
2006-07souThernConferenCesTandings
2006-07all-ConferenCeTeams meDia Player of the Year Kyle Hines UNC Greensboro Freshman of the Year stephen Curry Davidson Coach of the Year Bob mckillop Davidson all-soCon firsT Team Kyle Hines UNC Greensboro D. J. Thompson Appalachian State Dontaye Draper Col. of Charleston stephen Curry Davidson Nick Aldridge Western Carolina all-soCon seConD Team Jason richards Davidson Louis Graham Georgia Southern Thomas sander Davidson Donte Gennie Georgia Southern Moussa Diagne Furman all-soCon ThirD Team Keddric Mays Chattanooga Jeremy Clayton Appalachian State LeVonn Jordan Elon Ricky Hickman UNC Greensboro David Lawrence Col. of Charleston
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I L D C A T
S
CoaChes Player of the Year Kyle Hines UNC Greensboro Freshman of the Year stephen Curry Davidson Coach of the Year Bob mckillop Davidson all-ConferenCe Kyle Hines UNC Greensboro D. J. Thompson Appalachian State Dontaye Draper Col. of Charleston stephen Curry Davidson Nick Aldridge Western Carolina Jason richards Davidson Donte Gennie Georgia Southern Moussa Diagne Furman LeVonn Jordan Elon Robby Bostain Furman all-freshman stephen Curry Davidson Nick Aldridge Western Carolina Jake Robinson Western Carolina Junior Salters Wofford Ben Stywall UNC Greensboro
87
DaviDson 81, E. MiChigan 77
DaviDson 91, CCsU 64
ann arBor, miCh. — nov. 10, 2006
ann arBor, miCh. — nov. 12, 2006
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
After trailing by as many as 17 in the first half, Davidson rallied to win its season opener against Eastern Michigan, 8177, in the John Thompson Foundation Challenge hosted by the University of Michigan. The young Wildcat squad overcame 32 turnovers with four players scoring in double figures, led by junior Thomas Sander with a career-high 19. Behind 10-7, Eastern Michigan took advantage of a 5:44 Wildcat scoring drought with a 16-0 run capped off by a Jesse Bunkley trey to grab a 23-10 lead with 11:08 left in the opening period. The Eagles continued their hot-shooting in the first half pushing the margin to as many as 17 thanks to Bunkley’s third bucket from downtown in the stanza. In the first 20 minutes of action, EMU knocked down eight three-pointers and turned 18 Davidson miscues into 21 points to make it a 44-28 contest at the break. The ’Cats wasted little time cutting into the 16-point halftime deficit as they opened the second half with an 18-4 streak to trail only by two, 48-46. With just over six minutes left, Davidson ran off eight unanswered thanks to a Stephen Curry three and five consecutive points from Boris Meno to make it a two-point contest once again. After the two teams traded buckets over the next 1:20, the Wildcats finally tied the contest on a Meno putback and had a chance to grab the lead as he was fouled in the process just prior to the final media stoppage, but Meno missed the freebie. Out of the timeout, Carlos Medlock put the Eagles back in front with a layup, but it was all Wildcats from then on, as Curry nailed back-to-back three-pointers to give Davidson a 70-66 advantage, its first since the opening minutes. Wildcat guard Jason Richards finished with a career-high 17 points and dished out eight assists, while Meno finished with his third double-double in a Davidson uniform recording 12 points and 10 boards. Curry was the other ‘Cat to go for double-digits scoring 15 in his first collegiate contest. Medlock, the MAC’s newcomer of the year in 2005-06, led three Eastern Michigan players in double figures with a gamehigh 23 points. DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g g Curry Archambault Rossiter Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3g-a ft-a or-tr 1-1 3-5 5-10 0-1 11-15 1-4 1-5 8-10 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-2 3-7 2-4 0-5 2-3 2-2 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 3-12 3-3 24-53 7-17 26-36 14-44 4-6 4-6 4-13 2-2 5-12 2-5 1-1 2-8
pf
tp
a to
5 4 2 2 2 2 0 4
12 19 17 4 15 8 2 4
0 3 3 1 22 1 3 0 0 31 8 6 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 34 3 13 0 3 35 1 4 0 1 19 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 2 23
b S min
21 81 15 32 4 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 10-22 45.5% 2ndH: 14-31 45.2% Game: 45.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-6 16.7% 2ndH: 6-11 54.5% Game: 41.2% Rebs 4 FThrow 1stH: 7-10 70.0% 2ndH: 19-26 73.1% Game: 72.2%
e. miChigan Banjanin f Bowdry f Dodd c Medlock g Bunkley g Dumes Freer Axon Cashen Knaub TEAM Totals
fg-a
1-2 2-5 1-1 8-20 4-8 4-13 1-5 0-0 2-5 3-4
3g-a 0-0 1-1 0-0 2-4 4-8 3-12 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
3-4 0-0 2-5 5-6 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 2-2 2-2
2-6 1-2 2-3 1-3 0-2 0-2 1-1 1-3 2-4 0-3 3-5 26-63 11-27 14-21 13-34
tp
a to
3 5 0 3 5 0 3 4 1 3 23 5 4 12 1 1 11 4 1 2 0 2 0 1 5 7 0 5 8 0
6 1 1 6 5 2 1 1 2 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 0 0 8 4 4 0 1 0 0
34 14 16 35 32 27 9 5 15 13
30 77 12 26 1 18 200
Total FG 1stH: 15-28 53.6% 2ndH: 11-35 31.4% Game: 41.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 8-15 53.3% 2ndH: 3-12 25.0% Game: 40.7% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-7 85.7% 2ndH: 8-14 57.1% Game: 66.7% 1
Davidson 28 Eastern Michigan 44
53 33
— —
81 77
attenDanCe 8,426
MiChigan 78, DaviDson 68 ann arBor, miCh. — nov. 11, 2006 Freshman Stephen Curry scored 32 points for Davidson, but Michigan was able to thwart several comeback attempts to fend off the feisty Wildcats on the second day of the John Thompson Foundation Challenge, 78-68. Curry a native of Charlotte, N.C., hit 12-of-25 attempts including five buckets from downtown, to become the first Wildcat to go for 30-plus points in a contest since Brendan Winters accomplished that task in the SoCon Championship last season. Along with scoring 17 of his final total in the opening half, the 6-1 guard pulled down a team-high nine rebounds. Trailing 13-12 at the 12:25 mark, Curry recorded a threepoint play and nailed his third of four first half treys in back-
88
to-back possessions to spark a 10-3 run and give the Wildcats a 22-16 lead, forcing the Wolverines to burn a 30 second timeout. Out of the break, Michigan responded with a 19-5 streak of its own to grab the advantage back and stretch it to double-digits, 37-27, with just under three minutes remaining in the first half. Thanks to a blistering 64 percent (16-25) shooting performance in the first 20 minutes of action the Wolverines went to the break up, 41-31. Early in the second stanza Michigan continued to have the hot-hand extending its lead to the largest of the evening, 58-41, with just over 13 minutes remaining. Just like their opener, the Wildcats found themselves down by as many as seventeen, but unlike Eastern Michigan, the Wolverines were able to bounce back from a late 12-0 Davidson streak that cut the deficit to 58-53, with an 8-0 flurry of their own to put the game out of reach. Dion Harris (23) and fellow senior Courtney Sims (21) combined to score 44 points and lead Michigan offensively. The Wolverines’ Ron Coleman also finished in double figures with 12, while Brent Petway led all players on the glass with 13 rebounds. After managing just a field goal percentage of 35.3 in the first half, the Wildcats knocked down 13-of-28 tries from the floor in final period to finish the contest at 40.3 percent. For the second consecutive night Davidson hit seven buckets from downtown. DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
4-11 1-6 3-9 1-2 12-25 3-8 0-0 0-0 1-1
3g-a 0-1 0-2 1-3 0-1 5-15 1-6 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 2-2 3-4 0-0 3-3 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
4-5 1-4 0-2 3-4 3-9 1-4 1-2 0-0 0-3 0-1 25-62 7-28 11-13 13-34
tp
a to
3 9 1 5 4 1 4 10 2 4 2 2 2 32 4 1 9 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 2
1 2 6 1 3 1 0 0 2
b S min
0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 1
3 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0
30 30 34 24 35 27 5 1 14
25 68 13 16 1 4 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-34 35.3% 2ndH: 13-28 46.4% Game: 40.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-16 25.0% 2ndH: 3-12 25.0% Game: 25.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 3-3 100.0% 2ndH: 8-10 80.0% Game: 84.6% 1
miChigan Petway Coleman Abram Sims Harris Smith Morris Baker Udoh TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f f c g
3-8 5-9 2-6 7-9 5-12 2-4 0-0 0-0 1-2
3g-a ft-a or-tr 0-0 0-1 5-13 0-2 2-5 2-7 1-3 2-2 0-3 0-0 7-9 1-3 2-7 11-12 0-2 2-3 0-0 1-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 1-2
pf
tp
a to
1 6 2 1 12 1 5 7 1 3 21 0 0 23 6 5 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
1 1 3 3 4 3 0 0 0
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 2 1 2 3 1 0 0
36 36 19 32 37 22 4 3 3
25-50 5-10 23-31 10-35 17 78 15 15 1 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 16-25 64.0% 2ndH: 9-25 36.0% Game: 50.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-8 50.0% 2ndH: 1-7 14.3% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-8 62.5% 2ndH: 18-23 78.3% Game: 74.2% 2
Davidson Michigan
31 41
37 37
— —
68 78
attenDanCe 8,762
Thomas Sander connected on 12-of-17 from the floor for a career-high 26 points as Davidson cruised to a 91-64 victory over Central Connecticut State on Sunday afternoon in the final of three games in the John Thompson Foundation Challenge hosted by the University of Michigan. Sander, a 6-8 forward from Cincinnati, Ohio, shattered his previous personal-best of 19 points that was set in the Wildcats thrilling come from behind triumph Friday evening against Eastern Michigan in both team’s season debut. Along with his final points total, he knocked down two buckets from downtown and led Davidson with eight boards in 31 minutes. After trading buckets over the first 3:25 to find themselves deadlocked at 7-7, Davidson caught fire and went on a 15-4 run to push the game to a double-digit advantage (2211), where it would stay the remainder of the contest. The Wildcats extended their lead to as many as 17 on a William Archambault three-point play with just under seven minutes left in the first, but a small CCSU spurt cut the margin to 42-29 at the half. Sander and Davidson point guard Jason Richards led the way offensively for both clubs in the opening period with 11 and 10 points, respectively. The Wildcats found their touch from the outside drilling six of 14 attempts (42.9 percent) from behind the arc before the break. At the 12:55 mark in the second half, Davidson hit the Blue Devils with an 18-3 streak that was sparked by 13 consecutive points from Sander. The Wildcats’ most productive flurry of the weekend gave them their largest lead, 76-46, with 5:46 left. Freshman Stephen Curry finished in double-figures for the third consecutive outing with 16 points. The Charlotte, N.C., native was one of four Wildcats with 10-plus points and concluded the event with a combined 63 points in the three contests. For his outstanding play in the three-day challenge, Curry was named to the All-Challenge Team. Richards (15) and Boris Meno (12) also turned in doubledigit scoring performances and the three Wildcat junior captains including Sander recorded 53 of Davidson’s 91 points. Led by Richards’ career-best nine assists, the ‘Cats finished the evening with an impressive 25 set ups on 35 field goals. Along with their overall hot-shooting effort, the Wildcats knocked down 45.8 percent (11-24) of their shots from long range and missed just two of 13 freebies for 83.3 percent. The young Wildcats turned up the defensive pressure this evening holding CCSU to just 24-of-65 (36.9 percent) shooting. Davidson also finished with an edge on the glass, 39-36. The Wildcats’ strong play and hustle on both ends of the floor led to 42 points in the paint. Javier Mojica and Tristan Blackwood were the only Blue Devil players in double figures tallying 23 and 14, respectively. CCSU Nwadike f Sobers f Powell g Blackwood g Mojica g Myers Seymore Winters Redzic Beaudet TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-6 4-10 3-4 5-13 8-18 0-0 1-8 0-2 0-2 1-2
3g-a 0-0 0-0 0-0 4-10 3-6 0-0 0-5 0-1 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-6 1-2 1-2 0-0 4-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
29-68 11-25 4-8
5-11 3-8 0-3 0-1 1-4 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 2-3 9-35
tp
a to
2 7 2 3 9 1 1 7 4 2 14 2 3 23 5 2 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 20 73 20
6 2 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 0
b S min
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
28 28 22 31 34 15 21 9 4 8
7 0 4 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-31 38.7% 2ndH: 12-34 35.3% Game: 36.9% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-11 27.3% 2ndH: 4-11 36.4% Game: 31.8% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-4 50.0% 2ndH: 7-10 70.0% Game: 64.3% 2
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
5-8 12-17 5-8 1-2 4-10 0-0 3-8 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 3-8
3g-a 0-1 2-4 3-5 0-0 3-5 0-0 2-7 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 5-6 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
0-5 1-8 1-4 0-4 0-6 0-0 1-2 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-5 2-3 35-64 11-24 10-12 7-39
2 0 1 3 4 1 0 3 0 0 0 3
tp
a to
b S min
12 26 15 2 16 0 9 0 5 0 0 6
0 2 9 3 5 0 4 0 1 1 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2 2 4 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
0 1 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
21 31 31 28 32 1 24 7 3 3 3 16
17 91 25 19 2 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 16-35 45.7% 2ndH: 19-29 65.5% Game: 54.7% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-14 42.9% 2ndH: 5-10 50.0% Game: 45.8% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 4-4 100.0% 2ndH: 6-8 75.0% Game: 83.3% 0
CCSU Davidson
29 42
35 49
— —
64 91
attenDanCe 8,958
D A V I D S O N
DaviDson, n.C. — nov. 15, 2006 Stephen Curry scored 23 second-half points and finished with a game-high 27 to lead four Davidson players in double figures as the Wildcats opened their home slate with a 100-89 victory over Illinois-Chicago Wednesday evening. A freshman from nearby Charlotte, N.C., Curry hit 11-of-19 shots from the floor including three from downtown to score in double digits for the fourth consecutive game to start the season. He also led both clubs with nine boards, matching his previous season high that he set against Michigan. Davidson’s Thomas Sander reached the 20-point mark for the second straight outing with 23. The junior tri-captain set a new career-best with three baskets from downtown and turned in a solid performance on the glass with eight boards. Boris Meno recorded a career-high with 17 points, shattering his previous best of 13 . Freshman Will Archambault also enjoyed his most producitve night in a Wildcat uniform thanks to 19 points, hitting 6-of-8 from the floor including four of Davidson’s season-high 12 threes. In the opening period both teams enjoyed lengthy runs, but neither had something to show for it as the first half ended in a 39-39 tie. Davidson erased a 17-12 Flames lead at the 13:38 mark with a 16-3 run that was started and ended by Sander to give the Wildcats the game’s largest advantage to that point, 28-20. Illinois-Chicago quickly responded with a 10-2 streak of its own capped off by consecutive treys by T.J. Gray and Josh Mayo to even the score once again. Curry was held to just 2-of-9 shooting in the first stanza, but caught fire in the final 20 minutes only missing one of his 10 attempts. On back-to-back trips late in the period, the 6-1 guard nailed buckets from deep to extend the Wildcats’ lead to 82-69 with just over seven minutes remaining. With 4:08 left in the game, Archambault nailed a long-range shot from about 25 feet, his final three-pointer of night to give Davidson its biggest advantage, 93-78. UiC Stefanov f Bond f Zoric f g Mayo Jeffers g White Gray Stewart Vandermeer Dailey TEAM Totals
fg-a
7-10 5-8 1-2 9-15 5-11 0-1 6-12 0-2 2-4 0-3
3g-a 0-1 1-1 0-0 6-9 0-0 0-1 4-8 0-1 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 1-2 1-2 2-2 1-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0
2-6 1-4 0-1 0-2 1-3 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-1 35-68 11-21 8-12 5-22
3 1 2 4 3 1 0 0 3 1
tp
a to
b S min
14 12 3 26 11 2 16 0 5 0
1 0 0 4 2 0 4 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
18 89 12
1 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 1 0
2 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 0
31 21 21 34 32 8 24 5 15 9
9 1 10 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-32 43.8% 2ndH: 31-36 58.3% Game: 51.5% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-11 54.5% 2ndH: 5-10 50.0% Game: 52.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-6 83.3% 2ndH: 3-6 50.0% Game: 66.7% 2
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3g-a 6-9 1-2 8-11 3-6 3-7 1-1 2-4 0-0 11-19 3-6 6-8 4-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-4 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
4-6 4-6 2-3 1-2 2-3 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
3-7 3-8 1-6 0-1 2-9 0-6 0-1 0-0 0-0 2-3
2 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3
tp
a to
b S min
17 23 9 5 27 19 0 0 0 0
3 0 9 2 4 2 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 5 4 0 5 1 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
34 34 37 27 34 22 0+ 0+ 0+ 12
36-63 12-21 16-23 11-41 11 100 20 17 3 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 15-32 46.9% 2ndH: 21-30 70.0% Game: 58.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-11 36.4% 2ndH: 8-10 80.0% Game: 57.1% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-10 50.0% 2ndH: 11-13 84.6% Game: 69.6% 5
UIC Davidson
39 39
50 61
— —
89 100
attenDanCe 2,688
MissoURi 81, DaviDson 75 ColumBia, mo. — nov. 19, 2006 Matt Lawrence scored a game-high 22 points and the Missouri Tigers forced 28 turnovers as they held off Davidson 81-75 in men’s basketball action Sunday afternoon at Mizzou Arena. The victory over the Wildcats was Missouri’s first in three tries. Lawrence drilled six of the Tigers’ eight baskets from downtown to lead three Mizzou players in double figures. Stephon Hannah contributed 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting and had six steals, while Leo Lyons added 18 points in 29 minutes off the bench for the Tigers. For the third consecutive outing the Wildcats had four individuals in double digits. William Archambault (17) and fellow freshman Stephen Curry (16) combined for 33 points to pace
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S
Davidson offensively. Thomas Sander and Jason Richards recorded 12 and 10, respectively. After the two teams traded buckets during the opening 2:30 of the contest, back-to-back treys by Lawrence sparked a 14-2 Missouri run forcing the Wildcats to burn a 30 second timeout down 19-7. Out of the stoppage, Davidson answered with a lengthy spurt of its own capped off by two of Archambault’s five long range jumpers to cut the deficit to 29-27 with just under three minutes left in the first. Down 34-31 at the break, the ’Cats raced out of the locker room with a 12-4 streak to grab a 43-38 lead, their first since the 18:06 mark in the opening half. Mizzou wasted little time tying the score before the two teams battled back-and-forth over the next nine minutes of action to find themselves deadlocked (6464) for a sixth and final time. Three straight makes from the charity stripe gave the Tigers a lead that they would never relinquish. Davidson closed to within one on several occasions, but couldn’t overcome nine Missouri free throws in the closing minutes. Missouri made the most of the Wildcat mistakes turning them into 25 points on the other end. DaviDSon f Meno Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Hull Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3-9 4-9 3-8 4-6 4-11 6-12 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
3g-a 0-1 2-4 2-4 0-0 2-6 5-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 2-3 2-2 0-0 6-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-11 4-5 0-1 1-5 0-4 1-3 0-0 0-1 0-0 2-7 2-3 26-57 11-25 12-13 11-40
0 4 5 5 4 1 1 1 0 3
tp
a to
8 12 10 8 16 17 0 0 0 4
1 4 0 0 29 3 1 1 1 37 1 5 0 2 26 4 1 2 1 33 6 10 1 4 28 0 1 0 0 30 0 0 0 0 0+ 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 3 5 0 0 13
b S min
23 75 18 28 4 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-27 44.4% 2ndH: 14-30 46.7% Game: 45.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-13 38.5% 2ndH: 6-12 50.0% Game: 44.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-2 100.0% 2ndH: 10-11 90.9% Game: 92.3% 0
miSSoUri Brown f Lawrence, M f Grimes c Hannah g Horton g Lawrence, K Tiller Lyons Dandridge Butterfield TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-5 8-12 1-4 7-14 1-4 1-5 0-0 6-9 0-1 0-4
3g-a 0-2 6-10 0-0 1-5 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-2
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 0-0 5-8 6-8 2-2 0-0 6-8 0-0 2-2
2-7 1-4 0-0 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-8 0-0 0-3 1-3 26-58 8-24 21-28 8-29
tp
a to
0 4 3 0 22 0 1 2 0 4 20 3 4 8 5 2 5 0 0 0 2 2 18 1 0 0 0 4 2 0
1 3 3 3 2 1 0 1 0 1
b S min
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 6 2 2 0 1 0 2
19 33 9 36 27 12 10 29 2 23
17 81 14 15 2 14 200
Total FG 1stH: 15-34 44.1% 2ndH: 11-24 45.8% Game: 44.8% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-12 25.0% 2ndH: 5-12 41.7% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-3 33.3% 2ndH: 20-25 80.0% Game: 75.0% 0
Davidson Missouri
31 34
44 47
— —
75 81
attenDanCe 5, 319
DaviDson 99, ColBY 69 DaviDson, n.C. — nov. 21, 2006 Davidson tied or broke four school records, and Jason Richards set new career highs with 20 points and 16 assists to lead the Wildcats to a 99-69 victory over Colby College in men’s basketball action Wednesday evening at Belk Arena. Richards, a junior from Barrington, Ill., hit 7-of-16 shots from the floor including five buckets from downtown and finished just one assist shy of tying a Davidson mark for set ups in a contest. The Wildcats’ Stephen Curry set a new school record for three-pointers attempted and made, hitting 9 of his 20 attempts. For the third time in his brief career, the native of nearby Charlotte, N.C., went for 25-plus points in a contest scoring a game-high 29. Fellow freshman Bryant Barr was the other Davidson player to go for double figures with a season-high 10 points off the bench in 11 minutes of action. Neither team shot the ball well in the first half, but the Wildcats ended the stanza on a 16-4 run to head into the locker room ahead, 37-23. Despite shooting just 28.0 percent (14-50), Davidson had a trio of individuals put up notable numbers in the first 20 minutes of action. Richards assisted on 11 of Davidson’s 14 field goals to break his previous career high of nine, junior Boris Meno pulled down 13 boards and Curry hit seven treys to finish with 21 points in the half. Meno added five rebounds in the final period to conclude
the evening with 18, besting his previous high of 16 which was tallied against St. Mary’s on Dec. 15, 2005. As a club, Davidson broke the school and Southern Conference mark for attempts from behind the three-point arc with 52. The 19 makes from deep tied a Wildcat record that was established in a 105-48 triumph over Washington & Lee on Nov. 30, 2002. The previous conference standard of 46 attempts was posted by former league member East Tennessee State during the 1990-91 slate. After its shooting performance in the opening frame, Davidson hit 60.0 percent of its tries in the final half including 10-of-18 from long range to finish the game at 42.2 percent. The Wildcats entered the night as the league’s top-rebounding team, and helped its cause with a commanding 55-33 margin on the glass. Colby placed four players in double digits including a trio of Mules with 13 points. Drew Cohen, Nick Farrell and Artie Cutrone tied for the high, while John Bandi came off the bench to score 10. Colby Cohen f Westbrooks f g Gaudet Simpson g Farrell g Cutrone Haylon Lemmons Featherston Sherman Choice Bandi Cheney Planeta Shers Chase TEAM Totals
fg-a
6-13 2-5 1-4 0-1 5-13 5-9 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-7 4-5 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1
3g-a 0-0 0-1 1-4 0-1 3-9 0-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
1-5 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-7 0-0 1-3 0-4 0-5 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-5 1-2 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-2 27-61 7-22 8-12 5-33
2 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0
tp
a to
b S min
13 4 5 0 13 13 3 0 0 0 8 10 0 0 0 0
1 5 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 3 1 3 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
24 21 27 16 36 19 3 1 2 2 18 15 1 10 3 2
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
DaviDson 100, UiC 89
13 69 13 18 3 4 200
Total FG 1stH: 10-29 34.5% 2ndH: 17-32 53.1% Game: 44.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 2-9 22.2% 2ndH: 5-13 38.5% Game: 31.8% Rebs 2 FThrow 1stH: 1-3 33.3% 2ndH: 7-9 77.8% Game: 66.7%
DaviDSon f Meno Lovedale f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Hull Rossiter Barr Civi Falconi Nelms TEAM Totals
fg-a
3-12 4-8 7-16 1-2 10-24 3-10 0-0 4-5 3-6 0-0 1-3 2-4
3g-a 1-2 0-1 5-13 0-1 9-20 1-8 0-0 0-0 2-4 0-0 1-2 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
8-18 2-5 0-1 3-4 1-5 2-5 0-0 3-8 1-1 0-1 1-1 1-3 2-3 38-90 19-52 4-5 24-55
tp
a to
4 8 0 4 8 0 2 20 16 2 2 3 0 29 2 1 7 0 0 0 0 1 8 1 0 10 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 4 0
0 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 21 30 18 32 15 1 22 11 6 10 13
14 99 27 12 1 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-50 28.0% 2ndH: 24-40 60.0% Game: 42.2% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 9-34 26.5% 2ndH: 10-18 55.6% Game: 36.5% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 0-0 0.0% 2ndH: 4-5 80.0% Game: 80.0% 1
Colby Davidson
23 37
46 62
— —
69 99
attenDanCe 2,237
DUKE 75, DaviDson 47 Durham, n.C. — nov. 25, 2006 Sophomore Josh McRoberts led four players in double figures with 14 points and grabbed nine rebounds to pace the No. 9 Duke Blue Devils to a 75-47 victory over Davidson at Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday evening. McRoberts was joined by freshmen Jon Scheyer, Brian Zoubek and Gerald Henderson for Duke in double digits, as the trio contributed 14, 12 and 10 points, respectively. Jason Richards was the lone Davidson player to reach the 10-point mark as the junior point guard scored 17 to go along with five assists. The native of Barrington, Ill., knocked down 8-of-17 from the floor in 40 minutes of action for the Wildcats. Duke shot 52.5 percent (24-46) overall and drilled 5-of-9 from deep to finish at 55.6 percent, compared to 28.6 percent (18-63) and 15.8 percent (3-19) from three-point range for the Wildcats. The Blue Devils took advantage of Davidson foul trouble in the opening half with a couple of lengthy runs to grab a 32-18 lead at the break. Four of the Wildcats’ five starters committed two fouls each in the first 20 minutes of action. Duke didn't shoot well from the charity stripe on the evening, but hit 12 more free throws than the Wildcats attempted. The Blue Devils were 22-of-34 on freebies, while Davidson missed just two of its 10 attempts. After a pair of free throws by Davidson's William Archambault cut the deficit to just three (11-8), Duke went on an 11-2 streak to stretch the game to 22-10 with 6:24 left in the half. Following an Archambault three-point play, the Blue Devils closed out the remaining 4:42 of the period with a 10-3
89
run to grab their largest margin of the first. A Thomas Sander bucket with 17:33 left made it a 37-25 contest, but the Wildcats were unable to inch closer as Duke extended its lead to as many as 30 on two separate occasions. The Blue Devils held a 41-34 edge in rebounding, though the 'Cats grabbed 16 offensive rebounds to Duke's 12. Davidson's Andrew Lovedale led all-players with 10 rebounds and scored a career-high nine points off of the bench.
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g g Curry Archambault Hull Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
1-6 1-8 8-17 0-4 2-9 2-8 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-0 0-0 4-7
3g-a 0-1 0-1 0-3 0-1 1-6 1-5 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0 3-3 0-0 2-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-5 0-1 2-3 1-1 1-2 0-1 0-0 1-2 1-2 1-1 0-0 5-10 3-6 18-63 3-19 8-10 16-34
tp
a to
4 2 0 3 2 0 1 17 5 4 0 0 5 5 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 2
4 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 3
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
13 23 40 20 23 26 0+ 15 3 7 2 28
28 47 8 16 1 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 6-26 23.1% 2ndH: 12-37 32.4% Game: 28.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-8 12.5% 2ndH: 2-11 18.2% Game: 15.8% Rebs 1 FThrow 1stH: 5-5 100.0% 2ndH: 3-5 60.0% Game: 80.0%
DUke Thomas f McRoberts f Henderson g Nelson g Scheyer g Paulus Pocius Davidson Sutton McClure Johnson Zoubek TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-4 5-8 3-5 2-5 3-5 1-3 1-2 0-0 0-0 3-4 0-0 4-10
3g-a 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 3-4 1-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 4-4 4-5 3-6 5-9 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-4 0-0 4-6
0-0 1-9 0-3 3-5 1-3 1-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 3-7 3-6 24-46 5-9 22-34 12-41
4 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 1 0 2
tp
a to
b S min
4 14 10 7 14 3 3 0 0 8 0 12
0 4 2 1 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 1
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
3 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0
13 29 25 24 28 23 12 3 2 22 2 17
18 75 15 17 6 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-21 57.1% 2ndH: 12-25 48.0% Game: 52.2% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-2 50.0% 2ndH: 4-7 57.1% Game: 55.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 9-14 64.3% 2ndH: 13-20 65.0% Game: 64.7% 4,1
Davidson Duke
18 34
29 41
— —
47 75
attenDanCe 9,314
DaviDson 86, Elon 61 DaviDson, n.C. — DeC. 1, 2006 Andrew Lovedale and Thomas Sander each recorded double-doubles and finished with career highs in both points and rebounds to lead Davidson to an 86-61 victory over Elon on Friday evening at Belk Arena. Lovedale, a sophomore from Benin City, Nigeria, hit 7-of-11 attempts from the floor to score 16 points, breaking his previous career-best of nine that was set in the Wildcats last outing at Duke. The 6-8 forward also grabbed a game-high 17 rebounds, eight of which came on the offensive end. The second Wildcat to drop at least 30 points on an opponent this season, Sander finished with just that, drilling 10
90
shots from the floor including a pair from downtown. The native of Cincinnati, Ohio, also pulled down a personal-best 14 boards. Davidson entered the evening leading the conference in rebounding margin, and did nothing to hurt its cause outrebounding the Phoenix by an impressive count of 55-27. Behind 10 early points from both Lovedale and Sander, Davidson raced out to a 25-6 advantage. Lovedale started the scoring with a tip-in and Sander ended the streak with a bucket from long range at the 9:55 mark. The Wildcats shot 54.5 percent (18-33) in the opening period and stretched their lead to as many as 25 on four separate occasions before heading to the locker room up 45-22. William Archambault led three Davidson players in double figures at the half with 11 points including three trifectas, while Lovedale recorded his first career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds prior to the break. Elon connected on just 26.9 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes with 15 of its 22 points coming from behind the three-point arc. The Phoenix came out firing in the second half and cut the deficit to just seven, 55-48, on a Chris Chalko three-pointer with 12:46 remaining, but Davidson quickly responded with a 23-7 run over the next eight minutes of action and never looked back. elon fg-a 3g-a Atoyebi f 0-1 0-0 f 4-6 4-5 Chalko Carter g 6-17 2-5 James g 8-17 5-10 g 1-4 0-1 Waters Charlesworth 0-2 0-0 Ogolo 0-8 0-5 Constantine 1-1 0-0 Grable 1-1 0-0 Douglas 1-2 1-2 22-59 12-28 Totals
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 0-0 2-4 1-3 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 5-10
0-2 1-5 1-4 0-5 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-4 1-3 0-1 4-27
5 1 2 4 5 0 1 1 4 0 23
tp
a to
0 12 14 23 3 0 0 4 2 3 61
0 1 0 2 5 3 2 5 3 6 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 13 20
b S min
0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 3 10
9 30 31 34 24 4 23 15 20 10 200
Total FG 1stH: 7-26 26.9% 2ndH: 15-33 45.5% Game: 37.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-13 38.5% 2ndH: 7-15 46.7% Game: 42.9% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 3-5 60.0% 2ndH: 2-5 40.0% Game: 50.0% 1
DaviDSon Sander f Lovedale f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Civi TEAM Totals
fg-a
10-20 7-11 0-5 3-4 5-13 6-11 1-1 1-3 0-1 0-1 0-0
3g-a 2-3 0-1 0-2 1-1 1-7 4-9 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
8-9 2-4 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
5-14 8-17 0-4 1-3 0-3 1-4 0-2 0-2 1-1 0-2 0-0 2-3 33-70 8-24 12-20 18-55
3 1 0 0 4 2 2 2 0 1 0
tp
30 16 1 7 11 16 3 2 0 0 0
a to
0 1 10 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 1
3 1 4 0 1 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 15 86 20 17
b S min
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 1 0
32 33 36 19 31 26 13 5 2 2 1
1 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 18-33 54.5% 2ndH: 15-37 40.5% Game: 47.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-14 35.7% 2ndH: 3-10 30.0% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 4-7 57.1% 2ndH: 8-13 61.5% Game: 60.0% 4
Elon Davidson
22 45
39 41
— —
61 86
attenDanCe 3,109
DaviDson 66, UnCg 63 greensBoro, n.C. — DeC. 24, 2006 Stephen Curry scored 24 points and Boris Meno added a career-high 19 to lead the Davidson Wildcats to a 66-63 road victory over UNC Greensboro in Southern Conference men's basketball action Monday evening at Fleming Gymnasium. Curry, a freshman from Charlotte, N.C., went over the 20point mark for the fourth time this season hitting nine shots including four from downtown. The 6-1 guard also contributed four rebounds, four assists and a steal in 38 minutes of action. After sitting out the Wildcats’ conference opening win over Elon, Meno returned to form on both ends of the floor. The native of Paris, France, finished 9-of-14 from the field with six rebounds and four steals. Trailing a majority of the first half, Davidson went on a 20-8 run, which included seven unanswered points that was capped off by a Meno layup with one second remaining to give the Wildcats a 34-30 advantage at the break. UNCG stretched its lead to as many as eight on four separate occasions, but Davidson forced and made the most of 14 Spartan miscues in the first 20 minutes of action turning them into 13 points. With 11:30 remaining in the contest, Kyle Hines gave
UNCG its first lead since the 1:53 mark in the opening period, but it didn’t last long as Jason Richards responded a minute later with a bucket to put the Wildcats back in front, 45-44. Another Richards’ layup with 7:06 left gave Davidson a bit of a cushion before Kyle Hines scored four consecutive points to tie the game at 53 each. Following a Meno jumper, Ricky Hickman drilled a threepointer pushing the Spartans back in front, 56-55, with 4:34 to go. Over the next 2:30 of action, the two teams battled and traded points to find themselves deadlocked (59-59) for a sixth and final time. Thomas Sander broke the tie with a pair of free throws after a Ben Stywall foul to give the advantage back to the Wildcats for good. Hines made one of two from the charity stripe in the Spartans next possession, but a Curry layup with the shot clock winding down and two freebies from fellow frosh William Archambault secured the game for Davidson. Hines, selected Co-Preseason Player-of-the-Year by league head coaches, led all-scorers with 30 points missing just three of his 16 attempts from the floor. The conference’s top-scorer and rebounder also finished with a game-high 15 boards, but only managed a 4-of-9 total from the free throw line. DaviDSon f Meno Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
9-14 2-7 2-6 0-2 9-22 2-10 0-0 0-3
3g-a 1-2 1-1 0-2 0-1 4-9 2-7 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-1 2-2 4-4 0-0 2-5 2-2 0-0 0-0
2-6 3-5 0-3 1-2 2-4 0-6 0-0 1-1 5-6 24-64 8-22 10-14 14-33
tp
a to
4 19 0 2 7 2 3 8 2 1 0 1 1 24 4 1 8 1 1 0 0 3 0 1
5 1 2 0 2 2 0 0
b S min
0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
4 1 3 2 1 1 0 0
28 37 30 23 38 28 0+ 16
16 66 11 12 5 12 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-37 37.8% 2ndH: 10-27 37.0% Game: 37.5% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-13 38.5% 2ndH: 3-9 33.3% Game: 36.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-3 33.3% 2ndH: 9-11 81.8% Game: 71.4% 1
UnCg fg-a 3g-a ft-a or-tr Stywall f 3-6 0-0 1-2 8-11 Hines f 13-16 0-0 4-9 3-15 g 1-2 1-1 2-2 1-8 Johnson Hickman g 3-11 2-7 1-2 0-2 Oleksiak g 4-13 1-6 3-3 1-3 0-5 0-3 0-0 0-1 Koivisto Toney 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 Akinosho 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 Brown TEAM 2-3 Totals 24-54 4-17 11-18 15-44
pf
tp
a to
3 7 0 3 30 0 3 5 6 2 9 1 4 12 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
5 2 5 6 1 1 0 0 0
b S min
1 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
34 38 37 29 32 18 4 5 3
17 63 12 21 9 2 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-24 50.0% 2ndH: 12-30 40.0% Game: 44.4% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 2-5 40.0% 2ndH: 2-12 16.7% Game: 23.5% Rebs 3 FThrow 1stH: 4-5 80.0% 2ndH: 7-13 53.8% Game: 61.1%
Davidson 34 UNC Greensboro 30
32 33
— —
66 63
attenDanCe 1,178
DaviDson 79, ChaRlottE 51 DaviDson, n.C. — DeC. 9, 2006 Freshman Stephen Curry led six Davidson players in double figures with 17 points as the Wildcats cruised to a 79-51 victory over cross-county rival Charlotte in the annual battle for the Hornets’ Nest Trophy in front of the second largest crowd in Belk Arena history Saturday evening. Despite playing just six minutes in the second half due to foul trouble, Curry finished in double digits for the ninth time in his brief Wildcat career. Boris Meno recorded a double-double with 15 points and 10 boards, Max Paulhus Gosselin added a career-high 12 including a pair of threes, while Thomas Sander, Jason Richards and Bryant Barr each finished with 11 for the ’Cats. Richards also reached double figures in assists for the third time this season dishing out 10 to just two miscues. The last time the Wildcats had six individuals with 10 or more points in a game was on Jan. 31, 2004 against UNC Greensboro. Davidson came out firing on all cylinders, including 4-of-5 from deep in the opening four minutes, to grab an early 14-7 advantage. The Wildcats continued their flurry and stretched the lead to as many as 11 (21-9) on a Curry three-point play with 11:33 remaining in the first. The 49ers cut into the deficit with some threes of their own, but the Wildcats went to the break up 39-31. Both teams connected on 6-of-16 buckets from long range in the first period, but it was Davidson’s work on the glass that made the difference. The Wildcats grabbed nine offensive boards and controlled the rebound column 25-16 in the stanza. Following a 49er layup by De’Angelo Alexander with 13:55 remaining, Davidson went on a 19-3 run sparked by three consecutive treys, one by Richards and back-to-back from Barr to make it 69-42 with just over six minutes left. The Wildcats pushed their lead to the final margin on two separate occasions over the final 3:06 of the contests.
D A V I D S O N
fg-a
f f g g g
6-13 0-3 3-10 5-14 0-6 1-1 0-1 0-1 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
3g-a 1-1 0-0 3-9 4-10 0-3 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 0-0 1-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-4 0-0 0-0
3-8 0-3 0-1 2-8 0-3 0-3 0-1 1-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 17-53 9-27 8-13 6-32
tp
a to
0 14 2 2 0 0 4 10 2 4 16 1 3 0 0 4 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
3 1 1 5 3 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
34 18 30 32 19 18 3 11 22 5 3 4 1
21 51 8 17 1 4 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-30 40.0% 2ndH: 5-23 21.7% Game: 32.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-16 37.5% 2ndH: 3-11 27.3% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-2 50.0% 2ndH: 7-11 63.6% Game: 61.5% 2
DaviDSon Meno Sander Richards P. Gosselin Curry Civi Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f g g g
4-12 4-6 4-10 4-6 6-12 0-0 1-1 4-11 0-2 0-2 0-2
3g-a 1-3 1-3 3-6 2-3 2-4 0-0 0-0 3-9 0-2 0-1 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
6-8 2-2 0-0 2-2 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-10 2-5 0-3 0-1 0-1 0-0 3-4 1-2 0-0 1-3 2-10 2-6 27-64 12-31 13-15 12-45
0 2 1 3 4 0 2 1 0 0 3
tp
15 11 11 12 17 0 2 11 0 0 0
a to
1 2 10 2 3 0 0 2 0 0 2
2 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 3
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 29 36 29 23 2 10 21 3 2 15
16 79 22 12 2 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 16-38 42.1% 2ndH: 11-26 42.3% Game: 42.2% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-16 37.5% 2ndH: 6-15 40.0% Game: 38.7% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-1 100.0% 2ndH: 12-14 85.7% Game: 86.7% 1
Charlotte Davidson
31 39
20 40
— —
51 79
attenDanCe 5,536
drilled 13 buckets from long range. Led by Stephen Rossiter’s season-best 10 rebounds, Davidson grabbed 24 offensive boards en route to outrebounding the Blue Knights, 55-24. Along with the Wildcats’ offensive production, they assisted on 35 of their 48 field goals. The Wildcats raced out to a 10-0 advantage two minutes into the contest and stretched their lead to 60-20 at the break. Davidson placed four in double figures before the half, led by Curry, who scored 17 including five jumpers from behind the arc. As a club, the Wildcats shot 61.0 percent (25-61) and controlled the glass 27-12 in the first 20 minutes of action. Preseason Division III All-American candidate, Mike Hoyt, was the only Mount Saint Mary player to connect on a field goal in the opening period, drilling 7-of-16 from the floor including four treys to lead all-scorers with 18 prior to intermission. mSmC Wiggins Begley Harrison Cardez Hoyt Lonnay Costello Morris Cutney McWalters Johnson Peters Harte TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f c g g
1-4 1-4 2-3 3-8 10-25 2-6 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-4 0-1
3g-a 0-0 1-3 0-0 1-6 6-14 1-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 1-2 1-5 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-3 2-2 1-4 0-5 1-4 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3 20-56 9-30 6-11 8-24
tp
a to
2 2 1 2 4 2 5 5 4 0 7 2 1 28 1 0 5 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
3 4 2 1 8 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
b S min
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 16 33 36 36 25 4 4 9 3 6 7 5
12 55 13 23 1 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 7-25 28.0% 2ndH: 13-31 41.9% Game: 35.7% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-12 33.3% 2ndH: 5-18 27.8% Game: 30.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-6 33.3% 2ndH: 4-5 80.0% Game: 54.5% 2
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Hull Rossiter Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
6-10 10-17 1-7 6-7 7-11 0-0 0-1 1-1 6-10 4-5 0-3 2-4 2-3 4-6
3g-a 0-0 1-3 0-5 0-1 6-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 4-7 0-0 0-3 2-4 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-1 3-4 1-2 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2
5-9 4-7 2-7 3-3 0-4 0-0 0-1 3-4 0-2 5-10 0-2 1-1 0-1 3-6 1-2 48-84 13-33 7-13 24-55
1 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 3
tp
12 24 3 14 20 0 0 2 16 8 0 6 4 9
a to
1 0 19 2 1 0 0 0 2 4 4 0 2 0
0 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0
20 21 30 25 19 4 2 10 20 20 11 7 6 15
15 116 35 12 6 11 200
Total FG 1stH: 25-41 61.0% 2ndH: 23-43 53.5% Game: 57.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 8-19 42.1% 2ndH: 5-14 35.7% Game: 39.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-5 40.0% 2ndH: 5-8 62.5% Game: 53.8% 2
MSMC Davidson
20 60
35 56
— —
55 116
attenDanCe 2,231
DaviDson 92, UtC 80 ChaTTanooga, Tenn. — DeC. 18, 2006
DaviDson 116, Mt. st. MaRY 55 DaviDson, n.C. — DeC. 15, 2006 Jason Richards set a new school record and tied the league mark with 19 assists as the Davidson Wildcats cruised to a 11655 victory over Mount Saint Mary in men’s basketball action Friday at John Belk Arena. Richards, a junior from Barrington, Ill., broke Chris Dodds and Mike Sorrentino’s Wildcat mark of 17 that lasted 35 and 29 years, respectively. The 6-1 guard was just one assist shy of holding the SoCon record outright, he now shares a place in the record books with Keith Jennings, who played at East Tennessee State from 1987-91. Richards entered the contest fifth nationally in assists per game (7.2) and has now dished out 10 or more in four games this season. For the second consecutive outing the Wildcats placed at least five in double figures led by Thomas Sander who poured in 24 on 10-of-17 shooting. Freshman Stephen Curry scored 20 and knocked down six threes in just 19 minutes of action. Fellow frosh William Archambault hit four trifectas of his own for 16, while Max Paulhus Gosselin scored a career-high 14 and Boris Meno added 12. As a team, Davidson shot 57.1 percent (48-84) overall and
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The lead, however, remained between one and five points until Richards took over the majority of the scoring. His threepointer with 9:33 to play, followed by a Curry trey, put the Wildcats up seven, 67-60. Then with 6:42 on the clock, Richards' three-point play boosted the lead to 11 at 75-64. Twice Keddric Mays dropped in three-pointers for the Mocs, only to have Richards answer with a long ball each time, maintaining the 11point bulge. Chattanooga had one last gasp, cutting the deficit to three at 83-80 with 2:55 to play after a driving layup by Kevin Bridgewaters. Richards had the answer again, however, dropping in five of six from the charity stripe over the next minute of play, while the Mocs could not score another point. The hot shooting of Paulhus Gosselin helped the ‘Cats jump out to an early lead which reached as many as 10 in the first stanza. Of Davidson's first 25 points, 16 came from Paulhus Gosselin as he nailed his first four shots from downtown. The Mocs battled back, taking one-point leads on three occasions before Mays canned a three-pointer with 10 seconds left in the half for the 42-40 UTC lead at the intermission.
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
Charlotte Drayton Williams Goldwire Alexander Williams Coleman Booker Lewis Andersen Dewhurst Phaler Jamison Gordon TEAM Totals
The backcourt trio of Stephen Curry, Max Paulhus Gosselin and Jason Richards combined for 71 points to lead the Davidson Wildcats to their fifth straight victory in a 92-80 triumph at SoCon foe Chattanooga. The freshman Curry led all players with 30 points by draining 11-of-21 from the floor, including 6-of-13 from long range. The shooting guard also grabbed 11 rebounds for his first career double-double. Richards contributed 19 points, one shy of his career high, with 17 points and all three of his trifectas coming in the final 10 minutes. Entering the game second in the nation with 8.3 assists per game, the point guard dished out nine more, plus hauled in eight rebounds to nearly register a triple-double. The surprising scoring outburst came from Paulhus Gosselin, who poured in a career-high 22 points, including 4of-5 from behind the arc. The offensive output was a surprise because the sophomore was averaging just 5.1 points a game and had hit just three three-pointers all season. Chattanooga held a two-point advantage at the break, 42-40, and doubled that following a Marcus Watts layup a couple minutes into the second half. But Curry drilled a three, and junior Thomas Sander dropped a trey in to tie the score at 50. Another three-pointer by Curry on the next possession gave Davidson an advantage it never relinquished.
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
4-10 3-5 4-11 9-15 11-21 0-4 0-0 0-0 1-3
3g-a 0-2 1-2 3-6 4-5 6-13 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-2 0-1 8-9 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-2
1-7 1-2 1-8 3-6 1-11 0-1 2-3 0-0 0-4 0-2 32-69 14-32 14-18 9-44
tp
a to
4 8 0 5 7 2 1 19 9 2 22 3 0 30 6 3 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 1
0 4 5 0 2 0 1 0 2
b S min
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0
27 14 37 34 37 15 11 2 23
17 92 22 14 5 7 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-35 40.0% 2ndH: 18-34 52.9% Game: 46.4% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-18 33.3% 2ndH: 8-14 57.1% Game: 43.8% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-9 66.7% 2ndH: 8-9 88.9% Game: 77.8% 1
Chattanooga fg-a 3g-a ft-a or-tr Doaks f 2-5 1-4 4-5 1-7 Hartwell f 2-5 0-0 4-4 0-5 Mays g 8-14 8-12 1-2 0-2 Hood g 1-10 0-2 0-2 1-5 Long g 1-5 0-3 0-0 1-2 Watts 3-5 0-1 0-2 4-6 Bridgewaters 6-14 3-4 2-2 0-3 Troupe 3-6 1-2 0-0 1-5 Gywnne 1-4 0-0 2-3 1-3 Lowndes 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 TEAM 2-3 Totals 27-68 13-28 13-20 11-42
pf
tp
a to
4 9 2 2 8 1 2 25 1 2 2 0 2 2 6 2 6 1 3 17 0 2 7 1 0 4 1 0 0 0
2 1 0 0 2 0 6 1 0 0
b S min
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
22 20 39 30 23 18 23 16 8 1
19 80 13 12 2 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-32 37.5% 2ndH: 15-36 41.7% Game: 39.7% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 7-12 58.3% 2ndH: 6-16 37.5% Game: 46.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 11-15 73.3% 2ndH: 2-5 40.0% Game: 65.0% 2
Davidson Chattanooga
40 42
52 38
— —
92 80
attenDanCe 2,930
91
DaviDson 83, ohio 74
DaviDson 71, W. MiChigan 64
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
Tempe, ariZ. — DeC. 21, 2006
DaviDson, n.C. — DeC. 30, 2006
Boris Meno recorded his fourth career double-double with 17 points and 16 rebounds to lead Davidson to its sixth straight victory in an 83-74 defeat of Ohio University at Wells Fargo Arena to advance to the championship of the ASU Sleep America Classic. Meno was one of four Wildcats to finish in double figures as he connected on 7-of-16 from the floor, including a pair of threes, in 36 minutes of action. Freshman Stephen Curry led Davidson in scoring for the seventh time this season with 19 points. Jason Richards added 18 with eight assists and drilled all 10 of his attempts from the charity stripe, while Thomas Sander pitched in 13 points. For the second consecutive outing the Wildcats hit 14 treys, nine of which came in the first 20 minutes of action. Davidson only shot 39.1 percent (27-of-69) overall, but held Ohio to a season-low 37.1 percent (26-of-70). The Bobcats entered the contest shooting an even 50 percent in their first eight games. The Wildcats also made the most of their opportunities from the free throw line missing, just one of their 16 tries (.938). Curry drained one of his four three-pointers on the night just 15 seconds into the contest. After another trey by Richards two minutes later, Ohio would never have a possession in which they could tie the score. The ’Cats extended the lead to 11 by the break, 42-31, after a driving layup by Richards with four seconds on the clock. The lead remained at least five points for the first 11 minutes of the second stanza. But after Bubba Walther canned a three to get Ohio within four, 59-55, Davidson found its stroke from downtown. Each of the Wildcats’ next five scores came from behind the arc, including consecutive threes by Sander after Ohio twice cut the lead to two. Richards remained cool in the final minutes, however, hitting all six of his free throw attempts to seal the victory. The Wildcats have won all three meetings against Ohio, with the last game coming 31 years ago to the day. AllAmerican and 13-year NBA veteran Dick Snyder, who was in attendance for tonight’s contest, scored 46 points on 20-of-26 shooting for the Wildcats in the 96-63 victory on Dec. 21, 1965
Freshman Stephen Curry scored a game-high 23 points, and Davidson survived a second half in which it managed just six field goals to hold off visiting Western Michigan on Saturday night, 71-64. The victory was the eighth straight for the Wildcats as they improved to 12-3 on the season. Western Michigan fell to 4-8 in dropping its fourth in five games. More than half of Curry’s 23 points came from the free throw line, where he converted all 13 of his foul shots. He struggled from the floor, however, as did the entire Wildcat squad. Curry hit just 4-of-17 (.231) field goals while Davidson as a team shot just 33.3 percent (19-of-57), including a dismal 21.4 percent (6-of-28) in the second half. The Wildcats enjoyed a 14-point lead entering the second half, 40-26, but the Broncos whittled away at the deficit. Freshman David Kool stroked a trio of trifectas in the first six minutes of the final half to get Western Michigan within six points at 46-40. Then with 2:11 to play, Kool cut the lead to just two, 6462, with a three-point play. After the two teams traded a pair of free throws, the Wildcats missed a three-pointer, but sophomore Max Paulhus Gosselin came up with a big steal to thwart WMU’s first opportunity to tie the game. Point guard Jason Richards hit one of his two free throws after being fouled, so the Broncos had one more chance. Stout defensive pressure forced a difficult shot from behind the arc, and Davidson corralled the rebound. Curry and Thomas Sander hit four free throws to seal the victory. The Wildcats hit 11-of-12 free throws in the final 3:13 and 28-of-33 (.848) for the game, while Western Michigan went to the line just six times, converting five. On the boards, the Broncos had a sizeable advantage, 43-29, which was negated by turnovers as they committed 26 to just 10 for Davidson. The Wildcats converted those 26 turnovers into 27 points. In the opening half, a Derek Fracalossi jumper gave WMU a 26-25 lead with 6:36 on the clock. Davidson finished the opening stanza, however, on a 15-0 run, with eight of those points provided by Curry.
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3g-a ft-a or-tr 7-16 2-4 1-1 3-16 5-12 2-4 1-1 1-8 3-10 2-6 10-10 0-6 0-1 0-1 0-0 3-5 7-16 4-9 1-2 1-4 3-7 2-5 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-5 2-5 0-0 0-3 0-2 0-1 2-2 3-4 2-2 27-69 14-35 15-16 15-52
pf
tp
a to
b S min
3 3 1 3 5 2 0 1 2
17 13 18 0 19 8 0 6 2
2 0 8 2 4 0 0 0 1
1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
2 2 2 5 2 3 0 1 2
2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
tallied 10. The Wildcats led by as many as 20 points with eight minutes to play before Arizona State began a frantic comeback. With Serge Angounou providing a pair of threes and a layup in a 12-0 run spanning just two minutes, the Sun Devils cut the deficit to eight at 65-57. Davidson maintained an eight-point edge with little more than two minutes left in the contest. Arizona State got as close as three at 73-70 with just 25 seconds left. The Wildcats managed to hit just 3-of-8 free throws in the final minute, but it was enough to hold off the hard-charging Sun Devils. Going into the second half, Davidson enjoyed a five-point lead, then quickly hit three buckets — one a two-hand jam by junior Boris Meno — to build a double-digit advantage which increased to 17, 52-35. During the run Curry picked up his fourth foul with 16:44 still to play, relegating him to the bench until five minutes remained. Yet Davidson continued to increase the lead until it reached 20 at 65-45, capped by a steal and fast break layup by freshman William Archambault. Arizona State was able to stay in the game in the opening stanza due to superior rebounding. Along with tournament MVP Richards, Sander and Meno were both named to the all-tournament squad as they scored 27 and 25 points, respectively, and Meno snared 21 rebounds in the two games.
WmU Hershberger f Kool f Reitz c g Redell Gary g Hess Fracalossi Drews Ricks McLemore Lawson Cloutier TEAM Totals
36 33 37 22 27 22 1 13 9
20 83 17 19 5 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-31 41.9% 2ndH: 14-38 36.8% Game: 39.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 9-21 42.9% 2ndH: 5-14 35.7% Game: 40.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 7-8 87.5% 2ndH: 8-8 100.0% Game: 93.8% 0
ohio Troutman f Williams f Tillman f Walther g Chatman Van Kempen King Annen TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-13 5-6 6-13 6-16 0-1 0-2 1-4 0-0
3g-a 1-7 0-0 1-2 4-9 0-0 0-14 0-3 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-1 2-4 6-6 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
3-5 4-6 4-12 0-5 0-4 0-1 1-2 0-0 1-2 26-70 6-22 16-22 13-41
tp
a to
2 5 3 5 12 2 4 19 0 4 18 6 1 0 1 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0
3 4 1 2 1 2 0 0
b S min
0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
3 0 1 3 0 0 2 0
31 23 34 30 19 8 15 3
21 74 18 14 3 11 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-36 33.3% 2ndH: 14-34 41.2% Game: 37.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 2-9 22.2% 2ndH: 4-13 30.8% Game: 27.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-8 62.5% 2ndH: 11-14 78.6% Game: 72.7% 0
Davidson Ohio
42 31
41 43
— —
83 74
attenDanCe 4,331
DaviDson 75, aRizona st. 70 Tempe, ariZ. — DeC. 22, 2006 Davidson point guard Jason Richards poured in a careerhigh 25 points to lead the Wildcats to a 75-70 victory over host Arizona State in the championship game of the 40th ASU Sleep America Holiday Classic. The win was Davidson’s seventh straight and first against a current Pac-10 squad. Richards, who scored 18 points and dished out eight assists the day before, was named the tournament MVP. The junior connected on 8-of-13 shots from the floor, including 4-of-5 from behind the arc, while playing all but one minute in the game. Junior forward Thomas Sander contributed 14 points on 6-of-11 shooting and a pair of treys, and freshman Stephen Curry
92
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3-9 6-11 8-13 1-1 4-8 2-5 0-1 1-1 1-4
3g-a 0-2 2-3 4-5 1-1 1-3 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 0-0 5-10 2-3 1-2 0-0 0-0 3-4 1-2
0-5 1-2 0-2 1-3 0-2 1-5 1-1 0-0 1-5 1-2 26-53 9-17 14-23 6-27
tp
a to
5 8 1 4 14 0 0 25 3 2 5 3 4 10 4 1 5 0 2 0 0 3 5 0 0 3 0 21 75 11
0 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 1
b S min
0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
27 28 39 25 18 23 10 13 17
8 2 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-25 52.0% 2ndH: 13-28 46.4% Game: 49.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-9 55.6% 2ndH: 4-8 50.0% Game: 52.9% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-6 83.3% 2ndH: 9-17 52.9% Game: 60.9% 5
arizona St. Pndrgraph f Angounou f Atuahene g Polk g Shipp g Morill Glasser Jones Odufuwa TEAM Totals
fg-a
7-9 5-7 2-4 4-17 1-4 1-1 3-13 0-1 0-1
3g-a 0-0 2-3 0-0 2-10 0-2 0-0 1-4 0-1 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-5 5-6 0-2 6-6 2-3 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
7-12 3-12 3-5 1-2 1-4 0-1 1-2 0-1 0-0 1-3 23-57 5-20 19-26 17-42
tp
a to
4 17 1 3 17 2 3 4 3 3 16 1 1 4 0 0 5 0 3 7 5 3 0 1 1 0 0
4 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 21 70 13 14
b S min
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
37 28 27 28 24 12 34 8 2
2 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 10-27 37.0% 2ndH: 13-30 43.3% Game: 40.4% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-7 14.3% 2ndH: 4-13 30.8% Game: 25.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 10-11 90.9% 2ndH: 9-15 60.0% Game: 73.1% 3
Davidson Arizona State
36 31
39 39
— —
75 70
attenDanCe 4,113
fg-a
1-2 5-10 5-7 3-6 3-9 0-0 3-8 2-5 1-4 0-0 2-2 0-1
3g-a 1-2 3-5 0-0 2-4 0-2 0-0 1-5 2-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 1-1 4-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-5 0-6 4-15 0-2 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-4 0-0 0-1 2-6 1-1 1-2 25-54 9-24 5-6 10-43
tp
a to
3 3 0 3 14 3 5 14 0 2 8 3 4 6 1 1 0 0 4 7 2 2 6 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 3 4 0 1 0 0
3 1 1 6 3 2 3 0 3 1 1 2
b S min
0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
20 31 26 31 16 4 28 17 11 2 8 6
30 64 12 26 3 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 11-27 40.7% 2ndH: 14-27 51.9% Game: 46.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-12 25.0% 2ndH: 6-12 50.0% Game: 37.5% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-2 50.0% 2ndH: 4-4 100.0% Game: 83.3% 0
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
3g-a ft-a or-tr 0-1 1-2 2-4 0-1 4-6 3-5 0-4 7-8 1-6 1-4 0-0 1-2 2-6 13-13 0-3 2-5 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 3-4 1-6 1-1 19-57 5-23 28-33 9-29 3-7 3-5 2-9 2-5 4-17 2-7 1-1 0-1 2-5
pf
tp
a to
2 7 0 2 10 0 1 11 6 2 5 2 2 23 3 2 6 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
1 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 2 4 4 0 0 0 0
28 32 36 31 34 14 3 5 17
15 71 11 10 0 13 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-29 44.8% 2ndH: 6-28 21.4% Game: 33.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-9 33.3% 2ndH: 2-14 14.3% Game: 21.7% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 11-13 84.6% 2ndH: 17-20 85.0% Game: 84.8% 1
W. Michigan Davidson
26 40
38 31
— —
64 71
attenDanCe 3,519
DaviDson 81, ChaRlEston 73 DaviDson, n.C. — Jan. 6, 2007 Junior forward Thomas Sander registered 25 points and 10 rebounds to lift host Davidson to its ninth straight win, 81-73, over College of Charleston. Sander, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of three Davidson players in double figures, missing just four of his 14 attempts from the floor. The backcourt duo of Stephen Curry and Jason Richards combined to score 37 points for the Wildcats with 19 and 18, respectively. Richards also contributed eight of the club’s nine
D A V I D S O N
CharleSton Johnson f Lawrence f McCandies c Draper g Hammond g Jackson White, Jr. Diarra TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-4 3-10 2-3 6-17 7-14 8-11 1-3 0-0
3g-a 0-1 0-3 0-1 4-10 2-7 0-0 0-2 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-1 0-0 0-0 4-6 4-5 1-1 0-0 0-0
3-6 1-9 2-7 0-3 0-0 3-5 1-2 0-2 0-2 29-62 6-24 9-13 10-36
tp
a to
1 4 1 4 6 5 5 4 1 3 20 3 1 20 3 5 17 1 2 2 1 0 0 0
0 3 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 21 73 15 14
b S min
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
34 36 16 36 34 27 14 3
4 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-28 46.4% 2ndH: 16-34 47.1% Game: 46.8% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-10 30.0% 2ndH: 3-14 21.4% Game: 25.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-9 66.7% 2ndH: 3-4 75.0% Game: 69.2% 3
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
1-4 10-14 6-12 1-3 6-16 3-6 1-1 0-1 1-3
3g-a 0-1 1-3 0-1 0-0 2-9 1-3 0-0 0-1 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
3-4 4-6 6-7 1-1 5-5 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1
0-4 4-10 1-5 0-0 1-2 0-0 2-3 0-1 2-8 1-1 29-60 4-19 19-25 11-34
tp
a to
3 5 0 1 25 0 4 18 8 2 3 0 3 19 1 2 7 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
3 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
22 33 35 21 34 21 8 6 20
17 81 9 13 0 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 16-34 47.1% 2ndH: 13-26 50.0% Game: 48.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-9 11.1% 2ndH: 3-10 30.0% Game: 21.1% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-7 71.4% 2ndH: 14-18 77.8% Game: 76.0% 0, 1
Charleston Davidson
35 38
38 43
— —
73 81
attenDanCe 4,254
DaviDson 71, fURMan 63 greenville, s.C. — Jan. 10, 2007 For the sixth time this season and second in as many outings Thomas Sander scored at least 20 points as the Davidson Wildcats ran the nation’s sixth best winning streak to 10 with a 71-63 win over Furman Wednesday evening at the Bi-Lo Center. A junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, Sander finished with a game-high 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting from the field, including a three-pointer, and was 5-for-7 from the charity stripe. The 6-8 forward also hauled in nine boards, tying Max Paulhus Gosselin for game-high honors as Davidson outrebounded the Paladins, 39-24. Jason Richards and Stephen Curry were two other ‘Cats to get in double figures with 18 and 15 points, respectively. Richards buried two of the Wildcats' six shots from behind the arc, while finishing 6-of-15 overall and 4-for-5 from the free throw line. Curry was a team-best 6-of-8 from the charity stripe as Davidson went 17-for-22 (77.3 percent) as a team. The opening 20 minutes of play featured 17 lead changes and five ties as Furman headed into break with a slim 37-36 lead thanks to a 9-for-12 showing from downtown. Three Paladins finished with at least two three-balls in the half. Neither team had a lead larger than five points in the period. They both shot over 50 percent from the field with Davidson hitting at an even 50 percent clip, while Furman connected on 56 percent of its shots. Trailing 43-42 in the early goings of the second half, Davidson used the biggest run of the game, a 14-4 streak capped off by a three-pointer from Richards at the 9:46 mark, to give the Wildcats the largest lead (56-47) for either team at that time. After allowing nine treys in the first stanza, Davidson held the Paladins to just 1-of-11 shooting from behind the arc in the final period. DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
0-1 9-13 6-15 3-4 4-11 1-2 0-0 1-3 0-1
3g-a 0-0 1-5 2-6 2-2 1-4 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 5-7 4-5 0-0 6-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-3 2-9 0-3 6-9 1-3 0-2 0-0 1-1 1-5 1-4 24-50 6-21 17-22 13-39
tp
a to
0 2 0 1 24 1 0 18 6 5 8 3 3 15 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 15
1 1 4 1 6 3 1 1 1
b S min
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 1
26 33 36 27 33 13 2 10 20
1 15 19 2 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-26 50.0% 2ndH: 11-24 45.8% Game: 48.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-10 40.0% 2ndH: 2-11 18.2% Game: 28.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-9 66.7% 2ndH: 11-13 84.6% Game: 77.3% 1
fUrman Diagne Punch Jones, S. Webb Bostain Evans Brozos Anderson Jones, J. Opacic TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f c g g
3g-a 5-12 3-5 3-4 2-3 2-3 0-0 4-12 2-8 4-12 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-2 0-1 1-2 1-2 3-6 1-2
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 2-2 3-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
2-4 0-3 2-4 1-4 2-3 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-1 1-2 24-50 6-21 17-22 13-39
tp
a to
1 13 1 3 8 1 2 6 1 1 13 4 3 11 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 5 9 0 15
2 2 1 4 2 0 0 1 2 0
b S min
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 0
30 29 25 34 21 8 4 16 13 20
1 15 19 2 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-25 56.0% 2ndH: 8-29 27.6% Game: 40.7% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 9-12 75.0% 2ndH: 1-11 9.1% Game: 43.5% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 0-0 0.0% 2ndH: 9-10 90.0% Game: 90.0% 0
Davidson Furman
36 37
35 26
— —
71 63
attenDanCe 2,984
DaviDson 83, WoffoRD 78 sparTanBurg, s.C. — Jan. 13, 2007 Boris Meno scored a personal-best 25 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for his fifth career double-double to lead Davidson to its 11th straight victory in an 83-78 win over the Wofford Terriers in SoCon action Saturday evening at Benjamin Johnson Arena. Meno, a junior from Paris, France, was 9-of-15 from the field, including a perfect 7-for-7 from the charity stripe to lead four Wildcats in double figures on the evening. Both Jason Richards and Stephen Curry contributed 16 points, while Thomas Sander added 11 in just 15 minutes of action. To go along with his seventh straight double digit performance,
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Richards dished out eight assists. Despite four players in early foul trouble, Davidson took advantage of a 7:35 Terrier scoring drought with a 15-0 spurt that was capped off by seven consecutive points from Meno to grab a 23-17 lead with 7:29 remaining in the first half. The Wildcats pushed their lead to as many as seven (30-23) at the 4:33 mark, but Wofford closed with a small run of its own to cut the deficit to 34-33 at the break. Meno missed just one of his seven attempts from the floor and connected on a three-point play to lead all-scorers in the opening frame with 13 points. The Wildcats raced out of the gates in the final period grabbing their largest lead of the game, 45-36, thanks to an 11-3 streak. Wofford slowly chipped way and closed to within one on four separate occasions, including with 1:08 to play following a Matt O'Connor three, but Davidson's William Archambault answered with one his own with 36 seconds left to put the game away. In the gritty win, the 'Cats shot 16-for-21 (90.5%) from the charity stripe including a perfect 15-of-15 in the second half. Davidson finished the contest 29-of-69 (42.0 percent) and hit just 28.6 percent (6-21) of its attempts from long range. Like Davidson, the Terriers placed four players in double figures, led by Drew Gibson with 16 and eight assists. Eric Marshall and Shane Nichols each added 15, while Junior Salters chipped in 14. Along with Meno's outstanding performance on the glass, Davidson's Andrew Lovedale grabbed 11 of his own as the Wildcats finished with a 48-39 edge on the boards.
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assists. Like Davidson, the Cougars had three in double digits with Dontaye Draper and Marcus Hammond leading the way with 20 points each. Josh Jackson was the third with at least 10 adding 17 off the bench in 27 minutes of action. The Wildcats raced out of the gates grabbing an early 24-11 advantage following a Sander three-point play at the 9:12 mark. Draper connected on back-to-back treys to spark a 16-4 College of Charleston streak to cut the deficit to one, 28-27 with 4:37 remaining. Following the Cougars’ spurt, Davidson stretched its lead back to seven on three separate occasions before the break and led 38-35 at halftime despite not scoring in the final 1:48 of the stanza. Charleston’s Hammond led all-scorers at intermission with 15 points, while the Wildcats’ Sander knocked down 6-of-8 field goals in the first 20 minutes to score 14. Tied at 42-42, Davidson appeared to have put the game away grabbing the game’s largest margin (61-45) with a 19-3 streak, but as they did in the opening period, the Cougars went on a lengthy run of their own (23-8) to make it just a one point game, 69-68, after a Draper trey with 4:08 to go, but that’s as close as they would get. Averaging 10.2 trifectas per contest entering the evening, the Wildcats managed just four tonight, but none were bigger than Curry’s from the left baseline with 3:35 remaining to make it 73-68. Jermaine Johnson responded with a layup to make it a one possession game, but the Wildcats went a perfect 6-of-6 from the charity stripe in the final 1:46 to secure the win. The Wildcats finished on a strong note shooting an even 50 percent in the final half to conclude the game at 48.3 percent (29-60) from the field.
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
9-15 4-11 6-16 2-3 5-11 1-4 1-3 0-3 1-3
3g-a 0-2 0-2 2-4 0-1 2-5 1-4 1-1 0-2 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
7-7 3-3 2-3 0-0 4-4 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
4-14 1-4 0-2 1-2 2-6 0-1 2-3 0-2 3-11 4-4 29-69 6-21 19-21 17-49
1 5 1 2 2 0 1 0 5
tp
a to
b S min
25 11 16 4 16 6 3 0 2
0 1 8 1 4 1 2 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
33 15 39 34 28 14 11 7 19
17 83 17 10 2 2 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-33 42.4% 2ndH: 15-36 41.7% Game: 42.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 2-10 20.0% 2ndH: 4-11 36.4% Game: 28.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 4-6 66.7% 2ndH: 15-15100.0% Game: 90.5% 0
WofforD Marshall Whatley Gibson Salters Nichols O’Connor Nixon Estep Godzinski TEAM Totals
fg-a
f c g g g
6-15 1-5 6-17 5-11 5-14 3-4 0-0 1-3 0-1
3g-a 1-4 0-0 1-5 4-7 3-9 2-3 0-0 1-3 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
2-3 5-6 3-6 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
3-8 5-8 1-5 1-6 1-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-5 24-50 6-21 17-22 13-38
3 2 2 4 3 4 1 0 3 15
tp
a to
b S min
15 7 16 14 15 8 0 3 0
1 0 8 1 2 0 0 1 0
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
36 28 39 33 35 13 1 11 4
1 15 19 2 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-37 35.1% 2ndH: 14-33 42.4% Game: 38.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-18 27.8% 2ndH: 7-14 50.0% Game: 37.5% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-5 40.0% 2ndH: 10-12 83.3% Game: 70.6% 3
Davidson Wofford
34 33
49 45
— —
83 78
attenDanCe 1,438
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DaviDson 101, gsU 92
DaviDson, n.C. — Jan. 16, 2007
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Behind 12 trifectas and five players in double figures led by Stephen Curry's 17 points, the Davidson Wildcats won their 12th straight with a 79-54 victory over The Citadel in SoCon men's basketball action Tuesday evening at Belk Arena. The Wildcats hit 12-of-26 (46.2 percent) of their attempts from downtown and finished the evening 43.9 percent (25-57) overall. After shooting an even 50 percent in the opening period, The Citadel struggled from the field in the second making just 7-of-20 (35.0 percent) to end with a 43.2 percent clip. Jason Richards recorded his third career double-double in a Davidson uniform, scoring 10 points and dishing out 10 assists. Others in double digits for the Wildcats included William Archambault with 14, including four baskets from behind the arc, and Boris Meno and Max Paulhus Gosselin, who added 13 and 10, respectively. Tied at 11, Curry scored 11 of his 14 first-half points with three buckets from deep during a 13-5 run to spring the Wildcats to a 24-16 lead at the 6:10 mark. Davidson stretched its advantage to 40-29 at the half thanks to treys from Archambault and Meno to conclude the period. The Wildcats entered the contest eighth nationally in threepoint field goals per game (8.9), but had struggled in their last four outings failing to make more than six in a contest until drilling 7-of-13 (53.8 percent) in the opening 20 minutes this evening. Davidson continued its hot-shooting from deep in the second stanza and extended its lead to as many as 29 (77-48) following a Dan Nelms bucket with 2:19 to play. Three players went for at least 10 points for The Citadel led by Donny McClendon's 16 points. Kevin Hammock contributed 12, while Demetrius Nelson scored 10 off the bench for the Bulldogs in 20 minutes of action. Meno was one of three Wildcats to grab at least seven boards leading all players with eight, while Andrew Lovedale and Richards hauled in seven each to control the glass 39-28 as a club.
After trailing 55-46 at the half on the road at Georgia Southern, the Davidson men's basketball team turned that deficit into a nine-point win, 101-92, on Tuesday evening at Hanner Fieldhouse. Junior point guard Jason Richards scored 20 of his career-high 32 points in the first half to help the Wildcats improve to 17-4 on the season. A native of Barrington, Ill., Richards led five Wildcats in double digits going 8-of-13 from the field, including four threepointers, while missing just two of his 14 free throws. Along with scoring in double figures for the 10th consecutive outing, the SoCon’s leader in assists per game set up nine other Davidson buckets. Following a four-point performance in the first half, Davidson’s Stephen Curry torched the Eagles for 19 points in the final period to finish with 23 points. To go along with a Wildcat backcourt that combined for 55 points, Davidson’s frontcourt of Thomas Sander and Boris Meno contributed 19 and 11 points respectively, while Will Archambault added 11. Davidson began the second frame on a 7-2 run and continued to chip away at a deficit that they finally erased on a Curry three-pointer that gave them a 66-65 advantage with 11:24 to play. Over the next 6:25 the two teams traded baskets and leads to find themselves deadlocked at 81-81. The Eagles went ahead 82-81 on a Donte Gennie free throw, but that’s the last time they would lead as a Meno jumper in the lane sparked a 14-3 Wildcat flurry that put the game out of reach. To go along with its run, Davidson held its opponent to just one field goal over the final 6:10 of the affair. The Wildcats kept the game in reach thanks to Richards, who scored 16 consecutive for his club during a four minute stretch. The 6-2 point guard missed just two of his seven attempts from the floor, made all three of his tries from downtown and was 7-of-8 from the charity stripe in the stanza.
the CitaDel Everhart f f Streeter McClendon g Brick g Hammack g Valiulis Diasparra Swinton Schiavoni Thompson Nelson TEAM Totals
fg-a
3g-a 1-2 0-0 2-5 0-1 5-11 3-6 1-6 1-4 4-8 3-3 2-6 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 1-2 3-4 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 3-5 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 4-6
2-3 0-1 0-5 1-3 1-4 0-4 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 2-5 19-44 8-20 8-14 6-28
tp
a to
3 2 1 3 4 0 2 16 1 2 3 6 4 12 2 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 1 10 1
0 1 4 1 5 2 1 0 0 2 4
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
24 20 29 32 32 21 9 1 1 11 20
19 54 13 20 1 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-24 50.0% 2ndH: 7-20 35.0% Game: 43.2% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-8 50.0% 2ndH: 4-12 33.3% Game: 40.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-4 25.0% 2ndH: 7-10 70.0% Game: 57.1% 1,1
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Hull Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
4-9 1-2 4-9 3-6 5-9 0-0 0-1 5-9 1-3 0-3 0-0 1-2 1-4
3g-a 1-2 0-1 1-3 2-3 4-6 0-0 0-0 4-7 0-1 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
4-5 4-8 1-1 2-4 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
2-8 1-3 3-7 2-3 0-4 0-0 0-0 2-3 1-2 1-1 0-0 0-1 4-7
1 2 2 1 5 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 1
tp
13 6 10 10 17 0 0 14 3 0 0 2 4
a to
0 1 10 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1
2 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 2 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
23 21 33 26 21 3 1 21 14 11 3 3 20
25-57 12-26 17-27 16-39 19 79 19 12 3 12 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-25 48.0% 2ndH: 13-32 40.6% Game: 43.9% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 7-13 53.8% 2ndH: 5-13 38.5% Game: 46.2% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 9-13 69.2% 2ndH: 8-14 57.1% Game: 63.0% 4, 1
The Citadel Davidson
29 40
25 39
— —
54 79
attenDanCe 3,218
aPP. statE 81, DaviDson 74 DaviDson, n.C. — Jan. 20, 2007 D.J. Thompson recorded a game-high 19 points and Appalachian State ended the nation's second longest winning streak of 12, with an 81-74 victory over Davidson in Southern Conference men's basketball action Saturday at Belk Arena in front of 5,580 fans. The final stanza featured a number of runs as the Wildcats started the period with an 8-0 run to grab their first lead of the game, 44-43, forcing Appalachian to burn a 30 second timeout just 2:21 into the frame. Out of the stoppage, the Mountaineers
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responded with eight unanswered of their own to push the game back in their favor, 51-44. Davidson scratched and clawed its way back over the next 2:05 to tie the affair 52-52 on an Andrew Lovedale bucket, and continued what would be a 20-6 spurt to grab its largest lead of the day, 64-57, midway through the second. Trailing by seven, ASU eventually evened the score at 69-69 on Thompson's second trey and only field goal in the frame. Minter broke the deadlock with a jumper in the lane just before the shot clock expired, but the Wildcats' Boris Meno answered with a long range basket to put his club back in front 72-71 with 4:39 to go. After both teams struggled and went scoreless over the next 1:39, Minter pushed the score back in favor of the Mountaineers for good with just over three minutes to play. The Virginia transfer scored the final three field goals for ASU. The backcourt duo of Jason Richards and Stephen Curry led three Wildcats in double figures with 15 each, while Meno added 13. Richards also dished out eight assists and swiped a career-high four steals. Appalachian State raced out of the gates grabbing an early 8-0 advantage following back-to-back treys from Nathan Cranford and Thompson. The Mountaineers maintained their lead the entire first half not allowing Davidson closer than one point as they closed on a 7-2 run to lead at the break up 43-36. appalaChian Clayton f Bowne c Cranford g Thompson g Brand g Abraham Henderson Bermudez Minter TEAM Totals
fg-a
6-8 2-7 2-5 6-15 3-7 0-0 0-0 3-4 7-11
3g-a 0-0 0-0 2-5 2-7 3-4 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 2-3 5-6 5-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3
0-1 5-8 0-7 0-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-2 2-6 4-7 29-57 9-19 14-18 12-36
4 0 0 3 1 0 2 1 2
tp
a to
b S min
12 4 8 19 14 0 0 8 16
3 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 4
2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
2 1 1 7 0 0 1 1 3
3 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 1
17 25 36 33 29 6 5 16 33
13 81 16 17 4 10 200
Total FG 1stH: 17-33 51.5% 2ndH: 12-24 50.0% Game: 50.9% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-8 50.0% 2ndH: 5-11 45.5% Game: 47.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-6 83.3% 2ndH: 9-12 75.0% Game: 77.8% 0
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
5-11 4-12 5-11 3-5 6-17 2-4 0-2 0-0 4-7
3g-a 1-1 1-4 1-4 2-2 1-11 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
2-3 0-0 4-4 0-0 2-2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-5 2-6 2-2 4-8 1-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 4-8 2-3 29-69 7-27 9-10 17-37
tp
a to
2 13 0 4 9 1 3 15 8 0 8 1 2 15 1 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 1
2 1 9 1 2 0 0 0 0
38 38
— —
2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
0 2 4 2 2 0 0 0 1
33 29 36 33 36 12 4 2 15
16 74 12 15 5 11 200
81 74
fg-a
3g-a ft-a or-tr 4-7 0-1 3-4 1-7 6-15 3-6 4-6 2-8 8-13 4-6 12-14 0-4 2-2 1-1 0-0 2-4 7-14 4-10 5-6 0-4 3-5 2-3 3-4 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 00 0-2 2-4 2-5 30-59 14-27 27-36 10-40
pf
tp
a to
b S min
4 4 3 5 3 3 0 0 0 0 3
11 19 32 5 23 11 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 9 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
2 4 4 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 25 101 17 18
1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
24 28 38 33 36 16 4 2 0+ 0+ 19
4 7 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-28 50.0% 2ndH: 16-31 51.6% Game: 50.8% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 9-15 60.0% 2ndH: 5-12 41.7% Game: 51.9% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 9-12 75.0% 2ndH: 18-24 75.0% Game: 75.0% 1
gSU Salazar Graham Foreman Gennie Tobias Johnson Thompson Hynes Marshall Fields TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f g g g
2-4 9-13 5-11 7-20 7-15 1-4 0-1 1-3 1-1 1-4
3g-a 0-1 0-0 1-5 3-5 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 8-11 0-0 2-2 4-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 4-6
1-5 3-7 1-4 1-1 1-5 0-2 0-0 1-3 2-2 1-4 5-7 34-76 5-14 19-29 16-40
4 3 4 3 2 3 0 2 0 3
tp
4 26 11 19 19 2 0 2 3 6
a to
0 0 11 3 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 2 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 2
25 31 32 35 29 12 1 8 11 16
24 92 15 12 1 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 23-46 50.0% 2ndH: 11-30 36.7% Game: 44.7% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-5 60.0% 2ndH: 2-9 22.2% Game: 35.7% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-9 66.7% 2ndH: 13-20 65.0% Game: 65.5% 6
Davidson Ga. Southern
46 55
55 37
— —
101 92
attenDanCe 2,489
b S min
Total FG 1stH: 14-38 36.8% 2ndH: 15-31 48.4% Game: 42.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-10 10.0% 2ndH: 6-17 35.3% Game: 25.9% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 7-8 87.5% 2ndH: 2-2 100.0% Game: 90.0% 0
Appalachian St. 43 Davidson 36
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g g Curry Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
attenDanCe 5,580
DaviDson 87, Chattanooga 57 DaviDson, n.C. — feB. 6, 2007 Stephen Curry broke the Davidson freshman single-season scoring record and finished with 24 points as the Wildcats cruised by SoCon rival Chattanooga, 87-57, in men’s basketball action Tuesday evening at Belk Arena. With its fifth straight win and 17th out of 18, Davidson improves to 21-4 on the year and 12-1 in league play, while the Mocs fall to 10-15 overall and 3-10 in the league. A 6-1 shooting guard from nearby Charlotte, N.C., Curry has now scored 502 points in his debut campaign, breaking Chris Dodds mark of 500 set during the 1977-78 season. The Wildcat frosh has now scored at least 23 points in five straight games and gone for 20 or more 12 times. Curry finished the evening 7-of-12 from the floor including four treys and a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe to run his con-
D A V I D S O N
fg-a 3g-a ft-a or-tr UtC Doaks f 3-4 0-0 2-6 2-8 Hartwell f 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-3 g 3-9 2-7 5-5 0-3 Mays Hood g 4-5 2-3 2-2 1-2 Long g 2-7 0-2 1-2 1-4 1-1 0-0 2-2 0-1 Watts Ferrell 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Bridgewaters 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 2-4 1-3 0-2 0-3 Gywnne England 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 Lowndes 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 TEAM Totals 19-35 5-15 14-23 4-27
pf
tp
a to
4 8 1 1 1 0 1 13 0 4 12 0 2 5 4 5 4 3 0 0 1 1 3 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 5 6 1
5 1 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 1 0 1 25 57 12 30
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 14 36 33 25 20 6 14 13 3 6
1 2 200
Total FG 1stH: 6-11 54.5% 2ndH: 13-24 54.2% Game: 54.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-7 42.9% 2ndH: 2-8 25.0% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 8-12 66.7% 2ndH: 6-11 54.5% Game: 60.9% 6
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Hull Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-5 5-10 5-6 1-4 7-12 0-0 0-1 4-9 1-3 1-4 0-0 0-2 4-6
3g-a 0-0 1-2 2-3 1-4 4-7 0-0 0-1 1-5 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-1 0-1
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 2-3 4-4 0-0 6-6 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-2 2-6
2-3 1-2 0-1 2-3 1-3 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-3 2-3 0-0 2-3 1-5 1-2 30-62 9-27 18-28 14-29
5 3 1 2 3 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 1
tp
a to
b S min
5 13 16 3 24 0 0 10 3 3 0 0 10
0 2 8 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 87 17
2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0
0 1 4 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
16 18 30 28 23 2 1 20 12 14 4 7 25
8 1 14 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-29 48.3% 2ndH: 16-33 48.5% Game: 48.4% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-14 35.7% 2ndH: 4-13 30.8% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 10-13 76.9% 2ndH: 8-15 53.3% Game: 64.3% 5
Chattanooga Davidson
23 43
34 44
— —
57 87
attenDanCe 3,017
DaviDson 92, WCU 59 CulloWhee, n.C. — feB. 17, 2007
DaviDson 73, ChaRlEston 63 CharlesTon, s.C. — feB. 12, 2007 Stephen Curry scored at least 20 points for the sixth consecutive outing with a game-high 26, and the Davidson Wildcats won their sixth straight with a 73-63 victory over College of Charleston in front of 3,784 fans at John Kresse Arena Monday evening. A 6-1 shooting guard from Charlotte, N.C., Curry recorded 21 second-half points to reach the 20-point plateau for the 13th time in his freshman campaign. After going just 1-for-9 from the floor in the first stanza, Curry drilled 7-of-12 attempts, including three long range jumpers in the final 20 minutes of action to lead three Davidson players in double figures. The third one came with 4:21 to play and tied the school single-season record of 89 threes set by Brendan Winters in 2004-05. For the second time against Charleston this season, Thomas Sander compiled a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Andrew Lovedale, meanwhile, reached double digits for the second game in a row and just the third time in his career with 12 points off the bench. Ranked second nationally in both total assists and set ups per game, Wildcat point guard Jason Richards recorded his sixth career double-figure assists contest with 10. Tied at 41, the Cougars grabbed a little bit of a cushion following a Dontaye Draper layup and Tauras Skripkauskas trey. But the Wildcats answered with a 15-0 flurry that was capped off by three consecutive treys, two from Curry and one from freshman William Archambault, to push Davidson in front 5646 with 9:54 remaining. College of Charleston closed to within five, 61-56 with just over five minutes to go, but that was as close as it would get before the Wildcats stretched the margin back to double figures (71-58) to put the game out of reach. Four Cougars reached at least 10 points led by Drapers' 13 on just 5-of-16 shooting. Others for College of Charleston in double figures included Philip McCandies (13), Jermaine Johnson (11) and Tony White, Jr. (10). The first 12 minutes of action featured seven ties and five lead changes before the Wildcats went on an 8-2 spurt to grab the half's largest advantage, 31-25, with 2:25 remaining in the period. Charleston quickly responded with six unanswered points of its own to knot the score, but Davidson's Bryant Barr knocked down a trifecta from the right side with 25 seconds left to send the Wildcats into the locker room with a threepoint lead, 34-31. Behind Lovedale's eight points, Davidson's bench contributed 14 points in the opening frame. The fifth largest crowd in the venue's history witnessed the Wildcats claim their seventh straight over College of Charleston and extend their overall lead in the all-time series to 43-9. DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-6 6-10 2-7 1-2 8-21 2-4 0-0 1-2 6-9
3g-a 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-1 3-11 2-3 0-0 1-2 0-2
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 0-0 2-2 2-2 5-7 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-5 5-10 0-4 1-3 2-5 2-3 0-0 0-0 2-7 1-4 28-61 7-22 10-14 15-41
tp
a to
5 5 0 2 12 0 2 6 10 3 5 1 1 24 2 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 12 0
3 4 3 1 2 1 0 0 1
b S min
3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
1 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 2
20 34 37 23 39 18 1 3 25
18 73 15 15 6 9 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-32 43.8% 2ndH: 14-29 48.3% Game: 45.9% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-14 21.4% 2ndH: 4-8 50.0% Game: 31.8% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 3-5 60.0% 2ndH: 7-9 77.8% Game: 71.4% 0
CharleSton fg-a 3g-a ft-a or-tr Johnson f 4-5 0-0 3-4 3-9 Lawrence f 1-6 1-5 5-5 0-2 McCandies c 5-9 2-4 0-0 2-4 Draper g 5-16 3-10 0-1 1-3 White, Jr. g 3-9 1-4 3-4 0-2 Jackson 2-5 0-0 0-0 2-8 Parris 1-5 0-0 0-0 1-2 Skripkauskas 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 TEAM 2-3 Totals 22-57 8-25 11-14 11-33
pf
tp
a to
b S min
3 4 4 2 1 1 0 0
11 8 12 13 10 4 2 3
2 2 1 4 2 1 1 0
2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
4 1 3 2 2 2 2 1
1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
33 28 27 38 35 21 13 5
15 63 13 17 4 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 13-31 41.9% 2ndH: 9-26 34.6% Game: 38.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-12 25.0% 2ndH: 5-13 38.5% Game: 32.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-2 100.0% 2ndH: 9-12 75.0% Game: 78.6% 1
Davidson Charleston
W
I L D C A T
S
34 31
39 32
— —
73 63
attenDanCe 3,784
Stephen Curry and Jason Richards combined for 46 points and 11 of Davidson's 16 treys, the most by a team ever at the Ramsey Center, as the Wildcats clinched the SoCon South Division regular-season crown with a convincing 92-59 victory at Western Carolina Saturday evening. A 6-1 shooting guard from Charlotte, N.C., Curry finished with a game-high 25 points and has gone for at least 23 in every game of the Wildcats' current streak. The SoCon's second leading scorer made 6-of-11 from the floor, five triples and missed just one of his nine attempts from the charity stripe. Curry has connected on 94 threes this season and broke Brendan Winters' mark of 89 with his first of the evening 1:18 into the contest. Richards drilled a career-high six from downtown en route to 21 points. The native of Barrington, Ill., also set up seven buckets putting him just two assists shy of Kenny Grant's single-season record of 208 set a year ago. Others in double figures for Davidson included Boris Meno, who charted his eighth career double-double with 14 points and 11 boards, while Thomas Sander also finished with 14 of his own. In the opening period, Davidson shot lights out from downtown connecting on 10-of-20 attempts. Richards went on a 12-0 run of his own with four straight trifectas from the right side to give the Wildcats a 25-15 cushion, forcing Western Carolina to burn a 30 second timeout. Out of the stoppage, Davidson continued to stretched its advantage to as many as 20 (43-23) before heading to the half up, 44-27. Davidson opened the second half with a 15-5 run to stretch the lead to 59-32 with 13:48 to go. The Catamounts cut the deficit to 21, but never got closer as the Wildcats led by as many as 40 (89-49) following a Bryant Barr jumper with just under four remaining. The Wildcats have now captured eight SoCon division titles under head coach Bob McKillop and five in the last six years. DaviDSon f Meno Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
5-10 5-7 7-11 1-3 6-11 0-0 0-4 1-1 3-9 0-0 0-0 2-3
3g-a 1-3 2-3 6-9 1-3 5-8 0-0 0-3 0-0 1-6 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-3 2-3 1-2 0-0 8-9 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-4
4-11 1-6 0-3 1-1 0-4 0-0 1-5 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-3 2-6 30-59 16-35 16-23 11-41
3 3 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 3
tp
a to
b S min
14 14 21 3 25 0 0 3 7 0 0 5
1 1 7 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 3
1 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
secutive makes to 36 straight at home. Others in double digits for the Wildcats included Jason Richards who had finished with 16 points and eights assists, while Thomas Sander added 13 and William Archambault and Lovedale contributed 11 each off the bench. Davidson spotted the Mocs a 1-0 advantage due to a technical foul during pregame warmups, but never trailed again as the Wildcats forced Chattanooga into 21 first-half turnovers to lead 43-23 at the break. Led by Jason Richards’ four steals prior to intermission, Davidson turned the Mocs’ miscues into 28 points. Chattanooga shot 54.5 percent in opening 20 minutes, but only managed 11 shot attempts, while Davidson made three more buckets than the Mocs tried, for a first-half percentage of 48.3 (14-of-29). Despite playing just 10 minutes due to foul trouble, Curry led all-players in the stanza with 11 points. The Wildcats opened the second half on a 16-6 run and stretched their advantage to 40 points (80-40) following a Lovedale dunk with 9:12 remaining. After trailing in the rebound column 15-8 in the first frame, Davidson dominated the glass in the final period to conclude with a 29-27 edge.
26 27 31 23 30 3 20 7 10 3 3 17
15 92 16 14 2 7 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-28 50.0% 2ndH: 16-31 51.6% Game: 50.8% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 10-20 50.0% 2ndH: 6-15 40.0% Game: 45.7% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-10 60.0% 2ndH: 10-13 76.9% Game: 69.6% 5
WCU Gore f Aldridge f Giles g Russell g Waginger g Dees McKenna Wilson Greathouse Robinson TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-3 6-13 4-9 1-4 2-6 0-0 3-11 1-5 0-1 1-7
3g-a 1-1 0-2 1-2 0-2 1-3 0-0 1-7 1-1 0-1 1-6
ft-a or-tr pf
2-3 7-9 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-3
1-1 1-5 3-3 0-2 0-0 0-1 3-7 2-5 0-0 1-2 0-5 20-59 6-25 13-16 11-31
tp
a to
4 7 1 5 19 1 1 10 2 1 2 1 2 5 3 0 0 0 1 7 0 4 3 3 0 0 0 3 6 0
4 2 4 2 2 0 1 1 0 2
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
24 26 26 26 23 5 22 22 4 22
21 59 11 18 1 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 10-34 29.4% 2ndH: 10-25 40.0% Game: 33.9% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-15 6.7% 2ndH: 5-10 50.0% Game: 24.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 6-6 100.0% 2ndH: 7-10 70.0% Game: 81.3% 1
Davidson W. Carolina
44 27
48 32
— —
92 59
attenDanCe 1,087
DaviDson 80, WoffoRD 73 DaviDson, n.C. — feB. 19, 2007 For the eighth consecutive outing Stephen Curry reached the 20-point barrier with 28 points as the Davidson Wildcats held off Wofford 80-73 in men's basketball action Monday evening at Belk Arena. Now winners of eight straight and 20 of its last 21, Davidson set a new school record for regular season wins improving to 24-4 on the campaign and 15-1 in conference affairs. Curry went 10-of-20 from the floor with four treys and a perfect 4-for-4 from the line to finish in double figures for 27th time in his brief Wildcat career. With his performance this evening, Curry upped his average to 20.7 points per outing to
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take over the SoCon's individual lead for scoring average. Until tonight, UNCG's Kyle Hines had controlled the top spot in the league from game one of the 2006-07 season. The frontcourt duo of Boris Meno (13, 11) and Thomas Sander (14, 10) each recorded their ninth and eighth career double-doubles, respectively, while Jason Richards scored 11 points and broke Davidson's single-season assists record of 208 with six set ups on the evening. Andrew Lovedale reached double figures for the third time in four games and was the fifth Wildcat to hit the 10-point plateau with just that in 17 minutes off the bench. A Lovedale layup with 15:07 left was part of an 11-3 Wildcat run to begin the second half as Davidson grabbed the lead for good. Wofford closed to within 48-47 at the 13:26 mark, but the 'Cats slowly stretched the margin to as many as 11 (72-61) following Curry's final triple of the evening. Trailing 74-64 with 3:04 left, Wofford's Shane Nichols made back-to-back long range jumpers to make it 74-70, but couldn't inch closer as the Wildcats hit all six of their attempts from the charity stripe in the closing minute. The opening 20 minutes of action featured nine lead changes and five ties before Wofford's Junior Salters connected on treys in consecutive trips to close the half and send the Terriers into the break leading, 41-37. Curry, who spent most of his time at the point in the first half due to Richards' foul trouble led the Wildcats with 14 points, while Nichols added the same for Wofford. After the Wildcats held a 21-19 edge on the boards in the first half, Davidson dominated the glass in the final stanza to outrebound the Terriers, 49-28. Nichols was impressive for Wofford pouring in 27 points on 9-of-19 shooting and five triples, while reserve guard Matt Estep was the only other visitor in double digits with 10.
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
WofforD Whatley Godzinski Gibson Salters Nichols O’Connor Jackson Estep Lebolo TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f g g g
1-2 3-9 3-7 3-9 9-19 3-7 0-0 3-7 0-0
3g-a 0-0 1-5 1-4 3-7 5-9 2-4 0-0 2-4 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 1-2 2-4 0-0 4-5 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0
2-6 1-6 0-5 0-0 2-3 1-2 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-2 25-58 14-33 9-13 6-28
tp
a to
5 2 0 4 8 2 3 9 8 0 9 2 3 27 2 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 1 0 0
1 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 1
b S min
2 2 0 9 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 1
27 27 36 24 35 17 0+ 23 11
20 73 15 10 5 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-31 45.2% 2ndH: 11-27 40.7% Game: 43.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-15 40.0% 2ndH: 8-18 44.4% Game: 42.4% Rebs 3 FThrow 1stH: 7-9 77.8% 2ndH: 2-4 50.0% Game: 69.2%
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
4-10 4-17 4-9 0-1 10-20 2-4 0-0 5-8
3g-a 1-2 0-2 1-3 0-0 4-9 0-2 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
4-5 6-8 2-2 0-0 4-4 0-0 0-0 0-1
5-11 6-10 0-3 2-4 2-5 1-6 0-0 3-7 2-3 29-69 6-18 16-20 21-49
3 2 2 2 0 1 1 1
tp
a to
b S min
13 14 11 0 28 4 0 10
1 2 6 1 2 0 0 0
1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
2 3 3 0 2 1 0 0
0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
31 32 32 27 38 15 8 17
12 80 12 11 4 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 15-36 41.7% 2ndH: 14-33 42.4% Game: 42.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-11 27.3% 2ndH: 3-7 42.9% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 4-5 80.0% 2ndH: 12-15 80.0% Game: 80.0% 1
Wofford Davidson
41 37
32 43
— —
73 80
attenDanCe 3,741
DaviDson 75, fURMan 57 DaviDson, n.C. — feB. 22, 2007 Davidson shot 58.8 percent in the second half and freshman Stephen Curry scored at least 20 for the 15th time this season with 24 as the Wildcats captured the SoCon’s No. 1 seed with a 75-57 victory over Furman Thursday evening at Belk Arena. The win was the ninth straight for Davidson and 21st of its last 22 improving to 25-4 overall and 16-1 in the league. The Paladins fall to .500 on the year at 14-14 and 8-9. The recipient of the league’s player of the week honor the last two weeks, Curry finished 10-of-17 from the floor and scored 17 of his game-high performance after intermission. Along with reaching double figures for the 28th time this season, the 6-1 shooting guard has registered at least 23 points per game during the Wildcats’ most recent run. Others in double digits for Davidson included forwards Thomas Sander and Boris Meno, who recorded 12 and 11 points, respectively. Thanks to their hot-shooting final stanza, the Wildcats finished the contest 47.8 percent from the floor and held Furman to just 7-of-27 (25.9 percent) in the second. Both clubs concluded with six treys each.
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DaviDson 87, thE CitaDEl 70 CharlesTon, s.C. — feB. 24, 2007 Davidson outscored its visitor 25-8 over the first eight minutes of the second frame to grab a 55-41 lead and never looked back. During the run, Curry scored 11 of the Wildcats’ points including his 100th trey of the campaign. With 2:29 remaining in the first half, Curry connected on his first three of the contest to put the Wildcats up, 30-28, but Furman scored the final five points to lead at the break, 33-30. The Paladins shot an impressive 53.6 percent (15-28) in the first 20 minutes, led by Moussa Diagne and Gerad Punch with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Diagne was held to just two points in the last period to finish with 14, while Punch failed to score after his first-half total. fUrman Diagne Punch Opacic Webb Bostain Evans Brozos Anderson Jones, J. Glur Jones, S. TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f c g g
7-11 4-8 1-6 1-2 4-9 0-1 2-6 1-4 1-4 0-1 1-3
3g-a 0-1 2-3 0-2 1-1 1-2 0-1 1-3 1-3 0-2 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 0-0 2-2 1-2 0-0 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
2-2 1-7 2-4 1-2 0-4 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-1 0-3 0-2 0-1 22-55 6-18 7-10 6-30
tp
a to
2 14 0 0 10 1 2 4 1 2 4 1 0 9 2 0 2 0 0 5 0 2 3 4 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 4 0
3 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1
b S min
0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
20 34 26 16 30 6 13 23 14 3 15
11 57 11 12 3 3 200
Total FG 1stH: 15-28 53.6% 2ndH: 7-27 25.9% Game: 40.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-8 37.5% 2ndH: 3-10 30.0% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 0-0 0.0% 2ndH: 7-10 70.0% Game: 70.0% 2
DaviDSon f Meno Sander f Richards g g Hull Falconi g Civi P. Gosselin Archambault Rossiter Barr Curry Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
5-10 5-8 1-9 0-1 0-2 1-2 2-5 3-6 0-1 2-2 10-17 0-1 3-3
3g-a 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-1 0-0 2-2 3-7 0-1 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 2-2
1-8 2-7 3-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 2-6 0-1 2-4 0-2 32-67 6-16 5-5 11-39
tp
a to
0 11 2 2 12 1 2 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 1 0 6 1 1 0 0 0 6 0 1 24 4 1 0 0 3 8 1 14 75 14
2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
b S min
2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
28 29 30 3 4 2 24 19 4 5 32 2 18
6 4 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 12-33 36.4% 2ndH: 20-34 58.8% Game: 47.8% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-9 44.4% 2ndH: 2-7 28.6% Game: 37.5% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 2-2 100.0% 2ndH: 3-3 100.0% Game:100.0% 0
Furman Davidson
33 30
24 45
— —
57 75
attenDanCe 3,912
Davidson freshmen combined for 51 points and 14 treys, led by Bryant Barr's season-high 21 points on seven threepointers as the Wildcats capped off their regular season with an 87-70 victory over The Citadel Saturday afternoon at McAlister Field House. A native of Falmouth, Maine, Barr missed just two of his nine attempts, all from behind the arc to pace four Davidson players in double figures. Stephen Curry added 18, ending his nine-game streak with 23 points or more and William Archambault was perfect from the floor nailing all four of his tries from downtown to score 12 for the Wildcats. Jason Richards also hit the 10-point plateau for Davidson with 11 points while handing out a game-high eight assists. Davidson concluded the afternoon shooting 57.1 percent (28-49) overall and 15-of-28 (53.6 percent) on threes, totals only to be outdone against Illinois-Chicago earlier in 2006-07 when the Wildcats shot 58.1 and 57.1 percent, respectively. The ’Cats stretched their lead to as many as 26 with just over three minutes to go following Archambault's final triple. Prior to the first media stoppage, Davidson stormed out to a 14-0 advantage highlighted by all three of Curry's buckets from long range. The Wildcats added another field goal before The Citadel got on the board at the 14:07 mark in the first period with a Kevin Hammack trey. After Curry was charged with his second foul midway through the first half, Barr picked up where his fellow freshman left off connecting on 5-of-6 from downtown including his last with two seconds left to send the Wildcats into the break up, 51-29. Prior to this afternoon's affair, Barr's season-high was 11 points, which he set in Davidson's convincing win over crosscounty rival Charlotte on Dec. 9, 2006 at Belk Arena. Archambault also hit two three-pointers of his own as the Wildcat first-year players drilled all 10 of the club's trifectas in the opening 20 minutes of action. Davidson shot lights out in the period hitting 64.3 percent (18-28) of its attempts overall while missing just six from deep for a 62.5 total. Despite the loss, The Citadel placed five in double figures led seniors Kevin Hammack and J'Mel Everhart, who each had 14 points. Demetrius Nelson (12), Donny McLendon (11) and Vytautas Valiulis (10) were the others. The ‘Cats' current win total (26) is the highest ever by a McKillop-coached team, breaking the 1995-96 club's mark. Davidson shot 42.0 percent (29-69) overall and hit just 6-of18 (33.3 percent) from long range, but made up for it at the stripe missing just four of its 20 tries for an 80 percent total. Wofford connected on eight second half treys to finish the contest 14-of-33 (42.4 percent) and 43.1 percent (25-58) from the floor. DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Hull Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
1-3 3-8 3-5 3-4 5-11 0-0 0-0 4-4 1-1 7-9 0-1 0-1 1-2
3g-a 0-1 0-3 1-1 0-0 3-9 0-0 0-0 4-4 0-0 7-9 0-1 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-4 3-5 4-4 0-0 5-7 0-0 0-0 0-2 1-4 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0
3-8 1-5 1-4 1-4 0-2 0-1 0-0 1-2 3-4 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-3 0-5 28-49 15-28 16-28 11-39
2 2 1 2 3 0 0 4 2 3 0 1 1
tp
a to
b S min
5 9 11 6 18 0 0 12 3 21 0 0 2
0 0 8 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 2
1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 29 33 22 23 2 2 17 8 16 3 3 17
21 87 14 19 4 5 200
Total FG 1stH: 18-28 64.3% 2ndH: 10-21 47.6% Game: 57.1% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 10-16 62.5% 2ndH: 5-12 41.7% Game: 53.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-7 71.4% 2ndH: 11-21 52.4% Game: 57.1% 8
the CitaDel Everhart f Thompson f McClendon g Brick g Hammack g Valiulis Diasparra Streeter Swinton Nelson TEAM Totals
fg-a
4-6 0-1 3-11 0-2 4-13 4-6 2-7 0-0 0-0 4-6
3g-a 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-1 2-6 1-2 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
6-6 2-2 4-4 0-0 4-5 1-1 0-0 2-4 0-0 4-4
2-3 0-0 0-3 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-3 1-2 0-0 1-3 1-2 21-52 5-15 23-26 5-19
3 0 3 4 5 0 2 3 0 3
tp
a to
b S min
14 2 11 0 14 10 5 2 0 12
1 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 1 2 4 1 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 2
35 6 24 14 37 24 21 17 1 21
23 70 7 12 0 10 200
Total FG 1stH: 9-20 45.0% 2ndH: 12-32 37.5% Game: 40.4% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 1-3 33.3% 2ndH: 4-12 33.3% Game: 33.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 10-13 76.9% 2ndH: 13-13100.0% Game: 88.5% 1
Davidson The Citadel
51 29
36 41
— —
87 70
attenDanCe 1,122
D A V I D S O N
UtC fg-a 3g-a ft-a or-tr Doaks f 3-6 0-1 2-2 2-3 Hartwell f 1-3 0-0 0-2 3-6 g 2-10 2-8 6-7 1-2 Mays Hood g 1-5 1-3 0-0 2-8 Long g 4-17 1-5 3-4 4-6 6-9 0-1 1-3 2-4 Watts Ferrell 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Bridgewaters 4-8 3-6 0-0 1-5 2-5 1-1 0-2 2-5 Gywnne England 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Lowndes 1-1 0-0 0-1 2-2 2-5 TEAM Totals 24-64 8-25 12-21 21-46
pf
tp
a to
b S min
3 3 2 0 2 1 0 2 2 0 1
8 2 12 3 12 13 0 11 5 0 2
1 1 1 1 8 0 0 0 2 0 0
3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 3 7 1 0 6 1 0 1
2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
17 22 29 31 32 24 0+ 19 16 0+ 10
16 68 14 22 5 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 11-33 33.3% 2ndH: 13-31 41.9% Game: 37.5% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-13 38.5% 2ndH: 3-12 25.0% Game: 32.0% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-7 71.4% 2ndH: 7-14 50.0% Game: 57.1% 5
CharlesTon, s.C. — marCh 1, 2007 The backcourt duo of Jason Richards and Stephen Curry each scored 20 points as Davidson held off Chattanooga, 78-68, to advance to the semifinals of the 2007 Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament at the North Charleston Coliseum. Both members of the league's all-conference squad, Richards was perfect from the line (6-for-6), had five assists and a career-high five steals, while Curry nailed three from long range, grabbed four boards, had four assists and three swipes of his own. Tabbed SoCon Freshman of the Year by both the coaches and the media, Curry now has 107 threes on the season leaving him just three shy of breaking the NCAA Division I record for single-season treys by a freshman, held by Keydren Clark of St. Peter's. Boris Meno also finished the contest in double figures for the Wildcats with 14 points, including a perfect afternoon from the line going 4-for-4. Davidson concluded the contest shooting 42.6 percent thanks to hitting 15-of-29 attempts in the second half. Despite shooting just 34.6 percent from behind the threepoint arc, the Wildcats made the most of their trips to the line converting 17-of-19 (.895) tries. The two clubs battled back and forth in the first nine minutes to find themselves deadlocked at 11 before Chattanooga went on an 11-3 run to grab a 22-14 lead at the 8:06 mark in the first half. Davidson wasted little time erasing the early deficit as the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run of their own thanks to seven quick points off the bench from freshman guard Bryant Barr to push his club in front, 25-24. A Bernard Lowndes bucket followed by a Kevin Bridgewater jumper from deep made it 29-25 Chattanooga, but the Wildcats quickly closed the opening period on a 93 streak, capped off by Curry's second three-pointer with 33 ticks to go, sending Davidson into the break up by two, 34-32. Both teams shot less than 35 percent and committed double-digit miscues in the first half. The only real difference on the stat sheet was the Mocs' work on the boards as they grabbed 11 offensive boards to control the column, 26-18. Davidson scored the first four points of the second stanza to go up six, 38-32, but Chattanooga slowly fought its way back to take a 49-48 advantage with 11:41 left on a Marcus Watts putback and dunk in respective trips down the floor. The Mocs last (and only) lead of the final period was erased on a Richards' long range jumper from the top of the key a minute later. This marked the second consecutive year the Wildcats eliminated Chattanooga from the SoCon Tournament. A year ago Davidson knocked off the Mocs in the Championship to advance to the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
W
I L D C A T
S
fg-a
5-9 2-6 6-14 0-2 6-16 2-3 0-0 2-3 3-8
3g-a 0-1 1-3 2-5 0-1 3-11 2-3 0-0 1-2 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
4-4 0-0 6-6 0-0 5-6 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-1
3-5 3-10 0-0 1-2 0-5 0-1 0-2 1-1 3-6 0-2 26-61 9-26 17-19 11-34
tp
a to
4 14 1 4 5 1 0 20 5 1 0 0 3 20 4 1 6 2 2 0 0 0 7 2 2 6 0
3 1 4 1 4 0 0 0 3
b S min
1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 5 1 3 1 0 0 0
32 30 37 24 36 12 2 10 17
17 78 15 16 3 12 200
Total FG 1stH: 11-32 34.4% 2ndH: 15-29 51.7% Game: 42.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 5-17 29.4% 2ndH: 4-9 44.4% Game: 34.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 7-8 87.5% 2ndH: 10-11 90.9% Game: 89.5% 1
Chattanooga Davidson
32 34
36 44
— —
68 78
attenDanCe 2,559
DaviDson 91, fURMan 68 CharlesTon, s.C. — marCh 2, 2007 After combining for 40 points in the quarterfinals, Davidson's backcourt of Stephen Curry (30) and Jason Richards (20) bettered that performance with 50 in the topseeded Wildcats' convincing 91-68 triumph over Furman Friday evening to earn a spot in tomorrow’s SoCon Championship game. After starting the game 2-of-5 from the floor, Curry missed just two of his nine attempts in the second half en route to scoring 25 points in the period. Along with a perfect 6-for-6 night from the charity stripe, the native of Charlotte, N.C., drilled six from downtown to reach the 30-point plateau for the third time in his young collegiate career. Scoring five points in only nine minutes due to foul trouble before the break, Curry, the SoCon Freshman of the Year, caught fire capping off a 16-6 Wildcat run to begin the second half with three straight trifectas. His third long range jumper and 110 of the season that gave Davidson a 46-21 lead with 15:20 remaining, broke Keydren Clark of St. Peter's NCAA record for three-pointers by a freshman. Richards, a 6-2 point guard from Barrington, Ill., matched his scoring performance from yesterday's win over Chattanooga as well as added seven assists and five rebounds. The All-Conference selection by both the coaches and media was 7-of-11 from the field. Following a below 40 percent total to begin the evening, the Wildcats torched the nets in the final half connecting on 58.1 percent (18-31) overall and 9-of-16 (.563) from long range. Davidson concluded the contest with a 48.3 shooting percentage. First-year Wildcat Bryant Barr also contributed double figures with 11 points off the bench in 15 minutes of action. Davidson shot just 38 percent in the opening period, but held the Paladins without a field goal the remaining 11:32 of the half to double up Furman at intermission, 3015. Following their opponents' final first-half bucket, a Tony Anderson trey, the 'Cats closed on a 16-3 run. The Wildcats' defensive pressure and communication limited the Paladins to a season-low points total for a half and 23 percent (5-22) clip. Unlike its quarterfinal matchup with Chattanooga Thursday afternoon, Davidson controlled the boards 26-15, including eight offensive in the first 20 minutes of action. Curry's fifth bucket from behind the arc gave the Wildcats' their largest lead of the affair, 63-34, with 9:26 to play.
fUrman Diagne Opacic Webb Bostain Punch Evans Brozos Anderson Jones, J. Glur Jones, S. TEAM Totals
fg-a
f f g g g
5-8 1-4 4-6 4-12 3-7 0-0 0-1 2-6 0-2 0-0 2-4
3g-a 2-4 0-3 4-6 2-3 0-3 0-0 0-1 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-4 2-2 4-4 4-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-8
2-6 0-1 0-2 2-6 0-3 0-1 0-0 1-3 0-4 0-0 1-3 1-2 21-50 9-24 17-24 7-31
tp
a to
5 15 1 3 4 0 4 16 1 3 14 4 3 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 0
3 0 2 1 4 0 0 1 1 0 1
b S min
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
DaviDson 78, UtC 68
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g g Curry Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
21 17 26 36 32 5 3 21 16 1 22
27 68 10 13 1 4 200
Total FG 1stH: 5-22 22.7% 2ndH: 16-28 57.1% Game: 42.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 2-9 22.2% 2ndH: 7-15 46.7% Game: 37.5% Rebs 3 FThrow 1stH: 3-8 37.5% 2ndH: 14-16 87.5% Game: 70.8%
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Civi Hull Archambault Rossiter Barr Falconi Nelms Lovedale TEAM Totals
fg-a
2-5 2-5 7-11 3-5 9-14 0-1 0-0 1-8 0-0 3-5 0-1 0-0 2-5
3g-a 2-2 1-2 1-3 0-1 6-10 0-0 0-0 0-5 0-0 2-4 0-1 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 3-4 5-9 2-3 6-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-7 0-1 1-5 2-5 2-4 0-0 0-0 1-2 2-4 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-7 0-2 29-60 12-28 21-28 12-38
tp
a to
2 8 0 5 8 0 1 20 7 1 8 3 3 30 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 21 91 15
1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
28 20 35 31 24 2 1 13 9 15 1 2 19
8 1 7 200
Total FG 1stH: 11-29 37.9% 2ndH: 18-31 58.1% Game: 48.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-12 25.0% 2ndH: 9-16 56.3% Game: 42.9% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-9 55.6% 2ndH: 16-19 84.2% Game: 75.0% 2
Furman Davidson
15 30
53 61
— —
68 91
attenDanCe 9,459
97
DaviDson 72, ChaRlEston 65
the break with a slim 44-43 advantage. Curry led all scorers at intermission with 18 points on 5-of-9 shooting, including three buckets from deep and a perfect 5-for-5 effort at the line. Despite all five Maryland starters picking up two firsthalf fouls, the Terrapins shot 50.0 percent (19-of-38) from the floor and controlled the glass, 28-17, thanks to 11 offensive rebounds in the stanza. This back-and-forth affair featured 14 lead changes and seven ties. Davidson point guard and All-SoCon performer Jason Richards was the only other Wildcat to reach double digits as the nation’s second-leading assist man scored 11 points and handed out seven helpers. The Wildcats forced Maryland into 22 turnovers and recorded a season-high 13 steals. Despite the loss, Curry left the game to a standing ovation for his impressive performance. This year’s trip to the NCAA Tournament was the ninth for Davidson and fourth under 18th-year Head Coach Bob McKillop, whose club concluded the 2006-07 campaign winners of 25 out of their last 27 games.
CharlesTon, s.C. — marCh 3, 2007
2006-07 GAME RECAPS
Stephen Curry dropped 29 points on College of Charleston in the 2007 Southern Conference Tournament championship game to lead top-seeded Davidson to a 7265 victory over the Cougars Saturday evening at the North Charleston Coliseum. Curry, the tournament's Most Valuable Player, started slowly, but drained eight of his final 14 attempts to finish 10-of-24 including four treys. The 6-1 shooting guard and SoCon Freshman of the Year ended his first conference tournament with 79 points (26.3 average) in three contests. To go along with his 18th affair scoring at least 20 points, Curry pulled down eight rebounds, while playing the entire 40 minutes. Joining Curry in double figures was junior forward Boris Meno, who recorded his 10th career double-double with 14 points, 12 of which came after halftime, and 10 rebounds. Davidson started the second half on a 10-4 streak with five points each from Meno and Curry as the Wildcats stretched the lead to eight, 47-39. As quick as Davidson extended the margin to the largest of the evening, Charleston answered with a 17-4 flurry to push the game back in its favor, 56-51, with under 10 minutes to play. The Wildcats responded with five unanswered points to knot things at 56 before David Lawrence and Curry traded threes to tie (59-59) the game one final time. Meno continued to shine down on the blocks as the 6-8 native of Paris, France, broke the deadlock with a three-point play to put the Wildcats up for good. College of Charleston closed to within 64-62 with 1:45 left, but Jason Richards' backdoor layup started a mini Wildcat spurt that was capped by a Meno jam to make it 70-63 and put the game out of reach. Like Davidson, the Cougars placed just two in double digits with Lawrence and Jermaine Johnson contributing 13 points each. After a career-high 38 against Appalachian State in last night's second semifinal contest, Charleston's Dontaye Draper was held to just eight points on 2-of-11 shooting. Despite shooting just 39 percent to College of Charleston's 56 percent in the opening 20 minutes of action, Davidson forced the Cougars into 12 first-half turnovers to lead at the break, 37-35. After starting the contest just 2-of10 from the floor, Curry connected on four of his next five to lead all-scorers at intermission with 15 points. Following Tony White, Jr.'s third long range jumper of the period that gave Charleston a 31-26 advantage, Curry began to find his groove as he sparked an 11-4 Wildcat run with nine consecutive points. Joining Curry on the all-tournament first team was Richards, who averaged 14.6 points including a pair of 20point performances in the Wildcats' three victories. This is the ninth SoCon Tournament title for Davidson, and the fourth under Coach Bob McKillop in his 18 years at the helm. The Wildcats will now await Selection Sunday next week to find out their seed and destination for the NCAA Tournament. CharleSton Johnson f Lawrence f McCandies c Draper g Hammond g Jackson Parris White, Jr. Diarra TEAM Totals
fg-a
6-7 5-9 3-6 2-11 1-4 4-4 1-1 3-7 0-0
3g-a 0-0 3-6 1-3 1-8 1-3 0-0 0-0 3-6 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
1-2 0-0 1-3 3-4 0-0 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-0
1-7 0-3 3-11 1-8 0-0 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 25-49 9-26 6-12 6-35
tp
a to
4 13 2 0 13 4 4 8 3 3 8 7 1 3 0 2 9 2 0 2 0 3 9 0 0 0 0
3 4 1 4 3 2 0 3 0 1 17 65 18 21
b S min
1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0
28 39 27 37 21 23 1 23 1
4 6 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-25 56.0% 2ndH: 11-24 45.8% Game: 51.0% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 6-12 50.0% 2ndH: 3-14 21.4% Game: 34.6% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 1-3 33.3% 2ndH: 5-9 55.6% Game: 50.0% 2
DaviDSon Meno f Sander f Richards g P. Gosselin g Curry g Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM
fg-a
5-13 3-9 2-6 1-2 10-24 3-9 0-0 0-1 1-3
3g-a 1-2 0-3 0-1 1-1 4-11 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
3-3 2-2 0-0 0-0 5-7 0-0 0-0 3-3 1-2
6-10 2-6 1-2 2-2 2-8 1-3 0-1 1-1 0-0 1-4
tp
a to
1 14 2 1 8 0 4 4 6 2 3 0 1 29 3 2 8 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 2 3 0
4 3 1 0 2 1 0 0 0
b S min
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
31 32 29 29 40 16 3 6 14
Total FG 1stH: 14-37 37.8% 2ndH: 11-30 36.7% Game: 37.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 4-12 33.3% 2ndH: 4-10 40.0% Game: 36.4% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 5-7 71.4% 2ndH: 9-10 90.0% Game: 82.4% 1
Charleston Davidson
98
35 37
30 35
— —
65 72
attenDanCe 8,009
DaviDSon Meno f f Sander Richards g P. Gosselin g g Curry Archambault Rossiter Barr Lovedale TEAM Totals
MaRYlanD 82, DaviDson 70 Buffalo, n.y. — marCh 15, 2007 Wildcat freshman Stephen Curry poured in a gamehigh 30 points, but Maryland placed six players in double figures to hold off 13th-seeded Davidson, 82-70, in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y. The Wildcats conclude the season with a school-record 29 wins against just five losses, while Maryland advances to meet Butler in the next round with an overall mark of 25-8. A 6-1 shooting guard from Charlotte, N.C., Curry connected on 9-of-21 shots from the floor, including five jumpers from behind the arc to reach the 30-point plateau for the fourth time this year. The son of former NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry, Stephen (pronounced STEFF-in) concluded his debut season in a Wildcat uniform with 730 points (21.5 ppg.) to lead the Southern Conference, and an NCAA freshman single-season record 122 three-pointers. Maryland’s starting five each finished in double figures, led by Mike Jones’ 17 points and three long-range buckets. The other starters for the Terps that added at least 10 points were James Gist (12), D.J. Strawberry (12), Ekene Ibekwe (11) and Greivis Vasquez (10), while Bambale Osby contributed 11 in 21 minutes off the bench. Ibeke led all-players with 10 boards, including seven on the offensive end, to finish with a double-double as Maryland outrebounded Davidson, 54-35. Davidson hit just 3-of-17 (17.6 percent) from three-point range and only made 29.4 percent of its overall attempts in the second half to finish its second straight appearance in the “Big Dance” with a 34.3 field goal percentage. The Terrapins, who have now won eight straight first-round NCAA games, shot 45.6 percent and 6-of-17 (35.3 percent) from the outside. Curry and the Wildcats began the second half with a flurry as the frosh nailed a trifecta and followed with a layup to start a 9-0 run, giving Davidson its second eightpoint lead of the contest, 52-44, with 17:32 left. Just like the opening stanza, Maryland responded in a flash scoring the next eight points to tie the game for a seventh and final time. A Boris Meno jumper with just over 10 minutes to play put the margin back in favor of the Wildcats, but that's the last time they would lead as Maryland got back-to-back buckets from Osby to go up 62-59. The Wildcats cut the deficit to one on two separate occasions, but managed just two field goals, both from Curry, over the final 8:16 of play. Trailing 27-25, Curry sparked a 10-0 Wildcat run to give Davidson its largest lead of the first half, 35-2. But the advantage lasted just under two minutes as Maryland scored 10 unanswered of its own to retake the lead, 37-35 with 4:33 to go in the period. After the two clubs traded buckets over the next 2:33 of action, Parrish Brown’s only field goal of the game, a three-pointer from the top of the key, sent the Terps into
fg-a
4-13 1-8 4-15 1-2 9-21 3-7 0-0 1-2 1-2
3g-a 0-3 0-2 1-8 0-1 5-14 3-7 0-0 1-2 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
1-1 2-2 2-3 0-0 7-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
4-9 4-8 0-3 0-1 1-4 1-4 0-0 0-0 1-2 2-4 24-70 10-37 12-14 13-35
tp
a to
1 9 2 2 4 2 1 11 7 3 2 3 5 30 3 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 0
0 2 5 2 4 3 0 0 1
b S min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 2
30 31 39 23 36 15 3 6 17
17 70 17 17 2 13 200
Total FG 1stH: 14-36 38.9% 2ndH: 10-34 29.4% Game: 34.3% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 7-20 35.0% 2ndH: 3-17 17.6% Game: 27.0% Rebs 0 FThrow 1stH: 8-10 80.0% 2ndH: 4-4 100.0% Game: 85.7%
marylanD Gist f f Ibekwe Strawberry g Vasquez g g Jones Hayes Brown Bowers Neal Osby TEAM Totals
fg-a
5-9 5-8 5-17 4-9 6-13 1-3 1-1 0-2 0-0 4-6
3g-a 0-0 0-0 1-4 1-4 3-7 0-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
ft-a or-tr pf
2-2 1-2 1-3 1-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 2-2 2-2 3-4
2-8 7-10 2-8 0-4 0-6 0-1 0-0 3-6 0-0 3-6 2-5 31-68 6-17 14-19 19-54
2 5 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0
tp
a to
b S min
12 11 12 10 17 2 3 2 2 11
4 1 5 4 1 2 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
3 1 2 4 4 4 0 1 0 3
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
26 18 38 31 28 18 5 15 0+ 21
15 82 19 22 4 8 200
Total FG 1stH: 19-38 50.0% 2ndH: 12-30 40.0% Game: 45.6% Deadbl 3pt FG 1stH: 3-8 37.5% 2ndH: 3-9 33.3% Game: 35.3% Rebs FThrow 1stH: 3-5 60.0% 2ndH: 11-14 78.6% Game: 73.7% 1
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all-Time postseason results 2007 nCaa Team 2006 nCaa Team 2005 niT / 2002 nCaa Teams 1998 nCaa / 1996 niT Teams 1994 niT / 1986 nCaa Teams 1972 niT / 1970 nCaa Teams 1969 nCaa Team 1968 nCaa Team 1966 nCaa Team
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nCaaTournamenT appearanCes(9) 1966 easT (21-7, 11-1) 1st Round Rhode Island 95- 65 W
souThernConferenCeTournamenT Quarter Semis
78- 94 L
(Raleigh, N.C.)
East Cons. St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
76- 92 L
(Raleigh, N.C.)
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4th (7-4, 18-6) N.C. State 33-30 George Washington 40-47
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6Th (3-4, 16-7) Virginia Tech
easT (24-5, 9-1) 1st Round St. John’s
79- 70 W
Quarter Semis
5Th (10-7, 19-9) Maryland Duke
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5Th (11-6, 18-8) William & Mary
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(OT) 61- 59 W
(Raleigh, N.C.)
East Finals North Carolina
66- 70 L
(Raleigh, N.C.)
easT (27-3, 9-0) 1st Round Villanova
75- 61 W 79- 69 W
(College Park, Md.)
East Finals North Carolina
L
58-51 39-53
W L
Quarter Semis Finals
2nD (8-3, 20-7) VMI 108-75 W Virginia Tech 75-67 W West Virginia 74-79 L
Quarter Semis
1sT (9-2, 22-4) The Citadel VMI
Quarter Semis
1sT (12-0, 24-2) VMI 86-73 W West Virginia (OT) 72-74 L
Quarter Semis Finals
1sT (11-1, 21-7) The Citadel Richmond West Virginia
85- 87 L
Quarter
(College Park, Md.)
1970 easT (22-5, 10-0) 1st Round St. Bonaventure 62- 75 L
Quarter Semis Finals
2nD (8-4, 15-12) Furman William & Mary West Virginia
Quarter Semis Finals
1sT (9-1, 24-5) William & Mary Furman West Virginia
Quarter Semis Finals
1sT (9-0, 27-3) VMI Richmond East Carolina
1963
50-54
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7Th (4-6, 8-14) West Virginia
Quarter
7Th (5-7, 10-15) West Virginia
(Charlotte, N.C.)
Quarter
2002 (Albuquerque, N.M.)
2006 minneapolis (20-11, 10-5) 1st Round Ohio State 62- 70 L (Dayton, Ohio)
2007 miDWesT (29-5, 17-1) 1st Round Maryland 70- 82 L (Buffalo, N.Y.)
TournamenTreCord 5-10
8Th (4-8, 7-20) West Virginia
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8Th (4-8, 9-15) West Virginia
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8Th (2-8, 9-15) West Virginia
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36-74
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53-59
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51-71
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79-61 W 84-65 W 80-69 W
1967 64-55 W 78-65 W 65-81 L
1968 107- 68 W 79- 63 W 87- 70 W
1969
1958
(Atlanta, Ga.)
WesT (21-10, 11-5) 1st Round Ohio State 64- 69 L
L
1957
1998 souTheasT (20-10, 13-2) 1st Round Michigan 61- 80 L
68-84
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souTheasT (20-11, 10-6) 1st Round Kentucky 55- 75 L
91-62 81-82
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1955
(Jamaica, N.Y.)
1986
7Th (3-5, 7-15) Furman
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1954
(Raleigh, N.C.)
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34-38
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1968
East Semis Columbia
43-32 33-49
5Th (5-6, 14-11) George Washington 81-85
1943
(Blacksburg, Va.)
East Semis Syracuse
1962
1939 5Th (9-7, 19-9) Washington & Lee Clemson
61-91
L
1959
99- 76 W 97- 83 W 102- 76 W
65-100 L
niTappearanCes(4) 1972 (19-9, 8-2) 1st Round Syracuse
2005 77- 81 L
(Madison Square Garden)
(Springfield, Mo.)
69- 85 L
(Morgantown, W.Va.)
2nd Round Maryland
63- 78 L
(College Park, Md.)
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1996 (25-5, 14-0) 1st Round South Carolina
(Richmond, Va.)
1st Round SW Missouri State 82- 71 W
1994 (22-8, 13-5) 1st Round West Virginia
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(23-9, 16-0) Va. Commonwealth 77- 62 W
79-100 L
(Columbia, S.C.)
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1985 72- 46 W 78- 54 W 81- 61 W
1971 Semis
1sT (9-1, 15-11) Furman
Quarter Semis
1sT (8-2, 19-9) Appalachian State East Carolina
Quarter Semis Finals
1sT (9-1, 18-9) VMI William & Mary Furman
79- 83 L
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1986 TieD for 2nD (10-6, 20-11) Quarter VMI 71- 62 W Semis East Tennessee State 74- 65 W Finals UT-Chattanooga 42- 40 W
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1987 87- 77 W 77- 81 L
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Quarter Semis Finals
3rD (12-4, 20-10) VMI 93- 63 W Western Carolina 85- 76 W Marshall (OT) 64- 66 L
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3rD (9-7, 15-13) UT-Chattanooga
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5Th (10-8, 14-14) Marshall 67- 65 W UT-Chattanooga 68- 72 L
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Quarter Semis Finals
2nD (13-5, 22-8) VMI Western Carolina UT-Chattanooga
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82- 69 W 68- 86 L
64- 78 L
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1994
80- 95 L
1979 6Th (3-7, 8-19) The Citadel
76- 89 L
1981 TieD for 1sT (11-5, 13-14) Quarter Marshall 77- 90 L
1982 Quarter Semis Finals
3rD (9-7, 14-15) Furman The Citadel UT-Chattanooga
74- 66 W 57- 54 W 58- 69 L
1983 Quarter
5Th (8-8, 13-15) Western Carolina
Quarter
8Th (5-11, 9-19) Marshall
3rD in norTh (7-7, 14-13) Quarter Western Carolina 74- 78 L
1sT in norTh (14-0, 25-5) Quarter East Tennessee State 67- 43 W Semis Marshall 92- 77 W Finals Western Carolina 60- 69 L
1997 TieD for 1sT in norTh (10-4, 18-10) Quarter The Citadel 83- 61 W Semis UT-Chattanooga 70- 77 L
1998 TieD for 1sT in norTh (13-2, 20-10) Quarter Georgia Southern 74- 68 W Semis The Citadel 68- 59 W Finals Appalachian State 66- 62 W
62- 86 L
TieD for 1sT in souTh (11-5, 17-12) Quarter The Citadel 68- 61 W Semis ETSU 84- 96 L
2005 1sT in souTh (16-0, 23-9) Quarter Elon 67- 53 W Semis UNC Greensboro 68- 73 L
2nD in souTh (10-5, 20-11) Quarter The Citadel 79- 73 W Semis Elon 65- 58 W Finals Chattanooga 80- 55 W
2007 1sT in souTh (17-1, 29-5) Quarter Chattanooga 78- 68 W Semis Furman 91- 68 W Finals Col. of Charleston 72- 65 W
soConTournamenTreCord 56-34
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2nD in norTh (11-5, 16-11) Quarter Western Carolina 77- 82 L
2nD in norTh (10-6, 15-13) Quarter Wofford 64- 65 L
4Th (6-8, 10-19) Winthrop 63- 48 W Coastal Carolina 55- 58 L (Anderson, S.C.)
1999
2000
1984
W
2003 TieD for 1sT in norTh (11-5, 17-10) Quarter VMI 60- 66 L
2006 71- 61 W 93- 89 W 64- 65 L
1996 66- 71 L
1978
Quarter
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1995 69- 71 L
1977 6Th (2-8, 5-22) Appalachian State
2002 TieD for 1sT in norTh (11-5, 21-10) Quarter The Citadel 71- 58 W Semis UNC Greensboro 68- 58 W Finals Furman 62- 57 W
2004
1993
1975 6Th (4-6, 7-19) William & Mary
4Th in norTh (7-9, 15-17) 1st Round Wofford 60- 57 W Quarter College of Charleston 57- 54 W Semis UNC Greensboro 68- 73 L
1988 88- 77 W 79- 76 W 81- 99 L
1974 3rD (7-3, 18-9) The Citadel Richmond
2001
7Th (6-10, 10-20) Marshall 71- 83 L
1992 Quarter
6Th (6-8, 11-17) Campbell 60- 69 L (Anderson, S.C.)
bigsouThTournamenT reCord 1-2
68- 78 L
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FEATURE ON THE 2007 NCAA TEAM
2007 NCAA TEAM
The day after Davidson was picked to finish fourth in the SoCon South Division last preseason, coach Bob McKillop walked among his players as they were stretching on the court before the start of practice. “Fourth in the South Division,” he exclaimed, loud enough for all of the players to hear. “How does that make you feel? You proud of that? They picked you fourth in the division.” As preseason predictions go, this one really wasn't that unreasonable. Davidson had graduated seven seniors from the conference championship team of 2006. Not just seven ordinary seniors, either, but players that comprised most of Davidson's scoring, rebounding, passing and ballhandling, as well as its best defenders. Davidson's leadership and experience walked down the aisle in caps and gowns the previous May to get their diplomas. Like it or not, 2006-07 was rebuilding time for the Wildcats. When you're used to winning, as Davidson is, rebuilding is not synonymous with failure - or defeat. Especially not with Bob McKillop. He had warned his players at the team banquet the previous April that experts would count them out the next season. “But we have something for them,” the coach told the packed room, “and that is … SURPRISE!” It turned out to be a storybook season for the Wildcats, all right. Three experienced juniors - Thomas Sander, Jason Richards and Boris Meno - took on the role of leadership and excelled at it. Max Paulhus Gosselin, a sophomore warrior, inspired the team with his unrelenting effort and defensive prowess. Paulhus Gosselin was first in line to accept any small job that would help his team win. And then there was a precocious freshman by the name of Stephen Curry, a 6-1 package of dynamite that wasn't afraid of the devil himself. Another freshman, Will Archambault, came off to bench to play in 33 games and average eight points. When Archambault couldn't play against rival Charlotte due to injury, freshman teammate Bryant Barr stepped into his role and scored 11 points. Also coming off the bench and creating havoc for opponents was Davidson's “Big Cat,” Andrew Lovedale. His energy, ability to beat much smaller players down the court, and defensive and rebounding skills sparked the Wildcats on a consistent basis. Redshirt freshman Steve Rossiter, freshman Dan Nelms, sophomore Can Civi, and seniors John Falconi and Lamar Hull made significant contributions in ways that impressed the coaching staff. The chemistry on the team was about as good as it gets. The players genuinely liked each other, hung out together, stuck together in tough times. Davidson stood at 4-3 when it opened its Southern Conference season against Elon
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on Dec. 1. The Wildcats sent a message that night that resonated throughout the conference: Davidson 86 Elon 61. Then the Wildcats went on a tear: 12 wins in a row, including the championship of a tournament hosted by Pac-10 member Arizona State. After Davidson won 83-78 at Wofford, Terriers coach Mike Young said, “They lost seven really good players from last year, and somehow they're better now than they were then. It's amazing.” McKillop's young team seemed to be on cruise control when Appalachian State came to Davidson on Jan. 20. Before a large, loud crowd, Appalachian State won one of the most exciting games of the season, 81-74. It was an emotional game, and the defeat was a slap in the face to the Wildcats, one that maybe they needed at that point in the season. Losing a conference game at home didn't set well with any of them. It got the attention of the players, that's for sure, who vowed not to let it happen again. The rest of the schedule was against teams from the Southern Conference. Davidson won them all - 13 in a row. The team picked to finish fourth in the South Division was 171 in regular-season conference action. But nothing was decided when Davidson headed to Charleston for the SoCon tournament to compete for the automatic invitation to the NCAA tournament. Davidson had been down that road before. Two years previous, the 'Cats went 16-0 in conference, lost in the semi-finals of the tournament and failed to get a bid to the NCAAs, even though they were one of only two teams in the nation to go unbeaten in their conference. Clearly the conference's best team over a tough home-and-home schedule, Davidson would have to validate three months of hard work by winning three more games in three nights. If you think it's easy, basketball to you is a foreign language. Beating conference opponents - teams that know you so well two and three times in a season is extremely difficult. UT-Chattanooga, a team that Davidson had already beaten twice, once by 30 points, put up a strong battle before Davidson prevailed, 78-68. Furman, which was playing well, was the semi-finals opponent. Davidson didn't mess around - 91-68, a knockout. The championship game pitted two rivals, Davidson and College of Charleston. It was a road game for the Wildcats, a tough deal when an NCAA tournament berth is on the line supposedly in front of a non-partisan crowd. Playing in front of 8,000 boisterous fans, about 80 percent of which supported the home Cougars, the two teams put on a special game. Davidson led by two at halftime. Back and forth went the second half before Davidson prevailed, 72-65. Curry, the tournament's MVP, had 29 points. Meno tallied 14 and 10 rebounds. Richards had six assists, one turnover. It was a team victory. Each man con-
Stephen Curry poured in 30 points against the Terps before leaving to a standing ovation.
tributed to the championship in a meaningful way. It was an unselfish, tenacious, tough team with excellent chemistry. The opponent for the 13th-seeded Wildcats, making their ninth NCAA tournament appearance, was Maryland. Davidson took 29 wins with it to Buffalo for the game, the most ever won by a Davidson basketball team in a single season. It broke the record of 27 wins set by Lefty Driesell's 1969 team; many historians consider it the best team in Davidson history. Davidson gave Maryland more than the Terps had bargained for. Standing toe-to-toe with its ACC foe, Davidson didn't flinch. Maryland led by a point at the half, and when Max Paulhus Gosselin hit a spectacular layup in transition after four minutes of the second half, Davidson led by eight. The 'Cats couldn't hold on, as Maryland dominated the last three minutes to win, 8270. It was a game Davidson felt it could have won, should have won. But after the disappointment of defeat subsided, the coaches and players were able to look back on the record-breaking season and appreciate it. Much was accomplished. From a predicted fourth-place division finish in its own conference, the Wildcats soared to 29 dazzling victories, broke 15 school records, enjoyed numerous individual accolades, and served notice - not just to its conference, but to the nation - that theirs is a program that is justified in harboring dreams of national significance.
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The players on Davidson’s 2005-06 basketball team had decided well before the first shot was taken that the only way to have a successful season would be to win the Southern Conference championship and qualify for the NCAA Tournament. The seven seniors made sure every player on the team understood the mission. Nothing less would do. It was coach Bob McKillop’s 17th Davidson team, and it’s doubtful that he ever had one that had better chemistry. Team unity was enhanced by a summer trip to Italy where the Wildcats went sightseeing and played six exhibition games, including one against one of the best teams in the world – the Italian National team. Once practices began in earnest in midOctober, Davidson’s players were serious about their quest. The outside schedule was tough. The ’Cats won home games against UMass, Saint Joseph’s, Missouri and dropped road games to Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, Charlotte and Illinois-Chicago. Davidson was overmatched against Duke and UNC, but had excellent chances to win the other three games. McKillop’s men are not into moral victories, but playing well in such tough venues toughened them for the SoCon regular season. Good thing it did, because Davidson didn’t waltz through the conference season. It lost five regular-season conference games, including one at home to Western Carolina, the only home loss against 14 wins. The Wildcats didn’t exactly roar into the
Ian Johnson capped off his Wildcat career with a personal-best 26 points against Ohio State.
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SoCon Tournament in Charleston in early March. They lost by 13 at Wofford on Feb. 11, 2006, and were on the verge of dropping what would have been a shocker to Citadel in Charleston two days later. Senior Jason Morton came off the bench to rescue the Wildcats, hitting all six of his 3-point attempts and nailing 9-of-10 from the field to score 27 points in 27 minutes. After winning by eight over Furman, Davidson dropped a 76-73 game at Georgia Southern. On Senior Day in the Baker Sports complex, the Wildcats rallied to beat the rival Cougars, 6563 on a Kenny Grant three-pointer. Davidson ended the regular season with 17 wins and 10 losses, and was 10-5 in the SoCon regular season. Based on their conference play in the regular season, which had been erratic, the Wildcats went to Charleston for the championship tournament as one of several that were thought to be good enough to win it, but not as the prohibitive favorite. The team’s seven seniors however were on a mission. Brendan Winters, Ian Johnson, Jason Morton, Matt McKillop, Kenny Grant, Eric Blancett and Chris Clunie wouldn’t get another chance for a SoCon title. It was now or never. It was almost never. An inspired Citadel team roared to a 19-point first-half lead, and for a time it appeared that Davidson was too stunned to rally. But the Wildcats reduced the deficit to seven by halftime, and behind Matt McKillop’s 21 points survived a scare, 79-73. Tournament basketball is all about advancing. Style points aren’t important. Davidson was still alive. Ian Johnson missed only two shots as Davidson eliminated Elon in the semifinals, 65-58. The final score was closer than the actual game, as the Wildcats were in charge most of the way. It set up a bout for the championship against Chattanooga, a team that had beaten Davidson on Jan. 23, 2006, by 65-59. With an NCAA Tournament bid at stake, it was a mismatch of major proportions. Behind a brilliant 33-point performance by Brendan Winters, who would be named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, Davidson cruised to the NCAAs with a smashing 80-55 win. Johnson and Matt McKillop joined Winters on the All-Tournament team. Coach McKillop was able to play all 14 of his players who dressed for the game. With championship trophy in hand, McKillop would take his third Davidson team to the NCAA Tournament, and overall this would be Davidson’s eighth team to make the Big Dance. Given a 15th seed by the NCAA Selection Committee, Davidson was sent to Dayton, Ohio, to play against second-seeded Ohio State, the regular-season Big Ten champions. With its campus in Columbus located only a short bus ride from Dayton, the game was for all intents and purposes a road game for the Wildcats.
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Kenny Grant contributed seven points and nine assists in his final game as a Wildcat.
They weren’t the least bit intimidated. In talking to his players at the pre-game meal, Coach McKillop said, “We have a real chance to win this game. We are going to attack Ohio State and knock them on their heels.” Davidson did just that. The 12,945 fans in attendance, most garnet and gray, were silenced as Davidson led by four at halftime. Davidson stayed close for most of the second half, but the Buckeyes put together enough offense to win, 70-62. Johnson was brilliant for Davidson, as he thoroughly outplayed Ohio State star Terence Dials. In addition to the seven seniors, Davidson received outstanding performances from sophomores Thomas Sander, Boris Meno and Jason Richards. Freshmen Andrew Lovedale, Max Paulhus Gosselin and Can Civi made major contributions to the team’s success, as did junior John Falconi. Stephen Rossiter received an injury redshirt, and he and Lamar Hull were superb practice players who helped Davidson prepare for upcoming opponents. Davidson ended the season with 20 wins, 11 losses, a Southern Conference championship, and the invitation to the Big Dance. The Wildcats didn’t just show up for the NCAA Tournament, either. They went to Dayton to win the game - and almost did it. It was a season of great memories for all of the Wildcats, especially for the seven seniors, all of whom earned their degrees.
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FEATURE ON THE 2005 NIT TEAM
2005 NIT / 2002 NCAA TEAMS
The 2004-05 Wildcats had some close calls in Southern Conference regular-season play, but always found a way to win in compiling a sparkling 16-0 record, a full four games better than the second-place team in the South Division and six games better than the North Division champion. Davidson is the first conference team ever to go through the regular season at 16-0. How impressive was that unbeaten conference record? Only one Division I basketball team in the nation other than Davidson went unbeaten in its conference regular season — the University of the Pacific. “Our 16-0 record in conference play is an experience that will stay with the players forever,” coach Bob McKillop said. “It was a magic carpet ride.” Unfortunately for the Wildcats, they ran into a red-hot UNC Greensboro team in the semifinals of the Southern Conference tournament and lost, 73-68. The defeat left Davidson with a record of 21-8 and the bitter disappointment of not making the 65-team NCAA Tournament field. However, Davidson was invited to the postseason NIT and made the most of it. The Wildcats went on the road and won by 77-62 at Virginia Commonwealth, and then scored
an impressive 82-71 victory before a loud and appreciative audience at South-west Missouri State, a win that McKillop calls “one of the best we’ve ever had here.” Continuing its excellent play, Davidson built a 17-point first-half lead at Maryland before faltering in the second half and losing to the Terps of the ACC, 78-63. The Wildcats had to feel good about the way they rallied themselves from the deep disappointment of not making the NCAA tournament to playing some of their best basketball of the season in the NIT. Instead of sulking and feeling sorry for themselves, they went at the NIT with exceptional excitement and determination, even though all of their games in the tournament were tough road contests. The team’s final record was 23-9. “In order for us to respond so well in the NIT after not making the NCAA Tournament, it had to be an internal response from our team. It was a credit to our seniors, Logan Kosmalski and Conor Grace, as well as an outstanding class of junior leaders,” McKillop said. “It’s a great statement about the kind of people we have in our program.” It was also a year of superlatives for the ’Cats. Kosmalski and team-leading scorer Brendan Winters made the All-Southern
Brendan Winters led the Wildcats to their first two victories ever in the NIT.
Conference team, with Winters also being named the conference’s Player of the Year. Winters was named honorable mention AllAmerica by the Associated Press and selected to the USBWA All-District III team, the only non-ACC player to make the squad. McKillop capped his 16th year as head coach of the Wildcats by taking conference Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time.
FEATURE ON THE 2002 NCAA TEAM
Peter Anderer led the ’Cats into the 2002 NCAA Tournament and was named SoCon Tournament MVP.
Coming off a 15-17 record in 2001, and with virtually the same players back for the 2001-02 season, coach Bob McKillop felt game experience would help restore Davidson basketball to its winning ways. There was a catch: Davidson needed to stay healthy. Injuries had ravaged the ’Cats’ chances in 2001, and McKillop was looking for better luck. He knew he had experienced players in seniors Michael Bree, Emeka Erege, Martin Ides and Fern Tonella. In addition, Chris Pearson, Wayne Bernard, Peter Anderer and Michel Lusakueno were juniors, most with game experience.
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Unfortunately, injuries struck the team again. Erege endured a painful leg injury while Bree hurt his elbow in the Southern Conference Tournament, which kept him out of the NCAA Tournament. “This team will be remembered for fighting through many challenges, yet finding a way to succeed,” Coach McKillop said. “We had injury after injury, but the resilience of the players was inspiring. For instance, when (Bree) was hurt, Wayne, Terrell (Ivory) and Fern took over as a point guard committee and did a terrific job.” McKillop also praised the senior leadership on the team. “The team bonded in a way that those seniors are still extremely close to this day,” he said. The Wildcats ended the regular season tied with UNC Greensboro and East Tennessee State atop the Southern Conference North Division standings with a league mark of 11-5. Davidson headed to Charleston for the conference tournament knowing that it had to win three tough games in order to get an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. After beating The Citadel, 71-58, and Wildcat nemesis UNC Greensboro, 68-58, Davidson found a way to overcome a 28-24 halftime deficit and rally to beat Furman in the championship game, 62-57. Anderer picked up the ’Cats in the second half, hitting five three-pointers, and in one stretch scoring 17 of Davidson’s 19 points. He dropped in two clutch free throws with
eight seconds left to seal the victory. His sterling play netted him the tournament’s MVP award. The win sent Davidson to Albuquerque, N.M., for the NCAA Tournament as a 13 seed to face Ohio State. The 13,661 fans in The Pit quickly jumped on the side of the underdog Wildcats, who fought and scrapped and trailed only 33-32 at halftime. Davidson got a sensational game from Ides, who scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Davidson led the game late at 59-58, but senior Brian Brown scored Ohio State’s next eight points to give the Buckeyes a 6561 lead with 2:35 to play. An Anderer 3pointer with 35 seconds on the clock shaved the deficit to one point. After two OSU free throws, Bernard broke open down the lane off the dribble, but his layup attempt tantalized the crowd by rolling off the rim. Ohio State prevailed, 69-64, yet the fans gave the Wildcats a standing ovation as they left the court. “It was a special team,” Coach McKillop said, “one that left us with many extraordinary memories.” Including one of the biggest wins in the program’s storied history, a 58-54 win over North Carolina in the Smith Center in Chapel Hill.
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Stephen Marshall attempts to dribble around Michigan’s Robert Traylor at the NCAA Tournament.
The Wildcats had high hopes for the 1997-98 basketball season. A strong cast of players returned, led by senior guards Mark Donnelly and Billy Armstrong, junior point guard Ali Ton, 6-0, junior forwards Ben Ebong and Chadd Holmes, and sophomores Landry Kosmalski, Stephen Marshall and Davor Halbauer, 6-3. Davidson finished 18-10 the previous season. Recent Davidson teams had produced 20-win seasons, trips to the NIT but the goal for 1998 was to get over the hump: win the Southern Conference Tournament and go to the NCAA
Tournament. Davidson and Appalachian State finished tied for first place in the SoCon’s North Division with records of 13-2. In the quarterfinals, the Wildcats got their tournament legs in a 74-68 defeat of Georgia Southern behind 20 points from Ton. The Citadel focused on shutting down Davidson’s perimeter game in the semifinals, so the ’Cats went inside and highlighted Stephen Marshall, who hit nine of 12 shots and scored 27 points. Ben Ebong came off the bench for 11 points and 10 rebounds, as Davidson won 68-59 to advance to the title game, fittingly against rival Appalachian State. It was a terrific game, back and forth the entire way. Ebong’s shot in the lane late kept Davidson ahead and directed the Wildcats to a 66-62 victory and the conference championship. Ebong was named tournament MVP and joined teammates Marshall and Donnelly on the all-tournament team with Ton making the second team. Appalachian State lost only three games all season to Southern Conference teams — all of them to Davidson. The Wildcats were off to Atlanta to play Michigan of the Big Ten in the first round
of the Southeast Region of the NCAAs. Riding a 12-game winning streak, Davidson kept it close for a while before the powerful Wolverines and Robert “Tractor” Traylor pulled away for an 80-61 victory. “Mark Donnelly and Billy Armstrong were our senior leaders,” coach Bob McKillop said. “The team hit the wall with a demanding schedule early, and we struggled in December. But we turned the corner the first week of conference play and really got going.” It was the Davidson team that returned the Wildcats to the national spotlight in the NCAA Tournament – for the first time in 12 years. “This team accomplished a lot for our program,” McKillop said.
FEATURE ON THE 1996 NIT TEAM Fans who have followed Davidson basketball for many years probably would say that the 1995-96 team is one of the best in school history. The team had a little bit of everything: five gifted seniors, explosive scoring that saw four players average double digit scoring for the season, three outstanding shot blockers, a defensive stopper in Jeff Anderson, quality depth and an offense that produced 123 more assists than its opponents on the way to a scoring average of 84.3 points a game. On average, Davidson outscored opponents by 16 points a game. Examples: 88-56 over East Tennessee State, 106-57 over Marshall, 71-46 over Georgia Southern, 90-68 over Appalachian State. Those were all Southern Conference opponents. Davidson cruised through the SoCon regular season, winning the North Division by four games and seldom playing a close game while posting a league record of 14 wins, no losses. Senior Brandon Williams led the Davidson scoring parade at 18.2 a game. He could take it inside with his athleticism or outside with his velvet shooting touch, one that resulted in making 40.7 percent of this 3pointers. He had plenty of help. Classmate Quinn Harwood scored 13.9 points a game, sophomore Ray Minlend checked in with 12.1 points a game, and junior Narcisse Ewodo averaged 10.1 points. The quarterback was senior point guard Chris Alpert who contributed 9.4 points and averaged 4.3 assists. Bench scoring was terrific — Mark
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Donnelly (6.1 points), Anderson (5.5), Ben Ebong (5.5). Davidson had to earn its stripes all over again in the league tournament in order to get an automatic bid to the NCAAs. The quest began in the opening round by beating East Tennessee State for the third time, this time by 24 points. In the semifinals the ’Cats beat Marshall, also for the third time in the season, this one by 15 points. Then came the game that could punch Davidson’s ticket to the NCAAs. The championship game opponent was Western Carolina, which Davidson played only once during the regular season. The ’Cats prevailed 98-85, at Western in early February. An athletic team that won the South Division regular-season title in the with a 10-4 record, the Catamounts averaged 81 points a game during the season. The title game turned into a defensive struggle between two offensiveminded teams, and Western won, 69-60. The Wildcats ended their regular season with a mark of 25 wins against only four losses. They had reason to hope — even to believe — that they be would selected as an at-large entry to the tournament. When it didn’t happen, Davidson was dejected, but still accepted a bid to the NIT. The first-round game was at South Carolina, which won decisively, 100-79. “It was a shocking end to our season,” Coach McKillop said of the loss to Western Carolina. “We had five seniors on the team and their dream was to play in the NCAA
As a junior, Narcisse Ewodo averaged just over 10 points per game for the 1996 NIT club.
Tournament. The disappointment of not going to the NCAAs lingered as we prepared to play South Carolina in the NIT. Not getting to the NCAAs will forever haunt that team.” The accomplishments were many, and McKillop knows it ranks as one of his best Davidson teams.team. Appalachian State lost only three games all season to Southern Conference teams — all of them to Davidson.
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Davidson’s 1993-94 basketball team wasn’t viewed in the preseason as one that would make a serious run at the Southern Conference championship or a berth in a postseason tournament. The Wildcats were coming off a 14-14 season in 1993, and coach Bob McKillop’s rebuilding job was still a work in progress. But Davidson’s players saw things differently. They wanted a taste of postseason basketball and thought they could achieve it. With seniors Janko Narat and Jason Zimmerman leading the way with their skills and leadership, Davidson defeated UNC Charlotte twice, beat Clemson and won a one-point game at N.C. State. Sophomore Brandon Williams gave Davidson athleticism and 14.4 points and 6.3 rebounds a game, but Narat was the team’s go-to guy. He averaged 17.7 points while shooting 51.2 percent from the field and 81.9 percent from the free throw line. A versatile player, he could score from the perimeter or back his defender inside for some deadly turnaround jumpers. Junior center George Spain used his left-handed shooting skill to average 10.1 points while Chris Alpert, the point guard, chipped in with 8.1 points and a team-
leading 130 assists. Quinn Harwood, 6-9, sophomore averaged 7.9 points and Zimmerman 6.8 points. The defensive stopper was Jeff Anderson, a versatile sophomore who could guard three positions on the court. The Wildcats won 15 of their last 18 games on their way to a final record of 22-8. They were 13-5 conference play in the regular season, good for second place. The ’Cats advanced to the league championship game against UT-Chattanooga and had a real chance to win it with seconds left, but a shot in the lane failed and the Mocs held on for a 65-64 win. Davidson’s season wasn’t over, however. It received a bid to the NIT where it lost to West Virginia, 85-69. “Our disappointment of losing in the conference championship game and not making the NCAA Tournament was tempered somewhat because our team overachieved,” McKillop said. “We got great leadership from Zimmerman, who became an even better leader when he was removed from the starting lineup. Our lack of postseason experience, on the part of coaches and players, was very evident in our game against West Virginia. We were just so
Brandon Williams averaged 14.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the Wildcats in 1993-94.
happy to be in the NIT that we didn’t play our best. But we had an excellent senior class (Narat, Zimmerman, Ron Horton, Chris Shields) and a terrific season.” There were superlatives, too. Narat and Zimmerman surpassed 1,000 points in their excellent Davidson careers. Narat was named to the All-Southern Conference team and McKillop, in his fifth season as Davidson’s head coach, was named conference Coach of the Year.
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The 1985-86 Wildcats of coach Bobby Hussey lost its last two games of the regular season on its way to championship dreams in the Southern Conference Tournament. Davidson lost 66-57 at Marshall and 76-70 at VMI to finish that part of its season with 17 wins and 10 losses. Maybe it was a good omen, because when Davidson traveled to Asheville, N.C. to open play in the SoCon Tournament four days later, VMI was the first-round opponent. Davidson would be ready. Davidson finished 10-6 in the Southern Conference regular season, tied with Marshall for second place behind 12-4 UTChattanooga. The Wildcats had not played in an NCAA Tournament since 1970, a long dry spell for a program that had lived in the national spotlight under Lefty Driesell in the ’60s. Davidson and VMI had split two regularseason games with the ’Cats winning by seven at home and losing by six in Lexington, Va. In the rubber game, Davidson’s Derek Rucker scored 17 points and Gerry Born had 14 points and 10 rebounds as the ’Cats took their first SoCon Tournament win since 1982, by the score of 71-62. Anthony “Ace” Tanner and Jeff Himes each scored 15 points to help Davidson avenge that loss to the Keydets just four nights earlier. Davidson’s semifinal game was against East Tennessee State. It was back and forth for most of the game. Davidson jumped to a good lead early only to see ETSU rally and tie
the game at halftime. The Bucs led by four with 7:43 to play, but a 10-2 Davidson rally put the Wildcats on top 58-54 with 3:46 to play en route to a 74-65 victory. Davidson had five players score in double figures: Tanner with 17, Born, Rucker, and Himes with 12, and Jim McConkey with 10. The championship game opponent was UT-Chattanooga. Davidson led by 10 early in the game, but UTC rallied to take a secondhalf lead in a low-scoring game. The game was tied with just seconds remaining when Born hit a 22-foot shot to win it for the Wildcats, 42-40. Born was named the tournament’s most valuable player and was joined on the all-tournament team by teammates Rucker and Tanner. The 20-10 record heading into the NCAA Tournament was Davidson’s best in 16 seasons. Rucker led the ’Cats in scoring at 14 points a game, followed by Born at 11.0, Himes at 10.2, Chris Heineman at 9.0 and Tanner at 7.9. The reward for the conference championship was a trip to Charlotte to face another breed of cat — the mighty Wildcats of Kentucky. Davidson battled Kentucky close for much of the first half but fell behind by 12 at halftime. Kentucky was never threatened in the second half en route to an impressive 75-55 victory. Born and Himes led Davidson’s scoring with 13 points each while Rucker added 10. Kentucky had a massive advantage on the backboards, 39-19.
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As a young coach, Terry Holland was outspoken and optimistic about his outlook for his Davidson basketball teams. Before the start of Davidson’s 1971-72 season, Holland was quoted, “Our returning veterans, Eric Minkin, Joe Sutter and John Pecorak can give us the leadership and experience we need to go with the youthful enthusiasm of the sophomores. As coaches we feel this combination is capable of 20 wins and an NCAA berth.” Holland’s prediction came within a game of being correct. Davidson ended the season 19-9 and 8-2 in the Southern
five players averaging double digits in points: Falconi led followed by Sutter (15.7), John Pecorak (11.5), Minkin (11.5), sophomore Mike Sorrentino (10.9). Sophomore T. Jay Pecorak (John’s brother) averaged 9.6 points a game. While the team’s goal was the conference tournament championship and an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament, Davidson was invited to the National Invitation Tournament for the first time in the school’s history. It should be understood that in this era the NIT was almost as prestigious as the NCAA Tournament. In fact, in the late 1960s, coach Al McGuire of Marquette turned down an NCAA bid to accept one to the NIT. Davidson went to New York to play in Madison Square Garden, maybe the most famous building in the world for basketball. The opponent was Syracuse, which defeated Davidson in a squeaker, 81-77. Falconi led the Davidson scorers with 21 points while Minkin hauled down 13 rebounds. New Yorkers Falconi and Sorrentino were thrilled with the chance to play in New York and the storied Garden. Sutter missed the NIT as he kept an earlier commitment to take part in a foreign exchange program in Mexico.
FEATURE ON THE 1970 NCAA TEAM The storybook era of Davidson basketball under coach Lefty Driesell ended in the spring of 1969 when he resigned to become basketball coach at the University of Maryland, which he vowed to turn into “the UCLA of the East.” Driesell’s first recruit at Davidson and his former assistant coach, Terry Holland, was chosen to replace him as the Wildcats head coach. It was a good year to take the job. Davidson was 27-3 the year before, and returning were stars Mike Maloy, Doug Cook and Jerry Kroll, plus precocious sophomore Bryan Adrian. Holland was excited. Before the season began, he said, “There isn’t any limit to what we can do. A national championship is a possibility.” Davidson made Holland look good when it ran the table in the Southern Conference, going 10-0 in the regular season and then romping through the conference tournament without playing in a close game. Outside the league, Davidson defeated Michigan, Georgia, Syracuse, Princeton and South Carolina, and lost by three points to Duke in overtime before a sellout crowd in the old Charlotte Coliseum. Champions of the Southern Conference, the Wildcats played St. Bonaventure in a first-round NCAA tournament game. Going against a St. Bonaventure team that featured 6-11 superstar Bob Lanier, who would go on to
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have a great career in the NBA, Davidson led 36-34 at halftime but eventually lost, 8572. Lanier was just too much. He had 28 points, 15 rebounds, and his shot-blocking prowess made it tough on Maloy and Cook inside, as they combined to take only 24 shots, 11 of which were made. Davidson went to the perimeter game with Adrian taking 26 shots and making 12 en route to a 28-point performance. Davidson didn’t help itself by making only 16-of-26 free throws. With four offensive stars on the team, Holland wisely directed his offense to suit them. Of the 846 field goals that Davidson scored during the season, Maloy, Cook, Kroll and Adrian hit 660 of them. Adrian averaged 20.2 points a game, Maloy 17.4, Cook 15.6 and Kroll 13.4. Cook led the team in field-goal percentage at .500. Maloy averaged 12.7 rebounds and Cook 10.2 The era of Maloy, Cook and Kroll ended with a 22-5 season. Over their three varsity seasons, Davidson won 73 games, lost only 13, and played in the NCAA Tournament each season, twice advancing to the Elite Eight where they lost to North Carolina each time. The Wildcats were prominently in the national picture during the entire MaloyCook-Kroll era. It was a special time in the village.
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FEATURE ON THE 1972 NIT TEAM Conference regular season, which put the Wildcats atop the league standings. After beating Appalachian State, 87-77, in the opening round of the Southern Conference Tournament, the Wildcats lost a heartbreaker in the semifinals to ECU, 81-77, thereby losing out on an NCAA trip. It was an interesting season for Holland and his Wildcats. In his third year as Davidson’s head coach, the former Wildcat star player and assistant coach welcomed back a roster of one senior, two juniors and 10 sophomores. Freshmen were ineligible for varsity play, so this represented one of the youngest teams in major college basketball. Sutter, a 6-7 junior, averaged 15.9 points and 7.6 rebounds the previous season when the Wildcats finished 15-11. Minkin averaged 10.8 points and 7.7 rebounds, and Pecorak scored 7.4 points a game and pulled 6.4 rebounds. The most ballyhooed of the sophomores was John Falconi, who averaged 25.5 points for the Davidson freshman team. “We expect him to do equally well against varsity competition,” Holland said. Falconi didn’t disappoint anyone in red and black, as he led the ’Cats in scoring at 16.1 points a game. Davidson proved to be an extremely hard team to guard as a balanced attack resulted in
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Sometimes Lefty Driesell, the former Davidson coach who guided the Wildcats to the rarefied air of the nation’s Top 10 basketball teams, sits in his beachfront house in Virginia Beach, Va., looking out at the ocean and wondering which of his many Davidson basketball teams was his best. Was it the brilliant 1964-65 team of Fred Hetzel, Don Davidson, Barry Teague, Dick Snyder and other standouts that finished the season with 24 wins against only two losses? It well could have been. Sports Illustrated picked Davidson number one in the nation in the preseason. That team beat Wake Forest twice by seven points each time, hammered Ohio State by 23, beat Virginia by 12, Alabama by 17, and dominated the tough Southern Conference, going unbeaten against the league in the regular season. It included two victories over conference rival West Virginia by nine and 23 points. What galls Driesell to this day is that team, as splendid as it was, didn’t even get a chance to play in the postseason when it lost by two points to West Virginia in the conference tournament championship game, a loss that broke a 23-game winning streak. The ’Cats were ranked sixth in the nation in the final poll of the season. “That team was good enough to make a serious run at the national championship,” Driesell said recently. “It had everything: good shooters, excellent rebounders and scorers, good ball handlers, and we could flat out play some defense.” Or maybe it was Davidson’s 1968-69 powerhouse team, which won 27 games and lost three, and was mere seconds away from going to the NCAA Final Four. “This is the team that won more games than any team I coached at Davidson,” Driesell said, “so maybe it was the best we ever had.” Certainly, a good case could be made for it. The ’Cats finished third in the nation in the final poll. It was a team that had experience, depth, great rebounding, scorers, excellent ball handlers and defensive stoppers. In an effort to build his program and put it on a national stage, Driesell never ducked
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tough non-conference games. The1968-69 team demonstrated the truth in that statement, as it defeated Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Maryland, Texas, Michigan, Wake Forest, Duke and Princeton. Again unbeaten in regular-season conference play, the Wildcats had to prove it all over again in the conference tournament, which it did by routing VMI, Richmond and ECU. It was a veteran and gifted team that Driesell took to the NCAA Tournament. Three juniors that came to Davidson in the same recruiting class made up the starting frontcourt: Mike Maloy, Doug Cook and Jerry Kroll. They complemented each other perfectly. Maloy was quicker than bad news and almost impossible to guard in the post and keep off the offensive glass. He was a ferocious rebounder and shot blocker. Cook was competitive, tough, liked to get inside and bang for position, and he could score from the low block. He and Maloy formed a rebounding tandem that gave opponents fits. Kroll was more of a finesse player, a player with savvy who could score, defend and rebound, and never lost his cool. The senior backcourt was special, featuring Wayne Huckel, 6-3, at the two-guard, and Dave Moser, 6-1, at the point. Those two had played on the varsity together for three seasons and fit like a hand in a glove. Two excellent seniors — Mike O’Neill and Mike Spann — were available off the bench. Davidson opened NCAA Tournament play with a 14-point win over Villanova. Then it was off to College Park, Md., for the East Regionals. After defeating St. John’s, 79-69, old nemesis North Carolina stood between Davidson and the Final Four. Ironically, one of UNC’s stars was Charlie Scott, a superstar who had verbally committed to Davidson during his high school recruitment but changed his mind. The game that ensued was befitting of two superpowers. Close the entire way and heatedly contested, Davidson had the ball with under a minute to play in a tie game and was holding for the final shot. Kroll reversed his dribble near mid-court, and when he moved in the opposite direction he collided with North Carolina’s Gerald Tuttle, who had positioned himself to take a charge, which was the offi-
Doug Cook, SoCon Tourney MVP
cial’s call. Possession to North Carolina. In the UNC timeout huddle, coach Dean Smith told Scott, “They will be looking for you to take the final shot, so be patient, and if you see an open teammate, get him the ball.” Scott controlled the ball and never intended to give it up. It was a final shot that he later said he wanted badly. With the scoreboard clock beating down to zero, and the score tied at 85, Scott got just inside the foul circle, jumped and fired. Nothing but net. The shot had such important meaning to so many people that some, including Driesell, believe Scott took the shot from deep on the court, from what would now be well beyond the 3point arc. Tapes of the game, however, show that the winning shot was from about 18 feet, just inside the foul circle. Whatever the recollections of fans of both schools, everyone remembers Scott’s great game when he led all scorers with 32 points, which overshadowed the superb 13-rebound performance by Maloy. As the North Carolina bench exploded with joy on the home court of the Maryland Terps, Lefty Driesell dropped to his knees in front of Davidson’s bench, buried his head in his hands and stayed there for what seemed like an eternity. “We played great, and it was a tough loss to take,” Driesell said. It was the second year in a row that North Carolina had denied Davidson a trip to the Final Four. The 1968-69 Wildcats won more games (27) than any Davidson basketball team in history. So, was it Davidson’s best basketball team ever? “It could be,” Driesell said. “It won more games than any of my teams there. But some of my other teams were really good, too, so it’s hard for me to say.” The game with Carolina turned out to be Driesell’s last at Davidson. In the spring of 1969, he left to accept the head coaching position at the University of Maryland.
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Davidson’s 1967-68 Wildcats were an exciting blend of youth and experience, a combination so lethal that it had coach Lefty Driesell and the team’s fans thinking of a trip to the NCAA Final Four. Rodney Knowles, 6-9, was a senior frontcourt player who averaged 18.4 points and 12 rebounds as a junior, a season in which the rebuilding Wildcats won 15 games and lost 12. Key returning players from the 1966-67 team also included starting point guard Dave Moser (8.9 points), sharp-shooting wing Mike O’Neill (11.1 points, 5.4 rebounds), the swashbuckling Wayne Huckel, 6-3, who averaged 16.8 points as a junior, and was so tough that he wore baseball sliding pads to help survive the skid marks he received from diving on the floor. Tom Youngdale (10.7 points), and Mike Spann (5.5 points) also returned, among others. Joining those talented players were sophomores Doug Cook, Mike Maloy and Jerry Kroll (freshmen weren’t eligible to play varsity basketball in this era). As usual, the Wildcats under Driesell didn’t dodge a fight. They played the likes of Michigan, Vanderbilt, Memphis State, St. Joseph’s, St. John’s, Temple, Wake Forest
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and Duke. It was a splendid team, defensively tough and one of relentless rebounders. Davidson, led by Maloy’s average of 11.7 rebounds a game, out-rebounded opponents on a average of nine a game, and the stifling man-to-man defense that Driesell drilled into his players each afternoon resulted in opponents shooting only 39.8 percent for the season, as opposed to Davidson’s 49.4 percent. Stopping the ’Cats on offense was a complicated equation. Five players scored in double figures, led by Maloy’s 15.6 points, with Moser just out of double digits with an 8.6point average. Driesell was a firm believer in attacking inside with high percentage shots, which resulted in Davidson taking 134 more foul shots than its opponents. Davidson went through the Southern Conference regular season with a record of 91, and then won the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. The ’Cats beat St. John’s in the NCAA opener, 7970. It was off to Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh for the East Regionals, where Davidson was to meet Columbia of the Ivy League and North Carolina was to play unbeaten and third-ranked St. Bonaventure. North Carolina had a surprisingly easy time with Bob Lanier and St. Bonaventure (91-72) while Davidson eked out a 61-59 overtime win over Columbia. It set up a showdown between UNC and Davidson, a game Driesell had been clamoring for publicly. North Carolina coach Dean Smith had a policy that he would not play instate schools during the regular season other than the ones in the ACC, and it galled Driesell, who accused Smith of ducking him. Reynolds Coliseum was filled to capacity (12,600) on Saturday night, March 16, 1968. A heavyweight battle was expected by fans and the media, and one resulted. Smith’s philosophy was to play his bench in and keep fresh players in the game. Tired players could remove themselves from the game and put themselves back in when they were rested. Driesell, on the other hand, believed in playing his five starters and maybe one or two reserves. In this game, North Carolina played eight players and Davidson six. Davidson’s starters of Moser, Huckel, Maloy, Kroll and Knowles were relieved by O’Neill, who scored seven points and pulled five rebounds in a superb performance. It was scintillating game from the outset. With the crowd roaring and often standing, Davidson took the early lead behind its defense and led at halftime, 34-28. UNC shot 39.4 percent in the first half to Davidson’s 41.9 percent. However, North Carolina also prided itself on its defense, and while Driesell preferred straight man-to-man, with no switching, North Carolina went with a defensive smorgasbord of man-to-man, halfcourt traps and a point zone. North Carolina turned the tables in the second half, holding Davidson to 29.4 percent shooting from the field while the Tar Heels connected on 48.3
Mike Maloy was a big reason the ‘Cats won the SoCon Tourney and advanced to the Elite Eight.
percent of its second-half shots. North Carolina won the game, 70-66, for the right to advance to the NCAA Final Four. But it was a sensational battle, one so good that an encore was needed. Moser and Maloy played all 40 minutes in the game for Davidson, with Knowles going 39 minutes. Four Wildcats scored in double figures, led by Maloy’s 18 points and 13 rebounds. Knowles cashed in 12 rebounds as Davidson dominated the backboards, 47-37. Ironically, North Carolina’s two leading scorers in the game, Rusty Clark (22 points, 17 rebounds) and Charlie Scott (18 points, six rebounds), were recruited extensively by Driesell. “People need to remember that the NCAA didn’t seed teams in those days,” Driesell said. “They kept you in your own section of the country. There were very few good teams in the West then and a bunch of good ones in the East. If the system had been in place then that’s in use now, Davidson and North Carolina both would have been No. 1 seeds. We wouldn’t have met before the Final Four. It’s a shame that we did, because both of us had great teams, in 1968 and 1969.” Davidson ended its season with a record of 24 wins, five losses. With so many talent ed players returning, the best was ahead, another great season that would result in yet another classic battle with the team from Chapel Hill.
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FEATURE ON THE 1966 NCAA TEAM
1996 NCAA TEAM
Coach Lefty Driesell believed that his Davidson basketball team faced a mammoth rebuilding in 1965-66, which was true. After all, the Wildcats had lost to graduation All-America and Southern Conference Player of the Year Fred Hetzel as well as stars Don Davidson and Barry Teague from the previous year’s team that compiled a record of 24-2. Hetzel scored 2,032 points in his three varsity seasons, while Davidson was a tough defender and doubledigit scorer and Teague was a talented, reliable point guard. The three had started for the Wildcats for three years and catapulted Davidson into the national basketball picture. To continue on the national stage in 1966, Driesell would have to depend on three inexperienced sophomores (freshmen were not eligible to play varsity basketball in those days.) But there was some good news, too. Some very good news. Back for his senior season was Dick Snyder, one of the greatest players in Davidson basketball history. Snyder had averaged 15.9 points a game as a sophomore and 20.2 points as a junior. In addition, he was one of the best defensive players in all of college basketball. “I can’t think of a man I’d trade him for,” Driesell said before the start of the season. But if Davidson were going to succeed, Snyder couldn’t do it alone. New faces would have to step up. They included Phil Squier, 511, an inexperienced senior, and sophomores Rodney Knowles, 6-8, Tom Youngdale, 6-10, and Bobby Lane, 6-3. “We lacked experience, but those guys certainly achieved a lot,” Driesell said.”
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That they did. Davidson won seven of its first eight, losing the opener to Wake Forest by one point before dropping a five-point decision to Navy in the Charlotte Invitational Tournament. The ’Cats entered the SoCon Tournament with a record of 17-5, meaning they would have to win the tournament championship in order to advance to the NCAA tournament. They were up to the task, defeating Syracuse defeated Davidson 94-78. A consolation game to decide third place was played in the regionals in those days and Davidson lost to St. Joseph’s, 92-76, to end its season. It was a good year, maybe even an overachieving one, as Davidson finished with 21 wins and seven defeats. The Wildcats accomplished their mission of keeping Davidson basketball in the national spotlight, while giving Driesell time to load up with more talent. “Twenty-one wins is about as much as anyone could have expected from that team,” Driesell recalls. “They accomplished a lot.” Snyder won All-America honors with an absolutely sensational season. Even with all opponents gunning for him and often doubleteaming him, he averaged 26.9 points a game while shooting 56.3 percent from the field and 79.7 percent on his free throws. But offense was just part of Snyder’s game. He pulled 9.2 rebounds a game, and was Davidson’s best defensive player. “He was an absolutely great defensive player,” Driesell said. “I usually put him on the other team’s top scorer, and it was normal for him to hold the guy to 10 points less than his season’s average.” A master recruiter, Driesell said that the father of one of his Davidson players, Don Davidson, had seen Snyder play a high school football game in North Canton, Ohio. “Mr. Davidson called me,” Driesell said, “and told me he saw this great quarterback play, and the kid had jumped over a tackler in the open field on his way to a touchdown.” Intrigued by a football athlete with such speed and jumping skills, Driesell was off to North Canton to recruit Snyder. Ranked as one of the best high school football quarterbacks in the country, the big football schools were lined up to recruit him, including Ohio State and Notre Dame. But on the recruiting trail, Driesell took a back seat to no one, including Notre Dame football. He and Snyder had a great visit, the coach recalls, but Driesell said that Snyder told him he was going to the U.S. Naval Academy. “I gave him my telephone number and told him to call me if he changed his mind,” Driesell said. Not long afterwards, Driesell got the call he coveted. Snyder, Driesell said, was color blind and couldn’t be admitted to Annapolis. He wanted to come to Davidson and join the basketball revolution. “The day he signed with us,” Driesell said, “Notre Dame had people in his house trying to talk him into playing football for the Irish.” Getting Snyder to come to Davidson was
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worth all the work that Driesell put into it. He ended up as an All-American, the 1966 Southern Conference Player of the Year, and scored 1,703 points in just three seasons of varsity basketball. He went on to an extremely successful career in the NBA. He held Oscar Robertson, who many people think is the best guard in the history of basketball, to 14 points in one NBA game while scoring 14 himself. After the game, Snyder said, “Playing defense in the pros hasn’t been an especially difficult transition for me, because Coach Driesell taught me how to play it at Davidson.” While Snyder was the unquestioned leader and star, the 1965-66 Wildcats also got a sterling performance from Knowles, who averaged 19.4 points and led the team with 9.9 rebounds. Fellow sophomores Youngdale and Lane both averaged 10.2 points a game, while senior Squier scored 7.6 points a game. This Davidson team shot an impressive 51.2 percent from the field while holding opponents to 40.6 percent, and averaged 82.8 points a game. Pretty impressive for a rebuilding season. It was a typical Driesell-coached team: competitive, tough and defensive-minded, with good shooters and led by a superstar. They called Snyder “super horse” at Davidson. He was that and more, one of the greatest players ever to wear the red and black. “He was special, that’s for sure,” said Driesell. For good measure, Snyder also starred in baseball for the Wildcats. “When it came to athletics,” Driesell said, “Dick could do just about anything he wanted to. That even included riding a bicycle better than anybody else.”
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free ThroW perCenTage .578 .568 +6.8 +5.1 +5.3 +6.0 +6.5
3-poinT fg per game .828 .900 .833 .853
sCoring margin 1963-64 1964-65 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1995-96 2006-07
Fourth Eighth Eighth* Twenty-eighth* Twenty-eighth* Twelfth* Fourteenth* * Rebound Margin
66.3
Won-loss perCenTage 1967-68 1968-69 1995-96 2006-07
1962-63 1963-64 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
2002-03 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Third Eighth Eighth Seventh
10.0 8.9 8.9 9.6
1962-63 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1967-68 1973-74 1980-81 1995-96
Seventh First (NCAA record at time) Second Second Seventh Ninth Eleventh Twenty-fifth
First Ninth Eighth Fifth Sixth Eleventh Third Ninth Third Second Fourth Fourth Fourth Ninth
.710 .744 .740 .762 .757 .747 .783 .762 .762 .779 .772 .751 .778 .761
3-poinT fielD goal perCenTage
fielD goal perCenTage 18.8 17.6 11.6 13.5 11.8 15.0 12.6
1948-49 1962-63 1963-64 1965-66 1966-67 1971-72 1973-74 1978-79 1980-81 1984-85 1985-86 1993-94 2002-03 2005-06
.485 .544 .509 .512 .494 .505 .529 .479
2002-03
Second
.417
fg perCenTage Defense 2001-02 2002-03
Fourth Twelfth
.380 .397
assisTs per game 2002-03 2005-06
Tenth Third
17.0 18.3
D A V I D S O N
all-ameriCan
fRED hEtzEl
1949
Cheek excelled in two sports — football and basketball — at Davidson and was instrumental in one of the Wildcats’ most successful basketball eras. He led Davidson to records of 17-8, 19-9, and 18-8 (54-25) in his three seasons with the Wildcats. Cheek was the first Davidson player to score 1,000 points in his career (including a freshman season at Tulane). He was an all-state and All-Southern Conference selection as a center in basketball and a third team Helms Foundation All-America selection in 1949. Cheek also played offensive and defensive end for the ’Cats in football, he leading the team with 16 receptions in 1948.
all-ameriCan
1963, 1964, 1965
Davidson’s first three-time All-American, Fred Hetzel led Davidson’s basketball rebirth in the mid-1960s under head coach Lefty Driesell. The three-time Southern Conference Player of the Year helped Davidson to their first ever national rankings. The center from Washington D.C., finished his career as Davidson’s all-time leader in points (2,032) and rebounds (1,111). He was an inaugural inductee into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989-90.
MiKE MaloY all-ameriCan
DiCK snYDER all-ameriCan
Following in Hetzel’s footsteps, Snyder was the Southern Conference Player of the Year and an All-America selection in his senior season. Snyder had a jump shot that one writer described as, “softer than a Carolina sunrise.” Snyder’s sweet jumper allowed him to score 1,693 points in his career while averaging 26.9 per game during his AllAmerican season. Considered the best defensive player ever under Coach Lefty Driesell, Snyder was inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame with Hetzel in 1989-90.
John gERDY
1968, 1969, 1970
A three-time All-America selection, Maloy led Davidson to three straight Southern Conference titles and as many trips to the NCAA Tournament. Maloy’s teams were a win away from the Final Four two years in a row but lost each time to the University of North Carolina. He is Davidson’s all-time leading rebounder and sixth-leading scorer.
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1966
WILDCAT ALL-AMERICANS
gEoRgE ChEEK
stEPhEn CURRY 1979
Gerdy is Davidson’s all-time leading scorer with 2,483 points. In 1979 he was named Southern Conference Athlete of the Year and listed as a Helms Foundation AllAmerican. He and Hetzel are the only Wildcats to break the 2,000- point barrier. Gerdy was inducted into the Davidson Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994-95.
freshman all-ameriCan 2007 As a freshman, Stephen Curry etched his named into the Davidson, SoCon and NCAA record books a number of times. Along with setting the school record for points by a freshman (730), Curry broke the NCAA standard for three-point field goals by a first-year player with 122. He concluded the 2006-07 campaign ninth nationally in scoring with an average of 21.5 per game.
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#21hobbyCobb Cobb is a member of the Davidson College Athletics Hall of Fame and ranks 13th on Davidson’s all-time scoring list with 1,409 points. He was the first player to score 1,000 points for Davidson, and also the first to average more than 20 points in a season, having accomplished the feat in both his junior and senior seasons. And although it has been 50 years since he graced the hardwood in a Wildcat uniform, he still ranks fourth all-time in rebounds. Cobb currently resides in Davidson and has a constant presence at practices, home and away games.
#33Johngerdy Gerdy is Davidson’s all-time leading scorer with 2,483 points and was selected as a member of the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1979, he was the Southern Conference Athlete of the Year and named to the Helms foundation All-America team. Gerdy was a third-round pick in the NBA draft. He earned his doctorate at Ohio University and is now a sports consultant living in Pennsylvania.
RETIRED JERSEYS
#44fredheTzel Hetzel, a charter member of the Davidson College Athletics Hall of Fame, led Davidson to its first national rankings in the mid-1960s and was a consensus All-American. He ranks second on Davidson’s all-time scoring list with 2,032 points. He and Mike Maloy are Davidson’s only players with more than 1,000 career points and rebounds. Hetzel was a first-round pick in the NBA Draft and played seven years of professional basketball for the San Francisco Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks. In 1996, he was named to the Southern Conference 75th Anniversary team. Hetzel is a successful realtor in Virginia.
#11derekruCker Rucker finished his Davidson career as the ’Cats’ all-time leader in assists (436) and steals (250). He also ranks third on the all-time scoring list with 1,952 points. He was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-American team twice and was a three-time winner of the John M. Belk MVP award. A three-time All-SoCon pick, Rucker played on the Davidson NCAA Tournament team which won the Southern Conference Tournament in 1986. Rucker was signed as a free agent by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1988 and for more than a decade played professionally in Australia.
#10diCksnyder Snyder, a charter member of the Davidson College Athletics Hall of Fame, was a first team All-American who led Davidson to its first Southern Conference championship and NCAA playoff appearance in 1966. He was a secondround pick in the National Basketball Association draft and starred 13 years for the St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns and Seattle Supersonics. He ranks fifth on Davidson’s all-time scoring list with 1,693 points. Snyder owns an insurance agency in Phoenix.
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D A V I D S O N
Brendan Winters .20041, ’051, ’061 Ian Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .’061 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .’071 Jason richards . . . . . . . . . . .’072
soCon CoaCh of The year Lefty Driesell . .1963, ’64, ’65, ’66 Terry Holland . . .1970, ’71, ’72 Bob mckillop .19941, ’961, ’972, . . . . . . . . . . .20023, 20051, 20071
soCon all-freshman Team Tommy Peters . . . . . . . . . .1943 Chris Dodds . . . . . . . . . . . .1978 Rich DiBenedetto . . . . . . .1978 Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1979 John Gullickson . . . . . . . . .1981 Jim McConkey . . . . . . . . . .1983 Chris Heineman . . . . . . . .1984 Jeff Himes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1985 Derek Rucker . . . . . . . . . . .1985 Jay Schmitt . . . . . . . . . . . . .1987 Chris Alpert . . . . . . . . . . . .1993 Ray Minlend . . . . . . . . . . .1995 Landry Kosmalski . . . . . . .1997 Wayne Bernard . . . . . . . . .2000 Ian Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . .2003 Brendan Winters . . . . . . . .2003 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . .2007
soCon player of The year Fred Hetzel . . . . .1963, ’64, ’65 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . .1966 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . .1969, ’70 Brendan Winters . . . . . . .20051 soCon freshman of The year Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . .19793 Landry Kosmalski . . . . . .19971 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . .20071 Media Association and SoCon Coaches 2 SoCon Coaches ~ 3Media Association
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TournamenT mvps Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . .1964, ’65 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . .1966 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . . . . . .1968 Doug Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . .1969 Doug Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . .1970 Gerry Born . . . . . . . . . . . . .1986 Derek Rucker . . . . . . . . . . .1987 Ben Ebong . . . . . . . . . . . . .1998 Peter Anderer . . . . . . . . . .2002 Brendan Winters . . . . . . . .2006 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . .2007 firsT Team all-soCon Tommy Peters . . . . . . . . . .1943 George “Buddy” Cheek . .1949 Hobby Cobb . . . . . . . . . . .1956 Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . . .1963-65 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . .1965-66 Rodney Knowles . . . . . . . .1967 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . . .1968-70 Jerry Kroll . . . . . . . . . . . . .1969 Bryan Adrian . . . . . . . . . . .1970 Doug Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . .1970 Joe Sutter . . . . . . . . . . . .1971-72 John Falconi . . . . . . . . .1972-73 Greg Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . .1974 John Gerdy . . . . . . . . . .1977-79 Rich DiBenedetto . . . . . . .1980 Todd Haynes . . . . . . . . . . .1981 Cliff Tribus . . . . . . . . . . . . .1982 Kenny Wilson . . . . . . . .1983-84 Derek Rucker . . . . . . . .1986-88 Jeff Himes . . . . . . . . . . . . .1988 Janko Narat . . . . . . . . . . . .19941 Brandon Williams . .19942, ’961 Quinn Harwood . . . . . . .19961 Narcisse Ewodo . . . . . . . .19972 Mark Donnelly . . . . .19972, ’981 Landry Kosmalski 19992, 20002 Ali Ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19992 Stephen Marshall . . . . . . .20001 Chris Pearson . . . . . . . . . .20022 Wayne Bernard . . . . . . . . .20032
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soCon all-TournamenT Tommy Peters . . . . . . . . . .1943 Jim Lowry . . . . . . . . . . . . .1944* Buddy Cheek . . . . . . . . . .1948* Bill Jarman . . . . . . . . . . . . .1963 Fred Hetzel . . . . .1963, ’64, ’65 Barry Teague . . . . . . . . . .1963* Don Davidson . . . . . . . . .1964* Dick Snyder . . . . . . . .1965*, ’66 Rodney Knowles . . .1966, ’67* Bobby Lane . . . . . . . . . . . .1966* Tom Youngdale . . . . . . . .1966* Wayne Huckel .1967, ’68*, ’69* Mike Maloy . . . . .1968, ’69, ’70 Doug Cook . . . . .1968*, ’69, ’70 Jerry Kroll . . . . . .1968*, ’69, ’70 Dave Moser . . . . . . .1968*, ’69* Bryan Adrian . . . . . . . . . .1970* Joe Sutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1971 John Falconi . . . . . . . . . . .1972* Greg Dunn . . . . . . . . .1973, ’74 Mike Sorrentino . . . . . . . .1973* Larry Horowitz . . . . . . . .1974* Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1982 Cliff Tribus . . . . . . . . . . . . .1982 Gerry Born . . . . . . . . . . . . .1986 Anthony Tanner . . . . . . . .1986 Derek Rucker . . . . . . .1986, ’87 Jeff Himes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1987 Janko Narat . . . . . . . .1993*, ’94 Brandon Williams . . .1994, ’96 Quinn Harwood . . . . . . . .1996 Chris Alpert . . . . . . . . . . .1996* Landry Kosmalski 1997*, 2000* Mark Donnelly . . . . . . . . .1998 Ben Ebong . . . . . . . . . . . . .1998 Stephen Marshall . . . . . . .1998 Ali Ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1998* Wayne Bernard . . . . . . . .2001* Peter Anderer . . . . . . . . . .2002 Chris Pearson . . . . . . . . . .2002 Emeka Erege . . . . . . . . . . .2002* Brendan Winters . .2005*, 2006 Ian Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . .2006
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Matt McKillop . . . . . . . . . .2006 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . .2007 Jason richards . . . . . . . . .2007 * Second Team
firsT Team all-Big souTh Jason Zimmerman . . . . . .1990 Detlef Musch . . . . . . .1990, ’91 John m. Belk mvp Joe Markee . . . . . . . . . . . . .1961 Bill Jarman . . . . . . . . . . . . .1962 Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . . . . .1963 Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . . . . .1964 Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . . . . .1965 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . .1966 Rodney Knowles . . . . . . .1967 Dave Moser . . . . . . . . . . . .1968 Dave Moser . . . . . . . . . . . .1969 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . . . . . .1970 Joe Sutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1971 Joe Sutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1972 John Falconi . . . . . . . . . . . .1973 Greg Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . .1974 Greg Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . .1975 Jay Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . .1976 John Gerdy . . . . . . . . . . . .1977 John Gerdy . . . . . . . . . . . .1978 John Gerdy . . . . . . . . . . . .1979 Rich DiBenedetto . . . . . . .1980 Todd Haynes . . . . . . . . . . .1981 Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . .1982 Kenny Wilson . . . . . . . . . .1983 Kenny Wilson . . . . . . . . . .1984 Gerry Born, Derek Rucker .1985 Gerry Born . . . . . . . . . . . . .1986 Derek Rucker . . . . . . . . . .1987 Derek Rucker, Jeff Himes .1988 Bruce Elder . . . . . . . . . . . .1989 Alan Hunter . . . . . . . . . . .1990 Detlef Musch . . . . . . . . . . .1991 Janko Narat . . . . . . . . . . . .1992 Detlef Musch . . . . . . . . . . .1993 Janko Narat . . . . . . . . . . . .1994 George Spain . . . . . . . . . . .1995 Brandon Williams . . . . . . .1996 Narcisse Ewodo . . . . . . . .1997 Mark Donnelly . . . . . . . . .1998 Landry Kosmalski . . . . . .1999 L. Kosmalski, Stephen Marshall . . . .2000 Wayne Bernard . . . . . . . . .2001 Michael Bree, Emeka Erege .2002 Wayne Bernard . . . . . . . . .2003 Brendan Winters . . . . . . . .2004 Brendan Winters . . . . . . . .2005 Brendan Winters . . . . . . . .2006 stephen Curry . . . . . . . . . .2007
Narcisse Ewodo . . . . . . . .1996 Mark Donnelly . . . . . . . . .1997 Billy Armstrong . . . . . . . .1998 Ali Ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1999 Michael Bree . . . . . . . . . . .2000 Peter Anderer . . . . . . . . . .2001 Peter Anderer . . . . . . . . . .2002 Peter Anderer . . . . . . . . . .2003 Matt McKillop . . . . . . . . . .2004 Conor Grace . . . . . . . . . . .2005 Matt McKillop . . . . . . . . . .2006 Jason richards . . . . . . . . .2007 roBerT mCleoD Def. aWarD D.G. Martin, Jr. . . . . . . . . .1962 Barry Teague . . . . . . . . . . .1963 Don Davidson . . . . . . . . . .1964 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . .1965 Bobby Lane . . . . . . . . . . . .1966 Mike O’Neill . . . . . . . . . . .1967 Dave Moser . . . . . . . . . . . .1968 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . . . . . .1969 Mike Maloy . . . . . . . . . . . .1970 Duncan Postma, Steve Kirley . . . . . . . . .1971 T.Jay Pecorak . . . . . . . . . . .1972 T.Jay Pecorak . . . . . . . . . . .1973 T.Jay Pecorak . . . . . . . . . . .1974 No award . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1975 Jim Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1976 Marvin Lively . . . . . . . . . .1977 Ernie Reigel . . . . . . . . . . . .1978 Rich Perkey . . . . . . . . . . . .1979 Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . .1980 Jamie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . .1981 John Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . .1982 Richard Wilson . . . . . . . . .1983 Ken Niebuhr . . . . . . . . . . .1984 Jeff Himes . . . . . . . . . . . . .1985 Chris Heineman . . . . . . . .1986 Chris Heineman . . . . . . . .1987 Alan Hunter . . . . . . . . . . .1988 Alan Hunter . . . . . . . . . . .1989 Darry Strickland . . . . . . . .1990 James Marsh . . . . . . . . . . .1991 Paul Drobnitch . . . . . . . . .1992 J.D. Heuer . . . . . . . . . . . . .1993 Jeff Anderson . . . . . . . . . .1994 Quinn Harwood . . . . . . . .1995 Mark Donnelly . . . . . . . . .1996 Landry Kosmalski* . . . . . .1997 Ben Ebong . . . . . . . . . . . . .1998 No award . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1999 No award . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2000 Chris Pearson . . . . . . . . . .2001 Chris Pearson . . . . . . . . . .2002 Conor Grace* . . . . . . . . . . .2003 *award was given for rebounding
D.g. marTin husTle aWarD Billy Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . .1971 John Pecorak . . . . . . . . . . .1972 John Pecorak . . . . . . . . . . .1973 Jay Schmitt . . . . . . . . . . . . .1990 Paul Drobnitch . . . . . . . . .1991 Sterling Freeman . . . . . . .1992 Jason Zimmerman . . . . . .1993 Quinn Harwood . . . . . . . .1994 Narcisse Ewodo . . . . . . . .1995
The WilDCaT aWarD Logan Kosmalski . . . . . . .2004 Logan Kosmalski . . . . . . .2005 Thomas Sander . . . . . . . . .2006 Thomas sander . . . . . . . . .2007 Award for defensive and rebounding efforts
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HONORS AND AWARDS
soCon aThleTe of The year Whit Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . .1950 Fred Hetzel . . . . . . . . . . . .1965 Dick Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . .1966 John Gerdy . . . . . . . . . . . . .1979
Johngerdy w 2,438 w 1975-79 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 ToTals
fg 207- 437 264- 532 292- 539 289- 549 1052-2057
.474 .496 .542 .526 .511
3g — — — — —
— — — — —
fT 51- 66 99-124 86-106 143-176 379-472
.773 .798 .811 .813 .803
ianJohnson w 1,511 w 2002-06
pTs avg 465 17.9 627 23.2 670 25.8 721 26.7 2483 23.4
fredheTzel w 2,032 w 1962-65 fg 1962-63 245- 460 1963-64 273- 498 1964-65 273- 471 ToTals 791-1429
3g .532 .548 .580 .554
— — — —
— — — —
fT 144-181 163-211 143-178 450-570
.795 .772 .803 .789
pts 634 709 689 2032
avg 23.4 27.3 26.5 25.7
derekruCker w 1,952 w 1984-88 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 ToTals
fg 152- 294 166- 322 186- 353 199- 425 703-1394
3g .517 — — .516 — — .527 73-147 .497 .468 81-199 .407 .504 154-346 .445
fT 79- 96 103-116 82- 96 128-162 392-470
.823 .889 .854 .790 .834
pTs 383 435 527 607 1952
avg 12.8 14.0 20.3 21.7 17.0
brendanwinTers w 1,892 w 2002-06
1,000-POINT SCORERS
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 ToTals
fg 109- 222 157- 372 168- 373 175- 408 609-1375
.491 .422 .450 .429 .442
3g 47- 93 75-195 89-205 57-168 268-661
.505 .385 .434 .339 .405
fT 70- 91 128-153 108-146 100-119 406-509
.769 .837 .740 .840 .797
pTs 335 517 533 507 1892
avg 12.4 17.8 16.7 16.9 16.0
diCksnyder w 1,693 w 1963-66 fg 1963-64 170- 306 1964-65 221- 403 1965-66 284- 504 ToTals 675-1213
3g .555 .548 .563 .556
— — — —
— — — —
fT 75- 90 83-103 185-232 343-425
.833 .806 .797 .807
pTs 415 525 753 1693
avg 15.9 20.2 26.9 21.2
mikemaloy w 1,6961 w 1967-70 fg 1967-68 168- 297 1968-69 270- 554 1969-70 177- 396 ToTals 615-1247
3g .566 .487 .447 .493
— — — —
— — — —
fT 116-181 199-273 116-166 431-610
.641 .728 .697 .690
pTs 452 739 470 1661
1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 ToTals
3g .528 .550 .612 .579 .575
— — — — 0- 2 .000 0- 0 — 0- 2 .000
fT 54- 72 77-113 151-214 144-197 426-596
.750 .681 .706 .730 .714
pTs 240 317 543 490 1590
1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 ToTals
.507 .503 .558 .546 .534
3g fT 0- 0 — 40- 61 0- 0 — 99-136 3- 8 .375 120-178 1- 3 .333 118-161 4- 11 .304 377-536
.656 .728 .674 .733 .703
pTs 158 417 487 511 1573
avg 6.1 14.4 17.4 18.3 14.2
JankonaraT w 1,539 w 1990-94 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 ToTals
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fg 94- 217 138- 306 127- 291 167- 326 526-1140
.433 .451 .436 .512 .461
3g 14- 50 53-124 35-106 34- 92 136-372
.280 .427 .330 .370 .366
fT 39- 59 64- 79 85- 98 163-199 351-435
.661 .810 .867 .819 .807
pTs 241 393 374 531 1539
.540 .516 .530 .521 .526
3g 8- 29 17- 54 17- 46 34- 80 76-209
fT .276 70- 82 .315 56- 66 .370 55- 75 .425 63- 83 .363 244-306
.854 .848 .733 .771 .797
pTs 334 325 356 496 1511
avg 12.4 11.2 11.1 16.0 12.7
brandonwilliams w 1,505 w 1992-96 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 ToTals
fg 68- 160 151- 335 116- 292 194- 391 529-1178
3g .425 13- 36 .451 34- 96 .397 34-115 .496 50-123 .449 131-370
fT .361 38- 62 .613 .354 97-127 .776 .296 74- 96 .771 .407 107-138 .775 .354 316-423 .747
pTs 187 433 340 545 1505
avg 6.7 14.4 14.2 18.2 13.4
landrykosmalski w 1,438 w 1996-2000 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 ToTals
fg 135- 252 102- 218 145- 274 145- 287 527-1031
.536 .468 .529 .505 .511
3g 14- 33 12- 35 20- 52 19- 62 65-182
fT .424 92-129 .343 63- 94 .385 65- 111 .306 99-137 .357 319-471
.713 .670 .586 .723 .677
pTs 376 239 375 408 1438
avg 13.4 9.3 13.9 14.6 12.7
hobbyCobb w 1,424 w 1952-56 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 ToTals
fg 47- 133 117- 260 131- 241 200- 410 495-1044
3g .353 .450 .515 .488 .474
— — — — —
— — — — —
fT 33- 43 131-174 130-183 140-216 434-616
.767 .753 .710 .648 .704
pTs 127 365 392 540 1424
avg 6.1 16.6 21.8 22.5 16.8
Toddhaynes w 1,393 w 1977-81 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 ToTals
fg 32- 90 161- 333 145- 287 206- 378 544-1088
.356 .488 .505 .545 .500
3g fT — — 22- 27 — — 80-100 — — 80- 96 8- 13 .615 115-146 8- 13 .615 297-369
.815 .800 .833 .793 .805
pTsavg 86 5.4 402 14.9 370 14.4 535 19.8 1393 14.5
1955-56 1956-57 1957-58 1958-59 ToTals
fg 74- 189 153- 306 123- 311 136- 324 486-1130
3g .392 .500 .395 .416 .430
— — — — —
fT pTs avg — 75- 92 .815 223 9.7 — 163-204 .799 469 17.7 — 105-119 .882 351 14.6 — 58- 77 .753 330 14.1 — 401-492 .815 1373 14.3
rodneyknowles w 1,344 w 1965-68 avg 8.0 10.2 18.1 18.1 13.5
kennywilson w 1,573 w 1980-84 fg 59- 116 159- 316 182- 336 196- 359 596-1117
fg 128- 237 126- 244 142- 268 199- 382 595-1131
semiminTz w 1,373 w 1955-59 avg 15.6 24.6 17.4 19.3
Jeffhimes w 1,590 w 1984-88 fg 93- 176 120- 218 196- 319 173- 299 582-1012
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 ToTals
avg 8.3 14.0 13.4 17.7 13.4
1967-68 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 ToTals
fg 168- 297 219- 394 187- 383 123- 250 529-1027
3g .566 .556 .489 .492 .515
— — — — —
fT pTs avg — 116-181 .641 452 15.6 — 104-138 .754 542 15.3 — 122-161 .758 496 18.4 — 60- 85 .706 306 10.6 — 286-384 .754 1344 16.0
deTlefmusCh w 1,342 w 1989-93 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 ToTals
fg 112- 236 119- 233 144- 262 163- 294 538-1025
.475 .510 .550 .554 .525
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3g fT 0 — 53- 86 1 .000 50- 90 0 — 70-106 3 .333 92-142 4 .250 265-424
.616 .555 .660 .648 .625
pTs 277 288 358 419 1342
avg 9.9 9.9 12.8 15.0 13.0
billJarman w 1,337 w 1960-63 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 ToTals
fg 123- 269 185- 359 168- 327 476- 955
3g .458 .515 .513 .498
— — — —
fT pTs avg — 105-143 .734 351 15.3 — 166-226 .735 536 21.5 — 115-148 .777 451 16.7 — 386-517 .747 1337 17.8
D a v i D s o n
1955-56 1956-57 1957-58 1958-59 ToTals
fg 39- 133 144- 306 146- 375 182- 453 511-1267
3g .293 .470 .389 .401 .403
— — — — —
— — — — —
fT 35- 72 78-104 48- 89 81-137 242-402
.486 .750 .539 .591 .602
pTsavg 113 5.7 366 13.0 340 14.1 445 18.5 1264 13.1
Jasonzimmerman w 1,260 w 1990-94 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 ToTals
fg 116- 273 117- 261 120- 270 62- 162 415- 966
.436 .448 .444 .383 .430
3g 49-118 41-101 62-149 32- 95 184-463
.415 .406 .416 .337 .397
fT 82- 95 55- 70 61- 83 48- 54 246-302
.863 .786 .735 .889 .815
pTs avg 363 12.5 330 11.8 363 13.0 204 6.8 1260 11.0
gregdunn w 1,245 w 1972-75 fg 1972-73 138- 277 1973-74 146- 314 1974-75 165- 345 ToTals 449- 936
.498 .465 .478 .480
3g — — — —
— — — —
fT 125-170. 735 133-162 .821 89-115 .773 347-447 .776
pTsavg 401 14.9 425 15.7 419 16.1 1245 15.6
dougCook w 1,221 w 1967-70 fg 1967-68 136- 262 1968-69 164- 344 1969-70 154- 308 ToTals 454- 914
3g .519 .477 .500 .496
— — — —
— — — —
fT 91-134 108-153 114-181 313-468
.680 .707 .630 .679
pTs avg 363 13.4 436 14.6 422 16.6 1221 14.6
CliffTribus w 1,207 w 1979-83 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 ToTals
fg 76- 148 .514 77- 149 .517 202- 381 .530 173- 365 .474 528-1043 .506
3g — 041519-
2 11 38 51
— .000 .364 .395 .373
fT 26- 31 17- 18 46- 62 43- 56 132-267
.839 .944 .742 .768 .790
pTs avg 178 7.0 171 6.6 454 15.7 404 14.4 1207 11.2
waynebernard w 1,196 w 1999-2003 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 ToTals
fg 79- 176 81- 214 68- 190 134- 321 362- 901
.449 .379 .358 .417 .402
3g 31- 83 30-103 26- 85 56-147 143-418
.373 .291 .306 .381 .342
fT 62- 84 96-125 86-112 85-102 329-423
.738 .768 .768 .833 .778
pTs avg 251 9.0 288 13.7 248 10.8 409 15.1 1196 12.1
Jamiehall w 1,173 w 1978-82 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 ToTals
fg 130- 245 103- 215 107- 192 142- 277 482- 929
3g .531 .479 .557 .513 .519
— — — — 0- 2 .000 0- 0 — 0- 2 .000
fT 58- 79 34- 43 39- 55 78- 98 209-275
.734 .791 .709 .796 .760
pTs avg 318 11.8 240 9.8 253 10.2 362 12.6 1173 11.2
riChdibenedeTTo w 1,166 w 1977-81 fg 1977-78 120- 200 1979-80 181- 292 1980-81 141- 242 ToTals 442- 734
3g .600 .620 .583 .602
— — 0- 0 —
— — — —
fT 46- 79 137-202 99-142 282-423
.582 .678 .697 .667
pTs avg 286 11.1 499 20.0 381 14.1 1166 14.9
Jerrykroll w 1,165 w 2002-06 fg 1967-68 128- 244 1968-69 175- 355 1969-70 123- 270 ToTals 426- 869
3g .525 .493 .456 .479
— — — —
— — — —
fT 77- 92 119-138 117-145 313-375
.837 .862 .807 .835
pTs avg 333 11.5 469 16.0 363 13.4 1165 13.9
larryhorowiTz w 1,084 w 1972-75 1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 ToTals
I L D C A T
S
3g .543 .567 .500 .535
— — — —
fT — 47- 71 — 54- 77 — 73-113 — 174-261
.662 .701 .646 .667
pTsavg 289 10.7 358 13.3 437 16.8 1084 13.6
Terryholland w 1,067 w 1961-64 1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 ToTals
fg 144- 328 120- 227 135- 214 399- 769
3g .439 .528 .631 .519
— — — —
fT pTsavg — 105-136 .772 393 15.7 — 82-107 .766 322 11.9 — 82-117 .701 352 13.5 — 269-360 .747 1067 13.7
billshinn w 1,065 w 1957-61 fg 1957-58 98- 218 .449 1958-59 126- 318 .396 1969-60 133- 303 .439 1960-61 87- 190 .458 ToTals 444-1029 .431
3g — — — — —
fT — 56- 70 — 45- 67 — 53- 67 — 23- 32 — 177-236
.800 .672 .790 .719 .750
pTs 252 297 319 197 1065
avg 10.2 12.3 13.3 9.0 11.3
markdonnelly w 1,064 w 1993-98 fg 3g 1993-94 37- 81 .457 18- 46 1995-96 55- 144 .382 28- 90 1996-97 121- 294 .412 62-170 1997-98 150- 376 .399 69-177 ToTals 363- 895 .406 177-483
fT .391 12- 16 .311 33- 44 .365 48- 61 .390 68- 98 .366 161-219
.750 .750 .787 .694 .735
pTsavg 104 3.5 171 6.1 352 13.0 437 14.6 1064 9.3
sTephenmarshall w 1,063 w 1996-2000 fg 1996-97 39- 71 .549 1997-98 102- 203 .502 1998-99 84- 161 .522 1999-00 163- 275 .593 ToTals 388- 710 .546
3g 2- 6 13- 30 15- 36 16- 39 46-111
fT .333 23- 32 .719 .433 70- 94 .745 .417 46- 56 .821 .410 102-147 .694 .414 241-329 .733
pTsavg 103 5.7 287 9.3 229 8.5 444 15.9 1063 10.3
JohnfalConi w 1,028 w 1971-74 1971-72 1972-73 1973-74 ToTals
fg 138- 264 172- 347 106- 204 416- 815
3g .523 .496 .520 .510
— — — —
fT — 62- 87 — 80-106 — 54- 62 — 196-255
.713 .755 .871 .769
pTsavg 338 16.1 424 15.7 266 13.3 1028 15.1
Quinnharwood w 1,027 w 1992-96 fg 1992-93 5- 14 .357 1993-94 73- 149 .490 1994-95 115- 249 .462 1995-96 154- 281 .548 ToTals 347- 693 .501
3g 2- 6 14- 39 30- 80 18- 48 64-173
fT .333 4- 5 .359 77-120 .375 98-128 .375 90-130 .370 269-383
.800 .642 .766 .692 .702
pTsavg 16 1.1 237 7.9 358 13.3 416 13.9 1027 10.2
waynehuCkel w 1,005 w 1966-69 1960-61 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 ToTals
fg 123- 269 153- 314 115- 130 91- 210 359- 754
3g .458 .487 .500 .433 .476
— — — — —
— — — — —
fT 105-143 140-180 103-146 44- 74 287-400
.734 .778 .705 .591 .712
pTs avg 351 15.3 446 16.8 333 11.5 226 7.8 1005 11.8
TransfersToreaCh1,000poinTs george“buddy”Cheek w 1,196 w 1945-49 fg ToTals
n/a
n/a
3g —
fT —
n/a
n/a
pTs avg Scored 228 points 1196 11.8 at Tulane 1945-46
logankosmalski w 1,032 w 2000-05 ToTals
W
fg 121- 223 152- 264 182- 365 455- 851
1,000-POINT SCORERS
DavE hollingsWoRth w 1,264 w 1955-59
FG 375- 837 .448
3G FT pTs avg Scored 319 points 81-239 .339 201-294 .684 1032 8.5 at Baylor 2000-02
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poinTs game 53, Fred Hetzel (20 FG, 13 FT) vs. Furman, Dec. 8, 1964 home game 53, Fred Hetzel (20 FG, 13 FT) vs. Furman, Dec. 8, 1964 aWay game 41, John Gerdy (16 FG, 9 FT) vs. Rutgers, Dec. 2, 1977 neuTral siTe 39, Terry Holland (14 FG, 11 FT) vs. Mississippi at Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19, 1961; Rodney Knowles (15 FG, 9 FT) vs. Rhode Island at Blacksburg, Va., Mar. 7, 1966 half 28, Fred Hetzel (9 FG, 10 FT) vs. The Citadel, Feb. 21, 1964; Fred Hetzel vs. Furman, Dec. 8, 1964
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
By TWo players 72, Terry Holland (39) and Bill Beermann (33), vs. Mississippi College, Dec. 19, 1961 By opponenT 50, Frank Selvy, Furman, Feb. 26, 1954 season 753, Dick Snyder, 1965-66 average, season 27.3, Fred Hetzel, 1963-64 freshman 730, stephen Curry, 2006-07 sophomore 634, Fred Hetzel, 1962-63 Junior 739, Mike Maloy, 1968-69 senior 753, Dick Snyder, 1965-66 30-poinT games, season 10, John Gerdy, 1977-78; Dick Snyder, 196566 40-poinT games, season 3, Fred Hetzel, 1963-64 Career 2,487, John Gerdy, 1975-79 average, Career 25.7, Fred Hetzel, 1962-65 30-poinT games, Career 24, John Gerdy, 1975-79 40-poinT games, Career 4, Fred Hetzel, 1962-65 ConseCuTive 20-poinT games 17, John Gerdy, Jan. 5, 1977 to Dec. 9, 1978 ConseCuTive games in DBl figures 76, John Gerdy, 1975-79
rebounds reBounDs, game 27, Fred Hetzel vs. Furman, Feb. 8, 1964
fieldgoals maDe, game 20, Fred Hetzel (Att. 28) vs. Furman, Dec. 8, 1964; Dick Snyder (Att. 26) vs. Ohio, Dec. 21, 1965 aTTempTeD, game 32, John Gerdy (Made 16) vs. VMI, Feb. 14, 1977 perCenTage, game (min. 10 aTT.) .923, Todd Haynes (12 of 13) vs. South Carolina, Feb. 7, 1979 maDe, season 292, John Gerdy (.529 Pct.), 1977-78 aTTempTeD, season 554, Mike Maloy (Made 270), 1968-69 perCenTage, season .671, George Spain (141 of 210), 1994-95 maDe, Career 1,052, John Gerdy (Att. 2,057), 1975-79 aTTempTeD, Career 2,057, John Gerdy (Made 1,052), 1975-79 perCenTage, Career .614, George Spain (383 of 624), 1992-95
3-pTfieldgoals maDe, game 9, stephen Curry vs. Colby, nov. 11, 2006 aTTempTeD, game 20, stephen Curry vs. Colby, nov. 11, 2006
average, season 14.8, Fred Hetzel, 1964-65 reBounDs, Career 1,111, Mike Maloy, 1967-70 average, Career 13.8, Fred Hetzel, 1962-1965
freeThrows maDe, game 23, Bill Jarman (Att. 26) vs. George Washington, Dec. 11, 1961 aTTempTeD, game 26, Bill Jarman (Made 23) vs. George Washington, Dec. 11, 1961 perCenTage, game (min. 10 maDe) 1.000, Mike Maloy (13 of 13) vs. St. John’s, Mar. 13, 1969 ConseCuTive maDe, game 18, Bill Jarman (23 of 26) vs. George Washington, Dec. 11, 1961 maDe, season 199, Mike Maloy (Att. 273), 1968-69 aTTempTeD, season 273, Mike Maloy (Made 199), 1968-69 perCenTage, season .891, Bobby Lane (82 of 92), 1965-66 ConseCuTive maDe, season 37, Brendan Winters, 2005-06 (2 vs. UMass, 9 vs. St. Joe’s, 4 at UNCC, 2 at App. State, 6 vs. Missouri, 6 vs. Catholic, 2 vs. St. Mary’s 6, at Syracuse)
perCenTage, game (min. 5 maDe) 1.000, Jason Morton (6 of 6) at The Citadel, Feb. 13, 2006; Jeff Bergmann (5 of 5) vs. UTC, Feb. 14, 2000; Brendan Winters (5 of 5) vs. Georgetown, Nov. 30, 2004
aTTempTeD, Career 610, Hobby Cobb (Made 433), 1952-56
maDe, season 122, stephen Curry, 2006-07
perCenTage, Career .835, Jerry Kroll (313 of 375), 1967-1970
aTTempTeD, season 299, stephen Curry, 2006-07 perCenTage, season .505, Brendan Winters, 2002-03 maDe, Career 268, Brendan Winters, 2002-2006 aTTempTeD, Career 651, Brendan Winters, 2002-2006 perCenTage, Career .445, Derek Rucker, 1986-88
maDe, Career 450, Fred Hetzel (Att. 570), 1962-65
assisTs game 19, Jason richards vs. mt st mary, Dec. 15, 2006 season 249, Jason richards, 2006-07 Career 646, Ali Ton, 1995-99
bloCkedshoTs game 7, Jamie Hall vs. Wofford, Dec. 1, 1979; Martin Ides vs. The Citadel, Feb. 19, 2001 season 51, Chris Pearson, 2000-01 Career 159, Jamie Hall, 1978-82
118
D A V I D S O N
Points
assists
home game 137, vs. Warren Wilson (61 FG [8 3s], 7 FT), Dec. 9, 1991 aWay game 111, vs. William & Mary (41 FG, 29 FT), Feb. 4, 1964 half 72, vs. Warren Wilson (1st, 61 FG [8 3s], 7 FT), Dec. 9, 1991 losing efforT 109, vs. Central Connecticut (129-109, 36 FG, 36 FT), Nov. 23, 1990 By opponenT 129, Central Connecticut, Nov. 23, 1990 BoTh Teams 238, vs. Central Connecticut, Nov. 23, 1990 season 2,765, 2006-07 average, season 89.3, 1963-64 opponenTs, season 2,351, 1977-78 opponenTs’ average, season 87.1, 1977-78
fieldgoals maDe, game 61, vs. Warren Wilson (Att. 97), Dec. 10, 1991 aTTempTeD, game 98, vs. New Hampshire (Made 50), Dec. 28, 1962
game 39, vs. Warren Wilson, Dec. 9, 1991
3-pTfieldgoals maDe, game 19, vs. Washington & Lee, Nov. 30, 2002, vs. Colby, Nov. 11, 2006 aTTempTeD, game 52 vs. Colby, Nov. 11, 2006 perCenTage, game .857 (6 of 7), vs. The Citadel, Jan. 10, 1987 maDe, season 328, 2006-07 aTTempTeD, season 888, 2006-07 perCenTage, season .455, 1986-87
rebounds
season 567, 2005-06
bloCkedshoTs game 14, vs. Guilford, Nov. 20, 1999 season 119, 2000-01
fouls feWesT, game 8, vs. William & Mary, Jan. 4, 1961 feWesT, game, BoTh Teams 19, Davidson (13) vs. Oglethorpe (6), Nov. 23, 2001 mosT, game 41, vs. Furman, Jan. 25, 1973
game 76, vs. VMI, Jan. 8, 1970
mosT, game, BoTh Teams 79, DC (41) vs. Furman (38), Jan. 25, 1973
season 1,537 (51.0), 1968-69
mosT players fouleD ouT 4, vs VMI, Mar. 1, 1973 (John Falconi, Larry Horowitz, T.J. Pecorak, Paul Wagner); vs. VMI, Feb. 11, 1975 (Kevin Doherty, Larry Horowitz, Eppa Rixey, Tom Verlin); vs. UNC Charlotte, Dec. 1, 2000 (Wayne Bernard, Martin Ides, Stephen Marshall, Chris Pearson)
season, average 53.8 (1,454), 1969-70 highesT perCenTage .568 (1,176 of 2,069), 1963-64
freeThrows maDe, game 48, vs. The Citadel (Att. 57), , Jan. 26, 1985 aTTempTeD, game 57, vs. The Citadel (Made 48), Jan. 26, 1985
perCenTage, game .717, vs. VMI (33 of 46), Mar. 3, 1983
perCenTage, game 1.000, vs. UT-Chattanooga (21-21), Jan. 14, 1978
feWesT maDe, game 14, vs. William & Mary (Att. 39), Jan. 4, 1961
feWesT maDe, game 0, vs. East Carolina (Att. 2), Jan. 20, 1975; vs. Alabama (Att. 0), Nov. 23, 1991
loWesT perCenTage, game .262, vs. Duke (17 of 65), Feb. 13, 1991
feWesT aTTempTeD, game 0, vs. Alabama, Nov. 23, 1991
maDe, season 984 (Att. 2,105 for .467), 1968-69
loWesT perCenTage, game .000, vs. East Carolina (0 of 2), Jan. 20, 1975
aTTempTeD, season 2,157 (Made 969 for .449), 2006-07
maDe, season 696 (Att. 932 for .747), 1971-72
perCenTage, season .544 (894 of 1644), 1963-64
aTTempTeD, season 932 (Made 696 for .747), 1971-72
TEAM RECORDS
game 137, vs. Warren Wilson (61 FG [8 3s], 7 FT), Dec. 9, 1991
aTTendanCe game 21,808 vs. Iona @ Syracuse, N.Y., Dec. 2, 1994 Belk arena, game 5,854 vs. Duke, Dec. 21, 1989 Belk arena, ConferenCe game 5,580 vs. Appalachian State, Jan. 20, 2007 home siTe, game 16,356 vs. North Carolina, Nov. 24, 2003 (at Charlotte Coliseum) home season 133,379 (8,366), 1968-69 season ToTal 237,918 (7,931 avg.), 1968-69, 30 games
perCenTage, season .783 (488 of 623), 1973-74
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I L D C A T
S
119
sCoring
John Gerdy
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
John Gerdy ’79 Fred Hetzel ’65 Derek Rucker ’88 Brendan Winters ’06 Dick Snyder ’66 Mike Maloy ’70 Jeff Himes ’88 Kenny Wilson ’84 Janko Narat ’94 Ian Johnson ’06
sCoringavg. 2,483 2,032 1,952 1,892 1,693 1,661 1,590 1,569 1,539 1,511
rebounding
CAREER TOP TEN
Mike Maloy
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Mike Maloy ’70 1,111 Fred Hetzel ’65 1,094 Landry Kosmalski ’00 877 Hobby Cobb ’56 836 Rodney Knowles ’68 804 Dave Hollingsworth ’59 784 Bill Jarman ’63 758 Doug Cook ’70 754 Jamie Hall ’92 751 Detlef Musch ’93 691
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Ali Ton ’99 Chris Alpert ’96 Kenny Grant ’06 Derek Rucker ’88 John Carroll ’83 Jason richards Ernie Reigel ’80 Michael Bree ’02 Jason Zimmerman ’94 Mike Sorrentino ’74
25.7 23.4 21.2 19.3 17.8 17.0 16.8 16.0 16.0 15.6
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Brendan Winters ’06 Matt McKillop ’06 Pete Anderer ’03 Jason Zimmerman ’94 Mark Donnelly ’98 Derek Rucker ’88 Wayne Bernard ’03 Janko Narat ’94 Brandon Williams ’96 Davor Halbauer ’00
268 223 190 184 177 154 143 136 131 128
646 542 479 436 428 370 370 365 358 355
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Derek Rucker ’88 Ali Ton ’99 Chris Alpert ’96 Michael Bree ’02 Ace Tanner ’87 Quinn Harwood ’96 Narcisse Ewodo ’97 Landry Kosmalski ’00 John Carroll ’83 Brandon Williams ’96
250 222 174 143 138 131 122 121 116 116 Derek Rucker
fieldgoal perCenTage 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
George Spain ’95 *.614 Rich DiBenedetto ’82 .602 Jeff Himes ’88 .575 Dick Snyder ’66 .556 Fred Hetzel ’65 .554 Thomas sander .547 Stephen Marshall ’00 .546 Larry Horowitz ’75 .535 Kenny Wilson ’84 .534 Ian Johnson ’06 .526
* did not meet minimums for NCAA ranking
120
Brendan Winters
sTeals
Ali Ton
George Spain
Fred Hetzel
3-pTfieldgoals
assisTs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. 8. 9. 10.
Fred Hetzel ’65 John Gerdy ’79 Dick Snyder ’66 Mike Maloy ’70 Bill Jarman ’63 Derek Rucker ’88 Hobby Cobb ’56 Brendan Winters ’06 Rodney Knowles ’68 Greg Dunn ’75
freeThrow perCenTage 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Jerry Kroll ’70 Derek Rucker ’88 Semi Mintz ’59 Jason Zimmerman ’94 Jason richards Dick Snyder ’66 Janko Narat ’94 Todd Haynes ’81 John Gerdy ’79 Brendan Winters ’06 Ian Johnson ’06
.835 .834 .815 .815 .810 .807 .807 .805 .803 .797 .797
Jerry Kroll
D A V I D S O N
Adams, Dickie 1953-54, ’55-56 Adrian, Brian 1969-71 Aiken, Al 1953-54 Alford, Scott 1990-92 Alexander, T. 1918-19 Allenspach, Brian 1997-98 Allison, Ben 2007Allison, James 1956-57 Alpert, Chris 1992-96 Altmeyer, Andi 2002-03 Anderer, Pete 1999-2003 Anderson, Ronnie 1959-60 Anderson, Jeff 1992-96 Anderson, Thomas 1924-27 Angle, Charles 1917-18 Arbuckle, Howard 1961-62 Achambault, William 2006Armstrong, Billy 1994-98 Armstrong, John 1935-37 Ashmore, J.D. 1946-49 Austin, James 1914-15 Avery, Sam 1974-75
Booe, J.C. 1912-13 Booker, Nick 2000-04 Born, Gerry 1982-86 Boucher, Harry 1930-33 Bowker, Tim 1976-80 Bowman, Nate 1971-72 Bowner 1957-58 Boyd, William 1936-39 Brady, J. Harper 1911-12 Brandon, Scott 1981-82 Bree, Michael 1998-2002 Brice, Samuel 1918-20 Briggs, Paul 1962-65 Brinegar, Haywood 1946-47 Brooks, Bill 1949-52 Brown, Buddy 1952-54 Brown, Skip 1978-79, ’81-83 Brown, Steven 1930-32 Brownson, William 1945-46 Bruce, Mac 1941-42 Burns, David 1995-98 Bussell, Jerry 1959-61 Byrd, Dick 1964-65 Byrd, Jackie 1942-43
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1975-78 1949-52 1974-75 1967-70 1954-55 1921-22 1980-81 1910-11 1937-40 1907-08 1935-36 1918-19 1941-43 20061972-73
dd
CC
bb
Babka, Frantisek 1992-94 Baird, Jeff 1974-75 Baker, Edward 1954-55, ’56-57 Bankhead, Olin 1935-36 Barr, Bryant 2006Barr, Hyder 1907-08 Barrow, Henry 1935-38 Beall, McFherson 1921-25 Beerman, Bill 1961-64 Bego, Harold 1982-86 Belk, John 1940-43 Bennet, John Ish 1951-55 Bergmann, Jeff 1996-2000 Berlacher, Greg 1978-79 Bernard, Meade 1930-32 Bernard, Wayne 1999-2003 Bernardo, S.L. 1933-34 Berry, Robert 1944-47 Blackburn, Charles 1944-45 Blancett, Eric 2001-06 Boggs, Ralph 1922-25 Bond, Aaron 2007-
Coffey, Brian Coleman, Tom Comb, Kirk Cook, Doug Corbin, Ramon Cornelson, George Corso, John Cosby, Mortimer Cowan, James Cromartie Cumbie, Slbert Cunningham, Robert Currie, Bob Curry, Stephen Cuttino, Jud
Caldwell, Tim Calhoun, Glenn Cannon, Bill Carrell, Danny Carroll, John Carson, James Carson, McAllister Case, Marshall Cashion, J.C. Cates, Curtiss Cathey, Henry Chalmers, Dwight Chapin, Jeff Cheek, Buddy Childs, Edward Jr. Civi, Can Clark, Frank Clary, Whitfield Clifton, Cecil Clunie, Chris Crawford, Clifford Crawford, George Cromartie, Benjamin Crosswhite, Rocky Coan, George Cobb, Hobby Cobb, Whit Cochran, Jarred
I L D C A T
S
1991-95 1926-29 1958-61 1960-63 1979-83 1914-16 1910-13 1971-72 1912-13 1953-54 1935-36 1918-20 1990-91 1946-49 1914-16 20051969-70 1911-12 1965-66 2002-06 1920-23 1926-29 1907-08 1966-69 1910-11 1952-56 1946-50 1999-01
Davenport, John 1917-19 Davidson, Don 1962-65 Davis, Calvin 1954-55 Davis, Charles 1920-24 Dawson, Caryl 1983-84 DeMoisey, Fox 1967-70 Denmond, Paul 1988-92 DiBenedetto, Rich 1977-81 Dickens, Jason 1999-2001 Dickerson, Fred 1931-33 Dillon, Lymon 1961-62 Dodds, Chris 1977-78 Doherty, Kevin 1974-78 Donaldson, L. 1907-08 Donnelly, Mark 1993-94, ’95-98 Dore, Tom 1975-76 Drobnitch, Paul 1988-92 Dudley, Joe 1950-53 Dugan, Tommy 1994-95 Duncan, Joe 1972-73 Dunn, Gregg 1972-75
ee
Earp, Malcolm Ebong, Ben Eho, Jouni Elder, Bruce
1946-47 1994-96, ’97-99 2000-04 1988-89
Erege, Emeka 1997-99, 2000-02 Etheridge, Jack 1944-45 Evans, Haywood 1960-63 Evans, John 1909-10 Ewodo, Narcisse 1994-97 Ezelle, Travis 1997-98
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Fairley, John Falconi, John Falconi, John Faucette, Jim Feeney, Floyd Ferguson, Bill Ferguson, Sonny Ferroni, Franco Ficklen, George Fisher, Gary Fitzgerald, Al Fitzgerald, Dave Flowers, Allan Flowers, Bob Ford, Jason Fowle, Pappy Franz, Tom Fredricks, John Freeman, Sterling Furman
1907-09 1971-74 2003-07 1952-53 1953-54 1956-58 1954-58 1991-92 1938-40 1954-55 1950-52 1984-88 1917-18 1946-47 2000-01 1952-55 1980-84 1940-43 1988-92 1944-45
ALL-TIME ROSTER
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Gadmaire, Steve Gaines, Edward Garrett, Ed Gerdy, Greg Gerdy, John Gibbon, James Gilmore, Turner Glasgow, Gordon Glidewell, Bill Goodson, Willie Grace, Conor Graham, Gordon Graham, Robert Grant, Kenny Gray, Maurice Grieser, Matt Gullickson, John Gynn, Mike
1971-75 1986-89 1959-60 1971-73 1975-79 1913-14 1987-91 1971-72 1951-52 1928-31 2001-05 1970-71 1950-51 2003-06 1986-90 1992-93 1980-81 1984-88
121
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ALL-TIME ROSTER
Hacker, Lloyd 1954-55 Halbauer, Davor 1996-00 Hall, Jamie 1978-82 Hall, Robert 1917-18 Hall, Walter 1919-20 Haller, Tommy 1948-51 Halverstadt, James 1931-32 Hampton, James 1997-99 Hancock, William 1935-37 Harding, Ray 1952-56 Harkness, Cam 1963-65 Harrington, G. 1918-19 Harris, Charlie 1932-34 Harris, Frank 1991-92 Harris, Jeff 1986-90 Harris, Tom 1959-61 Harrison, C.W. 1925-28 Harrison, Frank 1937-40 Harwood, Quinn 1992-96 Hatcher, Sam 1965-66 Haynes, Todd 1977-81 Heineman, Chris 1983-87 Helland, Thomas 1987-89 Henderson, Stephen 1916-17 Hengeveld, Fred 1914-16, ’18 Hengeveld, Fred 1948-51 Hernandez, Rafael 1982-83 Hetzel, Fred 1962-65 Heineman, Chris 1983-87 Helland, Thomas 1987-89 Henderson, Stephen 1916-17 Hengeveld, Fred 1914-16, ’18 Hengeveld, Fred 1948-51 Hernandez, Rafael 1982-83 Hetzel, Fred 1962-65 Heuer, J.D. 1989-93 Hewlett, Andrew 1924-25, ’27-28 Hickert, Pat 1975-79 Hicks, James 1936-39 Hill, Doug 1969-70 Himes, Jeff 1984-88 Hock, Danny 1976-78 Hogg, James 1938-41 Holland, Mack 1931-34 Holland, Terry 1961-64 Hollingsworth, Dave 1955-59 Holloway, Pat 1990-92 Holmes, Chad 1995-99 Holt, Tony 1981-82 Hopper, Ed 1948-49 Horowitz, Larry 1972-75 Horton, Ron 1990-94 Howell, Billy 1914-15
Howell, J.V. Howell, George Jr. Huckel, Wayne Hudgins, Frank Huie, John Huie, Litchfield Hull, Lamar Hunter, Alan Hunter, Bud Hyder, Jim
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Keesler, Samuel 1916-17 Keith, Graeme 1952-54 Kiesewetter, William 1935-38 King, George 1915-18 King, Jerry 1951-52 Kirley, Steve 1968-71 Knorr, Kenneth 1935-36 Knowles, Rodney 1965-68 Kosmalski, Landry 1996-2000 Kosmalski, Logan 2003-05 Kroll, Jerry 1967-70 Kugler, John 1927-28
ll
Ides, Martin Iverson, Daniel Iverson, Halvor Iverson, William Ivory, Terrell
1998-2002 1936-38 1937-39 1945-49 2000-04
JJ
James, Walter Jarman, Bill Johnson, Burton Johnson, E.C. Johnson, Frank Johnson, Ian Johnston, Frontis Johnston, Joseph Jones, Freeman Jorgensen, Tom Jung, Eugene
1913-14 1960-63 1937-39 1933-34 1981-84 2002-06 1928-30 1935-36 1946-47 1975-76 1994-95
Lafferty, John Laird, Flake Laird, John Lane, Gary Lane, Bobby Lasley, William Lazenby, Don Leahy, Art Leight, George Liles, Davis Lively, Marvin Lovedale, Andrew Lowry, Jim Lowry, Jim Lucas, Ed Lusakueno, Michel Lyon, George
1931-34 1922-26 1913-15 1959-60 1965-66 1944-45 1949-52 1975-76 1965-66 1967-68 1973-77 20051942-43 1972-75 1939-42 1999-2003 1954-56
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Keener, Dean Keesler, Lenoir
122
1951-53 1910-13 1966-69 1926-27 1957-60 1925-26 2005-07 1986-90 1956-58 1965-66
Martin, Mike 1954-58 Matheny, Matt 1988-89, ’91-93 Mathis, Doc 1929-32 Mauze, George 1921-23 McAlister, John 1917-18 McAllister, Phil 1910-11 McAskill, Leon 1917-19 McAuley, Marshall 1926-28 McClintock, James 1907-10 McConkey, Jim 1982-86 McConnell, James 1922-25 McConnell, Tommy 1980-82 McDonald, Graham 1913-14 McDonald, Gary 1981-82 McDuffie, Allen 1909-12 McGuire, Mark 1992-96 McKillop, Brendan 2007McKillop, Matt 2002-06 McLain, James 1981-82 McLean, Billy 1974-75 McLean, Joseph 1944-45 McLean, Malcolm 1949-52 McLeod, Robert 1939-42 McNeill, John 1956-57 McRae, James 1908-09 McSwain, Mal 1954-57 Means, William 1938-40 Melton, George 1951-54 Mendler, J.L. 1945-46 Meno, Boris 2004Miles, Robert 1908-10 Millar, Allan 1959-62 Mills, Dick 1947-48 Milner, Joe 1955-59 Minkin, Eric 1969-72 Minlend, Ray 1994-96 Mintz, Semi 1955-59 Monroe 1933-34 Moore, James 1928-30 Moore, Bob 1959-62 Moore, John 1911-12 Moreau, Al 1953-54 Morgan 1933-34 Morgan, Elford 1954-55 Morgan, A.J. 1989-90 Morton, Jason 2004-06 Moser, Dave 1966-69 Moyer, Russell 1935-36 Murphy, Clavin 1967-68 Murray, Robert 1916-17 Musch, Detlef 1989-93 Myers, Charles 1931-33
1984-88 1944-45
Mallory, Daniel Maloy, Mike Maner, Bobby Manson, Alex Marcon, Charlie Markee, Joe Marsh, George Marsh, James Marshall, Stephen Martin, D.G. Martin, Grier
1921-24 1967-70 1945-49 1930-31 1962-65 1957-61 1940-42 1990-91 1996-00 1959-62 1930-32
Narat, Janko Naso, Billy Neill, David
1990-94 1982-84 1944-46
D A V I D S O N
Ww
1945-49 20061944-45 1982-86 1957-61
Rr
oo
O’Briant, Paul O’Neill, Mike Ormond, Alfred Orsbon, Tony Owens, Rod
1944-45 1966-69 1919-21 1966-69 1976-78
Pp
Parker, Sheldon 1972-75 Patrick, Tom 1931-32 Paulhus Gosselin, Max 2005Peabody, Bruce 1930-33 Peabody, Maurice 1935-37 Pearson, Chris 1999-02 Pecorak, John 1970-73 Pecorak, T.Jay 1971-74 Peden, James 1909-10 Perkey, Rich 1976-80 Peters, George 1942-43, ’45-47 Peters, Tom 1942-43 Pharr, Walter 1907-08 Pickens, Bob 1966-68 Pierce, Billy 1968-71 Pollock, Bill 1982-93 Poole, Dave 1947-48 Postma, Duncan 1968-71 Powell, Roger 1954-55 Powell, Jay 1972-76 Powers, Preston 1974-75 Price, Julian 1921-22 Price, Philip 1916-17 Price, William 1908-09 Pritchett, carl 1927-30 Proctor, Bill 1950-51 Proctor, James 1928-31 Prospere, Peyton 1971-72
Query, H. Quick, Clifford
W
1908-09 1935-37
Ramm, Casey 1979-80 Redmond 1957-59 Reese, Algernon 1913-16 Regen, Jon 1953-54 Reid, Lawrence 1935-38 Reigel, Ernie 1976-80 Reinhardt, James 1935-36 Riazzi, Patrick 1984-86 Rice, Jim 1975-76 Richards, Jason 2004Richards, Johnny 1948-49 Ringer, Howard 1981-82 Rixey, Eppa 1972-76 Roberts, William 1919-21 Robinson, Bill 1945-46 Roddey, Bo 1947-50 Rogers, A.C. 1933-34 Romefelt, Birchie 1919-20 Ross, Courtney 1932-34 Rossiter, Stephen 2005Rowan, Brian 1978-80, 1981-83 Rucker, Derek 1984-88 Rupp, Terry 1984-85 Rusk, Dean 1928-31 Rybiski, Paul 1988-92
ss
Sander, Thomas Sapp, Henry Scarborough, Alfred Schenck, John Schenck, Lewis Schmitt, Jay Scott, Todd Seidel, Dick Sellers, Bill Severinghaus, Jeff Shaw, Dave Shepard, A.H. Sherrill, F.A.
I L D C A T
S
20041923-24 1944-45 1920-21 1918-21 1986-90 1985-87 1986-88 1985-88 2002-04 1954-57 1928-30 1944-45
Shields, Chris Shinn, Bill Shore, Richard Simpson, John Simpson, William Sinnock, Scott Smith, James Smith, Ralph Snyder, Dick Sommerville, Thomas Sorensen, Eric Sorrentino, Mike Spain, George Spann, Mike Spears, Llew Spencer, Dave Sprunt, Alexander Squire, Phil St. Clair, Barry Stafford, John Staley, Thomas Stallworth, Jerry Stec, Chris Stelzer, Ron Stewart, Ed Stone, Ronnie Streibich, Charles Strickland, Darry Strong, Lester Summers, Puff Sumwalt, Mark
tT
Tanner, Anthony Taylor, George Teague, Barry Thomas, James Tice, John Todd, Carter Ton, Ali Tonella, Fernando Tribus, Cliff Trusgnich, Steve Tull, Charles Turk, Bob Turner, Brian Turner, John
1993-94 1957-61 1938-40 1925-27 1944-45 1966-67 1950-51 1944-45 1963-66 1913-15 1978-79 1971-74 1991-95 1966-68 1954-58 1940-42 1910-14 1965-66 1964-65 1957-59 1922-25 1973-77 1994-98 1968-71 1956-60 1963-66 1919-20 1987-90 1969-71 2001-04 1974-7
1983-87 1938-40 1962-65 1937-40 1936-39 1976-79 1995-99 1999-02 1979-83 1973-74 1909-10 1949-52 1998-00 1907-08
Wagner, Jack 1932-33 Wagner, Paul 1971-74 Walker, Bob 1914-16 Walker, Brad 1977-78 Wall, John 1944-45 Walton, Birchie 1920-21 Wayman, Jack 1941-43 Webber, Christian 1944-45 Weeks, Edson 1951-53 Weeks, Richard 1954-57 Westmoreland, Trent 1981-82 White, Damion 2001-02 White, Ed 1942-43, ’45-47 White, Locke 1909-13 White, Locke 1976-77 White, Tommy 1962-63 Wilder, Bruce 1957-59 Williams, Bobby 1940-41 Williams, Brandon 1992-96 Williams, Mike 1946-49 Williams, Pat 1941-43, ’46-47 Wilson, Adrian 1975-76 Wilson, Ben 1925-29 Wilson, Kenny 1980-84 Wilson, R. 1930-32 Wilson, Rich 1979-83 Windham, Cole 1933-34 Winters, Brendan 2002-06 Wolfe, Ted 1982-86 Wood, Albert 1914-16
Yy
Yarborough, Tom 1939-42, ’45-46 Yearwood, Herman 1935-36 Yeaton, Ed 1972-74 Yelverton, Hugh 1932-34 Young 1916-17 Youngdale, Tom 1965-68 Younger, William 1915-16
zz
vv
ALL-TIME ROSTER
Neisler, Henry Nelms, Dan Nelson, Tom Niebuhr, Ken Nuckolls, Jim
Zimmerman, Jason
1990-94
Italicized player pictured Boldface player current
Vander Griend, Bob Verlin, Tom
1971-74 1972-76
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all-TimereCordvs.opponenTs
ALL-TIME RECORD VS. OPPONENTS
opponenT h a Air Force 0-0 0-0 Alabama 1-1 1-0 appalachian state 18-12 13-17 Arizona 0-0 0-1 Army 0-0 0-0 Auburn 0-1 0-0 Augusta 0-1 1-0
n 0-1 1-0 2-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
ToT. 0-1 3-1 33-29 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-1
1sT mTg 12/28/88 12/22/61 1946 12/28/02 12/19/78 1951 1/26/91
lasT 12/28/88 11/23/91 1/20/07 12/28/02 12/19/78 1951 1/31/91
Unit. of Baltimore Baylor Belmont Abbey Bethune-Cookman Boise State Boston College Boston University Bowdoin Bowling Green Brandeis Brigham Young Brown Bucknell California Campbell Canisius Carnegie Mellon Carson-Newman Catawba Catholic Central Conn. St. Central Florida Chaminade Coll. of Charleston Charleston So. Charlotte Chattanooga Cincinnati The Citadel Clark (Mass.) Clarkson Clemson Coastal Carolina Colby Colgate Columbia Connecticut Coll. Connecticut
0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 3-0 2-1 0-0 2-2 1-0 2-0 0-0 14-4 3-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 23-2 3-1 10-18 10-10 3-0 52-10 1-0 1-0 12-9 0-3 1-0 1-2 0-0 1-0 1-0
0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 4-7 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 19-7 0-2 0-7 3-15 0-3 29-33 0-0 0-0 6-13 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-0 3-5 0-0 5-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-0
0-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 0-2 3-2 2-1 0-1 3-6 1-0 2-0 0-1 18-11 3-0 0-1 4-1 0-1 44-9 3-3 10-25 16-30 3-3 86-43 1-0 1-0 18-23 0-5 0-0 1-3 2-0 1-0 1-0
1938 12/11/75 1/12/62 12/21/85 12/30/95 12/29/70 12/21/55 12/12/98 12/27/86 12/11/04 12/31/74 12/5/73 1957 1/2/00 1/9/89 11/24/78 12/6/97 12/18/61 1929 11/30/85 11/23/90 1/28/89 11/23/84 1927 12/2/81 2/19/79 1/14/78 12/22/62 1926 12/21/05 12/19/03 1918 1/12/91 11/21/06 12/19/55 3/15/68 1/5/97 11/25/78
1938 12/29/79 1/12/62 12/21/85 12/30/95 12/29/70 12/21/55 12/12/98 12/5/87 12/11/04 12/18/76 12/4/78 12/1 1/2/00 3/5/92 11/24/78 11/30/00 12/18/61 12/12/60 12/10/05 11/12/06 12/28/95 11/23/84 3/3/07 2/26/92 12/9/06 3/1/07 2/22/75 2/24/07 12/21/05 12/19/03 12/19/93 2/13/92 11/21/06 12/4/98 12/28/99 1/5/97 11/25/78
Dartmouth Dayton Delaware DePaul Drexel Duke
2-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 5-13
0-1 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 8-54
0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 4-17
2-1 12/18/65 1/28/78 3-0 2/6/69 2/24/73 0-1 12/2/77 12/2/77 0-1 11/26/82 11/26/82 0-1 12/29/00 12/29/00 17-85 1909 11/25/06
East Carolina Eastern Michigan East Tenn. State Eckerd elon emory Emory & Henry Erskine
10-3 2-5 0-0 0-0 15-7 10-10 3-0 0-0 15-4 8-7 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 18-3 1-4
1-1 1-0 1-2 0-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 1-0
13-9 1/5/63 1/29/77 0-0 11/10/06 11/10/06 26-19 12/29/60 1/26/05 3-0 12/12/79 12/5/88 26-11 1915 1/30/07 1-0 1/3/95 1/3/95 1-0 1958 1958 20-8 1930 12/1/90
Fairleigh-Dickinson 1-0
124
1-0
0-0
2-0
12/16/95 11/23/96
opponenT Florida Florida Int’l. Florida State Fordham furman
h a 2-0 0-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 45-28 39-30
n 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 3-2
ToT. 1sT mTg lasT 2-0 1921 1924 2-1 2/7/87 1/26/89 0-1 12/30/03 12/30/03 1-0 12/29/66 12/29/66 87-60 1909 3/2/07
George Washington Georgetown Georgia georgia southern Georgia Tech Guilford
4-2 0-1 2-0 10-1 3-3 22-5
3-4 0-1 1-0 7-5 0-6 10-7
0-4 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
7-10 1939 12/30/82 0-2 12/6/03 11/30/04 3-0 12/22/69 12/30/70 18-6 1/30/62 1/23/06 3-9 2/17/25 12/19/01 30-12 1908 11/20/99
Hamilton Hampden-Sydney Hampton Harvard Haverford High Point Hofstra Holy Cross
1-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 2-0
0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-2
0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-0 4-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-1 2-1 2-2
12/29/01 1925 12/3/03 12/29/88 11/22/99 1925 12/29/75 12/29/69
Illinois-Chicago Indiana Iona Iowa Iowa State
1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1
0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0
1-1 0-1 2-0 0-1 0-1
12/29/05 11/15/06 12/18/78 12/18/78 12/2/94 1/3/04 2/1/69 2/1/69 1/13/90 1/13/90
Jackson State Jacksonville James Madison
0-0 2-0 0-0
0-0 1-0 0-0
1-0 0-0 1-0
1-0 3-0 1-0
11/19/00 11/19/00 1/12/63 12/12/64 12/30/97 12/30/97
Kansas State Kentucky King
0-0 0-0 1-1
0-0 0-0 0-0
0-1 0-1 0-0
0-1 0-1 1-1
12/28/97 12/28/97 3/14/86 3/14/86 1958 1959
Lafayette Lenoir-Rhyne Liberty Louisiana Tech Louisville Loyola Loyola of Balt. Lynchburg
1-1 10-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 3-0
0-1 2-1 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 2-0 3-0
1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-2 1958 1/2/96 12-2 1923 1937 2-2 2/27/90 1/18/92 0-1 1957 1957 0-1 1959 1959 1-0 12/28/73 12/28/73 2-0 1950 1952 6-0 1929 11/27/96
Maine-Farmington Marquette Marshall Maryland Maryville Massachusetts McNeese State UMBC Memphis Mercer Methodist Miami (Fla.) Miami (Ohio) Michigan Mississippi Mississippi Coll. Mississippi State Missouri Monmouth
1-0 1-0 9-8 2-2 1-0 2-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-0
0-0 0-1 4-12 0-5 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-1 1-2 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0
0-0 0-0 1-3 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
1-0 1-1 14-23 3-7 1-0 3-3 0-1 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-3 1-4 3-5 2-0 1-0 1-1 2-1 0-1
11/24/04 12/9/65 1/4/78 1938 1929 12/11/82 12/28/83 1/11/89 12/29/67 12/12/70 11/25/91 2/27/89 12/29/73 12/10/66 11/27/95 12/19/61 12/20/55 11/19/04 11/24/90
12/29/01 11/30/63 12/3/03 12/29/88 12/13/03 1944 2/13/89 12/20/86
11/24/04 2/11/67 2/3/97 3/23/05 1929 11/22/05 12/28/83 2/18/89 12/29/67 12/12/70 11/25/91 2/1/92 2/19/90 11/11/06 12/2/96 12/19/61 12/29/65 11/19/06 11/24/90
D A V I D S O N
h 0-1 1-0
a 0-0 0-0
n 0-0 0-0
ToT. 1sT mTg lasT 0-1 1951 1951 1-0 12/15/06 12/15/06
Navy New Hampshire New Mexico New York Unit. Newberry north Carolina n. Carolina Central UNC Asheville unC greensboro UNC Wilmington n.C. state North Texas State Northern Illinois Notre Dame
2-1 2-1 0-0 1-0 1-0 7-25 0-0 2-1 7-2 1-2 8-34 0-0 0-1 1-5
1-1 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 4-31 0-0 1-2 5-3 0-3 4-37 0-0 0-1 0-6
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
3-2 3-1 0-1 2-0 2-0 11-60 0-0 3-3 13-7 1-5 12-71 1-0 0-2 1-11
Oglethorpe Ohio Ohio State Oregon
3-0 2-0 2-0 0-0
1-0 0-0 1-2 0-0
0-0 1-0 0-2 0-1
4-0 3-0 3-4 0-1
1935 11/23/01 12/29/64 12/21/06 12/11/63 3/17/06 12/27/84 12/27/84
Pembroke Pennsylvania Pfeiffer Pittsburgh Pitt-Johnstown Portland Presbyterian Princeton
1-0 3-1 3-0 1-2 1-0 0-0 1-0 7-2
1-0 1-1 2-2 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-4
0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-0 4-4 5-2 2-3 1-0 0-1 1-1 8-6
1959 1960 1956 12/22/02 1959 2/4/61 12/3/66 1/5/74 12/16/87 12/16/87 12/29/84 12/19/84 1920 1/18/65 12/29/62 1/29/06
Radford Randolph-Macon Rhode Island Rhode Island Coll. Rhodes Rice Richmond Roanoke Rollins Rutgers
0-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 17-3 1-0 1-0 0-0
0-2 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 12-9 3-1 0-1 0-1
0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-4 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 28-12 4-1 1-1 0-1
1/19/91 1938 3/7/66 11/29/03 11/24/95 12/18/67 1939 1917 12/11/76 12/12/77
2/15/92 1938 3/7/66 11/29/03 12/16/00 12/28/85 1/17/76 11/25/94 12/5/77 12/12/77
St. Bonaventure St. Francis (Pa.) St. John’s St. Joseph’s (Maine) St. Joseph’s (Pa.) St. Mary’s (Md.) Samford Santa Clara Seton Hall Sewanee Siena South Carolina South Carolina St. South Florida SMU SW Missouri State SW Texas State Southwestern Stanford Stetson Syracuse
2-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 2-4 2-6 2-0 0-0 4-3 1-3 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-3 6-1 0-0 1-0 0-2 19-15 6-24 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-2
0-1 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2
2-2 0-1 6-10 2-0 5-7 1-0 2-0 0-1 0-4 6-1 1-2 25-39 0-1 0-1 0-2 1-0 2-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-4
3/7/70 1958 3/9/68 3/3/90 1956 12/15/05 1/28/92 11/18/00 1940 1954 2/6/97 1909 11/26/88 11/17/00 12/5/96 3/19/05 11/25/88 1954 12/30/99 1916 3/11/66
12/10/02 1958 12/29/89 12/2/92 11/26/05 12/15/05 12/4/93 11/18/00 12/29/04 12/17/04 11/16/99 3/13/96 11/26/88 11/17/00 12/20/97 3/19/05 12/5/98 1954 12/30/99 1916 12/18/05
W
I L D C A T
S
12/28/65 12/28/62 12/29/78 1/7/65 1911 1911 first 1/31/90 2/14/98 12/28/87 1913 12/30/60 1/21/89 2/2/74
11/27/02 11/23/97 12/29/78 2/12/66 1/5/54 1/3/06 meeting 1/15/92 2/3/07 12/5/95 12/9/95 12/30/60 2/8/89 1/5/85
opponenT Temple Tennessee Tennessee Temple Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Tufts Tulane
h 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 1-0
a 0-0 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1
n 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
ToT. 1-0 0-5 1-0 1-0 0-1 1-1 1-0 1-1
UC-Santa Barbara uCla
1-0 0-0
0-1 0-1
0-0 0-0
1-1 0-1
Vanderbilt Villanova Virginia VCU VMI Virginia Tech
1sT mTg 12/19/67 1953 12/5/92 12/28/68 12/13/80 11/27/82 11/29/97 12/17/66
lasT 12/19/67 1959 12/5/92 12/28/68 12/13/80 11/18/03 11/29/97 2/24/68
1/4/75 1/3/75
1/29/76 1/3/75
1-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 2-3 2-6 0-0 1-0 39-11 32-18 9-5 9-13
0-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 5-1 0-1
1-3 12/30/67 12/27/85 1-1 3/8/69 11/27/88 4-10 1920 1/21/91 1-0 3/16/05 3/16/05 76-30 1917 3/6/03 18-19 1909 12/30/71
Wake Forest 16-32 7-28 Warren Wilson 1-0 0-0 Washington Coll. 2-0 0-0 Wash. & Jefferson 5-0 0-0 Washington & Lee 7-8 5-6 West Virginia 13-4 2-8 Western Carolina 17-8 13-8 Western Kentucky 0-0 0-1 Western michigan 1-0 0-0 William & Mary 13-11 6-13 Williams 1-0 0-0 Winthrop 2-2 1-2 Wisconsin 1-0 0-0 Wofford 48-8 15-13
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-5 2-2 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-1
23-60 1-0 2-0 5-0 12-14 15-18 32-18 0-1 1-0 21-27 1-0 3-4 1-0 62-21
oThers ToTals
1908 12/9/91 12/19/98 1/5/95 1909 3/1/56 12/19/77 12/15/78 12/30/06 1934 12/21/95 2/15/90 12/12/80 1912
ALL-TIME RECORD VS. OPPONENTS
all-TimereCordvs.opponenTs opponenT Morehead Mount St. Mary
2/2/00 12/9/91 12/1/02 12/21/02 11/30/02 3/17/94 2/17/07 12/15/78 12/30/06 12/30/00 12/21/95 1/25/92 12/12/80 2/19/07
100- 49 home 683-376
aWay 332-574
neuTral 76-89
ToTal 1191-1088
Bold italics denotes 2007-08 Opponent
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at VPI at Washington & Lee at Hampden-Sydney at Roanoke Wake Forest Guilford Wake Forest
1920-21
CoaCh: f.W. hengevelD reCorD: 7-7 Guilford 51- 14 W N.C. State 45- 13 W 23- 47 L at Virginia at Elks Club 23- 37 L at Washington & Lee 28- 31 L 38- 25 W Elon Florida 45- 26 W at Elon 19- 30 L 28- 29 L at N.C. State at North Carolina 20- 37 L Charlotte YMCA 55- 11 W 25- 27 L at Guilford Wofford 35- 34 W at Winston-Salem YMCA 34- 25 W
1921-22
Davidson’s first in 1907-08: bottom row (l-r) — Hyder Barr, James McClintock, John Fairly; top row — Walter Pharr, John Turner, Cromartie, Coach J.W. Rhea.
1907-08
CoaCh: J.W. rhea
1908-09
YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
CoaCh: J.W. rhea Guilford Wake Forest Duke
1909-10
CoaCh: none VPI Furman South Carolina Washington & Lee Furman
1910-11
CoaCh: none Wake Forest North Carolina
1911-12
CoaCh: none Charlotte YMCAc Charlotte YMCAc South Carolina Newberry Wofford Wofford
1912-13
CoaCh: none Asheville YMCA Asheville School Wake Forest at North Carolina A&M (N.C. State) CoaCh: none
1913-14 1914-15
CoaCh: none at Statesville YMCA at Salisbury at Greensboro YMCA Charlotte YMCAc Charlotte YMCAc Charlotte YMCAc
1915-16
reCorD: nr
reCorD: 1-2 25- 9 W 17- 38 L 8- 22 L reCorD: 2-3 12- 68 L 37- 42 L 29- 8 W 13- 46 L 73- 25 W reCorD: 0-2 25- 35 L 25- 27 L reCorD: 4-2 22- 35 L 29- 27 W 35- 33 W 29- 25 W 37- 44 L 67- 29 W reCorD: 0-1
8- 42
L
reCorD: nr
reCorD: 3-3 30- 21 W 38- 39 L 16- 39 L 37- 25 W 9- 31 L 36- 24 W
CoaCh: W.m. fetzer reCorD: 11-9 States YMCA 24- 19 W 12/18 Duke 27- 23 W at Asheville YMCA 27- 39 L at Asheville School 44- 35 W Elon 17- 25 L c 30- 18 W N.C. State at Guilford 49- 26 W at Elon 23- 18 W at Winston-Salem YMCA 33- 34 L Charlotte YMCA 49- 37 W Guilford 45- 18 W at Statesville YMCA 39- 33 W at N.C. State 14- 35 L at Duke 22- 38 L 2/ 16 North Carolina 14- 20 L
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at Greensboro YMCA at Statesville YMCA Charlotte YMCAc at Statesville YMCA at North Carolina
3248192821-
25 W 17 W 28 L 36 L 31 L
1916-17
CoaCh: W.m. fetzer reCorD: 11-6 Charlotte YMCA 60- 22 W Charlotte YMCA 50- 33 W 34- 31 W at Statesville YMCA Charlotte YMCAc 49- 34 W Stetson 47- 14 W at Winston-Salem YMCA 28- 33 L at Guilford 30- 27 W at Elon 31- 26 W 26- 32 L at Duke at North Carolina 36- 31 W at N.C. State 26- 32 L 26- 19 W at Wake Forest Elon 19- 28 L Statesville YMCA 28- 30 L Guilford 19- 18 W Charlotte YMCA 36- 14 W at Statesville YMCA 31- 37 L
1917-18
CoaCh: W.m. fetzer reCorD: 7-4 at Washington & Lee 33- 20 W at VMI 12- 29 L at VPI 49- 20 W at Roanoke 43- 17 W Winston-Salem YMCA 55- 33 W Guilford 37- 24 W 16- 22 L Guilfordc at Elon 29- 23 W at North Carolina 22- 28 L at Duke 24- 30 L Clemson 37- 22 W
1918-19
CoaCh: none Camp Greenc at VMI at Washington & Lee at VPI at Roanoke at Guilford at Duke at Elon at North Carolina
1919-20
CoaCh: f.W. hengevelD North Carolina at Guilford at N.C. State at Wake Forest at North Carolina at Elon Clemson South Carolina at Wofford at Clemson at Presbyterian at South Carolina N.C. State
reCorD: 3-6 54- 14 W 10- 61 L 6- 28 L 17- 20 L 15- 25 L 9- 21 L 20- 19 W 23- 19 W 12- 40 L
reCorD: 3-10 31- 20 W 22- 29 L 10- 30 L 12- 24 L 22- 23 L 18- 24 L 26- 28 L 27- 25 W 38- 17 W 27- 38 L 30- 37 L 17- 28 L 19- 37 L
CoaCh: f.W. hengevelD Charlotte YMCAc Wofford N.C. State at Duke at N.C. State at Wake Forest at Elon Dukec Elon Guilford at Clemson at Wofford Wake Forest
reCorD: 10-3 44- 22 W 30- 21 W 23- 22 W 18- 22 L 25- 21 W 29- 27 W 30- 34 L 32- 27 W 53- 25 W 26- 45 L 32- 16 W 30- 25 W 36- 27 W
1922-23
CoaCh: h.m. grey Charlotte YMCAc Charlotte YMCA N.C. State Concord YMCA Dukec Wofford at Concord YMCA at N.C. State Wake Forest Guilford Elon at Wake Forest at Clemson at Wofford at Furman at Guilford at Elon
reCorD: 9-8 36- 20 W 38- 32 W 21- 8 W 35- 28 W 27- 39 L 37- 12 W 37- 21 W 22- 26 L 24- 29 L 43- 45 L 30- 24 W 27- 17 W 18- 25 L 30- 32 L 39- 34 W 15- 23 L 25- 39 L
1923-24
CoaCh: monk yoUnger Concord YMCA Charlotte YMCA at Statesville A.A. North Carolinac Belmont A.L. Guilford Dukec Florida Lenoir-Rhyne N.C. State South Carolina Wake Forest Charlotte YMCA at Wake Forest at N.C. State at Guilford at Belmont A.L. Statesville A.A.
reCorD: 10-8 49- 6 W 20- 26 L 36- 14 W 27- 37 L 31- 28 W 33- 23 W 30- 40 L 34- 22 W 34- 21 W 24- 13 W 35- 29 W 22- 32 L 23- 37 L 16- 33 L 33- 39 L 25- 37 L 33- 28 W 44- 13 W
1924-25
CoaCh: monk yoUnger Concord YMCA Charlotte YMCA Dukec at Duke at North Carolina Elon at Concord YMCA at Duke Durham Elks Wake Forest Durham Elks Charlotte YMCAc High Point 2/ 17 Georgia Tech at Guilford
reCorD: 16-6 39- 19 W 31- 21 W 27- 25 W 39- 22 W 13- 44 L 46- 14 W 37- 14 W 22- 18 W 33- 49 L 36- 48 L 44- 23 W 27- 37 L 45- 28 W 36- 27 W 58- 27 W
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1925-26
CoaCh: monk yoUnger Concord YMCA Salisbury YMCA Duke N.C. State Wofford Hampden-Sydney Concord YMCA Guilford Charlotte YMCA Furman at Clemson at Furman at Wofford N.C. State at Duke at North Carolina at The Citadel
29 34 17 19 33 18 28
W L W W L W W
reCorD: 8-9 53- 15 W 27- 28 L 32- 31 W 19- 35 L 32- 19 W 38- 31 W 48- 15 W 38- 28 W 42- 39 W 36- 40 L 30- 32 L 33- 29 W 29- 30 L 19- 35 L 30- 32 L 18- 53 L 37- 39 L
1926-27
CoaCh: monk yoUnger reCorD: 10-8 33- 32 W Salisbury YMCA Concord YMCA 41- 19 W at Salisbury YMCA 33- 34 L 42- 16 W Union Seminary Wofford 50- 34 W Furman 32- 41 L 36- 18 W Elon at N.C. State 20- 32 L at Duke 24- 39 L 67- 27 W Guilford Lenoir-Rhyne 31- 27 W c Carolina Monograms (OT) 33- 29 W 18- 20 L at Parris Island at College of Charleston 35- 29 W at The Citadel 30- 41 L 36- 40 L at The Citadel at South Carolina 29- 34 L Duke 49- 42 W
1927-28
CoaCh: monk yoUnger reCorD: 9-7 Salisbury YMCA 47- 43 W Duke 27- 46 L Furman 25- 33 L Guilford 26- 28 L Wofford 53- 31 W Elon 40- 37 W at Salisbury YMCA 47- 44 W Lenoir-Rhyne 40- 22 W at The Citadel 30- 39 L at College of Charleston 57- 29 W at Clemson 24- 35 L at Furman 27- 32 L at Wofford 37- 27 W at Wake Forest 51- 27 W at Duke 33- 51 L at Guilford 30- 27 W
1928-29
CoaCh: monk yoUnger reCorD: 10-8 40- 55 L Furmanc c 21- 34 L North Carolina Wofford 46- 30 W Lenoir-Rhyne 39- 26 W Elon 41- 35 W c 41- 27 W Carolina Monograms VPI 28- 12 W Duke 47- 40 W at Guilford 25- 12 W at VPI 41- 19 W at VMI 37- 38 L at Washington & Lee 26- 55 L at Virginia 27- 38 L at Lynchburg 33- 17 W Wake Forest 38- 25 W at Duke 25- 33 L at North Carolina 7- 45 L at N.C. State 22- 30 L
1929-30
CoaCh: monk yoUnger Catawba Charlotte YMCA at Wofford at Furman North Carolinac Lenoir-Rhyne Charlotte YMCAc
reCorD: 12-7 50- 26 W 33- 18 W 29- 15 W 20- 33 L 22- 20 W 39- 25 W 38- 39 L
D A V I D S O N
20 27 16 20 33 17 30 32 43 45 19 10
W W W W L W W L L L L W
1930-31
CoaCh: monk yoUnger reCorD: 8-8 N.C. Statec 26- 19 W 18- 17 W North Carolina 37- 23 W Erskine VPI 22- 20 W Elon 39- 28 W 46- 19 W Lenoir-Rhyne 18- 27 L at Duke 20- 29 L Charlotte YMCA at Guilford 18- 27 L at North Carolina 30- 28 W 23- 30 L at N.C. State 17- 31 L Duke 20- 22 L Wake Forest at South Carolina 35- 26 W at College of Charleston 30- 32 L at The Citadel 21- 22 L
1931-32
CoaCh: flake lairD reCorD: 3-12 29- 45 L North Carolinac Furman 8- 19 L Guilford 22- 18 W 6- 21 L at Duke Dukec 20- 38 L Erskine 27- 28 L 41- 22 W Lenoir-Rhyne Barium All-Stars 14- 16 L at N.C. State 26- 27 L 28- 32 L at North Carolina College of Charleston 32- 19 W at Wake Forest 19- 32 L 30- 32 L Elon at The Citadel 21- 32 L at College of Charleston 22- 28 L
1932-33
CoaCh: flake lairD Charlotte YMCAc Charlotte YMCA Furman North Carolinac Dukec Erskine Wofford at Furman at Wofford at VPI at Lynchburg at Duke N.C. State at Wake Forest at Elon at North Carolina at N.C. State Lynchburg
reCorD: 4-14 27- 37 L 29- 37 L 30- 44 L 18- 56 L 14- 58 L 32- 33 L (OT) 27- 25 W 26- 33 L 24- 39 L 22- 27 L 24- 21 W 25- 44 L 16- 39 L 39- 43 L 38- 18 W 26- 39 L 23- 35 L 37- 32 W
1933-34
CoaCh: flake lairD at Kannapolis YMCA at Statesville at Gastonia Statesville North Carolina at Duke at Lenoir-Rhyne N.C. State Wake Forest at VPI at Virginia at William & Mary N.C. State N.C. State Lenoir-Rhyne at Duke at North Carolina at Elon at Erskine
W
reCorD: 6-13 42- 30 W 33- 38 L 35- 22 W 39- 33 W 23- 38 L 35- 40 L 38- 29 W 29- 32 L 25- 34 L 32- 28 W 25- 43 L 19- 31 L 26- 50 L 23- 36 L 31- 24 W 26- 57 L 25- 39 L 34- 35 L 23- 32 L
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1934-35
CoaCh: flake lairD reCorD: 13-10 Charlotte YMCA 42- 28 W 34- 25 W at Lenoir-Rhyne c 35- 39 L Duke Wofford 40- 35 W 26- 36 L North Carolinac Oglethorpe 41- 38 W Lenoir-Rhyne 46- 33 W 36- 31 W at Catawba N.C. State 21- 29 L at Wofford 31- 33 L 45- 37 W at Oglethorpe at Atlanta YMCA 53- 56 L at Atl. Jewish Prog. Club 29- 31 L 43- 29 W Catawba 35- 31 W Charlotte YMCAc at Elon 46- 43 W 34- 35 L at Duke at North Carolina 26- 38 L at High Point 30- 31 L 28- 39 L at Wake Forest at N.C. State 39- 28 W Wake Forest 31- 24 W Erskine 47- 34 W
The 1938-39 team was the first Wildcat squad to win more than 13 games, posting a record of 19-10. at College of Charleston at The Citadel* at Clemson* at South Carolina* at Furman* Wake Forest*
1935-36
CoaCh: flake lairD Statesville Spirals at Lenoir-Rhyne at Statesville Spirals North Carolinac at Duke N.C. State at Catawba Elon Lenoir-Rhyne at Wake Forest at N.C. State at Duke Catawba at VMI at Virginia at VPI Wake Forest Erskine at North Carolina
reCorD: 4-15 28- 32 L 31- 51 L 29- 24 W 27- 45 L 24- 46 L 17- 55 L 25- 27 L 30- 43 L 27- 19 W 34- 37 L 32- 43 L 33- 37 L 25- 24 W 32- 37 L 28- 33 L 30- 35 L 23- 26 L 40- 25 W 16- 31 L
1936-37
CoaCh: flake lairD reCorD: 13-10 (5-8) Catawba 41- 34 W Unique Furniture 37- 35 W Charlotte YMCA 36- 25 W at Duke* 34- 40 L 35- 33 W North Carolina*c Groves Thread 38- 46 L N.C. State* 35- 41 L South Carolina* 35- 39 L at Duke* 27- 32 L at North Carolina* 20- 34 L at Furman* 45- 31 W at The Citadel* 46- 36 W at College of Charleston 39- 18 W Guilford 46- 26 W at N.C. State* 34- 51 L at Wake Forest* 43- 31 W The Citadel* 46- 34 W College of Charleston 51- 34 W at South Carolina* 29- 40 L Wake Forest* 33- 44 L at Catawba 45- 37 W Lenoir-Rhyne 31- 43 L Erskine 45- 31 W
1937-38
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 9-12 (4-11) at College of Charleston 51- 21 W J.O. Jones 43- 29 W McCrary Eagles 45- 48 L Carlton Mills 42- 41 W at Duke* 40- 22 W (OT) 35- 37 L North Carolina*c Furman* 30- 25 W Clemson* 29- 39 L N.C. State* 24- 25 L Guilford 57- 16 W (OT) 29- 33 L The Citadel* c 28- 52 L Duke* at North Carolina* 30- 41 L at Wake Forest* 37- 45 L at N.C. State* 34- 46 L
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1938-39
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 19-10 (9-7) Duke Power 67- 33 W J.O. Jones 68- 21 W 46- 45 W at Hampden-Sydney at William & Mary* 55- 35 W at Randolph-Macon 49- 33 W at University of Baltimore 27- 38 L at Maryland* 27- 44 L at Shelby-Lions 33- 41 L 47- 45 W at McCrary Eagles at Duke* 41- 39 W 46- 39 W North Carolina*c South Carolina* 37- 24 W at Furman* 40- 31 W at Wofford 36- 25 W N.C. State* 36- 40 L Guilford 42- 21 W The Citadel* 46- 32 W North Carolina* 28- 35 L at Duke* 42- 40 W at VPI* 55- 40 W at Wake Forest* 43- 61 L at N.C. State* 26- 45 L at The Citadel* 30- 45 L Wofford 44- 22 W at South Carolina* 36- 30 W Wake Forest* 32- 38 L Furman* 53- 27 W Washington & Lee* 43- 32 W 1 33- 49 L vs. Clemson Southern Conference Tournament, Raleigh, N.C.
1
1939-40
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 8-13 (4-11) J.O. Jones 34- 30 W Charlotte YMCA 61- 50 W at VMI* 32- 31 W at Richmond* 32- 33 L at McCrary Eagles 22- 39 L at George Washington 42- 74 L Duke* 28- 51 L Wake Forest* 26- 48 L c 47- 55 L North Carolina* N.C. State* 41- 52 L at Furman* 43- 33 W at Guilford 47- 27 W The Citadel* 52- 42 W at Duke* 30- 47 L at North Carolina* 31- 44 L at N.C. State* 27- 40 L at Wake Forest* 37- 57 L at The Citadel* 31- 46 L at South Carolina* 39- 47 L South Carolina* 52- 39 W c 46- 39 W Furman*
1940-41
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 11-12 (5-7) 61- 26 W at Union Seminary at J.O. Jones 91- 44 W at Lynchburg 46- 35 W 35- 55 L at George Washington at Seton Hall 28- 52 L at McCrary Eagles 49- 55 L 33- 57 L at Duke* at N.C. State* 39- 48 L at South Carolina* 27- 49 L 45- 34 W at Furman* at Wofford 40- 49 L VPI* 41- 57 L 51- 43 W The Citadel* at North Carolina* 30- 38 L College of Charleston 63- 44 W 43- 51 L at N.C. State* Wofford 52- 47 W at College of Charleston 51- 54 L at The Citadel* 39- 37 W Furman* 47- 40 W South Carolina* 52- 48 W North Carolina* 31- 39 L Guilford 47- 31 W
1941-42
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 12-13 (3-9) J.O. Jones 44- 25 W at Hanes Hosiery 24- 52 L at Kannapolis YMCA 36- 30 W Kannapolis YMCA 43- 38 W North Carolina* 22- 37 L Langley Field 21- 20 W Naval Base 25- 44 L at McCrary Eagles 33- 45 L at Duke* 40- 75 L N.C. State* 48- 71 L at South Carolina* 22- 30 L at N.C. State* 43- 60 L at Guilford 44- 27 W at North Carolina* 38- 45 L at Duke* 37- 73 L at Wofford 37- 31 W Guilford 29- 20 W at College of Charleston 29- 31 L at The Citadel* 41- 39 W The Citadel* 48- 33 W at Furman* 34- 29 W Wofford 49- 35 W College of Charleston 49- 38 W South Carolina* 39- 46 L Furman* 39- 43 L
1942-43
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 18-6 (7-4) Kannapolis YMCA 55- 45 W McCrary Eagles 52- 40 W Morris Field 60- 29 W Charlotte YMCA 60- 35 W Duke* 50- 60 L N.C. State* 48- 37 W Guilford 58- 25 W Catawba 37- 32 W South Carolina* 58- 43 W North Carolina* 57- 41 W Wofford 59- 27 W
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54South Carolina* Catawba 37College of Charleston 6327North Carolina* N.C. State* 45Clemson* 5354The Citadel* College of Charleston 61The Citadel* 4840Wofford Clemson* 4933at N.C. State1 vs. George Washington1 (OT) 40-
64 53 34 53 53 41 48 54 44 38 32 30 47
at South Carolina* at Furman* at Clemson* at Duke* Washington & Lee* VMI* McCrary Eagles Furman* Washington & Lee* Morehead
L L W L L W W W W W W W L
Southern Conference Tournament, Raleigh, N.C.
1943-44
YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
Southern Conference Tournament, Raleigh, N.C.
1
1944-45
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 9-9 (3-6) 54- 46 W U.S. Rubber Co. at Wofford 41- 29 W Guilford 42- 22 W 32- 47 L North Carolina* N.C. State* 31- 44 L U.S. Rubber Co. 49- 44 W Wofford 40- 53 L at College of Charleston 32- 28 W at The Citadel* 32- 52 L at North Carolina* 20- 89 L at N.C. State* 25- 55 L The Citadel* 26- 60 L at Furman* 39- 32 W at Clemson* 34- 31 W Morris Field 30- 47 L College of Charleston 39- 37 W Morris Field 29- 52 L Furman* 50- 33 W
1945-46
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 13-12 (5-11) Kannapolis YMCA 41- 22 W Elon 48- 35 W at Duke* 23- 50 L at North Carolina* 31- 63 L at Kannapolis YMCA 44- 43 W at Duke* 27- 55 L at N.C. State* 41- 44 L Furman* 34- 38 L Furman* 47- 40 W North Carolina* 30- 58 L at Furman* 46- 49 L at Furman* 36- 38 L at College of Charleston 61- 38 W at The Citadel* 39- 41 L at Wofford 51- 49 W at Clemson* 44- 33 W Wofford 38- 33 W The Citadel* 37- 30 W Clemson* 49- 53 L N.C. State* 42- 49 L College of Charleston 47- 23 W Appalachian 52- 39 W Washington & Lee* 52- 39 W Washington & Lee* 51- 49 W Catawba 58- 64 L
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74 L 63 W 55 W 94 L 81 L 87 L 73 L 51 W 78 L 75 L
1951-52
1
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 16-7 (3-4) 24th C.T.D. 33- 28 W 54- 19 W Morris Field Charlotte YMCA 64- 25 W Catawba 49- 24 W 52- 51 W Catawba Morris Field 60- 19 W at Catawba 43- 41 W 37- 43 L at North Carolina* Morris Field 60- 30 W at High Point 67- 38 W 60- 34 W at Guilford Camp Sutton 53- 37 W at Charlotte YMCA 64- 40 W 60- 20 W College of Charleston The Citadel* 47- 43 W c 40- 43 L North Carolina* 29- 82 L at Preflight at N.C. State* 33- 42 L Clemson* 42- 38 W 41- 27 W N.C. State* N.C. State* 31- 54 L at Catawba 37- 51 L 34- 38 L vs. Virginia Tech1
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The 1946-47 squad features four members of the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame — Buddy Cheek (#23), Whit Cobb (#13), George Peters (#22) and Mike Williams (24). Maryland*c South Carolina* N.C. State*c The Citadel* at North Carolina* at Duke* Clemson*c College of Charleston Wofford Furman*c at VMI* at Washington & Lee* at N.C. State* at Furman* at Clemson* North Carolina*c at South Carolina* at College of Charleston at The Citadel* vs. William & Mary1
1946-47
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 17-8 (7-7) Kannapolis YMCA 76- 46 W Catawba 55- 17 W 59- 58 W at McCrary Eagles at Wofford 55- 30 W 12/19 at Georgia Tech 41- 55 L 58- 47 W McCrary Eagles at Duke* 47- 55 L N.C. State* 48- 53 L 78- 31 W Guilford McCrary Eagles 66- 53 W South Carolina* 74- 43 W at College of Charleston 67- 53 W 2/ 1 at The Citadel* 60- 34 W 3 at South Carolina* 52- 50 W 47- 61 L 7 at Duke* 8 at North Carolina* 46- 55 L 11 The Citadel* 72- 46 W 53- 57 L 14 at Clemson* 15 at Furman* 57- 45 W 18 North Carolina* 38- 46 L 20 Clemson* 86- 48 W 22 at N.C. State* 56- 65 L 26 Wofford 74- 46 W 28 Furman* 68- 51 W 3/ 1 College of Charleston 67- 55 W
1947-48
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 19-9 (10-7) Kannapolis YMCA 80- 31 W at McCrary Eagles 58- 50 W at Clemson* 60- 43 W Washington & Lee* 56- 45 W at George Washington* 40- 57 L at Maryland* 58- 59 L at Quantico Marines 75- 50 W at Hanes Hosiery 46- 52 L at Duke* 44- 42 W N.C. State* 39- 72 L at South Carolina* 45- 60 L Wofford 62- 35 W at McCrary Eagles 60- 48 W at North Carolina* 42- 50 L College of Charleston 62- 34 W at Furman* 57- 46 W VMI* 63- 53 W South Carolina* 69- 44 W Clemson* 85- 52 W The Citadel* 69- 30 W at N.C. State* 52- 89 L at Wofford 60- 45 W North Carolina* 46- 52 L Furman* 75- 39 W at The Citadel* 49- 42 W at College of Charleston 55- 52 W 1 58- 51 W vs. Maryland 39- 53 L at Duke1 Southern Conference Tournament, Durham, N.C.
1
1948-49
CoaCh: norman SheparD reCorD: 18-8 (11-6) Charlotte YMCA 52- 28 W Ellers 85- 39 W at Hanes Hosiery 51- 46 W at Wofford 53- 61 L 41- 58 L Duke*c at McCrary Eagles 69- 52 W
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49 53 64 25 37 57 55 39 56 40 31 44 62 46 52 53 69 53 42 54
W W L W W L W W W W W W L W W L L W W L
Southern Conference Tournament, Durham, N.C.
1
1949-50
CoaCh: boyD bairD reCorD: 10-16 (6-12) at N.C. State* 43- 77 L at McCrary Eagles 69- 76 L at VPI* 60- 56 W Duke* 49- 66 L 12/14 at Georgia Tech 59- 78 L Monroe Clippers 63- 60 W Hanes Hosiery 90- 87 W at Monroe Clippers 49- 60 L North Carolina* 53- 63 L N.C. State* 35- 44 L at Furman* 58- 52 W at Clemson* 82- 88 L McCrary Eagles 70- 56 W at Duke* 59- 69 L at North Carolina* 54- 67 L South Carolina* 46- 66 L at The Citadel* 34- 41 L at College of Charleston 51- 54 L College of Charleston 64- 37 W at South Carolina* 56- 58 L at VMI* 68- 47 W Clemson* 77- 65 W Richmond* 60- 81 L at Maryland* 61- 64 L at Furman* 68- 58 W The Citadel* 87- 48 W
1950-51
CoaCh: boyD bairD reCorD: 7-19 (5-15) N.C. State* 53- 87 L North Carolina* 69- 72 L at Richmond* 61- 69 L at William & Mary* 49- 65 L at Quantico Marines 66- 83 L at Loyola of Baltimore 65- 63 W at Geneva 79- 68 W at McCrary Eagles 61- 78 L South Carolina* 52- 69 L The Citadel* 55- 52 W at N.C. State* 61- 70 L at North Carolina* 53- 56 L Clemson* 62- 74 L 68- 90 L Duke*c Maryland* 55- 57 L at The Citadel* 69- 49 W
CoaCh: boyD bairD reCorD: 7-18 (4-15) 65- 62 W Catawba N.C. State* 48- 74 L Furman* 66- 82 L 69- 64 W Washington & Lee* at Duke* 49- 88 L 59- 66 L Auburn1 87- 63 W South Carolina*1 60- 78 L 12/29 Georgia Tech1 at McCrary Eagles 63- 68 L 61- 76 L South Carolina* The Citadel* 100- 66 W at North Carolina* 77- 78 L 67- 58 W VMI* at Furman* 69- 98 L at Clemson* 59- 67 L 63- 64 L Wake Forest* Clemson* 69- 71 L at N.C. State* 49- 72 L 56- 61 L at South Carolina* at The Citadel* 52- 62 L North Carolina* 76- 71 W 68- 82 L at Wake Forest* Duke* 50- 58 L at Loyola of Baltimore 73- 65 W 48- 71 L at Maryland Carolinas Invitational Tournament
1
1952-53
CoaCh: Danny miller reCorD: 4-17 (3-14) 89- 76 W Erskine at N.C. State* 47- 82 L Furman* 71- 67 W 65- 94 L at Duke* South Carolina* 57- 66 L N.C. State* 71-105 L at Tennessee 56- 84 L at North Carolina* 60- 71 L at Wake Forest* 58- 91 L 52- 73 L North Carolina*c Wake Forest* 57- 69 L at South Carolina* 69- 71 L at The Citadel* 81- 64 W Tennessee 73- 83 L Clemson* 59- 64 L at McCrary Eagles 64- 74 L The Citadel* 69- 59 W at Furman* 54- 89 L at Clemson* 58- 72 L Duke* 72- 99 L at VPI* 62- 71 L
1953-54
CoaCh: Danny miller reCorD: 7-16 (3-5) 12/ 2 Guilford 56- 63 L 4 Wake Forest 46- 88 L 5 N.C. State 41- 99 L 8 South Carolina 65- 56 W 12 at VPI* 61- 68 L 15 at Duke 39- 78 L 16 at VMI* 58- 65 L 1/ 2 McCrary Eagles 81- 91 L 5 at Newberry 89- 36 W 9 at The Citadel* 82- 51 W 11 at North Carolina 54- 70 L 16 Washington & Lee* 63- 74 L 18 VPI* 87- 69 W 30 at College of Charleston 77- 53 W 2/ 2 at South Carolina 73- 96 L 6 VMI* 75- 63 W 12 College of Charleston 76- 59 W 13 The Citadel* 70- 75 L 69- 89 L 16 North Carolinac 22 at N.C. State 54-101 L 26 at Furman* 93-105 L 27 at Clemson 69- 81 L 68- 84 L vs. Furman1 Southern Conference Tournament, Morgantown, W.Va.
1
1954-55
CoaCh: Danny miller reCorD: 8-14 (4-6) Guilford 94- 73 W at Guilford 78- 69 W at College of Charleston 69- 92 L at The Citadel* 70- 51 W
D A V I D S O N
54- 80 63- 97 75-107 70- 71 71-100 87- 66 63- 81 70- 68 83- 71 51-101 56- 83 68- 65 67- 96 76-125 72- 70 52- 61 52- 73 36- 74
20 23 28 3/ 1 2
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Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
CoaCh: miller, tom SCott reCorD: 10-15 (5-7) 66- 76 L 12/ 2 Furman*c 3 at Tennessee 64- 77 L 6 Catawba 96- 90 W 9 at College of Charleston 93- 70 W 10 at The Citadel* 93- 64 W 13 VPI* 78- 76 W 108- 65 W 15 Guilford 1 51- 86 L 19 Colgate 82- 89 L 20 Mississippi State1 69- 87 L 21 Boston University1 1/ 2 at McCrary Eagles 93- 78 W 3 at Wofford 67- 96 L 65- 59 W 6 The Citadel* 9 at VPI* 63- 89 L 12 Furman* 70- 72 L 71- 65 W 14 at Washington & Lee* 30 at Catawba 64- 70 L 2/ 3 William & Mary* 75- 85 L 73- 86 L 4 VMI* 7 at Guilford 84- 79 W 10 Washington & Lee* 75- 85 L 90- 86 W 11 College of Charleston 21 Wofford 73- 77 L 23 at VMI* 79- 73 W 67- 77 L 24 at William & Mary* 53- 59 L 3/ 1 vs. West Virginia2 Charlotte Carrousel Classic Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
1 Charlotte Carrousel Classic Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
2
1958-59
CoaCh: tom SCott reCorD: 9-15 (2-8) 52- 56 L Wake Forest Emory & Henry 66- 65 W King 43- 60 L 79- 55 W Catawba at Catawba 69- 72 L at Pfeiffer 82- 65 W 98- 71 W at Washington & Lee at William & Mary* 56- 72 L at Tennessee 52- 67 L 62- 55 W South Carolina1 1 42- 61 L St. Francis (Pa.) 49- 74 L George Washington*1 57- 59 L William & Mary* at VPI* 70- 91 L at Furman* 64- 68 L 75- 70 W VMI* The Citadel* 72- 78 L Pfeiffer 71- 70 W 63- 94 L at Pfeiffer at VMI* 60- 64 L Washington & Lee 84- 75 W 75- 59 W Furman* The Citadel* 60- 64 L 65-100 L vs. West Virginia2 1 Charlotte Carrousel Classic Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
1
2
1956-57
CoaCh: tom SCott reCorD: 7-20 (4-8) Guilford 71- 65 W Catawba 70- 72 L at College of Charleston 83- 48 W at The Citadel* 62- 63 L at Catawba 87- 89 L Furman* 61- 75 L at Guilford 57- 64 L 64- 86 L St. Joseph’s (Pa.)1 1 67- 75 L Clemson 71- 82 L Colgate1 79- 83 L vs. Pennsylvania2 2 63- 92 L at Richmond 2 63- 72 L vs. William & Mary William & Mary* 67- 80 L at Furman* 85-104 L at VPI* 60- 86 L College of Charleston 67- 45 W at VMI* 60- 75 L at William & Mary* 86- 71 W Washington & Lee* 70- 89 L VMI* 66- 54 W at Wofford 75- 85 L The Citadel* 60- 57 W Wofford 59- 79 L at Washington & Lee* 53- 62 L VPI* 71- 55 W 51- 71 L vs. West Virginia3 Charlotte Carrousel Classic 2 Richmond Invitational, Richmond, Va. Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va. 1
3
1957-58
CoaCh: tom SCott reCorD: 9-15 (4-8) at Wake Forest 61- 68 L 12/ 3 at Georgia Tech 52- 74 L College of Charleston 94- 50 W Wofford 67- 58 W Catawba 54- 48 W at Catawba 47- 45 W 1 41- 66 L Louisiana Tech 1 58- 68 L Bucknell 46- 65 L Lafayette1 at VMI* 56- 52 W at Washington & Lee* 84- 63 W
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Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
1
at William & Mary* 61- 75 L Furman* 72- 70 W 42- 61 L The Citadel* at VPI* 51- 64 L William & Mary* 53- 72 L 55- 61 L Washington & Lee* VMI* 76- 65 W at Furman* 70- 85 L 42- 49 L at The Citadel* at College of Charleston 103- 51 W at VPI* 58- 90 L 62- 64 L Wofford 2 61- 91 L vs. West Virginia
1
1955-56
Wake Forestc The Citadel* vs. VMI1 at Virginia Tech1 vs. West Virginia1
2
1959-60
CoaCh: tom SCott reCorD: 5-19 (0-10) Pfeiffer 73- 59 W at Tennessee 68-102 L King 84- 70 W Catawba 67- 62 W at Wake Forest 55- 90 L at Louisville 47- 90 L at Clemson 70- 71 L Furman* 60- 62 L at Erskine 68- 77 L Clemson 60- 66 L William & Mary* 64- 74 L at Furman* 59- 64 L at VMI* 38- 70 L at VPI* 51- 96 L The Citadel* 55- 73 L at Catawba 76- 86 L Pembroke 81- 73 W VPI* 75- 84 L Erskine 55- 66 L VMI* 60- 72 L at Pfeiffer 75- 78 L William & Mary* 65- 73 L at The Citadel* 65- 92 L at Pembroke 80- 70 W
9 14 16 18 21 25
at Pfeiffer at Richmond* Virginia Tech* at Furman* Erskine at The Citadel* 1
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Laurel Invitational
1961-62
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 14-11 (5-6) 12/ 2 at Wake Forest 62- 96 L 72-115 L 5 at Duke 9 at VMI* 60- 84 L 11 at George Washington* 77- 95 L 60- 62 L 15 Furman* 56- 57 L 18 vs. Carson-Newman1 19 vs. Mississippi College1 110- 95 W 68- 63 W 22 at Alabama 1/ 2 Alabama 73- 67 W 3 William & Mary* 62- 47 W 77- 71 W 6 The Citadel* 9 at Wofford 74- 55 W 56- 46 W 12 Belmont Abbeyc 84- 64 W 30 Georgia Southern 2/ 1 Erskine 71- 57 W 3 at William & Mary* 61- 54 W 55- 52 W 5 at Richmond* 10 VMI* 66- 68 L 12 Clemson 61- 55 W 65- 83 L 15 at Furman* 16 at Erskine 66- 75 L 20 Richmond* 72- 62 W 62- 70 L 24 at The Citadel* 27 Wofford 75- 64 W 81- 85 L 3/ 1 vs. George Washington2 1 Oglethorpe Invitational, Atlanta, Ga. Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
2
1962-63
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 20-7 (8-3) 91- 51 W 11/ 30 Erskine 12/ 1 at Duke 68- 76 L 4 Wofford 77- 58 W 8 VMI 64- 62 W 14 Furman 66- 63 W c 72- 69 W 18 Duke 22 at Cincinnati 46- 72 L 115- 54 W 28 New Hampshire 70- 79 L 29 Princeton 1/ 2 William & Mary* 73- 70 W 5 East Carolina 71- 61 W 8 at West Virginia* 73- 89 L 10 at Furman* 63- 65 L 12 Jacksonville 112- 78 W 16 at Wofford 66- 56 W 89- 48 W 28 Erskine 30 at William & Mary* 63- 70 L 2/ 1 Richmond* 95- 73 W 4 at The Citadel* 50- 49 W 8 at VMI* 64- 57 W 13 at Richmond* 72- 57 W 16 at Georgia Southern 59- 57 W CIT
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1963-64
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 22-4 (9-2) 11/ 30 Hampden-Sydney 98- 52 W 66- 53 W 12/ 2 Wake Forestc 88- 77 W 7 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)c 11 at Ohio State 95- 73 W 14 Jacksonville 121- 92 W 89- 63 W 18 Furman* 105- 77 W 21 East Carolina1 90- 73 W 30 Pennsylvania 102- 68 W 31 Princeton 93- 82 W 1/ 4 West Virginia*c 7 at VMI* 70- 58 W c 64- 62 W 11 Virginia 13 The Citadel* 88- 67 W 15 at Richmond* 52- 49 W 105- 73 W 25 Wofford 73- 75 L 29 West Virginia* 2/ 1 VMI* 129- 91 W 111- 84 W 4 at William & Mary* 7 Georgia Southern 95- 76 W 11 Richmond* 95- 67 W 55- 70 L 13 at Furman* 15 at Duke 78- 85 L 18 East Carolina 105- 45 W 86- 78 W 22 at The Citadel* 91- 62 W 27 vs. The Citadel2 81- 82 L 28 vs. VMI2 CIT
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CW
1 Norfolk, Va. Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C.
2
1964-65
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 24-2 (12-0) 95- 88 W 12/ 1 Wake Forestc 5 at St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 64- 77 L 8 Furman* 113- 82 W 91- 70 W 12 at Jacksonville 15 VMI* 91- 69 W c 87- 64 W 19 Ohio State 86- 74 W 22 Virginiac 79- 62 W 28 Alabama 81- 63 W 29 Ohio c 77- 57 W 1/ 2 William & Mary* 4 Richmond* 97- 67 W 7 at New York University1 82- 73 W 11 at The Citadel* 100- 81 W 86- 77 W 14 West Virginia* 18 Presbyterian 130- 67 W 28 East Carolina 82- 68 W 78- 71 W 30 Wake Forest 2/ 2 at VMI* 84- 78 W 119- 83 W 5 George Washington*c 103- 80 W 8 West Virginia*c 11 at Furman* 55- 50 W 13 at Richmond* 83- 73 W 16 Wofford 117- 72 W 20 The Citadel* 62- 50 W 86- 73 W 25 vs. VMI2 2 (OT) 72- 74 L 26 vs. West Virginia CIT
CIT
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1 Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C.
2
1960-61
CoaCh: C.g. “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 9-14 (2-10) 12/ 3 Wake Forest 65- 59 W 6 Catawba 52- 54 L 8 at VMI* 68- 72 L 9 at VPI* 59-105 L 12 at Catawba 58- 62 L 14 Furman* 52- 61 L 17 at William & Mary* 49- 54 L 1 71- 83 L 29 vs. East Tennessee State 72- 59 W 30 vs. North Texas State1 1/ 4 William & Mary* 54- 45 W 7 at Clemson 63- 74 L 9 at Erskine 70- 63 W 14 The Citadel* 73- 74 L 30 Richmond* 78- 83 L 2/ 2 Wofford 72- 65 W 4 Pfeiffer 66- 56 W 6 VMI* 88- 79 W
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The 1963-64 team finished 10th in the national polls, leading the nation in field goal percentage which set an NCAA record at the time.
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Sewanee Southwestern at Duke at VPI* McCrary Eagles The Citadel* Wofford VPI* College of Charleston at Wake Forest at Washington & Lee* at VMI* Furman* at Furman* Catawba Washington & Lee* VMI* vs. George Washington1
1965-66
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 21-7 (11-1) 12/ 1 Wake Forestc 86- 87 L 90- 48 W 4 Bucknell 7 Furman* 90- 70 W 9 Marquettec 73- 65 W 90- 82 W 11 East Carolina* 14 at VMI* 67- 64 W 18 Dartmouth 93- 74 W 21 Ohioc 96- 63 W 28 Navy 60- 65 L 29 Mississippi State 72- 60 W 1/ 1 William & Mary*c 90- 59 W 4 at Richmond* 98- 89 W 8 West Virginia*c 105- 79 W 81- 77 W 11 The Citadel* 15 at Furman* 81- 65 W 29 Wake Forest 80- 82 L 2/ 2 West Virginia* 65- 74 L 5 VMI* 97- 84 W 8 Richmond* 80- 74 W 12 New York Universityc 75- 59 W 15 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)c 79- 83 L 19 at The Citadel* 77- 64 W 24 vs. The Citadel1 79- 61 W 25 vs. Richmond1 84- 65 W 1 26 vs. West Virginia 80- 69 W 3/ 7 vs. Rhode Island2 95- 65 W 11 vs. Syracuse3 78- 94 L 3 12 vs. St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 76- 92 L CIT
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Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C. 2 NCAA Tournament, Blacksburg, Va. 3 NCAA Tournament, Raleigh, N.C.
YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
1966-67
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 15-12 (8-4) 12/ 1 Wake Forestc 76- 63 W 97- 59 W 3 Pittsburghc 6 Furman* 84- 71 W 10 at Michigan 68- 71 L 13 at VMI* 82- 80 W 68- 91 L 15 Princetonc 17 at Tulane 89- 93 L 54- 55 L 20 George Washington*c 28 Maryland 65- 66 L 74- 60 W 29 Fordham 75- 71 W 1/ 2 at Virginia 4 at Richmond* 69- 72 L 97- 93 W 7 West Virginia*c 76- 72 W 10 at The Citadel* 68- 74 L 13 Virgina Techc 28 Wake Forest 74- 88 L 2/ 1 at West Virginia* 83- 86 L 4 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)c 66- 65 W 7 Richmond* 94- 79 W 11 at Marquette 65- 66 L 14 William & Mary*c 71- 74 L 16 at Furman* 97- 67 W 21 VMI* 73- 69 W 25 The Citadel* 97- 85 W 64- 55 W 3/ 2 vs. Furman1 1 78- 65 W 3 vs. William & Mary 65- 81 L 4 vs. West Virginia1 CIT
CIT
G
1
Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C.
1967-68
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 24-5 (9-1) 12/ 1 Bucknell 91- 70 W c 80- 73 W 2 VMI* 5 Furman* 95- 68 W 91- 70 W 9 Michiganc (OT) 79- 81 L 12 at Vanderbilt c 71- 65 W 15 William & Mary* 90- 68 W 18 Rice 63- 60 W 19 Temple 1 51- 44 W 29 vs. Memphis State 1 67- 80 L 30 vs. Vanderbilt 1/ 3 at Duke 84- 89 L 6 at St. John’s 70- 54 W 10 George Washington* 107- 75 W (OT) 86- 89 L 13 at West Virginia* 75- 52 W 27 Wake Forest 81- 76 W 31 Virginia Techc c 91- 77 W 2/ 3 West Virginia* 6 at Furman* 55- 42 W 10 at Richmond* 85- 67 W 14 at St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 66- 60 W 17 at George Washington* 85- 72 W 21 Richmond* 106- 89 W 76- 68 W 24 Tulanec 107- 68 W 29 vs. William & Mary2 2 79- 63 W 3/ 1 vs. Furman 79- 70 W 2 vs. West Virginia2 87- 70 W 9 vs. St. John’s3 (OT) 61- 59 W 15 vs. Columbia4 4 66- 70 L 16 vs. North Carolina
1968-69
CoaCh: “lefty” DrieSell reCorD: 27-3 (9-0) 11/ 30 VMI* 83- 72 W 12/ 3 Furman* 105- 70 W 101- 84 W 7 Vanderbiltc 17 at Richmond* 62- 60 W 62- 55 W 20 South Carolinac 83- 69 W 27 Maryland 98- 76 W 28 Texas 31 at Michigan 94- 82 W c (OT) 74- 75 L 1/ 4 St. John’s c 83- 69 W 7 St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 102- 71 W 11 West Virginiac 90- 82 W 15 Wake Forestc 18 at VMI* 66- 64 W c 71- 54 W 23 Princeton 80- 72 W 25 The Citadel* 28 at George Washington* 94- 74 W 61- 76 L 2/ 1 vs. Iowa1 94- 79 W 4 at West Virginia 64- 63 W 6 vs. Dayton2 9 George Washington* 126- 98 W 114- 95 W 11 Richmond* 15 at Furman* 103- 67 W 88- 80 W 19 Dukec 79- 71 W 22 Virginia Techc 3 99- 76 W 27 vs. VMI 3 97- 83 W 28 vs. Richmond 102- 76 W 3/ 1 vs. East Carolina3 75- 61 W 8 vs. Villanova4 79- 69 W 13 vs. St. John’s5 5 85- 87 L 15 vs. North Carolina CIT
CIT
1 Chicago, Ill. Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C. 4 NCAA Tournament, Raleigh, N.C. 5 NCAA Tournament, College Park, Md. 2
3
1969-70
CoaCh: terry hollanD reCorD: 22-5 (10-0) 12/ 3 Furman* 109- 90 W 6 Michiganc 91- 85 W 16 at Richmond* 98- 77 W 19 at St. John’s 62- 74 L 74- 72 W 22 Georgiac 90- 76 W 29 Holy Cross 103- 81 W 30 Syracuse 1/ 3 at The Citadel* 56- 41 W 6 George Washington* 112- 88 W 8 VMI* 95- 52 W 92- 80 W 10 West Virginiac 13 East Carolina* 91- 76 W 17 at St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 81- 90 L 20 at Furman* 79- 71 W c (OT) 71- 64 W 24 Princeton 27 at West Virginia 87- 82 W 31 at Wake Forest 73- 74 L CIT
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3 7 11 14 18 21 26 27 28 3/ 7 2/
William & Mary* 93at Virginia Tech (OT) 73at South Carolina 68Richmond* 97(OT) 76Dukec at George Washington* 91vs. VMI1 7278vs. William & Mary1 1 81vs. Richmond 2 vs. St. Bonaventure 72-
87 66 62 60 79 74 46 54 61 85
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Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C. 2 NCAA Tournament, Jamaica, N.Y.
1
1970-71
CoaCh: terry hollanD reCorD: 15-11 (9-1) 77- 61 W 12/ 9 East Carolina*c 12 Mercer 80- 50 W 15 Richmond* 67- 54 W (OT) 77- 75 W 19 at Georgia c 64- 77 L 22 N.C. State 67- 72 L 29 Boston College 63- 55 W 30 Georgia 1/ 2 at William & Mary* 66- 49 W 5 at Furman* 75- 84 L c (OT) 66- 57 W 9 West Virginia 13 at Pittsburgh 67- 82 L 84- 85 L 16 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)c 60- 52 W 19 at East Carolina* 23 at Princeton 71- 91 L (OT) 56- 54 W 26 St. John’sc (OT) 60- 64 L 30 Wake Forestc 2/ 2 at VMI* 70- 39 W 6 at West Virginia 79- 93 L (OT) 62- 70 L 10 South Carolinac 13 at Richmond* 80- 70 W 55- 64 L 16 Duke 71- 61 W 20 Furman* 22 The Citadel* 85- 50 W 24 VMI* 109- 64 W (OT) 70- 67 W 27 Cincinnatic 1 79- 83 L 3/ 4 vs. Furman CIT
CIT
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Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C.
1
1971-72
CoaCh: terry hollanD reCorD: 19-9 (8-2) 75- 65 W 12/ 4 Clemsonc 8 at East Carolina* 57- 67 L 11 Furman* 86- 93 L 14 at Richmond* 100- 66 W 17 Appalachian State 109- 96 W 21 at N.C. State 67- 79 L 91- 66 W 29 Georgia Tech 30 Virginia Tech 83- 73 W 1/ 1 William & Mary* 81- 68 W 4 at St. John’s 88- 84 W 8 at West Virginia 78- 95 L 78- 91 L 12 Pittsburghc 15 Richmond* 112- 80 W CIT
CIT
18 22 26 29 2/ 1 3 5 8 12 16 21 26 3/ 2 3 18
at VMI* West Virginiac Princetonc at Wake Forest East Carolina* VMI* at The Citadel* at Furman* at South Carolina Dukec Daytonc South Carolinac vs. Appalachian State1 vs. East Carolina1 vs. Syracuse2
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Southern Conference Tournament, Greenville, S.C. 2 NIT, Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.
1
1972-73
CoaCh: terry hollanD reCorD: 18-9 (9-1) 88- 57 W 11/ 29 Wofford 65- 59 W 12/ 2 Clemsonc 5 East Carolina* 100- 80 W 78- 82 L 9 at Princeton 12 at Richmond* 88- 80 W 16 at Cincinnati 84- 85 L 90-103 L 19 N.C. Statec 83- 76 W 29 St. Bonaventure 66- 63 W 30 Cincinnati 102- 88 W 1/ 3 at William & Mary* 77- 78 L 6 St. John’sc 10 at Pittsburgh 76- 73 W 79- 90 L 13 at South Carolina 75- 78 L 17 Dukec 20 Richmond* 89- 77 W 94-102 L 25 at Furman* 86- 82 W 27 Wake Forestc 31 at East Carolina* 73- 62 W (OT) 85- 88 L 2/ 3 at West Virginia 6 at VMI* 103- 88 W 10 The Citadel* 85- 75 W 89- 84 W 12 Furman*c 15 Appalachian State* 108- 81 W 24 at Dayton 84- 67 W 88- 77 W 3/ 1 vs. VMI2 79- 76 W 2 vs. William & Mary2 81- 99 L 3 vs. Furman2 CIT
CIT
Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
1
1973-74
CoaCh: terry hollanD 12/ 3 Wofford 5 Brownc 8 at East Carolina* 11 at St. John’s 15 at Richmond* 18 Princetonc 20 Furman* 28 Loyola 29 Miami (Ohio) 1/ 3 VMI* 5 Pittsburghc 9 at Furman* 12 South Carolinac CIT
CIT
reCorD: 18-9 (7-3) 111- 66 W 103- 84 W 91-104 L 78- 94 L 78- 79 L 66- 47 W 62- 69 L 98- 83 W 97- 87 W 76- 62 W 63- 90 L 91- 76 W 70- 59 W
CIT
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1 Sugar Bowl Tournament, New Orleans, La. Southern Conference Tournament, Charlotte, N.C. 3 NCAA Tournament, College Park, Md. 4 NCAA Tournament, Raleigh, N.C.
The 1968-69 squad won a school-record 27 games and fell just two points shy of the Final Four.
D A V I D S O N
West Virginiac William & Mary* at Virginia at Wake Forest at Duke at Notre Dame Richmond* at The Citadel* at N.C. State East Carolina* at Appalachian State* Cincinnatic vs. The Citadel1 at Richmond1
77- 74 73- 65 64- 63 78- 76 72- 89 84- 95 93- 72 73- 69 78-105 94- 82 65- 58 67- 62 92- 69 68- 86
W W W W L L W W L W W W W L
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1981-82
Southern Conference Tournament, Richmond, Va.
1
1974-75
CoaCh: bo briCkelS reCorD: 7-19 (4-6) 12/ 3 Wofford 74- 69 W c 88- 80 W 7 Ohio State 12 at Richmond* 61- 67 L 14 at Princeton 56- 71 L (OT) 75- 76 L 17 at William & Mary* 79- 95 L 21 N.C. Statec 31 at Brigham Young 76- 90 L 64- 91 L 1/ 3 at UCLA 4 at UC-Santa Barbara 75- 91 L 73- 89 L 8 Notre Damec c 81- 77 W 11 St. John’s 56- 58 L 13 Virginiac 18 at South Carolina 68- 85 L 78-110 L 20 East Carolina* 25 The Citadel* 90- 76 W 27 at Furman* 76- 97 L 76-113 L 29 Dukec 2/ 1 at West Virginia 92- 97 L 4 Richmond* 103- 79 W 91-101 L 8 at East Carolina* (2OT) 94- 93 W 11 at VMI* 83- 96 L 15 Furman*c 99- 89 W 17 Appalachian State* 69- 78 L 19 Wake Forestc 22 at Cincinnati 81- 96 L 2 64- 78 L 3/ 1 at William & Mary 1
Southern Conference Tournament, Williamsburg, Va.
1975-76
CoaCh: bo briCkelS reCorD: 5-21 (1-9) 12/ 1 Wofford 110- 81 W 3 Richmond* 62- 75 L 6 at St. John’s 79- 91 L c 88- 86 W 11 Baylor 13 at East Carolina* 82- 85 L 16 at Georgia Tech 60- 85 L 20 at Ohio State 65- 94 L 76- 61 W 29 Hofstra 54- 72 L 30 Clemson 68- 72 L 1/ 3 Georgia Techc 5 Virginiac 51- 52 L c (OT) 80- 84 L 10 West Virginia 13 at Furman* 77- 68 W 17 at Richmond* 69- 72 L 21 at The Citadel* 77- 81 L 70- 84 L 24 South Carolinac 27 at Duke 79- 84 L 74- 67 W 29 UC-Santa Barbarac 31 East Carolina* 82- 88 L 2/ 4 at Appalachian State* 62- 75 L 7 at Notre Dame 74-117 L 11 VMI* 76- 92 L 14 William & Mary* 73- 75 L 18 at Wake Forest 72-104 L c 77- 85 L 21 Furman* 69- 71 L 28 at VMI1 CIT
CIT
1
Southern Conference Tournament, Lexington, Va.
1976-77
CoaCh: Dave pritChett reCorD: 5-22 (2-8) 11/ 27 Wofford 93- 70 W c 57- 58 L 30 St. John’s 12/ 4 at Brown 67- 72 L 6 Appalachian State* 53- 71 L 11 at Rollins 58- 60 L 15 at Georgia Tech 44- 59 L c 61- 89 L 18 Brigham Young 21 at Ohio State 57- 64 L 62- 63 L 29 New Hampshire 70- 64 W 30 Brown 1/ 3 at Virginia 48- 67 L 51-102 L 5 Dukec 8 Furman* 58- 69 L 11 East Carolina* 49- 51 L 59- 54 W 15 Dartmouthc 22 at South Carolina 53- 69 L 25 at Appalachian State* 44- 49 L 29 at East Carolina* 56- 76 L 31 William & Mary* 69- 52 W CIT
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Southern Conference Tournament, Davidson, N.C.
Terry Holland led the 1969-70 team to the NCAA Tournament in his first year as head coach. 2/
2 5 9 12 14 16 19 26
The Citadel* Notre Dame at N.C. State at William & Mary* at VMI* Wake Forestc at Furman* at Appalachian State1 G
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Southern Conference Tournament, Boone, N.C.
1
1977-78
CoaCh: Dave pritChett reCorD: 9-18 (3-7) 106- 88 W 11/ 26 Wofford 28 Erskine 90- 76 W 89- 92 L 12/ 2 Delaware 103- 87 W 3 Colgate 5 Rollins 83- 77 W 94-104 L 7 N.C. Statec 10 at Brown 82- 92 L 12 at Rutgers 77- 78 L 17 at Marshall* 80-108 L 82- 76 W 19 Western Carolina*c c 79- 78 W 21 Georgia Tech 64- 87 L 1/ 4 Marshall*c 86- 82 W 9 Furman*c 14 at UT-Chattanooga* 87- 93 L 17 at Appalachian State* 60- 74 L 84- 73 W 21 South Carolinac 23 VMI* 69- 89 L c 56- 65 L 25 William & Mary 28 at Dartmouth 69- 82 L 30 at St. John’s 67- 79 L 86- 96 L 2/ 1 UT-Chattanooga*c 4 at Notre Dame 76-100 L 6 at The Citadel* 88- 81 W 11 at Duke 88-104 L 15 at Wake Forest 82-115 L 18 at Furman* 62- 82 L 1 80- 95 L 25 at VMI CIT
CIT
1
Southern Conference Tournament, Lexington, Va.
1978-79
CoaCh: eDDie bieDenbaCh reCorD: 8-19 (3-7) 106- 99 W 11/ 24 Canisius*c 84- 81 W 25 Connecticut*c 12/ 2 Wofford 110- 74 W c 75- 58 W 4 Brown 6 at N.C. State 77- 97 L 15 at Western Kentucky 81-103 L 64-101 L 18 at Indiana1 76- 80 L 19 vs. Army1 77- 92 L 29 at New Mexico2 72- 96 L 30 vs. Miami (Ohio)2 c 59- 77 L 1/ 2 Duke 6 at Furman* 65- 86 L 63- 95 L 8 Notre Damec 10 at Appalachian State* 65- 79 L 15 at Marshall* 74- 85 L c 75- 72 W 22 Wake Forest 24 The Citadel* 87- 72 W 86- 97 L 27 Furman*c 31 Appalachian State* 72- 84 L 2/ 3 at Western Carolina* 74- 87 L 5 at The Citadel* 70- 79 L (2OT) 62- 68 L 8 at William & Mary 10 at VMI* 81- 54 W 12 UT-Chattanooga* 70- 64 W
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17 at South Carolina 19 UNC Charlottec 24 at The Citadel3
88-102 L 83- 93 L 79- 86 L
1 Indiana Classic at Bloomington, Ind. Lobo Invitational at Albuquerque, N.M. Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, S.C.
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 14-15 (9-7) 55- 76 L 11/ 30 N.C. Statec 12/ 2 Baptist 73- 59 W 5 at Erskine 65- 74 L 63- 82 L 8 at Wake Forest 63- 55 W 11 The Citadel*1 71- 78 L 12 UNC Charlotte1 64- 62 W 16 Appalachian State* 19 at The Citadel* 47- 49 L 75- 73 W 29 at Duke2 44- 46 L 30 vs. William & Mary2 63- 45 W 1/ 2 Furman*c 4 Western Carolina* 54- 51 W 65- 67 L 7 Marshall* 9 East Tennessee State* 59- 69 L 11 at UT-Chattanooga* 55- 71 L 45- 59 L 16 at Notre Dame 20 at East Tennessee State* 71- 69 W 23 at Marshall* 61- 59 W 72- 58 W 25 at VMI* 30 UT-Chattanooga* 59- 66 L 2/ 1 VMI* 79- 63 W 56- 54 W 3 at Appalachian State* 8 at Western Carolina* 69- 90 L c 52- 51 W 13 South Carolina 44- 62 L 17 at Furman* 72- 74 L 22 UNC Charlottec 84- 76 W 28 vs. Furman3 3 57- 54 W 3/ 5 vs. The Citadel 58- 69 L 6 vs. UT-Chattanooga3 First Union Invitational, Charlotte, N.C. 2 Iron Duke Classic, Durham, N.C. Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, W.Va. 1
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1979-80
CoaCh: eDDie bieDenbaCh reCorD: 8-18 (4-11) 88- 78 W 12/ 1 Wofford 3 at VMI* 74- 73 W 71- 62 W 7 Pennsylvania1 82-104 L 8 UNC Charlotte1 c 62- 74 L 10 Western Carolina* 12 Eckerd 83- 64 W 81- 91 L 15 Furman*c 17 at Marshall* 97-115 L 29 at Baylor 67- 76 L 63- 66 L 31 N.C. Statec 1/ 2 East Tennessee State* 72- 66 W (OT) 69- 70 L 7 VMI* 12 at Furman* 68- 84 L 16 at The Citadel* 72- 77 L 19 UT-Chattanooga* 59- 61 L 21 Marshall* 81- 53 W 24 at St. John’s 48- 67 L 28 at Western Carolina* 53- 75 L 58- 48 W 30 Appalachian State*c 2/ 2 at Notre Dame 71-105 L 4 at UT-Chattanooga* 75- 90 L c (OT) 88- 98 L 6 The Citadel* (OT) 77- 78 L 9 South Carolinac 13 at Wake Forest 53- 61 L 16 at Appalachian State* 76- 78 L c 73- 70 W 18 UNC Charlotte 1
First Union Holiday Classic, Charlotte, N.C.
1980-81
CoaCh: eDDie bieDenbaCh reCorD: 13-14 (11-5) 11/ 28 Wofford 92- 60 W 12 1 at N.C. State 72- 89 L 6 at East Tennessee State* 79- 97 L (OT) 79- 73 W 8 at Marshall* 67- 63 W 12 Wisconsin1 62- 76 L 13 Texas A&M1 17 UT-Chattanooga* 93- 84 W 20 at Pennsylvania 60- 92 L 22 at Holy Cross 79- 96 L 30 Wake Forest 70- 83 L 1/ 4 Notre Dame 67- 87 L 7 Western Carolina* 77- 68 W 10 Marshall* 104- 76 W (OT) 66- 63 W 12 Appalachian State* 17 Furman* 73- 72 W 19 at Western Carolina* 78- 82 L 21 VMI* 79- 63 W 24 at South Carolina 88-103 L 28 at The Citadel* 58- 72 L 2/ 4 East Tennessee State* (OT) 84- 82 W 7 at UT-Chattanooga* 85- 99 L 11 VMI* 95- 83 W (OT) 94- 79 W 14 at Furman* 18 The Citadel* 63- 61 W 21 at Appalachian State* 77- 78 L (2OT) 89- 91 L 23 UNC Charlotte 77- 90 L 28 Marshall2 1
First Union Holiday Classic, Charlotte, N.C.
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1982-83
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 13-15 (8-8) 39- 79 L 11/ 26 at DePaul1 54- 51 W 27 vs. Texas Tech1 12/ 4 Erskine 80- 58 W c 61- 81 L 7 Wake Forest c 71- 68 W 11 Massachusetts 14 at Duke 60- 63 L 47- 46 W 16 Furman*c 18 at The Citadel* 77- 66 W 62- 65 L 29 at Holy Cross2 50- 68 L 30 vs. George Washington2 (OT) 54- 51 W 1/ 4 Notre Damec 8 at Furman* 58- 52 W c (OT) 58- 60 L 11 Appalachian State* 15 at UT-Chattanooga* 63- 71 L 17 East Tennessee State* 66- 67 L 22 VMI* 75- 43 W 26 The Citadel* 57- 52 W 29 at East Tennessee State* 74- 96 L 31 Marshall* 73- 81 L 2/ 4 at Appalachian State* 50- 45 W 7 at South Carolina 62- 65 L 14 Western Carolina* 63- 61 W 19 UT-Chattanooga* 71- 73 L c 82- 73 W 21 UNC Charlotte 28 at Western Carolina* 74- 92 L 3/ 3 at VMI* 83- 68 W 5 at Marshall* 56- 68 L 3 62- 86 L 10 vs. Western Carolina 1 Crush Classic, Rosemont, Ill. Shawmut Worcester County Classic, Worcester, Mass. 3 Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, W.Va.
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1983-84
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 9-19 (5-11) 11/ 26 Wofford 73- 67 W c 59- 69 L 28 Pennsylvania c 63- 90 L 12/ 3 Duke 6 at Wake Forest 51- 62 L 10 Erskine 88- 52 W 13 Sewanee 78- 66 W 17 at The Citadel* 63- 69 L 52- 70 L 27 vs. Miami (Ohio)1 57- 61 L 28 vs. McNeese State1 1/ 3 at Furman* 70- 65 W 53- 52 W 7 South Carolinac 56- 61 L 9 UNC Charlottec 14 Furman* 48- 57 L 16 at East Tennessee State* 51- 58 L 21 at UT-Chattanooga* 57- 85 L 23 The Citadel* 62- 60 W (OT) 56- 59 L 25 at Notre Dame 28 VMI* 62- 55 W 2/ 4 at Appalachian State* 53- 55 L 6 at Western Carolina* 71- 76 L 11 at Marshall* 69- 80 L 13 at VMI* 47- 44 W 16 Appalachian State* 59- 61 L 18 East Tennessee State* 79- 63 W
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16 19 23 26 30 2/ 2 6 9 13 16 20 23 28 3/ 1
20 25 27 3/ 2
UT-Chattanooga* Marshall* Western Carolina* vs. Marshall2
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1 Milwaukee Classic at Milwaukee, Wis. Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C.
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1987-88
YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 15-13 (9-7) 93- 67 W 11/ 27 Erskine 12/ 3 at Wake Forest 65- 78 L 76- 70 W 5 Bowling Greenc 71-105 L 9 Dukec 68- 86 L 12 UNC Charlottec 16 Pitt-Johnstown 93- 67 W 47- 45 W 19 Princetonc 28 at UNC Wilmington 64- 69 L 30 Hofstra 82- 67 W c 55- 75 L 1/ 2 South Carolina 6 Wofford 87- 68 W 9 at The Citadel* 85- 80 W 66- 64 W 13 at VMI* 16 UT-Chattanooga* 81- 65 W 18 Western Carolina* 86- 67 W 69- 77 L 23 at Appalachian State* 25 at East Tennessee State* 81- 75 W 30 The Citadel* 79- 67 W 80- 90 L 2/ 1 at Furman* 4 at Western Carolina* 76- 74 W 6 VMI* 55- 59 L 79- 76 W 8 Marshall* 11 at UT-Chattanooga* 77- 83 L 18 Furman* 65- 67 L 71- 83 L 20 at Marshall* (OT) 74- 72 W 27 Appalachian State* 29 East Tennessee State* (OT) 74- 76 L 69- 83 L 3/ 4 vs. UT-Chattanooga1 Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C.
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The 1985-86 team took Davidson won 20 games and went to the NCAA Tournament, two things the Wildcats had not done in 16 years.
1984-85
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 10-20 (6-10) 62- 77 L 11/ 23 vs. Chaminade1 1 65- 69 L 24 vs. Virginia 12/ 1 Wofford 84- 56 W 3 Erskine 73- 64 W c 55- 69 L 5 Wake Forest 70- 64 W 8 UNC Charlottec 51- 77 L 12 St. John’sc 17 at Duke 65- 82 L 2 50- 55 L 27 vs. Oregon 49- 51 L 29 at Portland2 80- 81 L 30 vs. Pennsylvania2 1/ 2 at Furman* 68- 67 W c 62- 79 L 5 Notre Dame 10 East Tennessee State* 69- 58 W 12 at Appalachian State* (OT) 70- 68 W (OT) 74- 80 L 19 Marshall* 21 at VMI* 51- 57 L 24 at South Carolina 77- 61 W 26 The Citadel* 102- 92 W 31 at Western Carolina* 57- 58 L 2/ 2 UT-Chattanooga* 52- 62 L c 70- 73 L 4 Appalachian State* 6 Furman* 84- 70 W 9 at UT-Chattanooga* 58- 69 L (OT) 67- 68 L 11 at East Tenn. State* 16 at Marshall* 63- 65 L (OT) 79- 82 L 18 at The Citadel* 21 VMI* 71- 63 W 23 Western Carolina* 68- 78 L 71- 83 L 3/ 1 vs. Marshall3 Silversword Invitational at Kona, Hawaii 2 Fred Meyer Far West Classic at Portland, Ore. 3 Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C. 1
1985-86
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 20-11 (10-6) 11/ 23 Wofford 72- 57 W 27 Erskine 83- 56 W 30 Catholic 98- 58 W 12/ 4 at Wake Forest 63- 67 L 7 Eckerd 89- 74 W c 68- 53 W 14 UNC Charlotte 52- 69 L 18 Dukec 21 Bethune-Cookman 75- 60 W 69- 78 L 27 at Vanderbilt1 1 70- 47 W 28 vs. Rice 49- 63 L 1/ 4 South Carolinac 9 The Citadel* 82- 76 W 11 UT-Chattanooga* 67- 48 W 13 Western Carolina* 92- 71 W 18 at Appalachian State* 65- 69 L 20 at East Tennessee State* 76- 80 L 25 at The Citadel* 61- 64 L 27 Furman* 67- 58 W
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1986-87
CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 20-10 (12-4) 11/ 29 Sewanee 85- 58 W c 60- 75 L 12/ 3 Wake Forest 6 Wofford 81- 74 W 8 at Duke 65- 95 L 10 Erskine 89- 63 W 70- 77 L 13 UNC Charlottec (OT) 58- 56 W 16 at Princeton 83- 68 W 20 Holy Crossc (OT) 71- 75 L 27 at Bowling Green 1/ 3 at South Carolina 56- 63 L 7 at UT-Chattanooga* 67- 69 L 10 at The Citadel* 79- 71 W 12 at Western Carolina* 61- 57 W 17 Appalachian State* 82- 59 W 19 East Tennessee State* 106- 65 W 24 The Citadel* 86- 68 W 27 at Furman* 68- 60 W 29 Western Carolina* 84- 73 W 31 at VMI* 90- 65 W 2/ 2 at Marshall* 67- 75 L 5 UT-Chattanooga* 55- 63 L 7 Florida International 85- 59 W (OT) 78- 76 W 12 Furman* 14 at Appalachian State* 74- 58 W 16 at East Tennessee State* 75- 66 W 21 Marshall* 90- 96 L 23 VMI* 72- 69 W 92- 63 W 27 vs. VMI1 85- 76 W 28 vs. Western Carolina1 1 (OT) 64- 66 L 3/ 1 vs. Marshall Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C.
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CoaCh: bobby hUSSey reCorD: 7-24 57- 53 W 11/ 25 vs. SW Texas State1 1 26 vs. S.C. State 44- 67 L 47- 63 L 27 vs. Villanova1 47- 56 L 30 Wake Forestc 12/ 3 Wofford 47- 71 L 5 Eckerd 90- 80 W 64- 79 L 10 at UNC Charlotte 12 Erskine 90- 63 W 22 at Lafayette 50- 87 L 45- 48 L 28 vs. Air Force2 70- 62 W 29 vs. Harvard2 1/ 5 at Duke 53-101 L 48- 65 L 7 South Carolinac 9 at Campbell 45- 46 L 11 Md.-Baltimore County 69- 72 L 14 Florida International 85- 75 W 18 at Appalachian State 65- 75 L 21 Northern Illinois 74- 79 L 23 Campbell 50- 63 L 26 at Florida International 84- 91 L 28 at Central Florida 91- 83 W 30 UNC Wilmington 68- 81 L 2/ 2 Appalachian State 54- 65 L 8 at Northern Illinois 77- 89 L 11 William & Mary 69- 88 L 13 at Hofstra 71- 78 L 16 Baptist College 77- 84 L 18 at Md.-Baltimore County 73- 84 L 22 Miami (Ohio) 63- 65 L 25 Central Florida 75- 64 W 27 at Miami (Fla.) 78- 90 L San Juan Shootout at San Juan, P.R. 2 Connecticut Mutual Classic, at Hartford, Conn.
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1989-90
CoaCh: bob mCkillop 11/ 25 at Wake Forest 27 at William & Mary 12/ 1 Virginia 4 Erskine 8 UNC Charlottec 21 Duke 29 at St. John’s 1/ 5 at UNC Asheville 8 Campbell 11 Furman 13 at Iowa State 15 Central Florida 18 at UNC Wilmington 20 Winthrop 22 at Appalachian State 25 at South Carolina 27 Wofford 31 UNC Asheville 2/ 3 at Campbell
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1990-91
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 10-19 (6-8) 11/ 23 vs. Central Connecticut1 109-129 L 1 55- 64 L 24 vs. Monmouth 58- 59 L 27 William & Mary 12/ 1 Erskine 86- 82 W 5 UNC Asheville* 73- 71 W 56- 72 L 8 Wake Forest 10 Radford* 57- 71 L 19 Wofford 63- 74 L (OT) 86- 89 L 29 at UNC Asheville* 1/ 5 at Charleston Southern* 74- 80 L 8 Appalachian State 72- 60 W 48- 55 L 12 Coastal Carolina* 14 at Campbell* 59- 53 W 17 Charleston Southern* 92- 78 W 72- 78 L 19 at Radford* 21 at Virginia 47- 71 L 23 South Carolina 57- 85 L (OT) 72- 81 L 26 Augusta* 28 at UNC Charlotte 72- 85 L 31 at Augusta* 62- 54 W 67- 79 L 2/ 2 at Miami 6 Winthrop* 59- 42 W 11 at Coastal Carolina* 52- 64 L 39- 74 L 13 at Duke 16 at Winthrop* 69- 71 L 20 Campbell* 73- 58 W (OT) 71- 67 W 25 at Liberty 63- 48 W 28 Winthrop2 55- 58 L 3/ 1 Coastal Carolina2 1
Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament, Jamaica, N.Y. 2 Big South Tournament, Anderson, S.C.
1991-92
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 11-17 (6-8) 59- 76 L 11/ 23 Alabama 25 Methodist 102- 73 W 30 Sewanee 71- 44 W (OT) 69- 70 L 12/ 2 at William & Mary 9 Warren Wilson 137- 51 W 30 at South Carolina 56- 84 L 1/ 4 at N.C. State 63- 83 L 8 at Coastal Carolina* 62- 79 L 11 at Charleston Southern* 59- 64 L 13 Campbell* 48- 47 W 15 at UNC Asheville* 64- 45 W 18 at Liberty* 68- 86 L 70- 82 L 21 UNC Charlottec 25 Winthrop* 67- 68 L 28 at Samford 61- 59 W 2/ 1 Miami (Fla.) 66- 62 W 3 UNC Wilmington 68- 71 L 8 UNC Charlotte 85- 95 L 10 at Campbell* 64- 67 L 13 Coastal Carolina* 65- 72 L 15 Radford* 63- 72 L 19 at Wake Forest 62- 76 L 22 at Radford* 75- 89 L 24 UNC Asheville* 76- 68 W 26 Charleston Southern* 77- 65 W 29 at Winthrop* 59- 52 W 3/ 2 Liberty* 69- 67 W 1 60- 69 L 5 vs. Campbell Big South Tournament, Anderson, S.C.
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1992-93
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 14-14 (10-8) 12/2 St. Joseph’s (Maine) 98- 78 W 5 Tennessee Temple 82- 56 W 19 Lynchburg 82- 47 W 21 at Clemson 77- 93 L 52- 71 L 28 Wake Forestc 57- 95 L 1/ 3 UNC Charlottec 6 at Western Carolina 81- 69 W 9 at Furman* 73- 80 L 11 N.C. State 58- 63 L 16 at East Tennessee State* 67- 75 L 17 at Appalachian State* 69- 78 L 20 The Citadel* 80- 70 W 23 VMI* 75- 64 W 24 Marshall* 82- 69 W 27 Georgia Southern* 88- 81 W 30 UT-Chattanooga* 73- 80 L 31 Western Carolina* 82- 63 W 2/ 6 at Georgia Southern* 71- 83 L
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The 2001-02 SoCon champions and NCAA Tournament participants posted a 21-10 overall mark and 11-5 league record.
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Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C. 2 NIT First round
1994-95
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 14-13 (7-7) 11/ 25 Roanoke 93- 68 W 29 Wake Forest 62- 74 L 88- 77 W 12/ 2 vs. Iona1 1 66- 89 L 3 at Syracuse 10 UNC Wilmington 78- 68 W 17 UNC Charlotte 66- 55 W 22 at Seton Hall 65- 73 L 96- 81 W 29 vs. Lafayette2 2 64- 78 L 30 at Boise State 1/ 3 Emory 78- 46 W 5 Washington & Jefferson 95- 61 W c 67- 91 L 12 UNC Charlotte 14 at East Tennessee State* 81- 75 W 16 at Furman* 71- 80 L 21 VMI* 83- 75 W 23 Appalachian State* 74- 71 W 28 Marshall* 78- 63 W 30 at Georgia Southern* 52- 59 L 2/ 4 Western Carolina* 68- 69 L 7 UT-Chattanooga* 62- 71 L 11 at Appalachian State* 76- 75 W 13 East Tennessee State* 81- 91 L 18 at The Citadel* 70- 51 W 20 at VMI* 75- 81 L 25 at Marshall* 76- 81 L 27 Furman* 66- 55 W 74- 78 L 3/ 3 Western Carolina3 1 Carrier Classic Boise State Tournament 3 Southern Conference Tournament, Asheville, N.C. 2
1995-96
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 25-5 (14-0) 11/ 24 Rhodes 91- 46 W (OT) 84- 83 W 27 at Mississippi 12/ 2 Catholic 101- 59 W 5 at UNC Wilmington 56- 73 L 9 N.C. State 80- 84 L 16 Fairleigh-Dickinson 96- 56 W (OT) 93- 87 W 21 Williams 1 90- 51 W 28 vs. Central Florida 70- 82 L 30 vs. Michigan1 1/ 2 Lafayette 93- 68 W 6 Navy 87- 58 W 13 East Tennessee State* 88- 56 W 15 Furman* 102- 97 W 56- 47 W 18 UNC Charlottec 20 at Appalachian State* 90- 68 W
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at Marshall* 106- 57 Georgia Southern* 71- 46 VMI* 86- 79 at Western Carolina* 98- 85 at UT-Chattanooga* 70- 58 Appalachian State* 84- 66 at East Tennessee State* 96- 66 The Citadel* 82- 54 at VMI* 95- 76 Marshall* 83- 77 (OT) 88- 79 at Furman* 2 67- 43 East Tennessee State 92- 77 Marshall2 60- 69 Western Carolina2 79-100 at South Carolina3
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1 UNLV Holiday Classic at Las Vegas, Nev. Southern Conference Tournament, Greensboro, N.C. 3 NIT First round
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1996-97
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 18-10 (10-4) 11/ 23 at Fairleigh-Dickinson 87- 75 W 27 Lynchburg 89- 58 W 29 at Wake Forest 45- 69 L 12/ 2 Mississippi 59- 56 W 5 SMU 55- 72 L 7 Sewanee 99- 59 W 11 at Duke 58- 85 L 14 UNC Charlotte 68- 70 L 21 at New Hampshire 75- 57 W 1/ 2 at Massachusetts 64- 77 L 5 Connecticut College 90- 55 W 8 Marshall* 81- 85 L 11 at Georgia Southern* 81- 63 W 13 Western Carolina* 80- 71 W 18 UT-Chattanooga* 63- 74 L 20 at Appalachian State* 66- 82 L 22 at East Tennessee State* 79- 60 W 27 at The Citadel* 63- 58 W 2/ 1 VMI* 77- 67 W 3 at Marshall* 70- 76 L 6 Siena 73- 64 W 8 Furman* 79- 68 W 10 East Tennessee State* 97- 47 W 15 at Furman* 79- 63 W 17 at VMI* 97- 77 W 22 Appalachian State* 78- 76 W 83- 61 W 28 vs. The Citadel1 1 70- 77 L 3/ 1 vs. UT-Chattanooga Southern Conference Tournament, Greensboro, N.C.
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1997-98
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 20-10 (13-2) 11/ 20 at Duke 65-100 L 23 New Hampshire 72- 53 W 29 Tufts 89- 68 W 12/ 3 Wake Forest 56- 61 L 6 Carnegie Mellon 91- 46 W 10 at UNC Charlotte 55- 70 L 14 Wofford* 93- 65 W 20 at SMU 59- 75 L
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63- 70 vs. Kansas State1 vs. James Madison1 87- 69 at Western Carolina* 79- 57 at The Citadel* 59- 74 at Siena 89-103 VMI* 58- 61 at Furman* 63- 54 at East Tennessee State* 71- 58 Massachusetts 66- 82 Western Carolina* 79- 73 at Appalachian State* 77- 71 (OT) 53- 52 Chattanooga* at UNC Greensboro* 69- 68 East Tennessee State* 67- 47 UNC Greensboro* 76- 59 at VMI* 90- 66 Appalachian State* 68- 58 Georgia Southern* 75- 58 74- 68 vs. Georgia Southern2 2 68- 59 vs. The Citadel 2 66- 62 vs. Appalachian State 61- 80 vs. Michigan3
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1998-99
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 16-11 (11-5) 61- 94 L 11/ 17 Dukec 23 at Navy 60- 67 L 27 at Wake Forest 58- 59 L 30 Elon 89- 51 W 1 64- 67 L 12/ 4 vs. Colgate 68- 64 W 5 vs. SW Texas State1 8 UNC Charlotte 62- 71 L 12 Bowdoin 94- 58 W 19 Washington College 104- 64 W (OT) 75- 66 W 29 at Massachusetts 1/ 2 Appalachian State* 82- 73 W 4 at VMI* 85- 64 W 9 at East Tennessee State* 75- 82 L 11 at UNC Greensboro* 67- 73 L 16 Western Carolina* 96- 59 W 18 The Citadel* 70- 60 W 23 at Chattanooga* 68- 54 W 25 VMI* 76- 66 W 30 College of Charleston* 80- 84 L 2/ 1 at Western Carolina* 73- 55 W 3 Furman* 92- 70 W 6 UNC Greensboro* 101- 69 W 8 at Georgia Southern* 77- 73 W 13 East Tennessee State* 73- 82 L 16 at Wofford* 67- 66 W 20 at Appalachian State* 64- 71 L 77- 82 L 26 vs. Western Carolina2 1 Ameritas Classic, Lincoln, Neb. Southern Conference Tournament, Greensboro, N.C.
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1999-2000
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 15-13 (10-6) 11/ 16 at Siena1 79- 89 L 20 Guilford 86- 59 W 22 Haverford 95- 46 W 12/ 1 at UNC Charlotte 55- 74 L 70- 75 L 8 at Elon 84- 64 W 18 Washington & Jefferson 65-109 L 21 at Duke 2 50- 47 W 29 vs. Columbia 30 at Stanford2 61- 87 L 1/ 2 at California 87- 95 L 8 at UNC Greensboro* 60- 63 L 10 at Furman* 74- 63 W 15 at College of Charleston* 71- 58 W 18 Western Carolina* 83- 78 W 20 Wofford* 77- 62 W 22 VMI* 80- 69 W 25 at East Tennessee State* 62- 60 W 29 UNC Greensboro* 75- 77 L 31 Appalachian State* 72- 77 L (OT) 54- 49 W 2/ 2 Wake Forest 5 at The Citadel* 74- 87 L 8 East Tennessee State* 87- 60 W 12 at Western Carolina* 72- 82 L 14 Chattanooga* 104- 78 W 19 at Appalachian State* 69- 54 W 21 at VMI* 71- 58 W 26 Georgia Southern* 87- 88 L 3 3/ 3 vs. Wofford 64- 65 L 1 Preseason NIT Stanford Tournament at Stanford Southern Conference Tournament, Greenville, S.C. 2
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2000-01
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 15-17 (7-9) 70- 96 L 11/ 17 vs. South Florida1 51- 70 L 18 vs. Santa Clara1 78- 66 W 19 vs. Jackson State1 24 at Georgia Tech 61- 92 L (OT) 84- 81 W 28 Pennsylvania 30 Carnegie Mellon 88- 41 W 12/ 2 at Elon 69- 74 L 5 at Duke 60-102 L 9 Charlotte 53- 69 L 16 Rhodes 93- 60 W 21 Washington & Jefferson 95- 57 W 2 73- 84 L 29 vs. Drexel 2 75- 70 W 30 vs. William & Mary 1/ 3 at Western Carolina* 73- 57 W 6 at UNC Greensboro* 68- 69 L 8 East Tennessee State* 55- 59 L 13 at Georgia Southern* 70- 84 L 16 at Chattanooga* 62- 75 L 20 VMI* 68- 60 W 23 Appalachian State* 68- 78 L 27 UNC Greensboro* 61- 63 L 30 at VMI* 70- 67 W 2/ 3 Furman* 76- 69 W 5 at Wofford* 73- 83 L 10 at Appalachian State* 70- 78 L
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1993-94
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 22-8 (13-5) 11/ 27 Sewanee 102- 78 W 12/ 4 Samford 78- 51 W 68- 77 L 6 at Wake Forest 11 UNC Charlotte 71- 65 W 13 Oglethorpe 98- 63 W 82- 79 W 19 Clemsonc 30 at Marshall 71- 75 L 1/ 2 at N.C. State 64- 63 W 68- 64 W 5 Western Carolina* 8 Furman* 72- 62 W 13 at UT-Chattanooga* 70- 80 L 65- 63 W 15 at East Tennessee State* 17 Appalachian State* 89- 94 L 19 at The Citadel* 61- 68 L 78- 60 W 22 at VMI* 26 at Georgia Southern* 69- 67 W 29 UT-Chattanooga* 72- 71 W 90- 85 W 31 at Western Carolina* 2/ 5 Georgia Southern* 83- 71 W 7 The Citadel* 76- 73 W 68- 56 W 12 at Furman* 74- 61 W 15 UNC Charlotte 19 at Appalachian State* 80- 83 L 82- 81 W 21 East Tennessee State* 26 Marshall* 87- 68 W 28 VMI* 79- 65 W 1 71- 61 W 3/ 4 vs. VMI 1 93- 89 W 5 vs. Western Carolina 64- 65 L 6 vs. UT-Chattanooga1 69- 85 L 17 at West Virginia2
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1 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, N.C. Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, S.C. NCAA Tournament West Regional, Albuquerque, N.M. 2
2002-03
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 17-10 (11-5) 11/ 25 at Duke 80- 95 L 27 at Navy 69- 61 W 30 Washington & Lee 105- 48 W 12/ 1 Washington College 114- 51 W 7 Charlotte 75- 56 W 10 St. Bonaventure 77- 72 W 21 Washington & Jefferson 125- 44 W 69- 95 L 28 at Arizona1 66- 82 L 30 vs. Florida State1 1/ 5 The Citadel* 86- 72 W 8 at North Carolina 64- 79 L 11 Western Carolina* 83- 66 W 13 at Chattanooga* 63- 67 L 18 Furman* 65- 57 W 21 at VMI* 60- 61 L 25 UNC Greensboro* 83- 72 W 27 at East Tennessee State* 80- 71 W 2/ 1 at Western Carolina* 67- 57 W 3 at Wofford* 82- 98 L 8 Appalachian State* 99- 86 W 11 at UNC Greensboro* 84- 77 W 15 East Tennessee State* 72- 87 L 18 at Georgia Southern* 85- 76 W 22 at Appalachian State* 94- 81 W 25 College of Charleston* (OT) 89- 94 L 3/ 1 VMI* 84- 49 W 60- 66 L 6 vs. VMI2
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1 Top of the World Classic, Fairbanks, Alaska COMCAST Lobo Invitational, Albuquerque, N.M. 3 Southern Conference Tournament, Greenville, S.C.
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CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 21-10 (11-5) 11/ 16 at Charlotte 51- 65 L 20 at North Carolina 58- 54 W 114- 45 W 23 Oglethorpe 12/ 1 Navy 81- 79 W 4 Elon 66- 59 W 50- 69 L 8 at The Citadel* 15 at St. Bonaventure 70- 79 L 17 Washington & Jefferson 91- 47 W 69- 83 L 19 Georgia Tech1 (OT) 75- 71 W 22 at Pennsylvania 29 Hamilton 85- 49 W 71-106 L 1/ 2 Duke1 5 at Western Carolina* 74- 71 W 8 Chattanooga* 63- 61 W 73- 70 W 12 at Furman* 16 VMI* 79- 68 W 19 East Tennessee State* 73- 66 W 58- 57 W 23 at UNC Greensboro* (OT) 67- 70 L 26 Western Carolina* 30 Wofford* 72- 61 W 82- 72 W 2/ 2 at Appalachian State* 5 UNC Greensboro* 53- 48 W 9 at East Tennessee State* 78- 85 L 64- 56 W 13 Georgia Southern* 16 Appalachian State* 60- 62 L 19 at College of Charleston* 73- 70 W 77- 81 L 23 at VMI* 71- 58 W 3/ 1 vs. The Citadel2 68- 58 W 2 vs. UNC Greensboro2 2 62- 57 W 3 vs. Furman 3 64- 69 L 14 vs. Ohio State
Furman* at Georgia Southern* College of Charleston* vs. The Citadel1 vs. Elon1 vs. Chattanooga1 vs. Ohio State2
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Western Carolina* at Wofford* at East Tennessee State* Elon* at Georgia Southern* UNC Greensboro* at The Citadel* College of Charleston* at Furman* Georgia Southern* Wofford* at Appalachian State* Furman* vs. Elon3 vs. East Tennessee State3
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2004-05
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 23-9 (16-0) 11/ 19 at Missouri 84- 81 W 61- 74 L 22 vs. Duke1 24 Maine-Farmington 103- 33 W 27 at St. Joseph’s 61- 76 L 30 Georgetown 51- 76 L 12/ 3 at Georgia Southern* 84- 76 W 8 Charlotte 68- 87 L 11 Brandeis 69- 49 W 17 Sewanee 87- 42 W 19 at Massachusetts 67- 70 L 29 Seton Hall 63- 73 L (OT) 68- 70 L 1/ 2 at Princeton 5 Furman* 81- 75 W 8 at Elon* 68- 57 W 11 Appalachian State* 66- 63 W 15 College of Charleston* 67- 62 W 19 at Western Carolina* 80- 57 W 22 at Furman* 68- 61 W 26 East Tennessee State* 63- 62 W 29 The Citadel* 81- 59 W
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1 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, N.C. SoCon Tournament, Chattanooga, Tenn. ~ 3NIT
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2005-06
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 20-11 (10-5) 11/ 19 at Duke 55- 84 L 22 Massachusetts 66- 63 W (OT) 100- 94 W 26 St. Joseph’s (2OT) 81- 85 L 30 at Charlotte 12/ 3 at Appalachian State* 102- 69 W 7 Missouri 82- 73 W 10 Catholic 80- 56 W 15 St. Mary’s (Md.) 112- 59 W 18 at Syracuse 80- 90 L 21 Clark (Mass.) 108- 57 W 29 at Illinois-Chicago 67- 76 L 1/ 3 at North Carolina 58- 82 L 7 Wofford* 80- 62 W 10 The Citadel* 85- 49 W 14 at Furman* 66- 70 L 17 at College of Charleston* 80- 70 W 21 Georgia Southern* 83- 58 W 23 at Chattanooga* 59- 65 L 27 Elon* 79- 61 W 29 Princeton 65- 50 W 2/ 4 Western Carolina* 70- 77 L 8 UNC Greensboro* 92- 73 W 11 at Wofford* 71- 84 L 13 at The Citadel* 81- 77 W
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 29-5 (17-1) 84- 64 W 11/ 3 U. of Guelph (Exh.) 81- 77 W 10 vs. Eastern Michigan1 68- 78 L 11 at Michigan1 1 91- 64 W 12 vs. Central Conn. St. 15 Illinois-Chicago 100- 89 W 19 at Missouri 75- 81 L 99- 69 W 21 Colby 25 at No. 9/8 Duke [FSNS] 47- 75 L 12/ 1 Elon* 86- 61 W 66- 63 W 4 at UNC Greensboro* 9 Charlotte 79- 51 W 15 Mount Saint Mary 116- 55 W 92- 80 W 18 at Chattanooga* [SS] 83- 74 W 21 vs. Ohio University2 75- 70 W 22 at Arizona State2 71- 64 W 30 Western Michigan 1/ 6 Coll. of Charleston* 81- 73 W 71- 63 W 10 at Furman*3 83- 78 W 13 at Wofford* 16 The Citadel* 79- 54 W 20 Appalachian State* 74- 81 L 101- 92 W 23 at Georgia Southern* 27 Western Carolina* 79- 59 W 30 at Elon* 88- 58 W 75- 65 W 2/ 3 UNC Greensboro* [SS] 6 Chattanooga* 87- 57 W 12 at Coll. of Charleston* 73- 63 W 92- 59 W 17 at Western Carolina* 19 Wofford* 80- 73 W 22 Furman* 75- 57 W 87- 70 W 24 at The Citadel* 4 78- 68 W 1 vs. #8 Chattanooga 4 91- 68 W 2 vs. #5 Furman 72- 65 W 3 vs. #3 Charleston4 70- 82 L 15 vs. #4 Maryland4 1 Ann Arbor, Mich. ~ 2Tempe, Ariz. ~ 3Bi-Lo Center, Greenville, S.C. 4Charleston, S.C. ~ 5Buffalo, N.Y. Asterisk (*) denotes Southern Conference game
1 Fiesta Bowl Classic, Tucson, Ariz. Southern Conference Tournament, Charleston, S.C.
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2003-04
CoaCh: bob mCkillop reCorD: 17-12 (11-5) 58- 89 L 11/ 18 at Texas Tech1 68- 91 L 24 vs. North Carolina2 29 Rhode Island College 78-108 W 12/ 1 at College of Charleston* 69- 75 L 3 Hampton 83- 70 W 6 at Georgetown 53- 71 L 11 at Charlotte 65- 76 L 13 Haverford 79- 62 W 19 Clarkson 98- 60 W 22 at Seton Hall 50- 73 L 29 at Duke 54- 88 L 1/ 3 Iona 75- 64 W 6 The Citadel* 68- 44 W 10 at Chattanooga* 91- 95 L
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Advancing to their ninth NCAA Tournament in program history, the 2006-07 squad set a school record for wins with a 29-5 overall mark and 17-1 clip in SoCon play.
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president Tom ross Director of athletics Jim murphy Basketball support staff head Coaches / athletic staff southern Conference primary media outlets Tv / radio roster
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PRESIDENT TOM ROSS
Davidson College president Thomas W. Ross knows something about basketball excellence. He was a student at the college during the so-called “Glory Years” of Davidson basketball, orchestrated by the irrepressible Lefty Driesell. And he begins his reign as college president as Bob McKillop enters his 19th season as Davidson's head coach. Anyone who surveys the landscape of Davidson basketball for the past 100 years would have to agree that the most impressive eras were those of Driesell and McKillop. Ross has observed both closely, and has a perspective on the two that few others could match. College basketball, and the way it's conducted, the intense interest in recruiting, has changed dramatically from Lefty's years to now. “There wasn't as much national attention on recruiting when Lefty was here,” Ross said. “Hard work mattered very much in those days. The coach that worked hardest to find players had a chance to be successful, and nobody worked harder at recruiting and building a program than Coach Driesell. What he did here with the basketball program is phenomenal, there's no question about it.” Ross witnessed Driesell's success at attracting top-flight students and basketball standouts to a small, powerful academic institution that cuts its athletes no favors, and he realizes it makes for one of the most inspiring stories ever in college basketball. Driesell put the Wildcats in the top 5 in the national rankings, took them to the NCAA Elite Eight, and won national acclaim for the school and its basketball program. “Lefty brought great players and excellent students to Davidson,” Ross recalls, “and once he got them here, he knew how to coach them.” Ross says the success of the basketball program during Driesell's era was “tremendous for campus morale. We were selling out games at the Charlotte Coliseum and consistently were ranked in the national polls. It was an incredibly exciting time and added many positive things to campus life.” It's been 38 years since Driesell coached at Davidson, but basketball fever is sweeping the Davidson community and the campus under Bob McKillop's astute coaching. “We are indeed feeling the excitement
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again,” Ross acknowledges. “Our team was in the Top 25 in some of the preseason polls. Our students and alumni are excited about the season.” Ross says while recruiting is much more intense and publicized today than it was during Driesell's era at Davidson, he nevertheless thinks it's possible for Davidson basketball to compete with the nation's top basketball programs. “Bob McKillop is a heck of a coach and a great ambassador for Davidson College,” Ross said. “While the landscape is different now, some excellent athletes are out there who desire a school like Davidson. There are some jewels to be found in recruiting that would fit well here.” Identifying those players, and then convincing them to come, is a never-ending challenge. It was for Driesell and remains so for McKillop. Ross understands well these complexities of basketball, as well as the hurdles put in front of schools like Davidson and other so-called “midmajors.” “When the NCAA tournament was opened to 64 teams, and more than one school per conference was allowed to participate in it, it changed things dramatically,” he said. It gave the power conferences multiple berths in the tournament, while it did very little for teams that play in conferences such as the Southern. It's not fair, but it is a fact of life. Despite the robust denials, television dictates much of what goes on in college basketball these days, and viewers like to watch the powerhouses compete. At least that's the rationale. Ross understands how hard it is to win a conference tournament, which is the only guaranteed spot the Southern Conference gets in the NCAA tournament. A team could go undefeated in conference regularseason play, lose a close game in the conference tournament, and then be ignored by the NCAA Selection Committee. Just such a thing happened to Davidson two years ago. “With 29 wins last season and the schedule we played, Davidson should have received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament if we hadn't won the conference tournament,” Ross said. “But I doubt it would have happened.” Davidson has North Carolina, Duke, UCLA and NC State on its schedule. Ross thinks it's a good idea to play these power teams. “It helps the school, the program,
and the students certainly want it,” he said. “Players like Stephen Curry and his teammates deserve a chance to play against the very best. They've worked hard to achieve that level of success.” Ross, meanwhile, marvels at what Driesell accomplished at Davidson, and what McKillop keeps on producing. Both coaches achieved great basketball success in a tough academic environment that allows no shortcuts. In looking at the two eras, Ross doesn't take sides. Each era is unique to its time. Lefty is retired and living in Virginia Beach. McKillop's work is ongoing. Ross says, “I think what Bob's done here is equal to what Lefty did.” Two great periods in Davidson's 100 years of basketball history. Fortunately for Ross, he's had a bird's-eye view for both.
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Jim Murphy was introduced as Davidson College's Director of Athletics in November of 1995, returning to his alma mater to lead the Wildcats on the eve of their 100th anniversary of intercollegiate athletics and into the next Jim murphy century. Prior to his Director of athletics appointment at Davidson, Murphy, 50, spent 10 years as executive associate athletic director and chief financial officer for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association. Murphy, an Atlanta native, played football and baseball during his freshman year at Davidson. His experience has been invaluable as Murphy guides a program which is unique in its desire for excellence in both athletics and academics and has one of the smallest enrollments among NCAA Division I schools. Reflecting his support of academics, Davidson's NCAA graduation rate of 91 percent was the highest in Division I in 2001-02, second in 2002-03 with a rate of 97 percent and continues above 90 percent each year. “I firmly believe Davidson represents the ideal in college athletics and think the success of Davidson's students, both in competition and after graduation proves that,” said Murphy. “It's true that Davidson needs intercollegiate athletics, but intercollegiate athletics need Davidson even more.” Since Murphy's return to Davidson, the Wildcats have pursued several major capital projects, including the creation of the highly-innovative $10 million Davidson Scholars Program, and major improvements have been completed in Belk Arena and at Smith Field/Richardson Stadium. The last three years have seen the construction of the Belk Artificial Surface
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Field for field hockey, the new Alumni Stadium for soccer, Wilson Baseball Park and the football stadium expansion project including a state-of-the-art weight room, a new press box and additional permanent seating. Murphy, the 2004 NACDA Division IAA/I-AAA Southeast Region Athletic Director of the Year, is currently serving a second term on the prestigious NCAA Division I Management Council, a policymaking body within the NCAA governance structure. He chaired the Division I-AA Governance Committee and formerly served on the NCAA Division I Business and Finance Cabinet, the Division I Governance Committee and the Division I Finance Committee. From 2002 to 2004, Murphy chaired the Athletic Directors Association of the Southern Conference. He was part of Charlotte's successful bid to host the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championships in 1999 and 2000 and also served as Tournament Director of the Firstand Second-Round games of the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in Charlotte. Murphy is a past member of the Division I Football Issues Committee and serves as President of the Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Directors Association. He was also a member of the NCAA Task Force on Recruiting, an 18-member panel charged with changing the culture of recruiting in intercollegiate athletics. Murphy, a Certified Public Accountant and 1978 graduate of Davidson with a degree in economics, earned a Master of Science degree in management from Georgia Tech in 1979. He worked from 197985 as an audit manager with the international public accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick in Atlanta with responsibility for financial statement audits of public and private companies with up to $1 bil-
lion in assets. Murphy has been active in the community since his return to Davidson. He is a involved with Social Venture Partners Charlotte, chairs the Finance Committee and serves on the Board of Managers of the Lake Norman YMCA, the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Regional Sports Commission, served three years on the Board of the Charlotte Council for Children and three years on the Board of Directors of the Town of Davidson Youth Baseball League. Murphy's 22-year-old son, Matt, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and works in advertising in Chapel Hill, N.C.
assoC.aThleTiCdireCTor Scott Applegate is in his 19th year at Davidson. A 1982 graduate of East Carolina with an M.A. from Miami University in 1984, Applegate began his tenure at Davidson as an assistant athletic trainer in the fall of scott applegate 1989. In his nine years associate athletic in that role, he was the Director trainer for the men's soccer team that played in the College Cup in 1992, then served as the medical coordinator at the event the following two years. Applegate also acted as the medical coordinator for the 1997 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament First and Second Rounds in Charlotte. In 1998, Applegate took over the duties as head athletic trainer, a position he held for four years. He continued his service on the national stage, serving as the medical coordinator for the 1999 and 2000 Men's College Cups in Charlotte. Applegate was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics for Operations in 2002 while still acting as an athletic trainer before moving into administration full-time in 2003. Two years ago, he was the Tournament Manager for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament First and Second Rounds in Charlotte, overseeing the operations at a venue. Applegate is responsible for managing the athletics department operating budget as well as the athletics facilities.
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Katy McNay is in her 10th year at Davidson and eighth as director of compliance. She works closely with the Wildcat athletic department to ensure full compliance with institutional, SoCon and NCAA rules and regulations. McNay also katy mcnay serves as the senior asst. athletic woman’s administrator Director/ senior Woman’s and supervises all of administrator Davidson’s women’s teams in that role. The Davidson Web site, www.DavidsonWildcats.com has forms and guidelines dealing with NCAA rules and regulations governing prospective studentathletes, athletic representatives and boosters as well as enrolled student-athletes. Violation of these rules and regulations could affect the eligibility of prospective or enrolled student-athletes and/or result in penalties and restrictions imposed on the Davidson College Department of Athletics.
No stranger to Davidson College Athletics, Martin McCann is in his ninth year as the Director of Marketing and Promotions for the Athletic Department. While overseeing the marketing and promotion efforts for the instimartin mcCann tutions 21 varsity Director of sports, McCann supermarketing and promotions vises Game Management Operations for home events. To go along with his everyday duties, he manages the Davidson Radio Network, which provides live broadcasts of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, football and baseball. A 1993 Davidson Graduate with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, McCann was a four-year letterwinner and two-year team captain for the Wildcats’ football team. Prior to his current position, McCann was the owner of McCann Marketing. McCann and his wife Paige reside in Mooresville, N.C., with their daughter Mara.
srmen’sadminisTraTor Dick Cooke is in his 18th year at Davidson and his fourth as the senior men’s administrator. In that role, he serves as a liaison between the coaches and the athletic administration and supervises Davidson’s men’s sports. Dick Cooke The 2008 campaign senior men’s will be Cooke’s 18th as administrator the head coach of the Davidson baseball program No other coach in Davidson history has coached, or won, as many games as Cooke. He graduated from Richmond in 1978 with a degree in journalism and was a three-year baseball letterman for the Spiders as a left-handed starting pitcher, ending with a 12-10 record. His senior year, Cooke went 6-3 with a 2.80 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 68 innings. Cooke spent three years in the Boston Red Sox organization at the A, AA and AAA levels, serving as a senior player-coach during the 1981 season in the Florida State League.
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sporTsmediCine Head athletic trainer Beth Hayford (Wingate ’93) oversees Davidson’s five other full-time, fully-certified licensed athletic trainers as well student athletic trainers from UNC Charlotte who cover the school’s 21 intercollegiate sports. Beth hayford head athletic Trainer Hayford came to Davidson as an intern in August of 1994 and was promoted to assistant athletic trainer in 1996, working with women’s basketball, lacrosse, soccer and volleyball teams. In 2002, Hayford was named the head athletic trainer. In addition to her responsibilities overseeing all medical aspects of the athletic program, she supervises the strength and conditioning department and the equipment room. In his sixth year at Davidson, Ray Beltz serves as the athletic trainer for the Wildcat men’s basketball team. He earned his undergraduate degree from East Stroudsburg in 2000 and his working towards his master’s degree from his alma ray Beltz athletic Trainer for mater. men’s Basketball The Davidson College Sports Medicine facilities are among the best in the region. In the training room, there are many of the modern, technological machines that aid in the recovery from injuries, including ultrasound and electric stimulation. There are also three whirlpool tubs, a hydroculator and a paraffin bath. OrthoCarolina in Charlotte serves as Davidson’s primary orthopedic consultant, and Dr. Don D’Alessandro is the Wildcats’ team physician. Dr. Skip Barkley, a general practitioner at University Family Physicians, also acts as one of the department’s primary physicians.
TiCkeToffiCe Jamie Hendricks is in his 10th season at Davidson, where he serves as the director of ticketing and game operations. He arrived at Davidson in the summer of 1998 after completing his undergraduate degree at Jamie hendricks Western Carolina. Director of Ticketing Hendricks and game began his career as the operations assistant director of the ticket office before being promoted to his current position in 2004. In this role, he manages the ticketing and game operations for all of Davidson’s athletic events, manages the daily operations of the ticket office and develops and implements promotional strategies to aid sales.
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When it comes right down to it, the equipment room keeps all the athletic teams prepared to play. Brian Barmes begins his second year as the head equipment manager. Prior to coming to Davidson, Barmes was a sales representative Brian Barmes equipment manager for Riddell as well as served a pair of one year stints with the Florida Bobcats and Georgia Force of the AFL, respectively. Joining Barmes is the faithful assistant Will DuBose, who attended Fayetteville Tech for two years prior to joining the Davidson staff in the fall of 1983. Now in his 25th year, only one coach has been with the department longer. Returning for his third year on staff is Jeff Koontz. He is a 2005 graduate of Winthrop and completed an internship with the Carolina Panthers. He will take care of the football equipment needs for the 2006 season.
sTrengTh&CondiTioning Craig Swieton was named the strength and conditioning coach at Davidson in September. Prior to his arrival, Swieton served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Central Michigan, where he was a graduate assistant as well Craig swieton from 2003-05. During head Coach his career, he also strength and Conditioning helped coordinate the strength and conditioning program at Duquesne. Swieton started his career as an intern at Syracuse in the summer of 2003 working with the football team. The Frankfort, N.Y., native earned a bachelor’s degree in applied exercise science from Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., in 2003. He was a member of both the football and track and field teams. Swieton is a member of both the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA). Additionally, he is a level one certified club coach through USA Weightlifting.
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adminisTraTive A familiar face, Susan Mercer returned to the men’s basketball program in 2005. She spent 11 years as the staff assistant from 1989-2000, and it is as if she never left her post. Among her duties are managing various athlete and alumni datasusan mercer bases, organizing files administrative and invoices, answerassistant for Basketball ing the phones and making hotel and meal arrangements for the team and coaches. “Susan ties it all together,” said Coach McKillop. “Her bright smile and friendly voice signals a warm welcome to all who come into contact with the Davidson basketball program.” Mercer joined the Davidson athletics department as basketball staff assistant in 1989. She previously worked for Reeves Brothers in Cornelius, and for two years as a sales representative for First Union National Bank in Davidson. In between her stints on staff, she worked from home for an adoption agency. Mercer placed 25 Romanian children in North Carolina homes. Mercer graduated in 1982 from North Mecklenburg High School. She and her husband Garry reside in Mooresville and have four children — Buddy (24), Caitlin (9), Christopher (8) and Lydia (5).
athletic department, as Lefty Driesell built a national powerhouse in basketball and Homer Smith took the school’s football team to the Tangerine Bowl to play Vanderbilt. After working for Davidson, Kilgo returned to Charlotte to become news and sports director for Big WAYS Radio, the first true Top 40 radio station in the Carolinas and the top rated station in Charlotte. In his 18 years there, and in addition to his radio responsibilities, Kilgo started a chain of eight weekly newspapers that served Charlotte and surrounding areas, including North Mecklenburg. While at Big WAYS, Kilgo was the play-by-play man for UNC Charlotte’s basketball games for seven seasons, including the school’s run to the NIT finals in 1976 and the Final Four in 1977. Kilgo moved across Charlotte to rival broadcaster Jefferson-Pilot in 1984, where he eventually became general manager of WBT Radio as well as general manager of J-P Sports Enterprises. One of his roles at J-P was to produce the weekly television show for former UNC basketball coach Dean Smith and to conduct Smith’s weekly call-in radio show that was heard on more than 50 stations. Kilgo co-authored Smith’s memoirs, A Coach’s Life, which was published by Random House and became a national bestseller. He and Smith later did a second book, The Carolina Way, which was published by Penguin Press. Kilgo lives in Davidson and continues his writing from his home office.
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memBership hisTory The Southern Conference was formed on February 25, 1921 at a meeting in Atlanta, Ga. as 14 institutions from the 30-member Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) reorganized as the Southern Conference. Those charter members included Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Washington & Lee. Athletic competition began in the fall of 1921. In 1922, six more schools - Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane and Vanderbilt - joined the fold. A year later, the University of the South joined the ranks. VMI became a member in 1925 and Duke was added 1929. Since then, conference membership has experienced a series of membership changes with 42 institutions having been affiliated with the league. The league has undergone two major transitions during its history. The first occurred in December 1932 when the Southeastern Conference was formed from the 23-school Southern Conference. The league’s 13 members west and south of the Appalachian Mountains reorganized to help reduce the extensive travel demands that were present in the league at the time. In 1936, the Southern Conference invited The Citadel, William & Mary,
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Davidson, Furman, Richmond and Wake Forest to join the membership. The second major shift came about in 1953 when Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest withdrew from the league to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. This change was brought about due to the desire of many of those schools to schedule a greater number of regular season basketball games against local rivals. Today, the league continues to thrive with a membership that spans four Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Current league members are Appalachian State, College of Charleston, The Citadel, Davidson, Elon, Furman, Georgia Southern, UNC Greensboro, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford. On July 1, 2008, Samford will officially join the league, brining membership of the conference to 12. BaskeTBall Men’s basketball was the first sport in which the conference produced a championship. The league tournament is the nation’s oldest, with the inaugural championship held in Atlanta in 1922. Not only was the Southern Conference Tournament the first of its kind, the league also helped change the face of college basketball. In 1980, the league began a season-long experiment with a 22-foot three-point field goal with the approval of the NCAA Rules Committee. Ronnie Carr of Western Carolina made the first threepoint field goal in college basketball history in a game against Middle Tennessee State on Nov. 29, 1980. Another college basketball tradition that originated in the SoCon is the traditional cutting of the nets by the winning team. According to USA Today, the practice of net cutting originated in 1947 with North Carolina State head coach Everett Case. As a first-year head coach, Case led the Wolfpack to the SoCon Tournament title. To commemorate the event, Case celebrated by claiming the nets as a souvenir of the win. Basketball coaching legend Red Auerbach gives credit to former George Washington coach Bill Reinhart, who coached in the SoCon for nearly 30 years, as one of the originators of the modern fast-break. West Virginia’s 10 tournament championships are still the most in league history. The Mountaineers were led by the incomparable Jerry West from 1958 through ’60. West, a two-time AllAmerica selection, spurred West Virginia to the Final Four in 1959. The Mountaineers lost in the championship game that season to California, 7170, but West earned Final Four Most Valuable Player honors. West was a three-time Southern Conference tournament MVP, a two-time league regular season MVP, and was twice named the conference’s Athlete of the Year. He went on to a spectacular career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979. He was a 14-time NBA AllStar while with the Lakers. It is West’s silhouette
that comprises the NBA’s globally recognized logo. Frank Selvy set the NCAA record for points in a game while at Furman. As a Paladin senior on Feb. 13, 1954, Selvy scored 100 points in a game against Newberry, a record that still stands. Selvy was the Southern Conference Most Valuable Player in 1953 and 1954 and the league’s Athlete of the Year in 1954. He went on to a 10year career in the NBA. Rod Hundley was another West Virginia star during the 1950s. “Hot Rod” made a name for himself as one of the most spectacular players to tour the league during his era. Hundley averaged 24.5 points per game in his three seasons as a Mountaineer and was an all-conference and alltournament performer in each of those three years. He was the Southern Conference Most Valuable Player and Athlete-of-the-Year as a senior in 1957. He was the first player selected in the 1957 NBA draft and enjoyed a six-year career in that league. East Tennessee State’s Keith “Mister” Jennings made his mark on the college basketball world in the early 1990s. Despite standing less than six feet tall, Jennings was a two-time all-conference choice and the league’s Player of the Year and Athlete of the Year in 1991. Jennings played with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. More recently, Western Carolina’s Kevin Martin was a first round pick of the Sacramento Kings in 2004. Martin was second in the nation in scoring as a junior at 24.9 points per game before leaving a year early for the NBA. Besides West Virginia’s team in 1959, the Southern Conference has been represented in the Final Four on two other occasions. North Carolina advanced to the NCAA championship game in 1943 before falling 43-40 to Oklahoma State. North Carolina State finished third in the tournament in 1950. Women’s basketball competition began in the Southern Conference in 1983-84 with seven teams. In the sport’s history, seven schools have won the league’s tournament at least once with Chattanooga winning 10 and Appalachian State owning six titles. UNC Greensboro won the 1998 tournament as head coach Lynne Agee became the first coach to take a team to the NCAA Tournament in all three Divisions - I, II and III. In 2001, Chattanooga head coach Wes Moore became the first coach in NCAA history to take three different teams to the NCAA Tournament in all three Divisions. Since 1984, seven different teams have claimed at least a share of the regular season crown. Chattanooga has the most overall titles with 12, six of them shared. Chattanooga owns the most outright championships with seven. Only three players have won the conference Player of the Year award twice: East Tennessee State’s DeShawne Blocker in 1992-93 and 1994-95; Furman’s Jackie Smith, 1997-98 and 1998-99; and Chattanooga’s Damita Bullock, who won the award in 2000 and 2001.
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The Southern Conference, which began its 87th season of intercollegiate competition in 2007, is a national leader in emphasizing the development of the student-athlete and defining the league’s role in helping to build lifelong leaders and role models. John iamarino is the The Southern Conference is soCon commissioner the nation’s fifth-oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association. Only the Big Ten (1896), the Missouri Valley (1907), the Pacific 10 (1915) and the Southwestern Athletic (1920) conferences are older in terms of origination. The Southern Conference has also excelled as the premier Football Championship Subdivision conference. Southern Conference member Appalachian State has won the last two Football Championship Subdivision titles. The Conference currently consists of 11 members in four states throughout the Southeast and sponsors 19 varsity sports and championships that produce participants for NCAA Division I Championships. Academic excellence has been a major part of the Southern Conference’s tradition. League athletes have been recognized countless times on Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-America and district teams. A total of 19 Rhodes Scholarship winners have been selected from conference institutions. The Southern Conference office is located in the historic Beaumont Mill in Spartanburg, S.C. A textile mill that was in operation from 1880 until 1999, the Beaumont Mill was renovated in 2004 and today offers the SoCon a first class meeting area and offices as well as a spacious library for storage of the conference’s historical documents.
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Marc Gignac was named sports information director this past July and oversees the day-to-day operation of the sports information office, including all publications and the Web site, DavidsonWildcats.com. Gignac comes to Davidson from marc gignac sports information Canisius College, Director where he spent the last six years. While at Canisius, Gignac served as the assistant media director for the 2004 and 2007 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournaments and the 2003 Frozen Four at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y. He earned in bachelor’s degree from North Carolina in 1997 and his master’s from Canisius in 1999. Joey Beeler is in his third season at Davidson and his second as the primary contact for Wildcat men’s basketball. Beeler supervised the media relations operations during the ‘Cats 29-5 season and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006-07. Joey Beeler He has also overseen assistant sports the production of the information Director team’s media guides for each of the last two seasons. Beeler came to Davidson after spending a six years (1997-2002, 2004-2005) in the media services department at his alma mater, Campbell. He worked as a media liaison for the NCAA at the 2005 Tournament First and Second Rounds. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Campbell in 2002. He was a student intern in the media services department for four years and also interned at the University of Virginia in 1999. Beeler and his wife Carrie, reside in Union Grove, N.C., with their daughter Kayleigh Addison.
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Joey Beeler Assistant Sports Information Director (Players, releases, notes, statistics) Office Phone: 704-894-2931 Cell Phone: 980-297-8242 E-Mail: jobeeler@davidson.edu
Marc Gignac Sports Information Director (Bob McKillop, credentials, game program) Office Phone: 704-894-2123 Cell Phone: 980-297-8891 E-Mail: magignac@davidson.edu
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sporTsinformaTionoffiCe Welcome to the 100th season of Davidson basketball. The 2007-08 men’s basketball guide was written and designed by the Davidson sports information office to assist the news media in its coverage of the Wildcats. Sports Information Office Davidson College Box 7158 Davidson, NC 28035-7158 (704) 894-2931 The Davidson Sports Information Office is located on the lower level of the Baker Sports Complex at the west end of the basketball court.
pressfaCiliTies The press row area at Belk Arena is located at floor level on the south side. Shooting area for minicams is located at the photo platform on the upper level or at designated areas at each end of the court.
pressCredenTials Press credentials are mailed for the entire season or one week in advance of the desired game. Credentials obtained by late arrangements may be picked up at the press entrance on the lower level of Baker Sports Complex. Please contact Marc Gignac at 704-894-2123 or magignac@davidson.edu at least one day before the game to obtain credentials.
phoTopasses Photography passes are limited to daily newspaper, national magazine, student newspaper, wire service, television and team photographers. Please contact Marc Gignac at 704-894-2123 or magignac@davidson.edu at least one day before the game to obtain credentials.
radiobroadCasTs Stations originating broadcasts of Davidson basketball games receive courtside locations at Belk Arena. There are two broadcast lines available on a reciprocating basis or for a $125 fee. Contact Marc Gignac at 704-894-2123 or magignac@davidson.edu at least one week before the game to make arrangements for this service. Stations needing additional phones or those without a reciprocating agreement should contact Southern Bell at (704) 378-6300.
Teamdressingrooms At Belk Arena, Davidson’s dressing room is located on the south side lower
posTgameinTerviews After a 10-minute cooling-off period, postgame interviews will be conducted in the press room located on the west end of Belk Arena. The locker room is closed to the media. Postgame interviews not done in the press room should be conducted outside the locker room. The policy for visiting teams will be set by the coach or SID from that school.
playerinTerviews Except for postgame situations, interviews with players must be arranged through the sports information office by contacting Joey Beeler at 704-894-2931 or jobeeler@davidson.edu. Interviews will be arranged at times which do not interfere with a student’s academic schedule. NO interviews will be granted prior to a contest on game day. We ask you to observe this policy.
bobmCkillopinTerviews Except for postgame situations, interviews with coach McKillop must be arranged through the sports information office by contacting Marc Gignac at 704-8942123 or magignac@davidson.edu. NO interviews will be granted prior to a contest on game day.
gameinformaTion Prior to the game, Davidson furnishes programs, statistics and rosters in the press room. Game services include play-by-play, halftime box scores and final box scores. Refreshments are available in the press room at Belk Arena.
parking/pressenTranCe Davidson reserves a limited number of spaces for the media at the northeast corner of the parking lot (far corner by the arena). The parking attendant will have a list of those who request spaces in this area. You may also gain admission to this area by showing your media credential. The press entrance to Belk Arena is just across the road from the press parking area. For those who do not receive credentials by mail, they will be available at the press entrance.
inTerneT The Wildcats have a web site where information on all their athletic teams, including men’s basketball, can be found — team roster, schedule, player and coach bios as well as up-to-date statistics and results. Log on to the athletic web site at www.DavidsonWildcats.com for current information as the season progresses.
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assoCiaTeD press Mike Cranston (Beat Writer) mcranston@ap.org 1100 S. Tryon St. #310 Charlotte, NC 28203 Phone/Fax: 704-334-4624/704-376-4813 CharloTTe oBserver Kevin Cary (Beat Writer) kcary@charlotteobserver.com P.O. Box 32188 Charlotte, NC 28232 Phone/Fax: 704-358-5127/704-358-5110 ConCorD inDepenDenT TriBune Steve Winzenread (Sports) swinzenread@independenttribune.com P.O. Box 608 Concord, NC 28026 Phone/Fax: 704-782-3155/704-786-0645 DaviDsonian Will Bryan (Sports Editor) wibryan@davidson.edu P.O. Box 7182 Davidson, NC Phone/Fax: 704-894-2148/704-892-2625 hiCkory Daily reCorD Chris Hobbs (Sports Editor) sports@hickoryrecord.com P.O. Box 968 Hickory, NC 28603 Phone/Fax: 704-322-4510/704-324-8179 greensBoro neWs & reCorD Rob Daniels (Sports Writer) sports@news-record.com P.O. Box 20848 Greensboro, NC 27420 Phone/Fax: (336-373-7062/(336-373-7067 mooresville TriBune Larry Sullivan (Sports) lsullivan@mooresvilletribune.com P.O. Box 300 Mooresville, NC 28115 Phone/Fax: 704-664-5554/704-664-3614 norTh CharloTTe Weekly Justin Ridge (Sports Editor) justin@thecharlotteweekly.com 15720 John J. Delaney Drive Charlotte, NC 28277 Phone/Fax: 704-543-9797/704-543-9790 salisBury posT Ronald Gallagher (Sports Editor) sports@salisburypost.com P.O. Box 4639 Salisbury, NC 28144 Phone/Fax: 704-633-8950/704-639-0003
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radioneTwork All of Davidson’s games can be heard on either WEGO, 1410 AM out of Concord, N.C., WAME, 550 AM out of Statesville, N.C., and WFNZ/WFNA 610/1660 AM out Charlotte, N.C. In addition, the broadcasts can be heard via TEAMLINE at (800) 846-4700, ext. 1143, and on the internet via TEAMLINE on the Davidson web site, www.DavidsonWildcats.com.
videosTreaming A selection of Davidson home games will be video streamed through the Wildcats’ Web site at www. DavidsonWildcats.com. Visit the AllAccess page to sign up for this service. Subscriptions for the entire Davidson 200708 athletic season are available for $79.95, and monthly passes are $9.95.
livesTaTs Live stats will be available for all Davidson home games at www.DavidsonWildcats.com.
direCTionsTobelkarena from The souTh (CharloTTe) Take I-77 to exit 30 (Davidson) and turn right off the ramp onto Griffith Street. Turn right onto Main, left at the light onto Concord, then left at Baker Drive into the parking lot. The arena is located in Baker Sports Complex. from The norTh (sTaTesville) Take I-77 to exit 30 (Davidson) and turn left off the ramp onto Griffith Street. Follow directions above from there. from The WesT (asheville) Take I-40 to I-77 South and follow directions from Statesville. from The easT (greensBoro) Via I-85 South, get off at exit 55 (Davidson) and turn right onto Highway 73. Travel about 11 miles and turn right at Davidson sign onto Davidson-Concord Road. When road ends, turn left onto Concord Road. Turn right onto Baker Drive approximately 1.5 miles down. The arena is located in Baker Sports Complex.
sTaTesville reCorD-lanDmark Jason Bullard (Sports Editor) sports@statesville.com P.O. Box 1071 Statesville, NC 28677 Phone/Fax: 704-873-1451/704-872-3150 WinsTon-salem Journal Tommy Bowman (Sports) sports@wsjournal.com P.O. Box 3159 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 Phone/Fax: 336-727-7211/336-727-7315
Televisionmedia WBTv (CBs affiliaTe) DeLano Little (Sports Director) dlittle@wbtv.com 1 Julian Price Place Charlotte, NC 28208 Phone/Fax: (704) 374-3711/(704) 374-3818 WCnC-Tv (nBC affiliaTe) Greg Bailey (Sports Director) gbailey@wcnc.com 1001 Woodridge Center Dr. Charlotte, NC 28217-1901 Phone/Fax: (704) 329-3636/(704) 357-4975 WsoC-Tv (aBC affiliaTe) Tiffany Wright (Sports Director) tiffany.wright@wsoc-tv.com P.O. Box 34655 Charlotte, NC 28234 Phone/Fax: (704) 335-4746/(704) 335-4736 WCCB-Tv (foX affiliaTe) Bruce Snyder (Sports Director) bsnyder@fox18wccb.com 1 Television Place Charlotte, NC 28203 Phone/Fax: (704) 632-7551/(704) 358-4841 neWs 14 (Time Warner) Mike Solarte mike.solarte@news14.com 316 E. Morehead St. Charlotte, NC 28202 Phone/Fax: (704) 973-5800/(704) 7312760-
radiomedia WBT raDio Jim Szoke jszoke@wbt.com 1 Julian Price Place Charlotte, NC 28208 Phone/Fax: (704) 374-3711/(704) 570-1109 WfnZ — sporTs raDio 610 Mark Packer pacman@wfnz.com 1502 South Blvd. Suite 300 Phone/Fax: (704) 319-3923/(704) 319-3934
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