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KEYS TO SUCCESS Women
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Make free throws
Crash the boards
In games last season where the Lions lost by five or less points and missed at least seven free throws, their record was 0-3.
Stay healthy The Lions saw three key players go down with season-ending injuries in 2010-11.
Control the glass Last season, the Lions were 1-8 in games where their opponents had a rebounding advantage of eight boards or more.
Despite not having a dominant center, the Lions pulled down an impressive 38.1 rebounds per game in 2010-11, averaging 2.7 more per game than their opponents.
Avoid injuries Last season, the Lions ran out 15 different starting lineups and had more missed game time by their top players than the other seven teams in the conference combined.
Build from the backcourt The Lions’ backcourt will pair redshirt junior Jarred DuBois (and his career averages of 12.6 points, 2.6 assists and 3 rebounds per game) with sophomore Anthony Ireland, who averaged 10.6 points, 2.9 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game last season when he was named to the WCC AllFreshman team.
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Moving on together from ‘inexcusable’ season Men picked to finish sixth in WCC following last year’s 11-21 letdown. By John Wilkinson Asst. Sports Editor
On paper, the 2011-12 men’s basketball team should have fans buzzing with excitement. However, in a town where you are only as good as your last performance, fans and pundits are skeptical after the colossal disappointment of last season. In 2010, the Lions were a popular pick to break out and challenge for a conference title. Instead they fell flat, finishing 2-12 in the West Conference Conference (WCC) and 11-21 overall. “My dad always says, ‘People who live in the
past have no present and no future,’” LMU Head Coach Max Good said. “What happened last year was inexcusable, and I have to take responsibility for it.” This season, LMU hopes that better team chemistry and “togetherness” can help produce the results that eluded them last season. When asked what difference fans would see on the floor this year in comparison to last year, Good replied, “If we do our job, and we certainly intend to do it, … I think the biggest difference is they’ll see a sense of togetherness,
they’ll see camaraderie, they’ll see guys running on and off the floor, they’ll see guys picking another guy up when they go down.” LMU welcomes back four of the starters who closed out last season. The only loss from the starting lineup is All-WCC Honorable Mention guard Vernon Teel ‘10, the team’s second-leading scorer and rebounder. Returning starters include redshirt senior forward Drew Viney, redshirt junior forward Ashley Hamilton, sophomore point guard Anthony Ireland and sophomore forward Godwin Okonji. Viney, the team’s leading scorer (17.2 ppg) and rebounder (6.6 rpg), is a preseason All-WCC selection and figures to be the focal point of LMU’s offense. Viney has been named AllWCC the past two seasons, Honorable Mention last year and First Team in 2009-10. The Lions will have to start the season without Viney’s services, as he recently underwent surgery to repair a
stress fracture in his left foot. Viney’s recovery is expected to keep him out of the Lions’ first four to five games. In his absence, the Lions will have to find a way to pick up his scoring slack in the first part of the season. “We just got to get
a little more out of each of them, not any one person has to try to fill that gap,” Good said. While Viney is expected to miss minimal time, injuries have frequently slowed LMU mightily during Good’s time at LMU. A victim of that injury curse, redshirt junior guard Jarred DuBois, who missed all but six games last season, will return to the Lions’ backcourt. “Jarred DuBois brings intensity and focus and defensive presence and a winning attitude from Westchester High. He’s a streaky shooter, but he makes big shots,” Good said. “His attitude on the floor and in the locker room, he brings a brand of intensity that permeates through our whole team.” DuBois’s return has been especially beneficial to fellow guard Ireland. After DuBois’s injury thrust Ireland into more playing time than expected last year, he answered the bell by averaging 10.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and three assists per game while earning a spot on the WCC AllFreshman team. “I feel like I’ve gotten so much better just going hard against him in practice every day, working out with him,” Ireland said. “I always tell him, ‘Don’t let up on me, keep pushing hard,’ and he always tells me, ‘Don’t take it easy on me.’ We just feed off each other.” “They bring the best out of each other … I think that’s what [DuBois] does for Anthony,” Good said. Hamilton, the 6-foot-7-inch forward, has battled injuries throughout his career and missed seven games last season with a broken hand. Hamilton averaged 9.1 points and 5.7 rebounds per game a season ago. Hamilton stressed this squad’s focus on aggressive team defense and turning defense into offense. “We’re very athletic, we’re a very deep team this year, we have a lot of talent, so we can definitely get out and pressure people, get some turnovers and get fastbreaks, show our
talent and our athleticism,” Hamilton said. A player who should see a considerable boost in minutes is redshirt sophomore forward Quincy Lawson. Good was quick to point out the 6-foot-6-inch swingman as a player who will surprise fans this season, saying Lawson could push for a starting spot. “When we signed him I thought he could be like a non-scoring Scottie Pippen. A defensive stopper, getin-the-passing-lanes guy, attack the rim on offense, go to the board hard on offense,” Good said. “He is a perfect example of ‘less is more.’ He’s not trying to make jump shots, he’s not out there dribbling between his legs, he’s not out there trying to do stuff he can’t do. He’s got a very limited thing he’s trying to do, and he’s becoming excellent at it.” The Lions lack a dominant big man, but will hope that a committee of Okonji, redshirt sophomore forwards Edgar Garibay and Alex Osborne, as well as redshirt senior forward Tim Diederichs can get the job done inside. Okonji finished last season as the Lions’ starting center, averaging 5.4 rebounds per game and proving to be a menace for opponents as he set a new LMU freshman blocks record with 38. The two newcomers to the team are freshmen guard Bruce English from La Verne Lutheran High School in La Verne, Calif. and forward C.J. Blackwell from William HTaft High School in Woodland Hills, Calif. While the depth of this year’s team may prevent Blackwell and English from seeing consistent minutes, both have the tools to contribute. The WCC, ranked by some as the best mid-major conference in the country, only gets stronger with this season’s addition of Brigham Young University. Now a nine-team league, the WCC has two members, Brigham Young University (BYU) and Gonzaga University, that met in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, with BYU advancing before bowing out in the
Sweet 16. Six of the WCC institutions participated in some form of postseason play last year. “Our league is very, very good, and people are starting to understand that nationally,” Good said. The top of the conference remains the same as recent years, with the favorites, once again being perennial power Gonzaga, who graduated just one senior from that Sweet 16 team, followed closely by Saint Mary’s College. Newcomer BYU was picked to finish third in its inaugural year in the conference. University of San Francisco was picked fourth, followed by Santa Clara University who is led by last season’s WCC leading scorer Kevin Foster. After last season’s tied-forlast-place finish, the Lions were selected to finish sixth this season by the coaches. “To me, it’s embarrassing to be picked sixth in the league,” Good said. The University of Portland, Pepperdine University and the University of San Diego round out the bottom third of the coaches’ preseason picks. “If Portland is seventh in our league, we’ve got a hell of a league,” Good said. “The top has gotten even better, and the bottom has gotten better as well. … The depth of our league is better and better.” The Lions’ non-conference schedule is highlighted by tomorrow’s visit to crosstown foe No. 17 UCLA, as well as a home game against rising mid-major program Harvard University on Nov. 19. On Dec. 18 they travel to Tallahassee, Fla. to take on the Florida State University Seminoles. LMU’s first home contest of the centennial season is Sunday at 3 p.m. against Middle Tennessee State University. “Everybody is in a good mood right now, every team in the country,” Good said. “We’ve got to make sure we sustain this and stay together.” Photo: Redshirt junior guard Jarred DuBois | Loyolan Archives
Preseason positivity is an encouraging start Lions aiming to stay positive and upbeat as 2011-12 gets ready to begin.
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un. Joy. A couple of simple, three-letter words that wouldn’t usually mean a whole lot. However, hearing them from the mouths of the LMU men’s basketball players and coaches caught me off guard. Last season, an 1121 debacle, was anything but fun for the Lions and Wilks World their fans. By John Wilkinson Hearing some kind of Asst. Sports Editor positivity is a nice way to open the book to a new season. After witnessing the toxic chemistry of last season, anyone could tell you a couple verses of “Kumbaya” couldn’t hurt the Lions heading into the 2011-12 season. It may not be as grand as a trip to Spain like the Lions took two summers ago, but it sounds like a summer spent together in the gym in L.A., pissed off and disgraced, was more useful in pulling together a true team that has a chance to
be better than the sum of its parts. That was one of the most frustrating things about the 2010-11 season for Lions
fans: The stomach-wrenching realization that a bunch of great parts had somehow formed a terrible product; that their faith had been so greatly let down for no good reason. Injuries, egos and personal problems took a team that everyone knew should succeed and made sure it didn’t. The 2010-11 Lions were painful to watch, not just in regards to how many of them ended up hurt or how many times they seemed to give away a sure win but because it was so plainly obvious that the team was not having an ounce of fun being out there. Every game was a drag to the end, seeing how long a lead could be sustained before the Lions’ numerous issues ripped them apart and they blew it. The most encouraging thing LMU fans could hear is the players’ repeated use of the simple word “fun” when talking about the upcoming season. After last week’s exhibition victory, with music blaring out of the locker room, sophomore Anthony Ireland smiled and said, “It feels good to play basketball. I’m enjoying it now. Last year, I went through
some struggles and now I’m having fun again.” Sure the Lions had just blown out a Division III opponent by 40-plus points, but it was such a genuine answer you could almost feel the relief brought on by the new season. When asked, after the first scrimmage of the year, what the keys for this team’s turnaround would be, redshirt junior Jarred DuBois initially mentioned defense, but instead of adding free throws or leadership, the next words out of his mouth were “having fun out there.” It had to kill the lively and upbeat DuBois to be injured for all of last season and watch his team unravel. LMU fans can hope that his return to the court coincides with a more energetic and positive season of LMU basketball. “They have to be willing to give up of themselves for the betterment of the team,” Head Coach Max Good said. “But people have been saying that since whenever [basketball creator James] Naismith hung a basket up. Again, you have to have the right kind of people that are willing to do that.” Good seems to think that this squad has that willingness. He calls this group a “joy” to be around and possibly the most fun squad in his time at LMU. If they truly are dedicated to the togetherness they are preaching and can
sustain a true attitude of cameraderie and fun, they will, by default, already be light years ahead of the 2010-11 team. Hope springs eternal is how the old saying goes. Too many pessimists will tell you that hope and faith are wasted nonsense, but in college gyms across the country, blind, stupid faith is often all there is to keep you going for months on end. As soon as the final horn sounds on one season, the best way to forget how bad it was is to look forward to the eternal optimism that next season’s 0-0 record promises. That’s why I don’t understand pessimists. If I had chosen to dwell on last season all summer, I may not have made it to another season of LMU basketball. With tomorrow’s matchup against No.17 UCLA looming, now comes the moment of truth when another season starts, and we see how different things actually are. As redshirt junior Ashley Hamilton said after the Lions thumped University of La Verne in the exhibition, “When you’re winning it’s always fun. When you lose, no one has fun.” Photo: Men’s basketball Head Coach Max Good | LMU Athletics This is the opinion of John Wilkinson. Please send comments to jwilkinson@theloyolan.com
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Hoping for following injury-riddled season something The women’s basketball different team hopes for a healthier campaign in 2011-12. By Michael Goldsholl Asst. Managing Editor | Sports Editor 2010-11 is long gone. The dust has settled, and the LMU women’s basketball team is looking to bounce back from an injury-plagued season that saw five players miss considerable time, three of whom suffered seasonending injuries. However, last year is in the rearview mirror, and the Lions remain focused on their goal of capturing a West Coast Conference (WCC) championship. Despite a sixth-place finish that saw the Lions go 5-9 in conference play last season, they were picked to finish fourth in the 2011-12 WCC preseason coaches poll. “I think it shows what kind of respect people have for us,” said Head Coach Julie Wilhoit of the team’s preseason ranking. “We had a tough year last year. When you talk to coaches and people in the game – they like us, they respect us. They know we’re good coaches, they know we have good players, and they know not to take us lightly.” The Lions have said their goodbyes to last year’s captains, Renahy Young and Melanie Ysaguirre to graduationand 2011 WCC Newcomer of the Year Camille Buckley, who transferred to UC Irvine. LMU brings in five new freshman and returns nine players, including redshirt junior forward Alex Cowling, who was sidelined for all but six games last season due to a fractured foot. Despite missing nearly the entire season, Cowling was the only Lion selected to the preseason All-Conference team this year and will likely be LMU’s go-to player offensively. She averaged 22.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game prior to her injury last season. Last year’s starting point guard Hazel Ramirez, guard Melinda Gomez and forwards Alexis Love and Mackenzie Kerins make up a sophomore class that is expected to display growth and heightened maturity this season. “Melinda Gomez is a player that you’re not even going to recognize,” said Wilhoit. “[Alexis] Love, Mackenzie Kerins – these girls have developed. They are playing so much better than where they were.” As a freshman, Ramirez started all but one of the team’s 29 games last season, while posting averages of 8.6 points and 2.2 assists per game in nearly 30 minutes a night. With one year of experience at the helm, she is expected to continue leading the team. Hazel is that type of player [who can fill the No. 2 option on offense] and is becoming the type of player that shows why you recruited her in the first place, because you can project and you know with development where you’re going to be,” said Wilhoit. “Playing a lot of minutes helped me understand the game better and in terms of experience it taught me a lot too,” said Ramirez. Once again, the team brings in a large crop of freshmen, as this year’s class adds five newcomers to the roster with forwards Ashley Lovett and Emily Ben-Jumbo and guards Danielle Pruitt, Taylor Anderson and Taylor Sansbury. “I’m going to expect them to play and contribute,” Wilhoit said of the team’s freshmen.
“We don’t bring freshmen in here to redshirt. … My philosophy is the best way to learn is to play. They are practicing right now, three to four hours a day. … I think they are talented enough. I’m very excited about them.” In the team’s exhibition game against California Lutheran University on Sunday, Nov. 6, Lovett posted a near double double with nine points and 13 rebounds while Pruitt chipped in 11 points and Ben-Jumbo pulled down eight boards of her own. For the second consecutive year, the amount of seniors on the Lions’ roster is minimal, as guards Candice Nichols and Courtney Collishaw are the team’s only two players set to graduate in 2012. Although a torn ACL suffered in the 21st game of last season has Nichols sidelined indefinitely, the team will surely receive a boost of momentum when her 2011 averages of 14.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game return to the court. “Candice is one of the best athletes and defensive players that [the WCC] has ever seen,” said Wilhoit in a preseason interview. “To not have her out there is unfortunate for her and unfortunate for our team, but we have progressed without her. So, getting h e r i s just a big shot i n t h e arm … it’s just a huge boost.” Although she recently underwent her fourth surgery – which is not expected to impede her recovery – since the injury occurred on Feb. 3, Nichols has been working extremely hard to rehab her knee and get back on the court. She is expected to return by the time the team starts its WCC schedule on Dec. 29. “She’s gone through a
lot to be able to represent this school, to play for this school and to finish her senior year. I have never seen someone sacrifice what she’s had to sacrifice,” said Wilhoit.
Collishaw enters her second year with the Lions, having transferred from UC Santa Barbara following the 2008-09 season. She averaged 5.7 points per game and led the Lions in three-point shooting percentage (30.8 percent) last year as a part-time starter while playing in all of the Lions’ 29 games. Aside from Cowling, the Lions’ trio of juniors is comprised of guard Monica DeAngelis and former Washington State guard Dani LeNoir (both redshirts). LeNoir is in her first year with LMU after sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer regulations. “I think she brings experience,” said Wilhoit. “I think she is a tenacious defender. I think she and Hazel [Ramirez] will share the point guard spot, and I think they will play together too. … She’s mature, she’s smart, she understands the game, she gets it. She can shoot. I want my point guards to score. … She’s very dynamic on the court.” The Lions begin their official schedule tomorrow when they travel to Denver, Colo. to take on the University of Denver at 6 p.m. PST. “This [season] is a marathon, it’s not a sprint,” said Wilhoit. “The type of goals this team has set forth are about running that marathon race with great stride, great confidence and continuing to grow together. I’m doing everything I can as their leader and as their head coach to put them in a position to accomplish their goals. It is one day, one game at a time. It is this moment.” Women’s basketball Head Coach Julie Wilhoit (top) and redshirt senior guard Courtney Collishaw (bottom). Photos: Devin Sixt | Loyolan and Scott Cunningham | LMU Athletics.
Another season of LMU basketball is about to begin.Will 2011-12 be worth remembering?
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here is no eraser or Wite-Out product to eliminate what happened to LMU men and women’s basketball last year. Players were injured, a lot of games were lost and the players’ minds and bodies were brought to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion. The Lions’ only focus should be on what is happening right now, not what happened last year or this past summer, but The focus should be on what each team’s players are going to do to ensure that Two Plus the Foul there is no sequel, By Michael Goldsholl prequel or awful Tim Burton remake of the Asst.Managing Editor | 2010-11 LMU basketSports Editor ball seasons. Obviously, a conference championship is the goal for any team heading into a new season. No coach on any level enters a new season thinking, “Let’s shoot for second place this year,” or “Let’s pray we don’t come in last again.” Regardless of how poorly a team performed the previous year, week or day, its sole focus should always be, “How can we do better right now?” In all honesty, to simply “do better,” the Lions just have to show up and hope that nobody gets hurt. On paper, the Lions looked great. Both teams had solid talent across the board and whether or not you believe they were hard-working teams, that just wasn’t enough. Any successful team needs a little luck, and the Lions seemed as if they had broken countless mirrors, stepped on every crack in Alumni Mall and ran under construction ladders while holding opened umbrellas during every pregame introduction. Hoops is the “cool” sport at LMU. Every player on either team is pretty recognizable and as a result, they are defaulted as the – redundancy aside – “cool” athletes on campus. Win or lose, every one on the bluff knows that on any given night, a men’s basketball game is going to rake in more fans than some sports might in a year. With that being said, 2011-12 needs to redefine what it means to be a “cool” basketball player at LMU. To me, winning is cool. And what are the components of a winning team? Playing 40 minutes of hard-nosed defense, knocking down free throws at a high percentage, refusing to settle for low-percentage shots – the list goes on and on. That list might be comparable to the more difficult, tiring aspects of the sport, but that’s what creates competition. If every Division I team could half-ass its way through a college basketball season, why would it be exciting? But when it comes down to it, teams that execute, work hard and find a few drops of luck are the bare necessities to doing so. Over the course of the season, there is a multitude of things that can go perfectly or absolutely haywire. But bringing in an oldfashioned mentality from the get-go will set the tone for the rest of the season. After every student’s freshman year at LMU, the mentality going into the basketball season seems to be cautious optimism. The teams look great on paper, the new players are playing great and after nearly eight months away from the sport, everyone has hopefully forgotten about what happened the year before. Echoing the near played-out (but still relevant) catch phrase of 2011, #winning is what this year is all about. So, let’s hope to see exactly that. With backs against the wall, both teams have been working insanely hard to avoid a repeat of last year. There’s only so many times Lucy can pull the football away from Charlie Brown before he falls on his back enough times to realize he’s never going to be able to kick it. So, LMU basketball, let’s make 2011-12 memorable and not one that both teams or their fans will be hoping to forget when 2012-13 rolls around. This is the opinion of Michael Goldsholl.Please send comments to mgoldsholl@theloyolan.com.
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Men’s Schedule 7 :30 p.m. 3 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:05 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 12 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 5 p.m. 7:30 p.m. TBA 7 p.m. 8 p.m. TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
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@UCLA (L.A. Sports Arena) 11/11/2011 vs. Middle Tennessee State 11/13/2011 vs. Harvard University 11/19/2011 @ Idaho State University 11/23/2011 vs. Northern Arizona University 11/26/2011 @ St. Louis University 11/29/2011 vs. Columbia University** 12/02/2011 vs. La Sierra University** 12/03/2011 vs. University of North Texas** 12/04/2011 vs. Idaho State University 12/10/2011 @ Florida State University 12/18/2011 @ Morgan State University 12/21/2010 vs.Vanguard University 12/27/2010 @ University of San Francisco* 12/31/2011 vs. Brigham Young University* 1/05/2012 @ University of San Diego* 1/07/2012 @ Pepperdine University* 1/12/2012 vs. Gonzaga University* 1/14/2012 @ Brigham Young University* 1/19/2012 @ Santa Clara University* 1/23/2012 vs. St. Mary’s College* 1/26/2012 vs. University of Portland* 1/28/2012 vs. Pepperdine University* 2/02/2012 vs. University of San Francisco* 2/04/2012 @ University of Portland* 2/09/2012 @ Gonzaga University* 2/11/2012 @ St. Mary’s College* 2/15/2012 Bracket Buster Game 2/18/2012 vs. University of San Diego* 2/23/2012 vs. Santa Clara University* 2/25/2012 WCC Play-in Game 2/29/2012 WCC Championships - First Round 3/01/2012 WCC Championships - Quarterfinals 3/02/2012 WCC Championships - Semifinals 3/03/2012 WCC Championship Game 3/05/2012 * Indicates Conference Matchup ** Indicates Tournament Game
Hazel Ramirez
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Sophomore Guard
BASKETBALL NEVER STOPS.
Drew Viney
REDSHIRT SENIOR FORWARD
6 p.m. 7 p.m.
2 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. TBA
6 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m.
2 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m. TBA
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7 p.m. 2 p.m. TBA TBA TBA
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2 p.m. 7 p.m. TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
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1/05/2012 1/07/2012 1/12/2012 1/19/2012 1/21/2012 1/26/2012 1/28/2012 2/02/2012 2/06/2012 2/09/2012 2/11/2012 2/16/2012 2/18/2012 2/23/2012 2/29/2012 3/01/2012 3/02/2012 3/03/2012 3/05/2012
11/11/2010 11/14/2010 11/19/2010 11/21/2010 11/25/2010 11/26/2010 12/01/2010 12/04/2010 12/08/2010 12/10/2010 12/17/2010 12/19/2010 12/29/2010 12/31/2011
Women’s Schedule
@ University of Denver vs. CSU Northridge
@ UC Santa Barbara @ CSU Fullerton vs.Youngstown State University**
Consolation/Championship Game** @ University of New Mexico vs. UCLA vs. Sacramento State University vs. Portland State University
vs. University of Texas at El Paso vs. Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo vs. St. Mary’s College*
vs. University of San Francisco* @ Brigham Young University* vs. Gonzaga University*
@ University of San Diego* vs. Brigham Young University* vs. Santa Clara University* @ Gonzaga University* @ University of Portland*
@ University of San Francisco* vs. Pepperdine University* @ Santa Clara University* vs. University of Portland*
vs. University of San Diego* @ St. Mary’s College* @ Pepperdine University* WCC Play in Game*
WCC Championships - Second Round WCC Championships - Quarterfinals WCC Championships - Semifinals WCC Championship - Game
** Indicates Tournament Game
* Indicates Conference Matchup