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Table of Contents • Quick Facts • Credits 2009-10 Demon Basketball Media Guide Editors: Matthew Bonnette, Assoc. SID Doug Ireland, SID Layout and Design: Matthew Bonnette, Assoc. SID Editorial Assistance: Mark Slessinger, Asst. Coach Ronnie Pellegrin, SID Admin. Asst. Matt English, SID Student Asst. Fletcher Jonson, SID Student Asst. Demon basketball players Photography: Gary Hardamon, NSU Photographic Services Doug Daniels Jermaine Wallace photo
Hodges Photography “Coach Mike” thoroughbred photo
Printing: MultiAd Media Peoria, Illinois
2009-10 Demon Basketball
The University
Championship Basketball with a Purpose . . . .1 This is Northwestern State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Campus Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Academics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 CHAMPS/Life Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Sports Information • Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Name: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Northwestern State University Call Us: . .Northwestern (La.) State, Northwestern State, NSU, Northwestern, or even, if you must, Northwestern Louisiana Founded: . . . . . . . . . .1884, as Louisiana Normal School Location: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Natchitoches, LA President: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Randall J. Webb Vice President, External Affairs: . . . . . . . .Jerry Pierce Enrollment: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,247 (Fall 2009) Affiliation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NCAA Division I Conference: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Southland Director of Athletics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greg Burke Assistant AD/External Relations: Dr. William Broussard Ticket Manager: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adam Jonson Assistant Marking Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alex Cook Academic Advisor/SWA: . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jodie Heinicka Assistant Academic Advisor: . . . . . . . . .Carrie Crowell Faculty Athletic Rep: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jody Biscoe Facility Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alan Pasch Event Manager: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lauren Castle
THE DEMONS 2009-10 Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 2009-10 Season Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0 Radio & Television Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 Aramie Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 3 Charles Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 4 John Conine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 5 James Hulbin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 6 Damon Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 7 Dominic Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 8 Logan McConathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 9 Michael McConathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 0 William Mosley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 1 Dwayne Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 2 Devon Baker • Shamir Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 3 Cory Dixon • O.J. Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 4 Will Pratt • George Ceniceros . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 5 DEMON COACHES & FAMILY Head Coach Mike McConathy . . . . . . . . . . . .2 6 Assistant Coach Mark Slessinger . . . . . . . . . .3 2 Assistant Coach Jeff Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 3 Assistant Coach Luke Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 4 David Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 4 Stephen Tjaden • Patrick Self . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 5 Rickey Doyle • Rodney Kirschner . . . . . . . . .3 6 Jacob Spielbauer • Colene Bonnette . . . . . . .3 7 NSU Sports Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 8 NSU Team Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 9 President Dr. Randy Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 0 Vice President Jerry Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1 Director of Athletics Greg Burke . . . . . . . . . .4 2 Athletic Administrative Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 3
In Tribute: The 2008-09 Demon Basketball Media Guide is a tribute to the rich tradition of basketball on campus, nearing its centennial in 2012-13. Coach Mike McConathy, fully aware from his childhood of the great tradition of Demon basketball, celebrates the past by displaying the names of each basketball letterwinner on the "Builders of Tradition" wall in the team's locker room. Many other programs sell nametags on lockers, but McConathy's belief is that those players paid their dues in full during their careers, and they will be honored for those contributions, not because many of them do in fact provide financial support as well as encouragement to the modern-day Demons.
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WHO WE PLAY Series History & Notes on 09-10 Opponents . . .4 5 2009-10 Opponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 6 The Southland Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 7 THE DEMON RECORD BOOK Individual Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 8 Team Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 9 All-Time Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 0 All-Time Lettermen • Builders of Tradition . . .5 2 Year by Year Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4 Website Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 9 Demons in the NCAA Tournament . . . . . . . . .6 0 2009-10 Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 2 Prather Coliseum Records • Hall of Fame . . . .6 3 All-Americans • All-Conference • Pro Players .6 4 Championship Coaching Connection . . . . . .6 5 Pontiac Game Changing Performance Award . .6 6 Demon 10-Year Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 8
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The Demons Nickname: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Demons Colors: . . . . . . . . . . .Purple and White with Orange Trim Home Court: . . . . . . . . . . . . .Prather Coliseum (3,600) Press Row Telephone: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(318) 357-4544 2008-09 Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-20 SLC Record/Finis: . . . . . . . . . .3-13/ T-5th East Division Postseason: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .None Starters Returning/Lost: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/2 Lettermen Returning/Lost: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9/5 Newcomers: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
The Staff Head Coach: . . . . . . .Mike McConathy (La. Tech, 1977) Record/Years: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .508-314 in (26 years) Record at Northwestern: . . . . . . . . .156-155 (10 years) Assistant Coaches: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Slessinger (Aurora University, 1996) Jeff Moore (Missouri Valley College, 1995) Luke Rogers (Northwestern State, 2009 Basketball Office Assistant: . . . . . . . .Colene Bonnette Basketball Office Phone: . . . . . . . . . . . .(318) 357-4274 Best Time to Reach Coach Mike: . . . . . . . . . .mornings DEMON
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Natchitoches radio station KZBL-FM 100.7 will be the flagship station for all Demon and Lady Demon sports and the Demon Sports Network. Baldridge-Dumas Communications operates 100.7 FM. The network also consists of affiliates in Shreveport (92.1 KSYR FM), Alexandria (104.3 KEZP FM), Many (99.9 KTEZ FM), and Winnfield (92.1 KVCL FM). All games will also be streamed on the internet at www.nsudemons.com. The Demon Sports Network features Patrick Netherton as the play-by-play announcer.
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The oldest institution in the University of Louisiana System, Northwestern State University has a long tradition of academic excellence in a student-centered environment. Founded in 1884 as the State Normal School, Northwestern was originally dedicated to the education of teachers. Northwestern gradually added programs in nursing, business, liberal arts, the sciences and graduate programs. Today, NSU offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Northwestern has nationally-recognized programs in computer information systems, creative and performing arts, nursing, educational technology and industrial technology. The university has put an emphasis on incorporating technology in the classroom, working to provide students with cuttingedge technology that is applicable to the workplace. Northwestern is also home to the Louisiana Scholars' College, the state's designated honors program in the arts and sciences. The university is also preparing for changes in higher education by aggressively seeking new ways to deliver to courses to students. Northwestern has taken a leadership role in electronic delivery of classes as students are taking classes via the Internet, compressed video or desktop video. Eighteen degree programs are available completely online. Enrollment at Northwestern is more than 9,000 students. The university has more than 70,000 alumni in all 50 states and 12 countries. Students come primarily from Louisiana. Located in Natchitoches, the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, the university and community value history. Part of the university is entered in the National Register of Historic Places. The university is home to the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service dedicated to promoting and enhancing the preservation and conservation of prehistoric and historic resources in the United States. Northwestern seeks to provide a well-rounded education for its students, allowing them to take part in a variety of extracurricular activities. More than 100 chartered organizations are available to enhance what is learned in the classroom.
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Sports Information • Media
They cover the Lady Demons: primary media outlets
Sports Information Director In charge of athletic media relations at his alma mater since January of 1989, Doug Ireland coordinates publicity efforts for Northwestern's 14 intercollegiate sports teams through local, regional and national media outlets in print, broadcast, television and the internet. He also serves in the volunteer role of chariman of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, that was once housed in Prather Coliseum at NSU. Ireland assumed that post in April 1991. In 1981-82, while an undergraduate at Northwestern, Ireland worked as chief of the Shreveport Times Natchitoches Bureau, coordinating news coverage of an eight-parish region along the Red River. From 1982-85, he was assistant SID at Southwestern Louisiana, working with a men's basketball program that made three straight postseason tournament appearances. He won CoSIDA publications and writing awards while at USL. Ireland was the sports editor of the Natchitoches Times in 1985-86 and attended graduate school at Northeast Louisiana before joining the Alexandria Town Talk sports staff in 1987. In 18 months at the Town Talk, he covered both NSU and LSU sports and won 15 writing awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers' Association. In 2001, the LSWA presented its prestigious Mac Russo Award to Ireland for his contributions to the organization. In 1999, Ireland was awarded honorary membership in the Graduate N Club at NSU by the university's group of athletic lettermen for his service to Northwestern and its athletic program, and in 2003 he was given full membership. He was appointed by President Dr. Randall Webb to serve a two-year term on the inaugural University Planning Council in 1997-99.
Associate Sports Information Director Matthew Bonnette is beginning his seventh season as a member of the NSU SID staff. Bonnette joined the staff in August 2003 after spending a year as sports information director at Henderson State (Ark.) and for former NSU legendary coach Sam Goodwin. Bonnette surpervises all layouts and design work for all media guides and game programs and is the primary media contact for the NSU baseball, women’s basketball and volleyball teams. A 2002 graduate of McNeese State University, Bonnette is no stranger to the SID field as he is the son of longtime McNeese SID Louis Bonnette, who was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame and is also a member of the Southland Conference Hall of Honor, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the McNeese State Athletic Hall of Fame. Matthew's older brother, Michael, is the sports information director at LSU. While at McNeese, Bonnette served two years as the sports editor of the school’s newspaper. He also worked as both a volunteer and student sports information director while being employed at KPLC-TV as the commercial production manager where he won several advertising awards for his work. He is a member of CoSIDA, Louisiana Sports Writers Association, NCBWA and USBWA. His 2008 football (3rd place) and 2009 soccer (3rd place) media guides, as well as his women’s basketball notes (2nd place) for the Southland Conference tournament, were recently awarded by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. He has won six awards by the LSWA in his career. He is married to the former Colene Lanier of Lake Charles and the couple has two daughters, 9-year-old Haley and Katelyn, 6. Colene is the Northwestern State men’s basketball and women’s soccer administrative assistant.
Daily Newspapers -Randy Benson, Sports, Alexandria Daily Town Talk, P.O. Box 7558, Alexandria, LA 71306 (318-487-6351, fax 487-6315) - Scott Ferrell, Kelly Morris, Sports, The Times, P.O. Box 30222, Shreveport, LA 71130 (318-459-3296, 800-462-6436, fax 459-3301) - Butch Muir, Sports, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821 (225-383-1111, fax 388-0371) - Jerry Byrd, Sports, Bossier Press Tribune, P.O. Box 6267, Bossier City, LA 71171 (318-352-3618, fax 747-5298) - Sports Editor, Leesville, Daily Leader, P.O. Box 619, Leesville, LA 71446 (318-239-3444, fax 318-238-1552) - Sports, New Orleans Times Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70140 (504-826-3405, fax 826-3401) - Chris Airhart, Natchitoches Times, 904 Hwy. 1 South, Natchitoches, LA 71457 (337-352-3618, fax 352-7842) Non-Daily Newspapers - NSU Current Sauce, Kyser Hall, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-5456, fax 357-6564) Television Stations - Mark Hamblen, Sharief Ishaq, KALB-TV, 605 Washington St., Alexandria, LA 71306 (318-483-4226; fax 442-7427) - Mike Dirmann, KSLA-TV, 1812 Fairfield Ave., Shreveport, LA 71104 (318-677-6709, fax 677-6705) - Brandon Dunn, Gavin Moberg, KTAL-TV, 3150 N. Market St., Shreveport, LA 71107 (318-629-7134, 7133, fax 318-629-7171) - Tim Fletcher, Leslie Spoon, KTBS-TV, 312 E. Kings Hwy., Shreveport LA 71104 (318-861-5838, fax 318-862-9431) - David Antilley II, NSU-22, 104A Kyser Hall, P.O. Box 5273, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-4417) Campus Radio Station - KNWD, 109 Kyser Hall, P.O. Box 5273, Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318-357-5693) Wire Service - Bret Martel, Associated Press, 1001 Howard Ave. Suite 200A, New Orleans, LA 70113 (800-662-7717, 504-523-3931, fax 586-0531) Conference/NCAA Offices - Todd Lamb, Southland Conference, 2600 Network Blvd., Suite 150, Frisco, TX 75034 (972-422-9500, fax 422-9225) - Jim Wright, NCAA Statistics, P.O. Box 6222, Indianapolis, IN 46206 (317-917-6222, fax 917-6888) National Outlets - USA Today, 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22107 (703-276-3400) - Sports Illustrated, Time/Life Building, New York, NY 10020 (212-522-5782, 212-9774540/4541) - Sporting News, Box 56, St. Louis, MO 63166 (800-433-1886, 314-993-7111) - CBS Sports, 51 W52nd St., 30th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (212-975-5162/3559) - ABC Sports, 1330 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 (212-456-7777) - ESPN, ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010 (203-585-2154/2125, 800-843-6416) - CNN, One CNN Plaza, 100 International Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30348 (404-822-1588) - SportsTicker, Harborside Financial Center, 600 Plaza Two, New Jersey City, NJ 07311 (800367-8935)
SID Student Assistant/Statistician
SID Graduate Assistant/Statistician Fletcher Jonson is beginning his fifth season as a member of the SID staff and first as a graduate assistant. He’ll take on the duties as the Lady Demon soccer SID this season and will be the liaison for all media. Jonson received his bachelor’s degree this past May in journalism and is working towards a master’s degree in sport administration. As a member of the SID department, Jonson has helped out with statistics for volleyball, soccer, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and football games. He’s also the public address announcer for all home baseball games and has volunteered his time in the operation of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. The son of Bill and Leigh Jonson, Fletch’s older brother, Adam, is NSU’s assistant marketing director in charge of ticket operations.
Matthew English is beginning his third year as a part of the NSU Sports Information Staff, holding duties during basketball, football, soccer, and softball events. He begins his second season as the softball student assistant and will handle all in-game statistics. He also serves as the official statistician for all Lady Demon home softball and soccer games as well as Demon football and basketball games. In the summer of 2008, he was awarded the Ace Higgins Award at the annual Louisiana Sports Writers Association convention. The Ace Higgins Award is named in memory of a former LSU sports information director and has been awarded since the early 1980s by the LSWA. English received a $600 scholarship stipend from the LSWA. The Glenmora native is a Psychology major with a concentration in substance abuse. He plans to attend graduate school after completion of his bachelor’s degree. English is the only child of Malcolm and Laurel English and hopes to become a Christian counselor.
GAMEDAY STAT CREW
Hunter Bower Student SID
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Matthew Fowler Student SID
Chip Rachal Student SID
Ronnette Pellegrin SID Admin. Asst.
Dr. Charles Pellegrin Statistician
David Antilley Statistician
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Patrick Korn Statistician
Coach Black
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2009-10 Demon Roster
Numerical Roster No. 0 1 2 4 5 12 11 14 15 24 25 33 34 35 40 42
Player Shamir Davis Dominic Knight Aramie Brooks John Conine Logan McConathy Dwayne Watkins Devon Baker Michael McConathy Will Pratt Damon Jones George Ceniceros James Hulbin Charles Clark O.J. Evans Cory Dixon William Mosley
Pos. G G C C G G G G F G G F G/F C F C
Ht. 6-0 6-3 6-8 6-6 6-0 6-2 6-1 5-9 6-5 6-4 6-2 6-8 6-5 6-10 6-7 6-7
No. 11 2 25 34 4 0 40 35 33 24 1 5 14 42 15 12
Player Devon Baker Aramie Brooks George Ceniceros Charles Clark John Conine Shamir Davis Cory Dixon O.J. Evans James Hulbin Damon Jones Dominic Knight Logan McConathy Michael McConathy William Mosley Will Pratt Dwayne Watkins
Pos. G C G G/F C G F C F G G G G C F G
Ht. 6-1 6-8 6-2 6-5 6-6 6-0 6-7 6-10 6-8 6-4 6-3 6-0 5-9 6-7 6-5 6-2
Wt. Cl.-Exp. Hometown/School 180 Fr.-HS Shreveport, La./Huntington HS 212 Jr..-2L Alexandria, La./Bolton HS 219 Sr.-1L Earle, Ark./UA-Fort Smith CC/Earle HS 225 Jr.-1L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 170 Jr.-2L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 192 So.-1L Tickfaw, La./Independence HS 185 Jr.-TR Bronx, N.Y./Howard College/Columbus HS 160 Sr.-3L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 224 Jr.-TR Harlem, N.Y./Western Oklahoma State 195 Sr.-3L Winnfield, La./Winnfield HS 191 Sr.-TR McKinney, Tex./Ranger College/McKinney HS 235 Fr.-RS Shreveport, La./Booker T. Washington HS 215 So.-1L Alexandria, La./Tioga HS 225 Fr.-HS Mansfield, La./Huntington HS 200 Fr.-HS Argyle, Tex./Argyle HS 220 So.-1L Shreveport, La./Huntington HS
Alphabetical Roster Wt. Cl.-Exp. Hometown/School 185 Jr.-TR Bronx, N.Y./Howard College/Columbus HS 219 Sr.-1L Earle, Ark./UA-Fort Smith CC/Earle HS 191 Sr.-TR McKinney, Tex./Ranger College/McKinney HS 215 So.-1L Alexandria, La./Tioga HS 225 Jr.-1L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 180 Fr.-HS Shreveport, La./Huntington HS 200 Fr.-HS Argyle, Tex./Argyle HS 225 Fr.-HS Mansfield, La./Huntington HS 235 Fr.-RS Shreveport, La./Booker T. Washington HS 195 Sr.-3L Winnfield, La./Winnfield HS 212 Jr..-2L Alexandria, La./Bolton HS 170 Jr.-2L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 160 Sr.-3L Natchitoches, La./St. Mary’s HS 220 So.-1L Shreveport, La./Huntington HS 224 Jr.-TR Harlem, N.Y./Western Oklahoma State 192 So.-1L Tickfaw, La./Independence HS
Head Coach: Mike McConathy Assistant Coaches: Mark Slessinger, Jeff Moore, Luke Rogers Graduate Managers: David A. Sanders, Stephen Tjaden Student Manager: Rickey Doyle Director of Basketball Operations: Patrick Self Director of Video Operations: Rodney Kirschner Administrative Assistant: Jacob Speilbauer Athletic Trainer: Ed Evans Office Assistant: Colene Bonnette “Great Tradition, Brighter Future�
Devon Baker DA-von Aramie Brooks AIR-uh-me John Conine CO-nine Shamir Davis HUH -meer Damon Jones Da-MONN McConathy Mu-CONN-uh-thee Natchitoches NACK-uh-dish Tioga TIE-oh-ga Stephen Tjaden JAY-den Speilbauer SPEEL-bow-er Ceniceros SIN-nuh-ceros
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2009-10 Season Outlook It was one thing for Northwestern State not to extend a record-tying streak of four straight Southland Conference Tournament championship games last season. It was quite another for the Demons not even to qualify for the eight-team tourney field. But for the first time in coach Mike McConathy's tenure as the Demons' coach, depth was an issue, not an attribute. Injuries and disciplinary action took away three of NSU's most explosive players. None return this season. Toughness and togetherness were attributes McConathy wanted in his 2009-10 team. With the bonding of returning players and the addition of two junior college transfers, he believes the Demons are well positioned to return to their customary competitive stature in the SLC. “We couldn't play the way we wanted to last year,” said McConathy. “We've got our kind of guys throughout the roster now and we'll get back to our style of play.” Providing a big lift to the program is the addition of two New York City natives, guard Devon Baker and forward Will Pratt, both from the junior college ranks. "Their ability to produce on the basketball court will give us a significant lift, but their maturity, leadership, toughness and the fact they both come from very successful programs makes their additions very important," said McConathy. "Both are very committed academically and have fit right into our program with that approach." Northwestern players filled three of the 10 spots on the 2009 Academic All-Southland Conference Team. Baker, a 6-1, 175-pound guard at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, Senior guard Michael McConathy averaged 12.5 10
Senior guard Damon Jones
points per game and was first-team All-Western Junior College Athletic Conference playing both point and shooting guard. Pratt, a 6-5, 220-pound forward at Western Oklahoma State College, topped his team in scoring as a freshman (14 points per game) and averaged 10.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and shot 52 percent from the field as a sophomore. He helped Western go 25-5 with a No. 15 national ranking in the NJCAA Top 25. Pratt was second-team All-Bi-State West as a freshman and graduated with a 3.3 grade point average. They blend with veteran standouts William Mosley (6-7 sophomore center), Damon Jones (6-4 senior guard) and Michael McConathy (5-9 senior guard) as the likely team leaders. Also in the mix are two-year lettermen Dominic Knight (6-3 junior guard) and Logan McConathy (6-0 junior
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2009-10 Season Outlook category) and led all league freshmen in six (rebounding, offensive rebounding, defensive rebounding, blocks, steals and field goal percentage). His 8.5 rebounding average was fourth nationally among freshmen, and third overall in the Southland. Mosley's 2.5 blocked shots per game was second nationally among freshmen, second overall in the SLC. His 67.5 percent field goal aim led the nation's frosh and was seventh overall (according to www.basketballstate.com) and his 1.3 steals average was 28th nationally, tops among SLC freshmen. Jones topped NSU with a 12.2 scoring average that included a 36-point outburst, the best for a Demon in 14 years. Overall last season, he hit 36 percent on 3-pointers, draining 55, and dropped in 89 percent of his free throws. Michael McConathy, an Academic All-America candidate who graduated last spring with a 3.6 GPA, had his best season last year with averages of 8.0 points, 4.0 assists and 1.6 steals. He was fifth in the SLC in assists, second in free throw percentage and eighth in steals -- leading NSU in a statistic in which it ranked 20th nationally. McConathy can become a four-year Academic All-Southland selection.
Sophomore center William Mosley
guard), and three more letterwinners: 6-8 forward Aramie Brooks, 6-5 swingman Charles Clark and 6-6 forward John Conine. Freshmen are explosive Louisiana All-Stater Shamir Davis, a 6-0 point guard; 6-8 forward James Hulbin, a medical redshirt last season; and frontcourters O.J. Evans (6-10) and Cory Dixon (6-7). Last year, Mosley was the most statistically dominant freshman in the Southland, and ranked highly among freshmen nationally. He was in the SLC's top five of four different stats (no other SLC rookie ranked so highly in more than one “Great Tradition, Brighter Future�
Newcomers Devon Baker and Will Pratt
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NSU Radio & Television Chart
0 - Shamir Davis G • 6-0 • 180 • Fr.-HS
1 - Dominic Knight G • 6-3 • 212 • Jr.-2L
2 - Aramie Brooks C • 6-8 • 219 • Sr.-1L
12 - Dwayne Watkins G • 6-2 • 192 • So-1L
14 - Michael McConathy
G • 5-9 • 160 • Sr.-3L
15 - Will Pratt F • 6-5 • 224 • Jr.-TR
24 - Damon Jones 25 - George Ceniceros 33 - James Hulbin G • 6-4 • 195 • Sr.-3L G • 6-2 • 191 • Sr.-TR F • 6-8 • 235 • Fr.-RS
35 - O.J. Evans C • 6-10 • 225 • Fr.-HS
40 - Cory Dixon F • 6-7 • 200 • Fr.-HS
42 - William Mosley C • 6-7 • 220 • So.-1L
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G/F • 6-5 • 215 • So.-1L
Mike McConathy Head Coach
Mark Slessinger Assistant Coach
Jeff Moore Assistant Coach
Luke Rogers Assistant Coach
David A. Sanders Graduate Manager
Stephen Tjaden Graduate Manager
Rickey Doyle Student Manager
Patrick Self
Rodney Kirschner
Jacob Speilbauer
Dir. of Basketball Operations
Dir. of Video Operations
Administrative Assistant
Ed Evans Head Athletic Trainer
Colene Bonnette Office Assistant
34 - Charles Clark
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4 - John Conine C • 6-6 • 225 • Jr.-1L
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5 - Logan McConathy G • 6-0 • 170 • Jr.-2L
11 - Devon Baker G • 6-1 • 185 • Jr.-TR
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Demon Player Profiles
Aramie
brooks
Center • Sr.-3L • 6-8 • 219 • 80” Wingspan Earle, Ark. • Earle HS • Arkansas-Fort Smith CC In 2008-09 • while averaging 10 minutes pg in 29 appearances, he scored 3.7 ppg • season-high 10 points on 12/22 in win over Southern-New Orleans • 7 points, 3 rebounds against Miami (Ohio) in one-point loss on 12/30 • best overall game probably 9-point, 7-rebound performance 2/18 vs. McNeese • also a strong outing with 8 points, 4 blocks, 4-7 aim and 5 rebounds in 3/7 season finale vs. Southeastern La.
BEFORE NSU • played for nationally-ranked UA-Fort Smith CC Lions and coach Josh Newman • UA-Fort Smith went 28-4 in his sophomore year and had six players sign Division I scholarships • hit 54% on FGs while averaging 5 points and 4 rebounds as a sophomore • Lions reached as high as No. 4 in the NJCAA Division I Top 20 last year while winning the Bi-State Conference East Division title and reaching the semifinals of the NCJAA Region II tournament • also recruited by Tennessee Tech, Oral Roberts, Western Illinois and Texas-San Antonio, according to his coach, Josh Newman • played in the Arkansas High School All-Star Game after his senior season at Earle • averaged 22 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks as a senior at Earle HS, earning regional MVP honors and All-County recognition PERSONAL • Born 9/4/87 • son of Josephine Brooks, one of five brothers and sisters • nickname is “A.B.” • business major who graduated from UA-Fort Smith CC
WHO IS ARAMIE BROOKS? Full name: Aramie Brooks Age, Birthday: 22, born Sept. 4, 1987 Parents: Josephine Brooks and Darryl Driffin Major: Business Nicknames: “A.B.” BROOKS’ YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2008-09
G-GS Pts-Avg 29-0 106-3.7
Reb-Avg FG-A (PCT) 3FG-A (Pct.) FT-A (PCT.) 75-2.6 43-104 (.413) 0-0 (.000) 20-44 (.455)
A 11
TO 21
BS ST PF-DQ Min-Avg 10 16 31-0 291-10.0
BROOKS’ CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southern-New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 22, 2008 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. McNeese State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 18, 2009 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southern-New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 22, 2008 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .five times (last at Texas State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 28, 2009 Blocked shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southeastern Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 7, 2009 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southern-New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 22, 2008 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Oklahoma State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 3, 2009
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Guard/Forward • So.-1L • 6-5 • 215 • 79” Wingspan Alexandria, La. • Tioga HS In 2008-09 • began to flash ability in league play, with two 10-point outings, 1/14 vs. Southeastern Louisiana and 2/28 at Texas State • added season-high 7 rebounds at SLU, hitting 1-2 on 3s but only 3-9 on FTs • 5 rebounds in 2/28 game at Texas State, 3 on offensive end • led team in steals four times • earned 5 starts in his 31 games • struggled on free throws except with 4-4 outing at Central Arkansas BEFORE NSU • 19.9 points per game, 9 rebounds pg for a 29-8 team that set school record for most wins in a season under coach Alan Tinsley • Honorable mention All-State, first-team All-Cenla, first-team All-District, team's MVP as a senior in 2006-07 • Tioga was ranked as high as No. 5 in the state and reached the regional playoffs • Second-team All-State, first-team All-Cenla, first-team All-District and Tioga's MVP as a junior when he averaged 17 points, 7 rebounds for a 23-10 playoff team • All-District honorable mention as a sophomore when he averaged 12 points and 5 rebounds for a 20-10 team PERSONAL • full name is Charles Edward Clark • born 9/28/89 • son of Charles and Christina Clark • has 5 brothers and sisters: Jasmine, Paul, Demetrius, Santana and Aaliyah Moore • business administration major • nickname is “C Deuce” WHO IS CHARLES CLARK? Full name: Charles Edward Clark Parents: Charles and Christina Clark Nicknames: “C Deuce”
Age, Birthday: 20, born Sept. 28, 1989 Major: Business Administration Siblings: Jasmine, Paul, Demetrius, Santana, Aaliyah Moore
CLARK’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2008-09
G-GS Pts-Avg 31-5 117-3.8
Reb-Avg FG-A (PCT) 72-2.3 42-87 (.483)
3FG-A (Pct.) FT-A (PCT.) 5-17 (.294) 28-67 (.418)
A TO 16 30
BS ST PF-DQ Min-Avg 6 11 26-0 357-11.5
CLARK’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Texas State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 28, 2009 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Southeastern Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 14, 2009 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .three times (last at Lamar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 21, 2009 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Southeastern Louisiana) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 14, 2009 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .three times (last at Sam Houston State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 4, 2009 3FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .five times(last at Sam Houston State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 4, 2009 FT Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 14, 2009 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Oklahoma State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 3, 2009
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conine Center • Jr.-1L • 6-6 • 225 • 77” Wingspan Natchitoches, La. • St. Mary’s HS
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In 2008-09 • saw action in 9 games, 6 in conference play • played 10 minutes, 1.1 minutes pg • got a rebound in a first-half outing in 69-66 win over Centenary • did not score IN 2007-08 • played in two varsity games, getting his debut in a minute at LSU, then playing 13 minutes at Arkansas, missing two shots, both 3pointers, and blocking a shot, making a steal and turning it over once while drawing three fouls BEFORE NSU • teammate of both Michael and Logan McConathy on state playoff teams at St. Mary's HS • among his assistant coaches at SMHS were former Demons Kerwin Forges and Stephen Burch • graduated with 3.5 grade point average after serving on Mayor's Youth Council PERSONAL • full name is John Clifton Conine Jr. • nickname is “J-Co” • born 2/18/89 • son of Cliff and Frances Conine, longtime NSU season ticket holders and both alumni • mother is Director of Student Services at the university, father is an attorney • one brother, Joe • jokingly listed his father being “in the circus” on notable family achievements, but lists his ambition to be a lawyer like his dad • honor student in business administration with a 3.7 g.p.a. as a freshman
WHO IS JOHN CONINE? Full name: John Clifton Conine Jr. Parents: Cliff and Frances Conine Nickname: “J-Co”
Age, Birthday: 20, born Feb. 18, 1989 Major: Business Administration Siblings: Brother, Joe
CONINE’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2007-08 2008-09 Totals
G-GS 2-0 9-0 11-0
Pts-Avg 0-0.0 0-0.0 0-0.0
Reb-Avg 0-0.0 1-0.1 1-0.1
FG-A (PCT) 0-2 (.000) 0-3 (.000) 0-5 (.000)
3FG-A (Pct.) 0-2 (.000) 0-0 (.000) 0-2 (.000)
FT-A (PCT.) 0-0 (.000) 0-0 (.000) 0-0 (.000)
A 0 0 0
TO 1 1 2
BS 1 0 1
ST 1 0 1
PF-DQ Min-Avg 4-0 14-7.0 2-0 10-1.1 6-0 24-2.2
CONINE’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. East Texas Baptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 18, 2008 FG attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Texas State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 28, 2009 3FG attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 19, 2007 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 19, 2007 Blocked shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 19, 2007 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 19, 2007
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Forward • Fr.-RS • 6-8 • 235 • 82” Wingspan Shreveport, La. • Booker T. Washington HS In 2008-09 • season ended by fractured elbow sustained in pre-conference season in practice • season-high 8 points on 11/29 against Troy in LSU tournament • 7 points in his final action, 1/3 at Oklahoma State • was unable to play during conference season • shot commendable 42% from floor, 65% on free throws
BEFORE NSU • averaged 18 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks as a senior, earning second-team all-state honors along with all-city and all-district • as a junior, averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds for a 31-7 BTW team that reached the second round of the state playoffs • was a key player in summer 2007 for the Louisiana Roundballers AAU team that finished fifth in their age group in the national championship tournament in Orlando • teamed with Demon teammates William Mosley and Samir Davis on the Roundballers squad • coached at BTW by Tony Reliford and assistant coach Carl Harris • Harris coached the Roundballers summer AAU team PERSONAL • born 2/9/90 • son of Cathy Davis and James Hulbin Sr. • one sister, Whitney Golston • majoring in computer information systems WHO IS JAMES HULBIN? Full name: James Hulbin Parents: Cathy Davis and James Hulbin Sr. Siblings: Sister, Whitney Golston
Age, Birthday: 19, born Feb. 9, 1990 Major: Computer Information Systems
HULBIN’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2008-09
G-GS Pts-Avg 9-0 29-3.2
Reb-Avg FG-A (PCT) 17-1.9 8-19 (.421)
3FG-A (Pct.) FT-A (PCT.) 0-0 (.000) 13-20 (.650)
A 1
TO 7
BS ST PF-DQ Min-Avg 7 1 11-0 68-7.6
HULBIN’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 11, 2008 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Arkansas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 27, 2008 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 27, 2008 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 15, 2008 Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .three times (last at Arkansas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 27, 2008 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Oklahoma State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 3, 2009 FT Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 11, 2008 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Oklahoma State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 3, 2009
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jones Guard • Sr.-3L • 6-4 • 195 • 80” Wingspan Winnfield, La. • Winnfield HS NOTES ON JONES • owns 23 career double-figure scoring games, four of 20 or more, all in 2008-09 • career 83% free throw aim • career 36% on 3-pointers, with 99, 101 short of school record IN 2008-09 • led 2008-09 Demons with 12.2 scoring average, 55 3-pointers, 89 percent FT aim (not enough attempts to qualify for NCAA/SLC ranks) • hit 7 straight shots, 5 which were 3-pointers, in a 7-minute span to trigger a career-best 36-point outburst leading an 80-64 win over UCA Jan. 31 • 36-point performance was best by an NSU player since 1994 and included 25 points after halftime • had 14 double-digit games, leading the Demons in scoring 12 times • his 36 percent 3-point accuracy topped NSU and barely missed the Southland's top 10 • career best 12 rebounds on 12/17 at Grambling IN 2007-08 • started 10 of 32 games, 1 in SLC play, with an overall 6.4 scoring average, making him NSU's second-leading returning scorer • opened the season with 17 first-half points in loss to UC Santa Barbara • matched that point outing in a win over Houston Baptist as his season and career best • 9 double-figure scoring games, including 3 in last 5 regular season games • 10 points in SLC championship game loss to UTA • 42 3-pointers, 39% aim
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BEFORE NSU • three-time District MVP and All-Cenla honoree at Winnfield HIgh School • named Louisiana Class 3A, Cenla, and District Most Valuable Player as a senior • averaged 31 points and 11 rebounds per game and earned District MVP, Cenla MVP and State MVP honors • as a senior, team finished 20-8 and ranked No. 6 in the state as it advanced to the state playoffs • averaged 10.3 pts and 4.0 reb as a freshman • scored 23.7 ppg and 8 rpg as a sophomore, earning All-Cenla honors and Most Improved Award • averaged 31.7 points and 13 rebounds as a junior, earning District MVP, AllCenla and 2nd Team All-State honors • class Salutatorian, Senior Honors Award recipient, Athletic Scholar, National Honors Society, Who’s Who Among American High School Students • graduated with a 3.9 grade point average PERSONAL • 20 years old, born June 9, 1988 • son of John and Bessie Jones • has a brother, John and three sisters, Nikki Triplett, Latasha and Delita • brother plays football for Southern Arkansas • majoring in business administration
IN 2006-07 • only extensive action came in the first half at UTA on 1/6, when his hustle in a 10-minute stretch helped ignite a huge comeback • hit a 3-pointer, had a blocked shot and a rebound on the stage at UTA • 5 points, 2 rebounds in 3 minutes vs. Henderson State
WHO IS DAMON JONES? Full name: Damon Cordale Jones Parents: John C. & Bessie Jones Major: Business Administration Nickname: “D” or “Day Day”
Age, Birthday: 20, June 9, 1988 Siblings: Brother, John Carey (23); sisters, Nikki (36), LaTasha (30), and Delita (25)
JONES’ YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Totals
G-GS 20-0 32-10 31-28 83-38
Pts-Avg 13-0.7 204-6.4 378-12.2 595-7.2
Reb-Avg 7-0.4 56-1.8 72-2.3 135-1.6
FG-A (PCT) 3-18 (.167) 70-169 (.414) 138-338 (.408) 211-525 (.402)
3FG-A (Pct.) 2-11 (.182) 42-109 (.385) 55-153 (.359) 99-273 (.363)
FT-A (PCT.) 5-6 (.833) 22-30 (.733) 47-53 (.887) 74-89 (.831)
A 1 12 25 38
TO 2 26 52 80
BS 1 2 7 10
ST 2 12 20 34
PF-DQ 3-0 16-0 43-0 62-0
Min-Avg 49-2.5 465-14.5 729-23.5 1243-15.0
JONES’ CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 31, 2009 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Grambling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 17, 2008 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .McNeese State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 18, 2009 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. McNeese State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 18, 2009 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 31, 2009 3FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. Central Arkansas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 31, 2009 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Stephen F. Austin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 11, 2009
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knight Guard • Jr.-2L • 6-3 • 212 • 78” Wingspan Alexandria, La. • Bolton HS
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In 2008-09 • had his two best scoring outputs of his career in two Demon road wins • 16 points, 8 rebounds sparked Demons to 79-77 win 2/14 at Central Arkansas • 15 points, 5 rebounds and hustling effort made him a pivotal factor in 69-66 neutral court win over Centenary on 11/21 at LSU tournament • improved free throw aim by 28% as a sophomore, sinking 67.8% from the line • also raised FG aim 3% up to 45% • shot 48% on FG in conference play, getting 6 of his 7 starts • led Demons in assists twice, season high 4 at Texas State • missed 7 games related to a pair of concussions, first sustained at Grambling 12/17 • picked up nickname of “Cloudy” resulting from concussions IN 2007-08 • as a true freshman, played in all 33 games and started 14, all of those coming against SLC foes beginning with a surprise start in the SLC opening win over Texas-Arlington, the eventual SLC Tournament champion • scored a season-best 10 points, hitting 2-2 on 3-pointers, in an OT loss Jan. 19 at UTSA • had his three-best assist outputs in last 7 games, with season-best 6 at Lamar, 5 in home win over UCA and 4 in SLC finals against UTA • shot 60% on 3s but only 40% on Fts • did sink 59% of FT in SLC games when he also had a 42-32 assists/turnover ratio IN HIGH SCHOOL • 19 ppg, 12 rpg, 6 assists pg, 2 blocks pg as a senior at Bolton HS under coach Duke Allgood • first-team all-district, honorable mention All-State Class 4A, All-Cenla as a senior • second-team All-State Class 4A, first-team all-district, for coach Warren Sears at Alexandria Senior High, when he averaged 14.7 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 11.0 assists pg, 2.3 steals pg and 1.7 blocks • second-team all-district at ASH as a sophomore, with a 17.6 ppg average • part of a state runner-up team at Whitefield Academy in Mabelton, Ga., under coach Tyrone Johnson • sports editor of the school newspaper at Bolton • spoke to elementary students as part of Bolton’s D.A.R.E. program PERSONAL • born 3/28/88 • son of Johnny and Kasondra Smith and has two young siblings, sister Jaslyn and brother Jalen • has a daughter, Zamirah (2) • his full name is Dominic Davon Knight, nickname is “D-Knight” and “Bruh Man” • says his ambition is to “be successful and make my parents proud” WHO IS DOMINIC KNIGHT? Full name: Dominic Davon Knight Age, Birthday: 20, March 28, 1988 Parents: Johnny and Kasondra Smith Siblings: Sister, Jaslyn, and brother, Jalen Major: General Studies Family: Daughter, Zamirah (2) Nickname: “D-Knight” and “Bruh Man” KNIGHT’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2007-08 2008-09 Totals
G-GS 33-14 24-7 57-21
Pts-Avg 72-2.2 111-4.6 182-3.2
Reb-Avg 54-1.6 60-2.5 114-2.0
FG-A (PCT) 25-60 (.417) 34-75 (.453) 59-135 (.437)
3FG-A (Pct.) 9-15 (.600) 3-8 (.375) 12-23 (.522)
FT-A (PCT.) 12-30 (.400) 40-59 (.678) 52-89 (.584)
A 54 26 80
TO 51 33 84
BS 4 2 6
ST 12 11 23
PF-DQ 60-2 65-3 125-5
Min-Avg 458-13.9 375-15.6 833-14.6
KNIGHT’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 14, 2009 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 14, 2009 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Sam Houston State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 4, 2009 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. Stephen F. Austin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 11, 2009 Blocked shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. LSU-Shreveport) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 13, 2008 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at Central Arkansas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 14, 2009 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southeastern Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 7, 2009
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Guard • Jr.-2L • 6-0 • 170 • 70” Wingspan Natchitoches, La. • St. Mary’s HS
• 2008-09 ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District VI • 2008-09 Academic All-SLC • wears No. 5 in tribute to Demon great Charles “Red” Thomas, whose family granted permission for Logan to don the retired number as well as being the fifth McConathy to play at NSU In 2008-09 • played in all 31 games, starting once • led Demons in assists 7 times • season, career-best 8 assists in win 11/18 over East Texas Baptist • 7 assists in win on 11/28 in LSU tournament over Alcorn State • season-high 8 points vs. Lamar on 2/21 • sank 85% on FTs (11-13) in league play, 79% overall IN 2007-08 • played in 27 games, averaging 9.6 minutes per game • got heaviest playing time in non-conference games in November and December • played at least 13 minutes in first 11 games, but only more than 5 minutes four times in his final 16 appearances • season high 25 minutes vs. Ozarks, also season-high 11 points, sinking 8-8 at FT line • 5 assists, 5 points in 21 minutes in his first college game vs. CalSanta Barbara • scored only once in SLC play, at home vs. McNeese when he sank a couple of pressure free throws
the district MVP, All-Cenla (Alexandria Town Talk), All-Area (Shreveport Times) for coach Todd Matney and former Demon Kerwin Forges • led Tigers to 25-8 record, No. 5 state ranking, best win total in school history in 2006-07 • state runner-up in tennis (doubles), also a member of a district champion track team • also second-team all-state, All-Cenla, all-area and All-District 3-1A as a junior, when Tigers were 21-12 and No. 8 ranked in the state • honorable mention all-state as a sophomore, also All-Cenla and alldistrict, for a 23-10 team that was ranked as high as No. 2 in the state • Academic All-State with a 3.97 grade point average • Wendy’s High School Heisman state finalist PERSONAL • born 2/21/88 • son of Mike and Connie McConathy, with an older brother, Michael. Dad is the Demons’ head coach and Michael is a senior guard. Connie is director of the Bossier Parish Community College campus at NSU. • full name is John Logan McConathy, nickname is “Lou-lo” • majoring in journalism and is attending NSU on an academic scholarship • traveled to Romania on a church mission trip in summer 2007 and 2008 • plans on either getting his master’s degree in sports management or attend law school.
IN HIGH SCHOOL • All-State Class A, second team, as a senior, when he was also WHO IS LOGAN McCONATHY? Full name: John Logan McConathy Parents: Mike and Connie McConathy Nicknames: “Lou-lo”
Age, Birthday: 21, born Feb. 21, 1988 Major: Journalism Siblings: Brother, Michael
McCONATHY’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2007-08 2008-09 Totals
G-GS 27-0 31-1 58-1
Pts-Avg 39-1.4 53-1.7 92-1.6
Reb-Avg 16-0.6 42-1.4 58-1.0
FG-A (PCT) 10-40 (.250) 14-71 (.197) 24-111 (.216)
3FG-A (Pct.) 3-21 (.143) 2-17 (.118) 5-38 (.132)
FT-A (PCT.) 16-24 (.667) 23-29 (.793) 39-53 (.736)
A 37 55 92
TO 44 65 109
BS 0 1 1
ST 11 7 18
PF-DQ Min-Avg 32-1 258-9.6 50-0 426-13.7 82-1 684-11.8
McCONATHY’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. University of the Ozarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 16, 2007 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .four times (last vs. Southeastern Louisiana) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 7, 2009 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. East Texas Baptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 18, 2008 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. LSU-Shreveport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 8, 2007 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .five times (last at Lamar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 21, 2009 3 PT FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .five times (last vs. UTSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 25, 2009 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last vs. Alcorn State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 28, 2008
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Guard • Sr.-3L • 5-9 • 160 • 72” Wingspan Natchitoches, La. • St. Mary’s HS
NOTES ON MCCONATHY • ranks 9th all-time in school history with 297 career assists (3.1 pg), would move to 6th if he matches last year's 124 • near career top 10 in steals with 103, needs 17 to rank, and if he equals last year's 51, he would move to 6th best in school history • a three-year Academic All-SLC selection (first team in the last two seasons), McConathy earned his electronic engineering technology degree in May as a summa cum laude graduate (3.57 GPA) • won 2009 first-team Academic All-District VI honors for a six-state region from the College Sports Information Directors of America. • faculty chose him to receive the 2009 Walter J. Robinson Award from NSU's Department of Engineering Technology, recognizing the junior or senior best exhibiting scholarship, leadership and integrity • NSU's 2008-09 Male Student-Athlete of the Year (scholarship, leadership, community activism). • Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll four years, since his true freshman season in 2005-06 when he was redshirted. • son of Demons' head coach Mike McConathy and plays alongside younger brother Logan. The McConathy's are the only father-sons combination in Division I basketball and one of only two known in the past two decades, along with BYU coach Roger Reid and his sons in 1994-95. Eddie Sutton never had his two sons playing on the same team at Oklahoma State. • wears No. 14 used by his grandfather, Johnny McConathy, from 1947-51. It was retired in 2002 but donned by Michael with his grandfather's blessing. In 2008-09 • started all but one of the Demons' 31 games, ranking fifth in the SLC in assists, second in free throw percentage and eighth in steals -- leading NSU in a statistic in which it ranked 20th nationally. • posted 12 double-figure scoring games, leading NSU in points four times. He averaged 9.1 points in conference play. • career-best 17 points propelled Demons to 11/21 win over Centenary at LSU tournament • matched career high with 8 assists at McNeese (2/4) IN 2007-08 • started 16 of 33 games played, but only 2 in the SLC season, while posting modest 4.7 ppg, mostly as a point guard while playing 19.7 minutes pg • ninth in overall SLC stats, seventh in league play (3.63) in assists pg • His 82.3% overall FT aim would have ranked 4th in the SLC in all games, but he was one made FT shy of meeting the standard to be ranked. In SLC play only, he ranked 6th (81.0%) on FT aim. • High scoring game of 15 at Texas Tech, had a pair of 13-point games in SLC contests, at McNeese and vs. Nicholls. Season high 8 assists in win over UTA.
• Hit 8-8 on FT at McNeese • Went 3-3 on 3-pointers at Texas Tech • Voted first-team Academic All-SLC with a 3.56 cumulative g.p.a. IN 2006-07 • emerged down the stretch as a disruptive defender and sharp distributor behind senior point guard Kennan Jones, who was sixth in the nation in assists • 5 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal in 13 minutes vs. Lamar in SLC Tourney semifinal win • season-best 4 steals helped spur incredible rally from 30-point deficit into lead in regularseason finale at Central Arkansas • his steal and behind-the-back assist to Jermaine Spencer for the dunk was No. 6 on SportsCenter’s Plays of the Day after the regionally-televised win at SFA • season-high 6 assists at Northwestern in Evanston, Ill. • scored from the floor in 7 of last 10 games • Among 13 players voted to the 2006-07 Academic All-SLC Team after posting a 3.76 grade point average • NSU Freshman Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2005-06) with highest GPA among all freshmen males. IN 2005-06 • redshirted BEFORE NSU • helped St. Mary’s reach the playoffs each of his four years for coaches Todd Matney, former Demon and N Club Hall of Fame member Tommy Mathis, and former Demon Stephen Burch • averaged 24 points, 5 assists, and 3 steals his senior year earning District MVP and 1st team All-Cenla and all-state honors • student of the Year, Valedictorian, and Shreveport Times Academic All Star his senior year • 1st team all-district and All-Cenla Honorable mention his junior year • averaged 18 points and 5 assists his junior year • 2nd team all-district and 2nd team all-parish his sophomore year • member of BETA Club, FCA, and SADD at St. Mary’s • graduated with a 4.0 grade point average and earned academic scholarship to NSU PERSONAL • born 4/18/86 • son of Coach Mike and Connie McConathy • grandfather John McConathy was an AllAmerican at NSU • one brother, Logan • now pursuing a second undergraduate degree in business administration • nickname is “Icy”
WHO IS MICHAEL McCONATHY? Full name: Michael Leo McConathy Parent(s): Mike & Connie McConathy Siblings: Brother, Logan
Age, Birthday: 23, Apr. 18, 1986 Major: Business Administration Nickname: “Icy”
McCONATHY’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Totals
G-GS 32-0 33-16 31-30 96-46
Pts-Avg 43-1.3 156-4.7 247-8.0 446-4.6
Reb-Avg 19-0.6 36-1.1 41-1.3 96-1.0
FG-A (PCT) 13-54 (.241) 36-120 (.300) 73-243 (.300) 122-417 (.293)
3FG-A (Pct.) 8-26 (.308) 19-57 (.333) 32-117 (.274) 59-200 (.295)
FT-A (PCT.) 9-15 (.600) 65-79 (.823) 69-84 (.821) 143-178 (.803)
A 62 111 124 297
TO 49 112 104 265
BS 0 1 0 1
ST 19 33 51 103
PF-DQ 61-0 90-2 107-6 258-8
Min-Avg 334-10.4 651-19.7 720-23.2 1705-17.8
McCONATHY’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 21, 2008 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at A&M-Corpus Christi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan. 17, 2008 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. LSU-Shreveport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 13, 2008 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 3, 2007 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .three times (last at Sam Houston State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 4, 2009 3 PT FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 21, 2008 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 1, 2008
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Center • So.-1L • 6-7 • 220 • 84” Wingspan Shreveport, La. • Huntington HS player since 1994-95 SLC Player of the Year Eric Kubel, a 62008-09 • top returning rebounder and 8 senior, had 22 on Feb. 19, 1994 against Texas-Arlington. It shot blocker in the Southland also ranked second last year in the conference. • 7 double-digit scoring games, and 11 double-figure Conference • only freshman to rank in the rebounding performances -- 6 in conference play, including top 5 of more than one official Southland Conference statis- the final 3 games of the season tical category in 2008-09, ranking in four different stats • Mosley's 8.5 rebounding average was 4th nationally among BEFORE NSU freshmen, 58th overall and ranked 1st in the Southland • Second-team All-District 1-5A on a 34-6 team under coach among freshmen, 3rd overall Mack Jones as a senior in 2006-07 • 2.5 blocked shots per game was 2nd nationally among • Raiders were ranked No. 2 in the state's Class 5A ranks freshmen, 21st overall, and led SLC freshmen while ranking • averaged 9.2 points, 11.3 rebounds 5.2 blocks per game 2nd overall in the league • also a member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the • Mosley's 3.1 offensive rebounding average led all confer- 4-H Club at HHS ence players last season • 1.3 steals pg and his 67.5 FG percentage led all SLC fresh- PERSONAL men last year, according to www.basketballstate.com • full name is William Ralph Mosley Jr. • Mosley's 76 blocked shots moved him into 10th on the • born 6/22/89 Demons' career list and was the second-best single-season • nickname is “Old School” total in school history • son of Linda Mosley and William Mosley Sr. • led team in rebounding 18 times • two younger brothers, Mario, and Joshua • career highs of 16 points (on 8 of 11 shooting) and 18 rebounds in a Dec. 13 85-64 win over Division III power LSUShreveport. His rebounding total was the most by an NSU WHO IS WILLIAM MOSLEY? Full name: William Ralph Mosley Jr. Parents: Linda Mosley and William Mosley Sr. Nickname: “Old School”
Age, Birthday: 20, born June 22, 1989 Major: Engineering Siblings: Brothers, Mario and Joshua
MOSLEY’S YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2008-09
G-GS Pts-Avg 31-30 194-6.3
Reb-Avg FG-A (PCT) 3FG-A (Pct.) FT-A (PCT.) 263-8.5 80-119 (.672) 0-0 (.000) 34-95 (.358)
A TO 19 23
BS ST PF-DQ Min-Avg 76 39 72-1 766-24.7
MOSLEY’S CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. LSU-Shreveport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 13, 2008 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. LSU-Shreveport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 13, 2008 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .four times (last vs. Southeastern Louisiana) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 7, 2009 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Grambling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 17, 2008 Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 21, 2008 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. LSU-Shreveport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 13, 2008 FT Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southeastern Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mar. 7, 2009 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Stephen F. Austin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb. 11, 2009
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watkins Guard • So.-1L • 6-2 • 192 • 78” Wingspan Tickfaw, La. • Independence HS
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• will not play in 2009-10 while recovering from life-threatening injuries sustained in an Aug. 28 automobile accident • suffered two fractured vertebra in his spinal column, bruised lungs and head injuries • may be able to return to school in January • doctors believe he may make a complete recovery and have not ruled out the possibility that he might be able to play basketball • was dribbling a basketball in his hospital room within a couple of weeks after the accident • accident occurred just four days after doctors had cleared him for a complete return to competition after a highly-successful rehabilitation from knee surgery In 2008-09 • played in 12 games and was in the midst of perhaps his best performance on 12/30 at home against Miami (OH) when he injured his knee late in a tight game and was lost for the year • injury required surgery • season highs of 8 points twice, vs. LSU (11/23) and East Texas Baptist (11/18) • season highs of 3 rebounds three times, in those two games and vs. Southern-New Orleans (12/22) IN 2007-08 • redshirted IN HIGH SCHOOL • second-team Class 3A All-State as a senior after averaging 24.5 ppg • recipient of the Musemeche Scholarship presented by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, nominated for the honor by his principal at Independence • District 9-3A MVP for coach Terrance Joseph • led Tigers to two straight district titles, state quarterfinal playoff appearances • honors graduate (3.0 grade point average), National Honor Society member PERSONAL • born 11/7/88 • son of Raymond and Donna Watkins Callahan, and has one brother • full name is Dwayne Anthony Watkins Jr. • nicknames include “Bughouse” and Junebugg” WHO IS DWAYNE WATKINS? Full name: Dwayne Anthony Watkins Age, Birthday: 20, born Nov. 7, 1988 Parents: Raymond and Donna Watkins Callahan Major: General Studies Nicknames: “Bughouse” and “Junebugg” Siblings: One brother WATKINS’ YEAR-BY-YEAR NUMBERS at NORTHWESTERN STATE Year 2008-09
G-GS Pts-Avg 12-0 31-2.6
Reb-Avg FG-A (PCT) 14-1.2 7-28 (.250)
3FG-A (Pct.) FT-A (PCT.) 1-8 (.125) 16-23 (.696)
A 4
TO 10
BS ST PF-DQ Min-Avg 1 6 9-0 79-6.6
WATKINS’ CAREER HIGHS Category No. Opponent Date Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .two times (last at LSU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 23, 2008 Rebounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .three times (last vs. Southern-New Orleans) . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 22, 2008 Assists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Southern-New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 22, 2008 Steals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 23, 2008 FG Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. East Texas Baptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 18, 2008 FT Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vs. Miami (OH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 30, 2008 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 23, 2008
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Guard • Jr.-TR • 6-1 • 185 • 78” Wingspan Bronx, N.Y. • Howard College • Columbus HS HS, earning All-City, All-County and honorable mention AllBEFORE NSU State honors • Howard College went 23-5 in his freshman year losing in • high school teammates included Brian Williams of Tennessee, Brian Laing of Seton Hall, Louis McCraskey of the championship and went Manhattan and Alan Ray of Villanova 25-7 his sophomore year, reaching the semi-finals • averaged 13.6 points per game and made 1st team AllWestern Junior College Athletic Conference as a sophomore in 2008-09 • 5 other players from Howard College went on to play at four-year colleges • Hawks coached by Mark Adams • averaged 25 points and 7 assists as a senior for coach Steve Simon at New York City's Columbus HS, earning AllCity and honorable mention All-State honors • averaged 22 points and 7 assists as a junior at Columbus
Personal • born 7/20/87 • son of Regina Baker and the late Joseph Baker • has one sibling: Donell • a cousin, Jermaine Maybank, plays pro basketball in Australia • nickname is “Kobe” • majoring in communication • earned his A.A. degree while attending Howard College • plans to play professional ball after college
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Guard • Sr.-TR • 6-2 • 191 • 75” Wingspan McKinney, Tex. • Ranger College • McKinney HS BEFORE NSU Personal • played from 2007-09 at • born 4/15/87 Ranger College in Ranger, • son of Martha Ceniceros. Texas • has one brother, Jerry, and a sister, Rosamarie. • All-conference honorable • majoring in education mention honors in 2007-08 • plans to pursue a career in education • averaged 13.5 points and 2 assists per game as a freshman • made 79 3-pointers as a freshman and 40 as a sophomore • ranked 15th in the nation in 3-point shooting as a sophomore and ranked third in the conference in 3-pointers made from 2007-09. • team finished 20-5 his sophomore season after going 5-24 as a freshman
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davis Guard • Fr.-HS • 6-0 • 180 • 76 3/4” Wingspan Shreveport, La. • Huntington HS BEFORE NSU • as a senior, averaged 15 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds as a senior, earning All-State, All-District, All-City honors for a 39-2 Huntington team • averaged 14 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds as a junior, earning All-District honors despite missing extensive time with an ankle injury • helped lead 2007-08 Raiders to Top 28 state tournament semifinals in Class 5A and also the 2008-09 Top 28 • earned All-State, All-District, All-City honors while averaging 13 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds as a sophomore • gteammate with fellow Demon teammate William Mosely in high school • teammates with fellow NSU player James Hulbin and
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William Mosley in summer basketball with the Louisiana Roundballers • coached at Huntington by Mack Jones and Errol Pipkins Personal • born 1/15/91, full name is Shamir Dishan Davis • son of Brenda Young and Marlon Davis • his mother works at the LSU Medical Center in Shreveport • one brother, Yancey Kelly, and one sister, Ayanna Davis • majoring in business administration • nickname is “Yung-mir”
Cory
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Forward • Fr.-HS • 6-7 • 200 • 80 1/2” Wingspan Argyle, Tex. • Argyle HS Brooke Shepherd BEFORE NSU • averaged 14 points, 9 • also a member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and rebounds for coach John King Younglife as a senior in 2007-08 • his Argyle team went 31-4, Personal ranked first statewide most of • born 3/8/90 the year and also went undefeated in district action in 2007- • full name is Cory Anthony Dixon • son of Leann and Mike Miller 08, reaching regional semifinal round of playoffs • his father works in the construction business as a head• earned first team All-District 8-3A, first team All-Region hunter • voted team captain by the players at AHS • one younger brother, Miles (2), and two younger sisters, • Whataburger All-Tournament Team • played in 2008 THSCA All-Star game and won the dunk Macy (12) and Zoey (6) • plans after college include playing overseas or becoming contest as a senior • averaged 10 points and 10 rebounds for a 29-5 team as a involved with hospital administration junior while earning All-District honors as well as Italy All- • his cousin, Jon Lieber, was a 14-year major league baseball veteran as a pitcher, winning 131 games and making the Tournament 2001 All-Star Game for the Chicago Cubs, winning 20 games • lettered in basketball 2 years and track 2 years • attended same high school as Lady Demon standout that year 24
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Center • Fr.-HS • 6-10 • 225 • 84 1/2” Wingspan Mansfield, La. • Mansfield HS BEFORE NSU Personal • averaged 20 points, 15 • born 11/8/90 rebounds, 11 blocks for • full name is Oscar Ray Evans, Jr. Wolverines as a senior in • son of Oscar and Cathy Evans, both employees of the 2008-09 for a team that won DeSoto Parish School Board once in 29 games • is one of four children • twice an All-District selection • majoring in computer information systems • made his high school basketball debut as a junior, averag- • life's ambition is to be successful in every aspect of life ing 10 points, 11 rebounds and 8 blocked shots • also lettered twice in football • graduated with a 3.8 GPA • qualified for Superintendent's List honors, Mayor's Honors Convention, DeSoto Parish Academic Banquet • member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Future Farmers of America, and Future Business Leaders of America
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Forward • Jr.-TR • 6-5 • 224 • 79 1/2” Wingspan Harlem, N.Y. • Western Oklahoma State BEFORE NSU Personal • averaged 10.1 points, 5.7 • born 3/16/86 rebounds and shot 52% as a • son of Gayle Pratt sophomore on a 25-7 Western • majoring in history Oklahoma State team that • plans after Northwestern include become either a profeswas ranked No. 15 in the NJCAA poll sional basketball player or sportswriter • averaged a team-high 14 points, 5 rebounds as a freshman, • life's ambition is to become a great father earning 2nd team All Bi-State West honors • ranked 113th nationally and was nominated for Student of the Year • graduated from Western Oklahoma with a 3.3 GPA • did not play organized high school basketball in New York City, but played street ball and was noticed by recruiters
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McConathy Head Coach • 11th Season 156-155 at NSU • 508-314 in 26 Seasons There are some ground rules, unwritten but understood, that come with being involved in Mike McConathy's Northwestern State basketball program. First, check your ego at the door and get ready to go to work. In fact, forget about that ego. By the time you're finished here, you'll have a great sense of pride, most of it in the people who surround you, because of the work you've done together. Second, you are part of the NSU basketball family, in every sense of the word "family." You will be cared for and respected, treated the way Coach Mike would want his own sons to be treated. It's a two-way street. Everybody you come into contact with deserves the same, whether it's a teammate, a student trainer, a janitor, a bus driver, or a waitress in a restaurant hundreds of miles away from home. What you do reflects on everybody else in your family, so you do the right things. And you know what's right and what's not. Third, you are part of a program whose slogan is "Championship Basketball ... With a Purpose!" As a Demon, you will be challenged to improve yourself each day, in every way, not just on the basketball court or in the weight room, but in the classroom and in life skills that will remain long after your last college jump shot settles softly into the net. Fourth, realize how lucky you are to have this opportunity. Enjoy it. Maximize it. Appreciate it, and those who have made it possible, like your family and your coaches and teammates before you arrived at NSU. Fifth, let's have fun. Basketball is a game. Life is a blessing. It ought to be enjoyable to be around your coaches and teammates, who you're going to spend more time with than anyone else during your college career. Those are among the core values Coach Mike instills in the Northwestern program. They're not unique principles. McConathy constantly studies the great motivators and success stories, not only in sports but in business and religion and education and every aspect of life, looking for lessons he and his coaching staff can teach to their young men. You'll find the fabled UCLA basketball "Pyramid of Success" designed by legendary coach John Wooden in the Demon basketball offices. On every practice plan, there's a "thought for the day" -- and sometimes it is basketball related, but most often, it's achievement-oriented. 26
When he arrived at his father's alma mater in March 1999, tasked with turning around a long-downtrodden program, Coach Mike didn't run off the players in the program so he could bring in his kind of guys right away. At the press conference announcing his hiring, he talked about bringing Demon basketball back to the level of expectation it had when his father and uncles played for Northwestern in the 1950s. Then, 20-win seasons and conference championships were standard fare. One veteran media member wondered if the new coach was from Mars, so farfetched that goal seemed. After all, NSU had just five winning seasons in 24 years of Division I membership - and had never been close to a conference championship or an NCAA Tournament berth. McConathy only had two scholarships to work with, just a couple of weeks before signing day, but instead of cleaning house, he created a homelike atmosphere. This program, he told the veteran players, wasn't his. It was theirs. His role was to shape it into something good, for them and for the players to come. His two pre-teen boys, Michael and Logan, spent as much time in Prather Coliseum as the players did. That wasn't by accident. Coach Mike told his team that he wanted to be able to have pride in having his boys around the players. So the McConathy kids had a bunch of older brothers, and the players suddenly had a couple of younger brothers, subtly reminding them their conduct was very personal to their new coach. Deep inside, McConathy also was determined to build a program that would be solid enough that when his sons finished high school, it might appeal to them to be involved, in some way, perhaps even as players, just like their grandfather Johnny and their uncles, George and Leslie, were in the years between World War II and the Korean Conflict, when the NBA was a fledgling league with teams in Ft. Wayne and Syracuse, a decade before color television made its debut. Now, beginning his 11th season as head coach, Coach Mike's vision has long since become reality. Sticking with the players already in the program worked. His first team posted the first winning season in eight years at Northwestern, and became the first Demon team to reach the Southland Conference Tournament championship game. A year later, the Demons were back, and they didn't stop there. The heart of the team he inherited and inspired worked its way to the SLC Tournament title in 2001, into the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever, and to an opening round win as the Demons became "Dayton's Darlings" and somewhat of a national media
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added a blend of prep and junior college recruits since, averting another wholesale rebuilding. The plan worked. The youngest team in the country battled through two losing seasons, appearing ready to turn the corner in 2003-04 before some key players were sidelined. In 2004-05, the payoff began: 21 wins (the most for the Demons since 1960), a Southland Conference co-championship, homecourt advantage in the SLC Tournament and an ESPN-televised championship game at Prather Coliseum. But it was a stunning last-minute loss. That was the painful motivator for the 2005-06 team - the Demons wanted to fulfill their potential, to repeat as champs, host the SLC tournament championship game again, and win there - and in the NCAA Tournament. They did that, and much more. The Demons had a school-record 26 wins, including victories at Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, over Oregon State and No. 15 Iowa in the NCAA Tournament. Attendance records were shattered. They earned a TV game in the ESPN BracketBusters. They won the SLC by the widest margin in nine seasons. Northwestern made its fourth SLC Tournament championship game appearance in McConathy's first seven seasons as head coach. The Demons
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"Coach Mike" is already inducted into the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame for his career as a high school All-American at Bossier City-Airline High School and as a high scoring guard at Louisiana Tech from 1973-77. McConathy was a gym rat. One of his personal workouts involved shooting baskets in the dark. The hard work paid off for McConathy, who was a fourth-round draft pick of the NBA's Chicago Bulls. Among his 2,033 career points were 45, still the Prather Coliseum single-game record, against Northwestern in his senior year. He was told he had made the Bulls roster, but was released on the final cut. He tried playing in Europe, but soon decided to come home and begin his coaching career.
His father, Johnny McConathy, won a state championship at Bossier High School before he went into administration, eventually serving a long term as superintendent of schools in Bossier Parish. His first college coach was Scotty Robertson, who signed him to play at Louisiana Tech and coaching him his freshman year before becoming the first-ever head coach of the NBA's New Orleans Jazz. Coach Robertson spent more than 20 years in the NBA, serving as head coach in New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit, and retiring as Pat Riley's bench coach with the Miami Heat. Scotty has retired in Ruston, but makes frequent trips to Natchitoches to visit with the Demons and to duck hunt with his good friends, including NSU soccer coach Jimmy Mitchell. Former state Rep. Billy Wayne Montgomery was a highly successful high school coach in Bossier Parish, winning a state championship at Haughton High School before he entered politics. Coach Montgomery and Johnny McConathy are close friends. Coach's value-centered approach to coaching and life made a huge impression on Coach Mike as he grew up in Bossier City. Last May, Coach Montgomery was named Mr. Louisiana Basketball for 200809 by the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches.
As a coach before NSU ... McConathy's start in coaching came as girls basketball coach at his alma mater, Airline High School in Bossier City. Soon, he moved into the college ranks without making any kind of move at all. McConathy won 20 games or more in 11 of his 16 seasons as head coach at Bossier Parish Community College, starting the program from scratch in 1983. They didn't have a gym or dormitories, practicing and playing at Airline when the gym was available. But his teams posted at least 23 wins in each of his last seven seasons at BPCC, and were in the top 10 of the final national junior college Top 25 rankings in each of his last three seasons. His overall 352-159 (.688) record at Bossier Parish included a remarkable 185-48 (.794)
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Coach Mike with his wife, Connie. mark since the start of the 1992-93 season. His last six teams won Miss-Lou Conference championships. His 1998-99 club was 26-5 and ranked eighth nationally, a year after the team posted a 27-3 record and finished with a No. 3 national ranking.
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won the Pontiac Game Changing Performance $100,000 general scholarship prize for the most spectacular play in the NCAA Tournament. Northwestern made four national television (CBS, ESPN2, ESPNU) appearances, let alone the cascade of national coverage during their NCAA Tournament run by the Demons of Destiny. And NSU was among 34 programs around the nation, alongside Harvard and Yale, North Carolina and Villanova, Air Force and Navy, to receive special recognition by the NCAA for ranking in the top 10 percent nationally in the Academic Progress Rate report for two years of outstanding work advancing players toward graduation. Seven seniors graduated, five with degrees. For most programs it would be back to the drawing board at that point. For the Demons, it was back to more success in 2006-07 - starting with a jam-packed Prather Coliseum for a season-opening smackdown of Utah State, and finishing a 3-pointer shy of another NCAA Tournament berth. For the third straight year, NSU won an SLC title - this time the newly created SLC East Division crown. Again, the Demons were 28
in the SLC Finals. It was more déjà vu in 2008. For the sixth time in nine seasons, and for the fourth consecutive year, the Demons reached the SLC Tournament championship game. Another nailbiting 3-point loss kept them from the Big Dance. But their SLC Tournament dominance is palpable to observers and the competition, who are wary of the Demons' depth that makes them so formidable in the late season and postseason play. Another equally impressive streak also was extended. For a third straight year, NSU basketball led all Division I basketball programs in Louisiana and in the SLC with their outstanding APR score. It's all part of Coach Mike's plan. And it's a home grown product. McConathy has built with Louisiana players - 11 of this year's 15 Demons are from the Bayou State. That's fitting. The McConathy family roots, and values, are deep in the red clay hills of north Louisiana, tracing back decades to his family's farm in hilly Bienville Parish, where his father and uncles did their chores before they used horses and bicycles to make the six-mile plus trip to basketball practice and games. During his days at Bossier Parish Community College, McConathy had chances to join his college teammate Tim Floyd as an assistant coach at Iowa State and possibly to the NBA, but it never came to pass. He couldn't put a price tag on raising his boys around their grandparents and uncles and aunts in north Louisiana. Now, as he's brought Northwestern basketball back, and even beyond to a level it reached when his father played for the Demons, he's proud his parents, Johnny and Corene, sit across the court at Prather Coliseum, savoring the experience. On Homecoming day Oct. 24, a Decade of Dynamic Demon Basketball was celebrated with a reunion of those who made it happen -- almost 100 players, managers, trainers, coaches and staff gathered at Prather Coliseum for a family picnic. Nearly all of Coach Mike's first team in 1999-2000 returned, reflecting their appreciation for the respect, care and leadership he provided. Players traveled from around the country to share fellowship with former teammates and brothers in basketball from throughout the first 10 seasons under Coach Mike's guidance. The transformation is accomplished. The challenge hasn't ended -- competition never does -- but Mike McConathy has built a program solid enough that he would be proud to have his own son as part of the team. He's smiling a bit more broadly nowadays. Logan and Michael both play for the Northwestern Demons, along with 13 more of “his boys.”
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THE COACH McConathy at Northwestern State 1999-00
17-13
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
19-13 13-18 6-21 11-17 21-12
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
26-8 17-15 15-18 11-20
10 seasons 156-155
Championship Game, CenturyTel SLC Classic; most wins at NSU in 18 years NCAA Tournament win; CenturyTel SLC Classic Win over NCAA Tournament entry Siena Youngest team in NCAA D-I; top 8 scorers freshmen Youngest team in NCAA D-I; started 5-0 in SLC First SLC title; most wins since 1974; SLC Coach of the Year SLC title, SLC tourney title, NCAA First Round win SLC East Division title; SLC tourney finalist SLC Tournament finalist 12 different starters Six SLC Tournament title game appearances in the last nine seasons
McConathy at Bossier Parish CC 1983-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99
10-16 16-16 15-16 24-8 22-9 19-12 24-8 22-11 15-15 28-9 28-6 25-7 23-9 28-9 27-3 26-5
NJCAA Region 23 Tournament NJCAA Region 23 Tournament NJCAA Region 23 Tournament Semifinalist NJCAA Region 23 Tournament Miss-Lou champion; NJCAA Region 23 semis NJCAA Region 23 Tournament Semifinalist Miss-Lou, Region 23 champions, NJCAA tourney Miss-Lou champion, Region 23 runner-up Miss-Lou champion, Region 23 runner-up Miss-Lou & Region 23 champ; 7th in NJCAA tourney Miss-Lou champ; 3rd nationally in final NJCAA poll Miss-Lou champ; 8th nationally in final NJCAA poll
"Mike is remarkably relaxed in this pressure cooker. You can tell his players hold a reverence toward him. If you didn’t meet him, you’d think he was too good to be true. He’s a quality human being, more concerned about his kids getting through school and doing well in life than anything else, and they know it." -- Bill Raftery, C B S S p o r t s 2 0 0 6 N C A A Tournament
"There's something special going on in the basketball program at Northwestern State. It's a winning attitude that's built on the family atmosphere that Coach McConathy and his staff have established. You just don't see enough of those values passed along today in college athletics, but it's alive and well in Natchitoches with Coach Mike and his Demons. The homecourt atmosphere at Prather Coliseum is outstanding. I hope I can come back again. I know I'll be hearing more good things about Northwestern State basketball for years to come." -- Dr. Jerry Punch, ESPN annnouncer/analyst
16 seasons 352-159 won 69% of his games, including 79% in last 7 years • In 13 of his last 14 seasons, BPCC participated in the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament after finishing either first or second in the Miss-Lou Conference • The Caveliers won six straight Miss-Lou Conference championships from 1994-99 • BPCC won two NJCAA Region 23 championships • The Caveliers were NJCAA Region 23 finalists two more times • Twice, Coach Mac led Bossier Parish to the NJCAA Tournament
THE PLAYER Mike “Opie” McConathy 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76
12.3 ppg 16.8 ppg 24.7 ppg
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Starter as a true freshman at Louisiana Tech All-Southland Conference, second team All-America, honorable mention; SLC Player of the Year; 13th leading scorer in NCAA D-I 1st Team All-SLC; 7th leading scorer in D-I
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20.7 ppg
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• Today he ranks 10th all-time in career scoring average in Southland Conference history • Tied Louisiana Tech single-game scoring record with 47 vs. Lamar, 2/23/76 (14-21 FGs, 19-20 FTs) • Set Prather Coliseum single-game scoring record with 45 vs. NSU, 12/11/76 (16-26 FGs, 13-15 FTs) • Scored 41 points vs. East Tennessee State, 11/29/76 (15-23 FGs, 11-16 FTs) • Scored 41 points vs. NSU, 2/28/77 (14-23 FGs, 13-14 FTs) • Scored 41 points vs. McNeese, 2/24/77 (15-25 FGs, 13-16 FTs) • Scored 40 points vs. Lamar, 2/13/75 (15-25 FGs, 10-11 FTs) • Holds school records for free throws made in a game (19 vs. Lamar, 2/23/76), season (200, 1976-77) and career (465), and most free throw attempts in a season (246, 1976-77) • Holds school record by hitting 16 of 16 free throws vs. Southern Mississippi, 2/9/77 • Chosen to play in Big Apple Classic, New York City, 1977 • Drafted by Chicago Bulls, 1977, fourth round of NBA Draft • Signed at La. Tech by Scotty Robertson, future NBA head coach, assistant coach and scout • Coached by Emmitt Hendricks, who was the owner of Nicky’s Mexican Restaurant in Natchitoches before his death • Inducted in the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Foundation Hall of Fame for his playing career at Airline and in college
"Mike is one of the finest college coaches in the country. He knows the game through and through. The thing that sets him apart is the way he coaches life first, then basketball. His players respond to him because they realize he has their best interests as his first priority. They're all important to him and so they give him their all. He's the kind of coach I want my grandsons to play for." -- Scotty Robertson, former NBA head coach (Jazz, Bulls, Pistons)
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McConathy is home: family ties to NSU span more than 50 years
Johnny was a senior at Bryceland High (which had an enrollment of 69 students), no college recruiters made the trip to the by Jerry Byrd, Bossier Press-Tribune McConathy farmhouse. One reason was that Johnny McConathy broke his ankle For more than 50 years, the name of McConathy has early in the season. Another was the fact that he was a 6-1, been synonymous with Northwestern State University basket155-pound stringbean who would grow four inches taller in the ball tradition. next two years. It all started on the Bienville Parish hill farm of O. L. Johnny hitchhiked to Natchitoches, where he found legMcConathy in 1945, the year that World War II ended. endary coach H. Lee Prather playing a ping pong McConathy’s oldest sons, Leslie and Johnny, game. were plowing corn that day when their work was “What can you do?” Prather asked him interrupted by an automobile winding its way up between serves. the dirt road leading to the farmhouse. “I can play ball,” said Johnny. The three men in the automobile were Prather looked at him and shook his head. representatives from the Louisiana Normal “You don’t look like much of a ballplayer to me,” he College in Natchitoches. The Bryceland said. “I don’t have anything for you.” Then he High School basketball team had defeated resumed his ping pong game. Coushatta in a rally at Natchitoches, and the Johnny McConathy wasn’t easily discouraged. men made the trip to Bienville Parish to offer When classes started the following fall, he hitchan athletic scholarship to Leslie McConathy. hiked to Natchitoches again. Once again, Prather One of the men was the Normal football coach told him no scholarship was available. But after and athletic director, Harry “Rags” Turpin. Another Johnny managed to hang around for a few days, was Monty Cheeves, an assistant basketball Prather called in Leslie and told him one of the coach. The other was Joe Webb, a chemistry boys he was expecting hadn’t shown up. “I’ll give professor who later became head of the alumni your brother an opportunity, one day at a time,” he association. Webb’s son, Randy, is now the said. president of Northwestern. By that time, the Natchitoches school had Legend has it that Leslie McConathy changed its name to Northwestern State College. picked up his plow by one handle, pointed in the Leslie and Johnny McConathy both played on the direction of the farmhouse and told them he would 1948-49 Demon team which posted a 23-5 record meet them there as soon as he and Johnny plowed and is still regarded as Prather’s greatest team. their way around the hill. But Johnny’s memory is a So did another McConathy, Herschel, a distant relbit foggy on that point. ative from Florien. When they reached the house, the scholarship The McConathy clan was part of a group of offer was made and accepted, sealed by a handsettlers from Alabama who traveled west along shake, and the visitors left. the route of what is now Interstate 20 (because A few weeks later, Leslie changed his mind after it was the high ground, and their wagons wouldvisiting Louisiana Tech at Ruston, and sent a letter to n’t bog down in the mud.) They hung a left Coach Turpin informing him that he had decided to at Arcadia, where they founded the attend Tech. Turpin returned to the McConathy farm Alabama Baptist Church, and some stayed in to discuss the situation with Leslie and his father. Bienville Parish while others continued to Sabine, O. L. McConathy asked Leslie if he told the peoVernon an Beauregard parishes. ple from Normal that he would go to their college. Johnny McConathy went from his “one day at “Yes, sir,” he replied. a time” trial period to set a school scoring record “Then you told the people at Tech you would go and win All-America honors in 1952. After a to their college?” brief stint in the National Basketball Association, “Yes, sir.” crow flies -- and much longer when he coached Bossier High to its only state basket“Well, that’s a mighty poor way to do business, Leslie rode a horse and Johnny pedaled ball championship in 1960 and later served as isn’t it? You gave your word to these people first, so a bicycle to the gym for basketball pracsuperintendent of Bossier Parish schools. that settles it.” tice and games. Leslie was superintendent of Richland Parish “We lived right behind the school,” Johnny Two years after his older brother McConathy recalls. Actually, it was six miles as the went to the Natchitoches college, when schools. 30
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After reading the preceding story, nationallyacclaimed Dayton Daily News columnist Tom Archdeacon spent time with Coach McConathy, his team and his family on the opening day of the 2001 NCAA Tournament. Archdeacon told the story of McConathy's deep ties to Northwestern in the next morning's Dayton Daily News. Portions of that column are excerpted here:
For Cinderella team, the McConathy magic is back March 14, 2001 by Tom Archdeacon, Dayton Daily News
Two generations of McConathy brothers have played for the Demons. Shown (left to right) standing in front of the rock crib at the McConathy family farm in Bienville Parish where the older McConathys grew up - George McConathy, Logan McConathy, John McConathy, Michael McConathy, and Leslie McConathy.
By the time younger brother George McConathy was a senior at Bryceland High, the Bienville Parish school had won a couple of state championships and Prather, who was then the Northwestern president, made the trip to the McConathy farmhouse himself to complete the clean sweep for the Demons. George became an All-Gulf States Conference star for Demon teams coached by Charles “Red” Thomas. One generation (and several interviews) later, the McConathy connection is returning to Northwestern State. When he was a senior at Airline High, Mike McConathy was recruited by LSU, Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State. He signed with Tech coach Scotty Robertson, who had coached at Shreveport’s Byrd High when Mike’s father, Johnny was coaching at Bossier High. McConathy became the second Tech player ever to score 2,000 points, passing the milestone in a game with Northwestern in which the Demons’ Billy Reynolds also broke the 2,000 point barrier, something only 16 other players in state history have done. Later, Mike McConathy became the first basketball coach at Bossier Parish Community College, and developed the team from scratch into a perennial national junior college powerhouse. Twice, he applied for coaching vacancies “Great Tradition, Brighter Future”
at Northwestern State and wasn’t selected. But Mike McConathy, like his father, is not easily discouraged. He interviewed for the Demons’ coaching position again in March 1999, and got the job. When Johnny McConathy went to Northwestern State, the Demons were in the middle of a streak of 19 straight winning seasons under Prather, Thomas and Huey Cranford. Six of those teams won 20 or more games. The Natchitoches school had only two losing basketball seasons in the first 47 years of its basketball program. That is the kind of tradition that Mike McConathy grew up hearing about from his father and uncles. That is the kind of achievement that Coach Mike McConathy had to his credit in 16 seasons as head basketball coach at Bossier Parish Community College. Nowadays at Northwestern, it's clear Coach Mike McConathy is restoring the same kind of championship tradition to the Demon basketball program his family helped to shape.
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The big, white-haired man in the Demon purple shirt laughed and nodded: Sure, he'd tell the story of the plow and the promise.... ...."That's how this all began. It got me there and our brother George, one of our cousins, too, and now... it's got Mike." Mike McConathy is Johnny's son and the miracle-working, second-year coach of Northwestern S t a t e . Tuesday night, that Louisiana field that was plowed 55 years ago bore its best basketball fruit at UD Arena as Northwestern State -- playing the first NCAA Tournament game in school history -- defeated Winthrop, 71-67, in the opening round game of this year's tournament .... ....Across Blackburn Court, Doug Ireland, the Demons' sports information director, looked out at the scene of the proud father and triumphant son -- who soon would be fighting tears when he talked of his parents and how they'd driven nearly 1,000 miles to be here with him, and nodded: "The McConathy magic is back. This is just an absolute great story." Northwestern State and the McConathys is one of those charming Cinderella tales you get early in an NCAA Tournament. It's a story of honor, undaunted belief and success. 31
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SLESSINGER Assistant Coach 10th Season at NSU Born a Hoosier, raised in the basketball capital of the hoops-happy state of Indiana, Mark Slessinger comes by his passion for the game quite naturally. He is doing the only thing he ever wanted, to coach basketball on the Division I level in a program where players are treated with care and respect and their personal development is even more important than the task of shaping them into parts of a championship-caliber team. That's why he is the perfect fit beginning his 10th season on the NSU staff of 11th-year head coach Mike McConathy. Especially now, with the Demons working to regain the high level of achievement in the program over recent seasons, with three straight Southland Conference titles – the 2005 and 2006 overall SLC championships and the 2007 SLC East Division crown. In that span, there were two straight 20-win campaigns, consecutive Southland Conference titles and the signature wins over Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, Oregon State and 15th-ranked Iowa in the 2006 NCAA Tournament. Because if there’s one constant theme that “Coach Sless” espouses, it’s the “let’s go to work” philosophy of McConathy’s program. It’s not what you’ve done that matters – it’s what you’re going to do, and how you prepare, that determines your destiny. Slessinger joined Northwestern as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in July 2000 after three seasons at Northland Pioneer College, the last two seasons as head coach. His first exposure came when the Demons began recruiting Melvin Roberts, one of his players at Northland Pioneer. Roberts signed with NSU in November 1999. After that season, when a position on the Northwestern staff opened, Slessinger did a recruiting job of his own, selling himself to a very receptive McConathy. He made the move from Holbrook, Ariz., to Natchitoches and immediately began building relationships with the Demon players and the entire NSU basketball family. Nine years later, Slessinger is a treasured member of the NSU athletic staff. Along with his outstanding abilities as a part of the Demon basketball program, he provides a big dose of enthusiasm everywhere he turns. He's donned the "Vic the Demon" mascot suit on a sultry April afternoon to rouse the crowd cheering the Demon softball team. He's worn a chef's cap, working behind the grill helping his friends cooking a postgame meal for the NSU baseball or soccer teams. He's become a popular guest on local morning radio shows and a guest host on the "Sports on Call" talk show that booms from Natchitoches to all of northwest Louisiana, much of east Texas and even up to Oklahoma. Basketball, and life, for Slessinger are supposed to be fun. He'll laugh with you and at himself, but don't mistake that for a flippant approach to his role with Demon basketball. Coach Sless is a shrewd tactician, a meticulous game planner, a motivating force at any workout and a detail-oriented operations coordinator for the basketball office. At 24 years old, Slessinger was one of the youngest collegiate head coaches in the nation nine years ago. Along with his three seasons at Northland Pioneer, Slessinger spent a year as an assistant coach at Central Michigan. He got his start in coaching in the 1995-96 season at his alma mater, Aurora University in suburban Chicago, under mentor James Lancaster, while graduating in physical education. Slessinger received the Aurora University Spartan Award as the top graduating senior in the areas of scholastic and extracurricular excellence. He also won the Illinois Student Lincoln Laureate Award, presented by Gov. Jim Edgar, and the Richard Rickey Memorial Award for service to the community presented by the university's student body. Along with earning 3 letters in basketball, he also lettered 4 years in soccer at Aurora. At Northland Pioneer, he was assistant coach for legendary head coach Richard Zalenski in 1997-98 when the Golden Eagles were 27-4 and won the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference championship, earning a No. 8 national ranking. He took over as head coach shortly after the 1998-99 season started. "Coach Sless" guided the Golden Eagles to a 19-12 record that season and a 17-13 mark in 1999-2000. His immediate impact in his first year at NSU carried the Demons to the NCAA Tournament for the first time. With Slessinger on board, there’ve been three 20-win seasons, two NCAA Tournament wins, three SLC titles and expectations are at an all-time high, thanks largely to players he helped identify and attract to Northwestern in his role as recruiting coordinator for the Demons. Slessinger is married to the former Toni Purvis of Williamston, N.C., who is an admissions counselor at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. They celebrated their third anniversary on September 23. The Slessingers: Mark and Toni.
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MOORE Assistant Coach 4th Season at NSU He's the son of a legendary south Louisiana high school basketball coach. He spent five seasons as a head coach himself in the junior college ranks. He hit the ground running, at a sprinter's pace, as he joined the Northwestern State coaching staff in September 2006. His command of basketball strategy and his zeal on the recruiting trail immediately came to the forefront and continues to shine through beginning his fourth year on the NSU staff. That's 14-year coaching veteran Jeff Moore, whose amazing work ethic and winning personality made him the perfect choice to fill some big shoes on the Demons staff. He replaced current McNeese State head coach Dave Simmons. Remarkably, the Demons didn't miss a beat. Moore's strategic acumen and teaching skills were tremendous assets as NSU won yet another Southland Conference title in his first seaon on staff, capturing the SLC East Division crown. In his first two seasons, the Demons made back-to-back trips to the SLC Finals. Moore's motto: “preparation comes face-to-face with opportunity.” Moore, a 1990 graduate of Lake Arthur High School, spent 2005-06 as an assistant coach at nearby Bossier Parish Community College and the three previous years as an assistant at Tyler (Texas) Junior College. Says Demon head coach Mike McConathy: “He is a great teacher of the game, a tremendous worker, and has an extremely positive, warm personality. He's rooted in Louisiana, which is the heartbeat of our program, and he also has contacts around basketball that broaden our network. “Jeff also has an impressive amount of experience for someone relatively young in the game. He grew up with a dad who was a great basketball coach and the game is definitely a passion for him,” said McConathy. “From being a head junior college coach for five seasons, he understands what we have to do to not only keep our program achieving at a high level, but to move forward.” Moore's father, the late Wilbert C. “Nooky” Moore, coached for 33 seasons in Louisiana at the high school (Slidell, Rayne, Notre Dame-Crowley, Lake Arthur) and college (assistant coach to Ralph Ward at McNeese State) levels. The younger Moore began his college coaching career in 1995 at his alma mater, Missouri Valley College, after serving as a student assistant coach in 1994-95 following the end of his playing career. He was named an NAIA Scholar All-American at Missouri Valley after earning National Junior College Athletic Association All-Academic honors at Marshalltown (Iowa) Community College, where he was also an honorable mention all-region performer. He earned a master's degree in education, with an emphasis in athletic administration, from Northwestern State in 1997. He spent five years (1997-2002) as head basketball coach and athletic director at John Wood (Ill.) Community College, highlighted by a 2001 run to the NJCAA regional tournament semifinals. Moore was a standout player at Lake Arthur High School and recently was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame. He played on the Louisiana Stars AAU state championship team and was chosen for the Louisiana Pepsi All-Stars Team that toured the Canary Islands. He continues to host summer camps in Jefferson Davis Parish starting in 1998 and also hosted senior workout camps in April in south Louisiana, providing an opportunity for hundreds of state prep players to obtain college scholarships at the junior college, NAIA and NCAA levels. His relationships with prep coaches has helped raise attendance at last summer's NSU camps and clinics to all-time highs. He and his wife Amy, a third grade teacher at the NSU Lab School, have a beautiful 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Gracie. The Moores: Jeff, Amy, and Gracie.
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ROGERS Assistant Coach 1st Season on Demon Staff Luke Rogers, who had a dynamic two-year playing career for the Demons from 2005-07, has rejoined the NSU basketball program as an assistant coach. Rogers was a starting guard on the 2005-06 “Demons of Destiny” who won the Southland Conference regular-season and tournament titles, finishing 26-8 after an NCAA Tournament first-round win over 15th-ranked Iowa. The Chicago native dished 8 assists and hit a pair of clutch free throws in the final minute to bring NSU within a basket and to help set the stage for the last-second 64-63 win. As a junior at Chicago’s Von Steuben High, he was named the Chicago Tribune Player of the Year with a 29.6 scoring average. His points dropped to 19.2 as a senior, but Von Steuben made the school’s first Chicago Public League Final Four appearance. After two years at Eastfield College, “Luke Juke” quickly emerged as one of the most spirited of the 2005-06 Demons, helping coin the phrase “Hoop Squad” and the chant “Bus Number 2” after the Demons’ trip to Hawaii. He averaged 9.6 points and was runner-up in voting for the Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year, starting all 34 games. As a senior, he led NSU with 13.5 ppg in 32 games (31 starts), finishing with career totals of 750 points (11.3 ppg), 77 3-pointers (35 percent), 72 percent free throw aim (169 makes), 209 assists, 100 steals and 12 blocked shots. He is the son of Verbena Rogers and has 7 older siblings: Jake (41), Floyd (39), Lloyd (34), Denise (40), Lashal (39), Latonya (36)and Bena (30). He has two children, Luke Jr. and Martell and has 21 nieces and nephews altogether. He is working to complete his undergraduate degree and has an overall 2.6 GPA.
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SANDERS Graduate Assistant Manager 2nd Season on Demon Staff Starting his second season as a graduate manager for the Demons, David Sanders has impressed with his precision to detail and contributions to the program. In addition to working with the varsity, Sanders will assist with the junior varsity team this winter. A 2004 Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School graduate and former basketball player at Louisiana College, Sanders returned close to his hometown of Orange, Texas to focus on academics after his freshman season to complete his undergraduate work. He did it with distinction, graduating from Lamar with a degree in kinesiology and earning summa cum laude honors with a 3.8 grade point average. He spent two years coaching at Orangefield High, helping with the post players while the team made a second-round state playoff appearance for only the second time in school history, finishing 20-10. A Texas certified physical education teacher, Sanders wants to remain involved with basketball whether in coaching or administration after he earns his master's degree in sport administration from Northwestern. Born July 9, 1986, David Alan Sanders is the son of Alan and Myra Sanders. His father is an attorney and his mother teaches elementary school in Orange. He has a sister, Katie (25), and a brother, Aaron (27), a sister-in-law, Holly, and a 2-year-old nephew, Ethan and a 1-year-old niece, Ella. 34
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TJADEN Graduate Assistant Manager 1st Season on Demon Staff Stephen Tjaden, an outstanding Iowa high school competitor in three sports, is in his first season as a graduate manager for the Northwestern State Demons and is seeing how it works on the other side of one of the memorable moments in March Madness. Tjaden was a student manager for the Iowa Hawkeyes team that was upset by the Demons in the first round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament. In four years in that role, he worked under head coaches Steve Alford and Todd Lickliter, making a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances in 2005 and 2006 and being part of the 2006 Big Ten Conference Tournament champions. As a prep athlete, he was an all-conference football player with 1,700 total yards and 25 touchdowns in his final two seasons following a 60-tackle year as a sophomore. He was all-conference in football, basketball and baseball, where he set a Woden-Crystal LakeTitonka High record with a .714 on base percentage while batting .370 his senior year. He averaged double figure scoring (10, 12 ppg) in his last two basketball seasons. He graduated from Iowa in 2008 with a 3.3 GPA and was a member of the National Scholars' Honor Society and made the Dean's List. He is a sport administration master's degree candidate at NSU who plans on a coaching career. Tjaden is the son of Randy and Lisa Tjaden of Titonka, Iowa. His father was a high school football coach for 30 years and officiates in the Iowa state basketball tournament. His mother is a bookkeeper. Brothers David and Jacob major in political science at Iowa.
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SELF Director of Basketball Operations 5th Season on Demon Staff Beginning his fifth year with the Demon basketball program, Patrick Self is virtually indispensable to the coaching staff. His work ethic is remarkable, topped only by his positive disposition and willingness to take on any role that can help the program. He has also become a great resource to the coaching staff with his far-reaching basketball knowledge. Self, a Rosepine native, has earned his master's degree in educational leadership last summer. He picked up his bachelor's in health & human performance in spring 2007. He is a 1997 Rosepine High School graduate. Born Oct. 28, 1979, Self has four siblings and says his mother is his inspiration. She is a student counselor at Hicks High School. In his free time, Self enjoys fishing and participating in other sports.
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DOYLE Head Student Manager 3rd Season on Demon Staff Rickey Doyle fit perfectly with the Demon basketball program with his work ethic and sense of humor when he arrived two years ago. He is in his third season as a manager on the Demons' staff. A two-time All-Conference basketball standout at Hope Baptist School, the 2003 graduate began his college career at LSU-Alexandria. In Alexandria, he served as the clubhouse manager for the Alexandria Aces professional baseball team for three seasons. After his high school graduation, Doyle also served as an assistant basketball coach for two seasons at Hope Baptist. During his spare time, Doyle participates in professional wrestling under the name “Alexander Cade.” A health and human performance major at Northwestern, Doyle (24) was born March 12, 1985. He is the son of Rickey L. Doyle Sr. and Patti Doyle and has one brother, Eric.
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KIRSCHNER Director of Video Operations 2nd Season on Demon Staff Rodney Kirschner returns for a second season on the NSU basketball staff, serving as one of the graduate managers after two seasons in the Southland Conference at Southeastern Louisiana University. A Hutchinson, Kansas, native, he graduated from Southeastern with a bachelor of general studies degree as he served as a student assistant with the men's basketball program for two years. Before joining the Lions staff, he spent two seasons as an assistant basketball coach at Woodlawn High School in Baton Rouge and helped guide the Panthers to a 64-14 record in two seasons and a 2006 Class 5A state runner-up finish. The 2001 Nickerson (Kan.) High School graduate set his school's single-game scoring record for most points with 48 during his senior campaign. He was a three-year Class 3A All-State pick. A three-year letterman for Kansas Wesleyan, he was a part of the 2001 KCAC men's basketball tournament runner-up team. Born Feb. 26, 1982, Kirschner is the son of Rod and Jane Kirschner who live in Baton Rouge. His father is the head girls coach at Christian Life Academy and was assistant boys coach for the school's 2007 state championship team. Recently exchanged wedding vows to Stephanie Richardson on June 19, 2009 in Baton Rouge.
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SPIELBAUER Administrative Assistant 3rd Season on Demon Staff Jacob Spielbauer has made quite an impression in two seasons with the Demon basketball program and returns for his third year on staff, moving into an administrative assistant role. Spielbauer has earned a master's degree from NSU in sport administration. In his first season at NSU, he helped the Demons reach their league-record fourth straight Southland Conference Tournament Championship Game. He was a graduate manager each of the last two seasons. A native of Wapello, Iowa, he is a Wapello High graduate and has a bachelor's degree from William Penn University, where he was an Academic All-American in 2006 and 2007. At Wapello, he was a 2003 Iowa All-State basketball standout. In college, he was a three-year all-conference and an NAIA AllAmerica honorable mention performer at William Penn where he was team captain for three years. Speilbauer helped the Statesmen post back-to-back conference championships, reaching the 2007 NAIA Division II National Tournament in his senior season. Born Sept. 18, 1984, he is the son of Ken and Karen Spielbauer. He has a brother, Davis, and a sister, Emily. He enjoys playing all sports. His father has been the head coach at Wapello HS for 26 years. He was also an all-American point guard at William Penn.
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BONNETTE Office Assistant 3rd Season on Demon Staff, 4th at NSU Colene Bonnette returned to Northwestern State in 2007 after a two-year hiatus, and serves as the women’s soccer and men’s basketball administrative assistant. The Lake Charles native spent two years as the administrative assistant for sports information prior to accepting a job off campus. Colene is very active in the Natchitoches community, serving as a member of both the Les Amie Service Organization and the Service League of Natchitoches, which she holds the title of Co-Chairman of the Social Committee. She enjoys scrapbooking, traveling and spending time with her family. She’s married to Matthew Bonnette, NSU’s associate sports information director, and the couple has two daughters, Haley who is 9 and a fourth grader at the NSU Elementary Lab School, and Katelyn, who will turned 6 in November and is in kindergarten at the NSUE.
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Ed Evans
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Head Athletic Trainer Georgia Southern, 1979 21st Season at NSU
Assistant Athletic Trainer Idaho State, 1999 • Northwestern State, 2001 5th Season at NSU
Now in his 21st season directing the Eugene Christmas Sports Medicine Center at Northwestern State and 26th year in the profession, Ed Evans has earned the respect of his peers, along with honors from Northwestern State’s athletic letter winners and the Louisiana governor’s office for his contributions to the field of sports medicine and athletic training in general and to Northwestern State in particular. Evans was presented honorary membership in the Graduate N Club, the association of athletic letter winners at Northwestern State, during 2005 homecoming ceremonies. Only four other individuals have received such an honor from the N Club, which was paying tribute to Evans’ dedicated, unselfish service in four decades (counting his time as a graduate student) to student-athletes at NSU. In 2004, Evans was named the regional “College Athletic Trainer of the Year” by the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association, which includes members who are in the profession in seven states from Louisiana to Georgia and Kentucky. Evans served six years as president of the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Association and six more as secretary/treasurer. He was enshrined in the LATA Hall of Fame in 2000. Evans is the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Athletic Training to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. He also serves on the Governor’s Council for Physical Fitness, appointed early in 2000 by then Gov. Mike Foster. Evans has been an instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi Student Trainer’s Camp for the last 20 years. Evans worked as a graduate assistant at Northwestern from 1979-82. He earned his masters degree in physical education (1980) and completed 30 hours beyond the master’s with an emphasis in guidance and counseling. Evans served four years in the U.S Navy as a hospital corpsman and physical/occupational therapy technician. He spent seven years as athletic trainer at Natchitoches Central High School, working the Louisiana High School Coaches Association’s All-Star games two years, before joining the Northwestern staff. He and his wife Chris have three sons, Jonathan, David and Tim. An avid cyclist, he generates donations for the training room in an annual spring bike-a-thon.
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Jason Drury joined the sports medicine staff at Northwestern State University in the summer of 2005. Drury came to NSU from Natchitoches Central High School where he was the head athletic trainer for five years. Starting in the fall of 2009, Drury will be taking over the sports medicine responsibilities for Demon Football. A 1999 graduate of Idaho State University in biology, Drury worked with numerous sports in Pocatello, Idaho including football, men's basketball and track and field. Drury earned his master's degree in sports administration from Northwestern State in 2001, during which time he worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the NSU softball team. Jason grew up in southern Indiana near Paoli. He and his wife, Toni, have been married for six years. They have one son, Maddox. David Berkeley-Tuchmayer Assistant Athletic Trainer Appalachian State, 2006 • NSU, 2008 4th Season at NSU David Berkeley-Tuchmayer begins his fourth season on the NSU athletic training staff and second as an assistant trainer. Berkeley-Tuchmayer is the primary athletic trainer for the Lady Demon soccer team. Before being promoted to a full time assistant, he worked with Demon football and baseball as a graduate assistant. Berkeley-Tuchmayer, a native of Wilmington, N.C., and a 2006 graduate of Appalachian State, is the son of Harry Tuchmayer and Kathleen Berkeley. He has one brother, Jeremy, who just welcomed into his family a baby girl. Berkeley-Tuchmayer received his masters degree in sports administration in the spring of 2008.
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Dr. Chris Rich Team Physician Dr. Chris Rich completed his undergraduate degree at LSU in Baton Rouge, followed by a Doctor of Medicine degree from the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He finished his Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at LSU in 1988. Dr. Rich is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, with a successful Recertification with a specialty interest in sports medicine in 2000. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a member of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, a charter member of the Louisiana Sports Medicine Society, and a board member of the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association. Dr. Rich has been recently appointed to Governor Blanco's Committee on Healthcare Reform. Dr. Rich has been the Head Team Physician for the Northwestern Demons since 1990. His practice specializes in sports medicine, arthroscopy of the shoulder and knee, and knee reconstruction. During his tenure at NSU, over 500 athletes have sustained an injury that required a surgery, with an incredible rate of return to full sports competition of 99%. A native of San Antonio, Dr. Rich was a three-year letterman in football as an offensive lineman at LSU from 1976-78. He earned Academic All-Southeastern Conference honors in 1977 and 1978. Dr. Rich is the managing partner of Mid State Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center in Alexandria. Mid State, along with Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital, was designated as #1 in Orthopaedics for the State of Louisiana for 2004 by HEALTHGRADES, "The Healthcare Quality Experts". He is married to the former Vickie Rainey, and they have three children, Jeff, Margaret and Stacie. His hobbies include spending time with his family, golf, fishing, and duck hunting.
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Wild, Twins, and Timberwolves. After fellowship, Dr. Leddy practiced in Kissimmee, Florida with Orthopaedic Associates of Osceola. There, he cared for many local high school and collegiate athletes. He was head team physician for the Florida Seals Professional Hockey Team and Osceola Ghostriders Professional Indoor Football Team. He was also the lead orthopaedic surgeon for the Capital One Bowl and part of the medical staff for the NBA Combines. In 2007, Dr. Leddy accepted an invitation to return to Louisiana and join Mid-State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center in Alexandria. He specializes in sports medicine, arthroscopy of the shoulder, knee and hip, and knee and shoulder reconstruction. Dr. Leddy is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 2007, he was part of the inaugural class of orthopaedic surgeons to receive a Subspecialty Board Certification in Sports Medicine by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association. A native of Hopewell Junction, New York, Dr. Leddy is married to the forrmer Andrée Braud of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, and they have two children, Anna Clare and Mary Caitlin. His hobbies include spending time with his family, golf, hunting, and reading.
Jason Parker Director of Rehabilitation Louisiana Tech, 1997 5th Season with NSU Jason Parker joined the staff in the spring of 2006 and is a physical therapist with Guidroz Physical Therapy. A Natchitoches native, Parker graduated from Natchitoches Central High School in the spring of 1992. After high school, Parker attended Louisiana Tech University where he was a member of the Bulldog baseball team. After graduating from Louisiana Tech, he recieved his Masters of Physical Therapy in the spring of 1999 from LSU Health Science Center in Shreveport, LA. Parker is married, and he and his wife, Mandy, have 3 children, Jay, Jensen and Adam.
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Dr. Randall J. Webb Northwestern State President Dr. Randall J. Webb never misses a chance to tell people about the good things happening at Northwestern State University. And Webb has been responsible to many of those accomplishments. Webb became NSU's 17th president in July 1996 and is the second-longest serving president in the university's 125-year history. During Webb's tenure, enrollment exceeded 10,000 students for the first time, peaking at 10,505 students in the fall of 2004. The university also set records for total graduates in an academic year. With the implementation of selective admissions in the fall of 2005, the academic preparation of freshmen students has increased considerably. Overall enrollment initially decreased after the implementation of selective admissions, but has begun to increase again. Northwestern has improved its academic programs while attracting better-prepared students. The average ACT score of students has risen under Webb's tenure, and student leaders are choosing NSU in large numbers. The university has dramatically increased the number of high school valedictorians and salutatorians among first-time freshmen. While Webb has been president, Northwestern has increased the level of active external grant and contract funding from federal, state and private sources to approximately $20,000,000 annually. The university raised more than $34 million from alumni, friends, supporters, and private industry in its first-ever capital campaign, which exceeded its $18.84 million goal by more than $15 million. A new capital campaign, in honor of Northwestern's 125th anniversary, is now underway. The university has received donations or pledges for its first three $1 million endowed chairs. Northwestern also has 34 endowed professorships worth $100,000 each. NSU has also moved boldly to deliver instruction to students wherever they are. Under Webb, the university has become a state and regional leader in bringing classes to students by compressed video and the Internet. The university offers over twenty degree programs via the Internet and is looking to add more programs in the future. More than half of the students at Northwestern take an electronic class. Under Webb, the university has modernized and improved its facilities. A $6.9 million Wellness, Recreation, and Activity Center was completed in the center of the campus on the site of the old Intramural Building. Projects to renovate Morrison Hall, the Family and Consumer Sciences Building and Williamson Hall were also completed. West Caspari Hall was demolished and funding has been received to reconstruct West Caspari as a three-story, one-stop center for student services. Plans call for renovating East Caspari Hall in the future. Northwestern has also built University Place Phases I and II, providing on-campus students with modern residence facilities that best meet their needs. Additional projects include replacement of the entire underground electrical distribution system and the steam distribution system and the improvement of drainage and replacement of the turf at Turpin Stadium. A one-time walk-on center for the Northwestern football team as an undergraduate, Webb has been one of the most avid supporters of the university's athletic programs. Since returning to the Northwestern campus in 1989, Webb has been active as a donor and volunteer. In 1994, he oversaw a successful Northwestern Athletic Association board of directors and served on the NSU Athletic Council. In 19951996, Webb was in charge of the Athletic Integrity Subcommittee for the university's NCAA Certification Self-Study. He served on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors and the prestigious and powerful NCAA Executive Council, which oversees all major policy decisions by the governing body for major college sports. The Board of Directors enacted major academic reforms during his tenure. A 1965 graduate of Northwestern in mathematics and business education, Webb earned a master of science in mathematics from NSU in 1966. He received a doctorate in education from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1971 with a concentration in mathematics and research. Webb was a member of the faculty at Longwood College in Farmville, Va., from 1966 until 1974. From 1974 until 1976, he was the director of Higher Education and Teacher Certification in the Louisiana Department of Education.
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In 1976, Webb moved to U N I V E R S I T Y A D M I N I S T R A T I O N Southeastern Louisiana President University where he served as . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Randall J. Webb director of institutional research Provost and Vice President for Academic and and EEO officer from 1976 until Student Affairs 1983 and as registrar and a part. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Lisa Abney time faculty member in mathe- Vice President for External Affairs matics from 1983 until 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jerry D. Pierce, B.A. Webb returned to NSU in Vice President for Business Affairs 1989 as dean of Instruction and . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carl Jones, MBA Graduate Studies and professor Vice President for University Affairs of mathematics. In that position, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marcus Jones he exercised campus-wide Vice President for Technology, Research and responsibility for policy develop- Economic Development ment, planning, advancement, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Darlene Williams and review of both graduate and Executive Assistant to the President undergraduate programs. While . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Crew Webb was in that role, graduate enrollment increased by 35 percent and internal funding for faculty research increased by 200 percent. As dean, Webb proposed the concept for NSU's successful Freshman Connection Program. He also served as a member of the writing team for a grant proposal that resulted in a five year $1.7 million Title III grant to improve student retention. The University has been the beneficiary of additional Title III grants in the ensuing years. Webb chaired the Steering Committee for Northwestern's Self-Study for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Webb led the effort to locate both Boys and Girls State on the Natchitoches campus of Northwestern. These activities have benefited the University and the community and have generated increased interest in Northwestern among the student leaders who participate. He has also been active in the community as a member of the board of directors of the Natchitoches Chamber of Commerce. Webb was a member of the Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches, the Natchitoches Historic Foundation, and the Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Society. Webb and his wife Brenda have two daughters, both honor graduates of Northwestern. Tamara and her husband, former Demon All-American pitcher Reggie Gatewood, are the parents of two children: Tyler and Ava. Lauren is married to former Demon baseball player Nick Simokatis, and they have two sons:
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Jerry Pierce Vice President/External Affairs Jerry Pierce is the Cal Ripken of the Northwestern State athletic program. Day after day, year after year, Pierce is in the lineup, fielding his position with aplomb, and delivering at the plate, knocking a ball out of the park from time to time but always taking an understated profile, seeing himself as a role player. Beginning his 45th year on the university's staff, Pierce's impact on NSU and the city of Natchitoches can't be measured as easily as Ripkin's Baseball Hall of Fame statistics, but they are equally indelible. He begins his 20th year as vice president of external affairs at Northwestern. A significant aspect of his job is oversight of intercollegiate athletics. Pierce works closely with athletic director Greg Burke and all NSU coaches and staff members to keep Northwestern athletics competing at a championship level week after week, month after month and year after year. Pierce is an avid tennis player who has been a member of USTA teams that have won more than a dozen state championships, five regional titles and one national championship. NSU Athletic Council Well before moving into the executive position, Pierce had already served his alma mater, adopted hometown and state with John Ackel distinction. In his role as vice president, he oversees university Jody Biscoe (chair) operations in athletics, alumni and development, public and media Dion Boyett Dusty Dischler (student) relations and assists President Dr. Randall J. Webb in governmenKelee Grimes (student) tal affairs activities. Many of those duties were his since the 1970s as he worked under four previous presidents as Northwestern Dr. Michael Land Mark Lipa advanced from NAIA to NCAA College Division to NCAA Division I Dr. Jeff Matthews athletic status in 1977. Dr. Lisa Pollacia A 1961 graduate of Northwestern, Pierce served as trainer for the Kristi Simms Demon football team during his college years, working closely with Cathy Sutton legendary coach Jack Clayton. After earning his journalism degree, Dr. Sonia Tinsley Pierce went to work for the New Orleans Times Picayune, serving Krist Swinburghe as a reporter and editor. He was named executive sports editor at Jennifer Videtto the age of 24. In 1965, he chose to raise his two sons in Natchitoches and Ex-Officio M e m b e r s returned to NSU as sports information director. He was promoted to Greg Burke news bureau director two years later and assumed additional Donnie Cox responsibilities in athletics, alumni affairs and other areas through Dustin Eubanks the years. Jodie Heinicka He founded, in 1972, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame facility Dr. Patrice Moulton in Prather Coliseum on the NSU campus, providing a home for an Dr. Vicki Parrish entity created in 1958. He established annual induction activities Jerry Pierce that remain in place nearly four decades later, and served as director of the Hall for 19 years until his promotion to vice president forced him to step aside from the volunteer post. He helped guide Northwestern into three athletic conferences (Trans America, 1979; Gulf Star, 1983; Southland, 1987) and NCAA Division I status in 1977. He is a past president of the Southland and has served the conference through other offices and committee positions. In 1994, he was named one of Louisiana's 20 most influential sports figures by the TimesPicayune. Also on the list were New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, LSU athletic director Joe Dean and basketball coach Dale Brown, and Grambling football coaching legend Eddie Robinson. His salesmanship and managerial skills were instrumental in convincing Tri-Star Productions to film the 1989 smash hit movie Steel Magnolias, with an all-star cast including Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Dylan McDermott in Natchitoches and on the NSU campus. The movie's impact on tourism in Natchitoches continues to resonate more than a decade later. Pierce is regarded as one of the most effective legislative liaisons for Louisiana's higher education system. He is also a popular after dinner speaker and master of ceremonies who has spoken at hundreds of events since 1965. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Pierce is a member of the Journalism Department faculty. He is the author of one book and editor of two others and has written thousands of editorials, columns, features and other articles for newspapers and magazines. Pierce and his wife Regina, a teacher, live on Cane River Lake in Natchitoches. He has two sons, Randy and Rick, both NSU graduates; and three grandchildren, twins Evan and Amanda, 20, and Miranda, 9, and two stepchildren, Nicholas and Natalie.
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Highlights of NSU athletics in the first 10 years under the leadership of Dr. Randall Webb, Vice President Jerry Pierce and Director of Athletics Greg Burke 22 Southland Conference Championships (7 sports)
Football (1997, 1998, 2004), basketball (2005, 2006), women’s basketball (1999, 2004), baseball (1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005), women’s soccer (2000), softball (1998, 1999, 2000), men’s track and field (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002). All-Sports (1997-98). 10 SLC Tournament Championships (4 sports) Basketball (2001, 2006), women’s soccer (1997, 2000, 2002, 2005), women’s basketball (2004) and softball (1998, 2000, 2002). 16 Postseason Appearances (6 sports) Football - FCS Division playoffs (1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004); basketball (2001, 2006); women’s basketball (2004); baseball (2005); softball (1998, 2000, 2002); women’s soccer (2000, 2002, 2005). Women’s Basketball also played in the 1999 WNIT. 45 National Awards (5 sports) All-America awards - track and field (18), football (19), baseball (1). Academic All-America honors – softball (2), baseball (2). Foundation
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Postgraduate Scholarship (1); basketball - 2006 Pontiac Game Changing Performance $100,000 Scholarship 3 Olympic Competitors (2 sports) Track and field alumni LaMark Carter (2000) Kenta Bell (2004 and 2008) represented the USA in the Olympic Games in the triple jump. Fomer Demon basketball player Dr. Gayle Hatch was the USA’s head men’s weightlifting coach in the 2004 Athens Games.
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Athletic Administration within the NSU athletic program as it relates to academic success. In February, 2005, NSU led all state public universities in the NCAA's initial Academic Progress Rates report, which measures the job Division I athletic programs are doing to help advance their student-athletes toward graduation. NSU has continued to sparkle in Director of Athletics subsequent APR reports, with the men's basketball team ranking in the top 10 perMidway through his 14th year as director of athlet- centile in the country in 2006 and women's soccer sharing the national lead in 2007. ics at Northwestern State, Greg Burke sees emerging In addition, NSU led all state public schools and was second in the Southland opportunities for unprecedented success for the Conference in the most recently released NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. Demons and Lady Demons built partly from a foundaIn 2005, Burke was one of three recipients of the All-America Football tion of many landmark achievements during his tenure Foundation's Gen. Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award and that as AD. same year, was also tabbed as one of two Natchitoches Parish Cenla Newsmakers Athletics director at Northwestern since speaking of 2005 by the Alexandria Town Talk newspaper's editorial staff. at the annual NSU/Independence Bowl Kickoff He received the 2006 “Outstanding Alumni Award” from his alma mater, Luncheon on August 29, 1996, Burke is the longest- Marlington High School in Alliance, Ohio, recognizing his community service and serving AD at any Louisiana institution. professional achievements. Burke became one of only 21 alumni honored since He has steered NSU athletics to many of its greatest accomthe award was instituted in 1982. plishments while overseeing a program that has fielded champiIn June 2006, he was a featured speaker and panelist at the The Burke File onship caliber teams in nearly all of the school's NCAA Division National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors convention I sports. in New Orleans, addressing members of the College Athletic AGE: 53 (Born Oct. 22, 1956) There have been 22 Southland Conference championships; HOMETOWN: Alliance, Ohio Business Managers of America and also participating in a panel 16 teams in postseason play; 50 national award winners, most HIGH SCHOOL: Marlington ’74 discussion of "Fundraising from an Athletic Director's either All-America athletes or Academic All-America recipients; COLLEGE: Mt. Union ’78 (cum laude) Perspective" speaking to the National Association of Athletic and three Olympic competitors. POSTGRADUATE: Kent State ’86 Development Directors. NSU in 2004-05 became the first (and remains the only) BEFORE HE WAS A.D.: Sports writer, Since 2007, Burke has been a member of the prestigious Southland Conference member in the league's five decades of Alliance (Ohio) Review, 1972-78; director NCAA Championships/Sports Management Cabinet, a 49-perhistory to sweep football, men's basketball and baseball cham- of news and sports information, Hiram son panel which makes recommendations to the NCAA Board of pionships in the same athletic year. It's been done only once in (Ohio) College (1978-85); administrative Directors on key issues facing Division I athletics. Southeastern Conference history, by Alabama in 1933-34, and intern, NSU athletics, 1985-86; director, He previously served a four-year term on the NCAA Division only four times in Big Ten Conference history, the last time by NSU Athletic Association, 1986-92; direc- I Football Issues Committee (1999-2002) and concurrently tor of athletic development, University of served a term on the eight-member NCAA FCS Committee that Michigan State in 1979-80. Those accomplishments have come with one of the more Akron, 1992-96. administers the national playoffs. Since his committee term modest athletic budgets in the state and conference. Burke's BIG FAN OF: Cleveland Browns, Indians expired, Burke has served as a site supervisor for Football and Cavaliers management skill and fundraising ability have been pivotal. Championship Subdivision playoff games across the nation and Facility enhancements have been a main focus over the INTERESTS: Working out, watching he is regarded as one of the country's premiere advocates of ESPN and VH1 Classic, family outings. past couple of years. Beginning with the installation of a $1.1 FCS football. He currently is third vice-president of the FCS million Mondo surface track in Spring 2007, NSU athletic faciliAthletic Director's Association. ties have recently undergone nearly $6 million worth of improvements. Burke genIn 2004, NSU received the highest possible rating, "fully certified," from the erated a $2 million series of sponsorships for new scoreboards installed for 2008- National Collegiate Athletic Association, affirming that Northwestern operates its 09 at all NSU athletic venues and spearheaded the $700,000 Second Century athletic program in substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Circle fencing project for athletic venues. The installation of the new artificial turf NCAA Division I membership. playing field this summer has helped create more than $1 million of additional renBurke is a past president of the Natchitoches Kiwanis Club and remains active ovations to Turpin Stadium. in that civic group. He has also been part of the steering committee for the Burke has displayed a remarkable ability to hire dynamic head coaches, includ- Natchitoches Christmas Festival and is a former president of the Natchitoches Area ing several whose success at Northwestern State has propelled them to national Jaycees. He is involved with the American Heart Association. prominence in subsequent positions. He and his wife, Susu, a Natchitoches native, NSU graduate and elementary Some of his best hires remain on staff at NSU. teacher, have a 15-year-old daughter, Catherine, who is a sophomore at St. Mary's Two Burke coaching hires had Northwestern in NCAA Tournament play in their High School. second seasons and have been back to postseason since. Basketball coach Mike McConathy was hired in 1999 after 16 seasons as a junior college head coach. In his 10 years, the Demons have reached the conference tournament championship game six times, winning twice to make the school's first two NCAA Tournament appearances. Most memorable was the stunning last second win over Big Ten champion Iowa in the first round of the 2006 tournament. That same year, Burke also broke new ground by generating private backing for the first long-term guaranteed coaching contract in school history for McConathy. Women's soccer coach Jimmy Mitchell has taken three teams to the NCAA playoffs, making NSU the only Louisiana university to have multiple appearances. Dramatic facility enhancements have occurred in his eight seasons and Mitchell has been rewarded with a multi-year contract. Burke also picked head coaches who have subsequently been hired by Florida, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Wichita State. He recently landed LSU co-defensive coordinator Bradley Dale Peveto to be the Demons' new football coach. Peveto and his staff promptly signed a 2009 recruiting class ranked No. 1 nationally in the Football Championship Subdivision by Rivals.com recruiting analysts. From his first day on the job, Burke has stressed the importance of having a balanced athletic program. To that end, tremendous competitive strides have been made in women's athletics under his guidance. The NSU soccer program was the first one in Louisiana ever to reach the NCAA Tournament. Softball has made three NCAA Tournament appearances. Volleyball has set attendance records and made its best-ever showings in conference play in each of the past four years. While on-field success by Demon and Lady Demon teams has been a source of pride for NSU supporters, Burke is equally proud of the tone which has been set
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Page Header Athletic Administration Jody Biscoe Faculty Athletic Representative Faculty Athletic Representative Jody Biscoe is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Addiction Studies at Northwestern, where he is the Coordinator for the undergraduate Addiction Studies, and Substance Abuse / Prevention Concentrations. He is also the Director for the Louisiana Addiction Technology Transfer Center at Northwestern. He has served on the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center's (ATTC) - Practice Committee that was responsible for the development of The Change Book: A Blueprint for Technology Transfer. He has also coordinated five nationally recognized Leadership Institutes for Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico and a member of the National ATTC Leadership Directors Committee. He has recently been appointed to the NAADAC - National Addiction Studies & Standards Collaborative Committee. Biscoe has held clinical, program director, consultant, management, regional director and training positions in addiction and mental health treatment and education settings since the mid 1980's and is active with prevention and treatment issues. Since 2006 he has served as Faculty Athletic Representative for Northwestern. This role includes being the chairperson for the NSU Athletic Council. Jody's wife, Veronica (Roni), is an avid runner. Their 15-year-old daughter, Roxy, as a sophomore, is on the Varsity Danceline at St. Mary's High School this year. They are devoted Demon fans.
Dr. William Broussard Executive Director - NSU Athletic Association Associate AD for External Relations One of the most accomplished student-athletes ever at Northwestern State, two-time football All-America center William Broussard returned to his alma mater in February 2007 as the Director of External Relations, coordinating fundraising activities through the Athletic Association and Demon Victory Fund. Known for his avid and tireless promotion of NSU Athletics, Broussard has represented the department as Director of External Relations and planned or helped organize hundreds of events to promote Demon Athletics. After re-branding the annual fund campaign the Demon Victory Fund (DVF) in 2007, the DVF enjoyed its most successful year up to that point. The 2008-09 DVF, with the assistance of a newly re-organized Board of Directors, once again broke the annual record for total revenues, number of Athletic Association members, and Select 100 Members on the way to establishing a new benchmark for annual, unrestricted support of the NSU Athletic Department. Under Broussard’s guidance, the NSU Athletic Association has set three consecutive annual total attainment records, secured the largest scholarship endowment and largest planned gift in the history of NSU Athletics. In the 2007-08 year, the NSU Athletic Association established or tied several annual records under Broussard’s guidance, including annual records for total operating revenues, gift-in-kind donations, number of commitments to the Endowed Scholarship Program (8), and an annual record for corporate sales and corporate licensing revenues generated by Athletic Association colleague Ryan Holloway. The 2008-09 was a tremendous success as well, with the Endowed Scholarship Fund adding 6 commitments, the Second Century Campaign crossing the $100K plateau of private support, and the NSU Athletic Association Board of Directors generating over $186K of funding for NSU Athletics. Broussard represents Northwestern State as the Southland Conference representative of the National Association of Athletic Directors of Development (NAADD) and is also an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Public Relations at NSU. He is the author of several essays on the culture of college athletics, writes a bi-weekly sports editorial for local news magazine The Real Views, and is co-host of Talk Back Natchitoches PM on Mondays from 5-6 pm on KNOC AM 1450. Broussard is a 2000 graduate, with distinction, of the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University and a 2007 graduate of the University of Arizona, with his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition. A native of Crowley, he is married to the former Kendra Peters, a Lady Demon volleyball player during the couple’s days at Northwestern.
Lauren Castle Assistant Director of Special Facilities for Events Operations In her second year on the NSU athletic staff, Lauren Castle has been a big hit with her upbeat attitude, seemingly endless work ethic, and willingness to touch all the bases to make every facility and every event the best it can be. It's the same approach she used as a three-time All-America softball star at LSU from 2004-06. Under legendary coach Yvette Girouard, Castle compiled a long list of accolades, including being on the 2006 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Watch List as she served as the Lady Tigers' team captain. She graduated from LSU in May 2007. She has worked in administrative roles with
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Alex Cook Assistant Marketing Director After making a strong local and regional impression as operations manager of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, Lafayette native Alex Cook is in his first year as assistant marketing director for NSU athletics, joining the staff in late August. Cook handled sponsorship sales, administrative duties and promotional activities for the 2009 Hall of Fame Induction Celebration featuring NFL greats Will Roaf and Marshall Faulk, golfer Hal Sutton, and women’s basketball coaching legend Sonja Hogg. He arrived in Natchitoches in April after graduating in March from Eastern Oregon University, earning a business administration degree with a concentration in marketing and a minor in economics. He was three-year letterman as a wide receiver on the EOU football team. Cook became the first student invited to serve on the university’s marketing committee and also provided assistance to the director of athletics. While in school, Cook also worked as a sales representative for NXGEN Payment Services, a national e-commerce firm affiliated with many athletics departments, governmental agencies and other entities. He also was an account consultant for Next Step Consulting in his hometown of Boise, Idaho, and was a marketing intern for the 2007 Cascade Collegiate Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by EOU in LaGrande. An Eagle Scout, Cook is a recipient of the Boy Scouts of America National Heroism Award for Lifesaving. He was a football, basketball and track letterman at Centennial High School in Boise. Born Nov. 15, 1984 in Lafayette, where his father was serving as head women’s basketball coach at Louisiana-Lafayette, Cook is the son of Ross and Sheila Cook of Boise. His mother served as the management consultant to NSU Athletics to establish the Scholarship Auction in 1989 before the family relocated to Boise. He has a sister, Megan, who is a recent graduate of Oregon State now employed in marine biological research and preservation activities based in Hawaii.
Carrie Crowell Assistant Academic Advisor Carrie Crowell, a two-year Academic All-Southland Conference soccer standout for Northwestern State in 2005-06, has been named an academic coordinator in the Johnnie Emmons Athletic Study Center at NSU. Crowell had served as an intern in the Academic Services and CHAMPS/Life Skills program since January while also completing her second season as a graduate assistant soccer coach and finishing work on her master's of science in sport administration. She was a magna cum laude graduate of NSU in August 2007 in business administration, and also was a key contributor on the Lady Demons' 2005 NCAA Tournament team that won the Southland Conference Tournament. Crowell joins academic coordinator and senior woman administrator Jodie Heinicka as the full-time staff serving almost 350 student-athletes at NSU. Her appointment has been approved by the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana system, which governs Northwestern. She replaces Becca Schulze, who resigned in May. Crowell will coordinate academic support for several sports. She also heads the Enhanced Academic Program which provides additional help for student-athletes and aids in maintaining a healthy and successful balance between academics and athletics. During the past academic year, Crowell was an instructor in the department of Health and Human Performance. In her role as an intern working with the Academic Services department, she assisted with advising and scheduling classes for student-athletes in the Fall 2009 semester and oversaw day-to-day study hall operations. She assisted in staging and operation of CHAMPS/Life Skills and career workshops for student-athletes. On the Lady Demon soccer staff, she was the liaison for academic support and NCAA compliance, and managed the team travel budget and fundraising. She was also involved
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Athletic Administration in scouting and recruiting and on-field coaching. Crowell served an internship in the summer of 2008 with the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, helping stage events supporting a Nationwide Tour golf tournament co-sponsored by the Hall. She also assisted in daily operations of the museum in Springfield, Mo., and helped stage the Missouri High School Basketball All-Stars Game. Crowell was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta honors society from 2005-2007, graduating in three years with a 3.74 grade point average. She made the SLC Commissioners' Academic Honor Roll in the last three seasons she competed for NSU, capped by a 2006 season in which her defense helped the Lady Demons set a school record for least goals allowed per game. A native of Arlington, Texas, Crowell was born March 20, 1986.
Dustin Eubanks Assistant AD/NCAA Compliance Director Dustin Eubanks is in his 12th year in the NSU athletic department and his ninth year at the helm of the compliance duties, keeping all athletic personnel current and in accordance with NCAA and Southland Conference guidelines. A 1996 education graduate of Northwestern, the 35-year-old avid fan of all teams that hail from Pittsburgh seized an opportunity to serve as a graduate assistant in the sports information department at Northwestern while beginning the pursuit of his master’s degree in health and physical education (concentration in sports administration), which he obtained in May of 2003, and was impressive enough to earn a promotion to full-time status in November 1998. Eubanks is married to the former Dawn Hornsby of Branch and the couple has two daughters, Emilie (14) and Taylor Nicole (3). The sisters share the same birthdate. Dustin and Dawn, who is the Associate Director of Financial Aid at NSU, will celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary this summer.
Roxanne Freeman Athletic Business Manager Roxanne Freeman began working at NSU in 1983 as an accounting clerk in business affairs. She transferred to the athletic department as football/baseball/track secretary and served under Sam Goodwin, Leon Johnson and several baseball coaches for eight seasons before graduating with a B.S. in accounting in May 1995. Freeman then became the compliance coordinator and academic advisor during a three-year span before leaving in 1998. She returned to NSU in the Fall of 2000 in her current position as Business Manager where she now serves as liaison between the athletic department and business affairs. She has one son, Aaron Pizani, who recently graduated from NSU.
Jodie Heinicka Senior Woman Administrator/Academic Coordinator Jodie Heinicka, a nationally-ranked gymnast at Missouri and an acclaimed scholar-athlete before beginning her career in academic support and athletic administration, is the Senior Woman's Administrator and Academic Advisor for Northwestern State athletics. Heinicka, the 2006 Big 12 Conference Female Sportsperson of the Year, came on board in mid-April 2008. She replaced Julie Lessiter, who stepped down to enter private business early this year after nearly a decade of service in the critical position. Heinicka manages academic support activities for more than 300 Northwestern student-athletes, who utilize dozens of computer terminals and study carrels that are among the facilities available in the Johnnie Emmons Academic Support Center in the NSU Athletic Fieldhouse. During her first year as a Demon, Heinicka was able to make steady progress to increase the services offered to NSU student-athletes. With an additional academic coordinator position filled, the athletic academic services sport responsibilities were divided between two coordinators, allowing for more personalized attention to each sport. Additionally, the CHAMPS/Life Skills program was ramped up to provide a strong focus on personal and career development by offering career assessments, résumé-writing consultations, and mock interviews as well as monthly workshops covering areas such as personal finances, leadership, nutrition, and professional development. As a unique part of the CHAMPS program, Heinicka also introduced the first ever Etiquette Dinner; a four-course meal at which student-athletes were taught dining etiquette and given the opportunity to interact with fellow student-athletes and local business professionals in a formal setting. In spring 2009, Heinicka was honored as the NSU “Advisor of the Year” for her overall success with these programs. In her athletic career at Mizzou, Heinicka posted six of the top 12 uneven bars scores in program history. As a sophomore in 2004, she set the Mizzou bars record when she recorded a 9.950 at the Cat Classic to win the individual event title. In the best season of her career, Heinicka ended her senior campaign ranked fourth
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nationally on bars and stood as the South Central Region's top bars performer 11-of-12 weeks. Over the course of the year, she won 12 event titles. When she was named the 2006 Big 12 Female Sportsperson of the Year, it was the first time a Missouri student-athlete earned the honor. Heinicka was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 first team selection and was named a National Association of Gymnastics Coaches/Women Scholar Athlete in 2006. She was named the 2007 Women's Intersport Network Collegiate Sportswoman of the Year. She was the recipient of the 2006 Prentice Gautt Big 12 Postgraduate Scholarship Award and served as Mizzou's SAAC vice president in her senior year, 2005-06. For two straight years, the Mizzou athletic department featured her as its' spokesperson to the Jefferson Club Society, which is the highest level of donors at the university. She spoke to the society's annual gatherings in Florida and California. The Seminole, Fla., native earned a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in May 2006. She received a master's degree in Higher and Continuing Education from Missouri in May, 2008.
Adam Jonson Assistant Marketing Director for Ticket Operations Adam Jonson, a former graduate assistant in the Northwestern State sports information office and assistant SID at the University of North Florida, is NSU’s newest addition to the athletic staff after being named assistant marketing director for tickets operations. Jonson, a summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern State, replaces Zach Williams who resigned last April to take a similar position at his alma mater, Louisiana Tech. The Winnsboro native earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in 2007 and will receive his master's degree is sport administration in December from NSU. While working in the NSU sports information office prior to his stint at North Florida, Jonson was the primary contact for the Lady Demon soccer, softball and tennis teams. He was awarded the prestigious Ace Higgins Award by the Louisiana Sports Writer's Association in 2007 as the state's top student SID and received a cash scholarship and his 2008 Lady Demon softball media guide earned second place honors by the LSWA as the best media guide in its division. At North Florida, Jonson was the primary contact for the Lady Osprey basketball team as well has promoting men's and women's tennis and baseball. The son of Bill and Leigh Jonson, Adam has a younger brother, Fletcher, who just received his bachelor's degree in journalism at NSU and will be a graduate assistant in the SID office beginning in the fall.
Alan Pasch Director of Athletic Facilities Alan Pasch joined the NSU athletic staff at the outset of 2008 although he’s been a prominent coach on campus since 2001. Pasch was head rowing coach for the club-level crew teams at NSU while also serving as assistant intramural director for the past two years. Pasch, a former Dean’s List student at Northwestern while obtaining his bachelor of arts degree in 2001, picked up his master’s degree in sport administration in 2006 from NSU. The NSU Crew Team was competitive on the national level throughout Pasch’s tenure as head coach. He was varsity team captain from 1997-2000 and was crew oarsman of the year in 1997, 1998 and 2000. Pasch also coordinated visits to Natchitoches by as many as 16 intercollegiate and club rowing teams each winter and spring, including nationally-ranked squads. He also served as director of the annual Natchitoches Marathon Rowing Championships which attracts up to 500 competitors each year. His wife Yonna works in the student life office at Northwestern State. Pasch is also an avid tennis player. The couple recently welcomed their baby son, Amsden Cael, who was born on Sept. 21, 2009.
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Page Header All-Time Series Records • 2009-10 Oppoenent Notes Demons against 2008-09 opponents Centenary Central Arkansas East Texas Baptist Grambling Hawai’i Houston Baptist Indiana Lamar Louisiana State LSU-Shreveport Louisiana Tech McNeese State Missouri Valley State Nicholls Sam Houston State Southeastern Louisiana Southern-New Orleans Stephen F. Austin Texas A&M Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Texas-Arlington Texas-San Antonio Texas State Texas Tech
Opponent Akron Alabama Alabama State Alcorn State Alex. Air Force Ambassador Anderson (IN) Arkansas Arkansas Baptist Arkansas A&M Arkansas College Arkansas Little Rock Arkansas Monticello Arkansas State Arkansas Tech Athens (AL) Austin Barksdale Air Force Baylor Belhaven Bowling Green Brigham Young Cal-Santa Barbara Campbell College Centenary College Central Arkansas Central Missouri Central State (OK) Chicago State Cincinnatti Cleveland State Colorado Colorado State Dallas David Lipscomb Dayton Delta State DePaul Drake Drexel Emporia State East Cen. State (OK) E. Tennessee State E. Texas Baptist E. Texas State Eastern Kentucky Eastern New Mexico Eastern Washington Findlay Florida A&M Fort Polk Fredonia State (NY) Georgetown George Washington Georgia Southern Georgia State Grambling Hamline Harding Hanover (IN)
NSU Won 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 0 2 9 1 2 0 1 0 1 61 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 0 1 0 1 1 1 15 8 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 1 4 2 7 1 2 0
NSU Lost 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 8 0 6 0 1 0 1 5 0 1 1 1 1 75 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 14 0 0 1
Won Lost 61 75 6 1 15 3 7 14 0 3 12 12 0 1 19 22 7 14 4 1 59 72 52 57 FIRST MEETING 58 38 27 22 96 52 2 0 59 48 2 3 1 3 22 26 17 18 24 23 0 2 First Game 80-81 85-86 91-92 08-09 51-52 93-94 54-55 53-54 86-87 68-69 54-55 80-81 96-97 50-51 49-50 67-68 48-49 45-46 45-46 97-98 79-80 48-49 07-08 77-78 21-22 75-76 53-54 48-49 84-85 04-05 78-79 95-96 89-90 92-93 55-56 04-05 47-48 06-07 88-89 84-85 94-95 50-51 71-72 47-48 55-56 59-60 52-53 87-88 53-54 85-86 45-46 60-61 60-61 59-60 66-67 76-77 68-69 61-62 91-92 73-74
Last Game 80-81 93-94 91-92 08-09 52-53 93-94 54-55 08-09 92-93 68-69 54-55 85-86 01-02 03-04 80-81 67-68 49-50 49-50 02-03 98-99 79-80 94-95 07-08 78-79 08-09 08-09 55-56 48-49 84-85 04-05 78-79 97-98 89-90 92-93 55-56 04-05 75-76 06-07 88-89 84-85 94-95 50-51 71-72 08-09 86-87 61-62 52-53 87-88 53-54 85-86 53-54 60-61 60-61 59-60 83-84 76-77 08-09 61-62 05-06 73-74
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First ‘22-21 ‘75-76 ‘47-48 ’69-69 ‘01-02 ‘67-68 ‘08-09 ‘50-51 ‘15-16 ‘03-04 ‘15-16 ‘51-52
Last ‘08-09 ‘08-09 ’08-09 ‘08-09 ‘06-07 ‘08-09 ‘08-09 ‘08-09 ‘08-09 ‘08-09 ‘98-99 ‘08-09
‘58-59 ‘51-52 ‘38-39 ‘07-08 ‘25-26 ‘52-53 ‘06-07 ‘72-73 ‘91-92 ‘60-61 ‘89-90
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Opponent Hardin-Simmons Harvard Hawai’i Henderson State Hendrix College Houston Houston Baptist Huston-Tillotson Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Jackson State Jacksonville State(AL) Jarvis Christian Kansas State Kentucky Kentucky Wesleyan Lake Charles AFB Lamar LaSalle Oilers LeTourneau Livingston College Louisiana Christian Louisiana College Louisiana-Monroe Louisiana State LSU-Shreveport Louisiana Tech Louisville Loyola (LA) Marquette Marshall Maryville (MO) McNeese State Memphis State Mercer Mexico Oil Company Miami (OH) Mississippi Mississippi State Missouri Nevada Las Vegas New Mexico New Orleans Nicholls North Alabama Northwest Oklahoma North Texas Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio State Oklahoma State Oklahoma Oklahoma City Ouachita Baptist Oglethorpe Oregon State Pepperdine Peru State (NE) Phillips University
Noteworthy State's second-oldest active hoops rivalry 3 of last 4 NSU wins by combined 4 points ETBU nearly beat '05-'06 Demons Demons won 83-79 at Grambling last year 'Bows wins by 2, 4 and 11 points Once Trans America Conference rivals Mom of Coach Sless is longtime Assembly Hall usher Coach Mike is godfather to Coach Roccoforte's son State's oldest active hoops rivalry includes 103-73 Demon win in '56 Ex-NSU assistant Ryan Edwards on LSU-S staff Coach Mike's alma mater 'Pokes coach Dave Simmons assistant at NSU 1999-2006 Vikings an NAIA football power Colonels have won 4 of last 5 after 12 straight Demon wins Teams met in 2006 SLC Championship game won by NSU NSU 13-8 vs. SLU under Coach Mike, but swept last year Demons won 92-64 last Dec. 22 Demons 6-3 vs. SFA last 9 meetings, but swept last year Aggies gave Demons worst loss (13 points) in '05-06 Isles' junior Justin Reynolds son of Demon great Billy Reynolds Demons have won 5 of last 7, but lost last 2 NSU 5-1 vs. 'Runners last 4 years Bobcats haven't won at NSU since 2004 NSU was one of last victories for Bob Knight NSU Won 13 0 0 6 1 0 12 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 19 1 1 3 0 114 45 7 4 59 0 5 0 0 0 52 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 58 2 2 9 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 1 1 0 1 1
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First Game 56-57 07-08 01-02 50-51 75-76 70-71 67-68 03-04 00-01 08-09 05-06 05-06 83-84 73-74 04-05 99-00 85-86 61-62 53-54 50-51 45-46 91-92 73-74 95-96 14-15 51-52 15-16 03-04 15-16 06-07 25-26 06-07 67-68 50-51 51-52 55-56 80-81 52-53 08-09 97-98 81-82 05-06 71-72 02-03 72-73 58-59 73-74 59-60 53-54 04-05 03-04 79-80 98-99 84-85 47-48 69-70 64-65 05-06 80-81 46-47 48-49
Last Game 86-87 07-08 06-07 06-07 75-76 88-89 08-09 04-05 04-05 08-09 05-06 05-06 91-92 75-76 04-05 99-00 88-89 61-62 53-54 08-09 45-46 91-92 75-76 95-96 99-00 05-06 08-09 08-09 98-99 06-07 56-57 06-07 88-89 50-51 08-09 01-02 83-84 52-53 08-09 97-98 05-06 05-06 77-78 03-04 07-08 08-09 75-76 75-76 95-96 04-05 06-07 79-80 08-09 98-99 47-48 93-94 65-66 05-06 80-81 46-47 48-49
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Opponent Portland State Princeton Puget Sound Quantico Marines Regis College Rice St. Joseph’s (ME) Samford Sam Houston State Selmon Field Siena South Alabama Southeastern La. Southeastern Okla. Southern Methodist Southern Mississippi Southern Arkansas Southern Southern (N.O.) SW Baptist (TX) Southwestern (KN Southwest Missouri Southwestern La. Spring Hill College Stanford Stephen F. Austin Stetson Tarleton State Tennessee-Martin Tennessee Tech Texaco Town Texas Texas A&I Texas A&M Texas A&M-CC Texas-Arlington Texas Christian Texas-ElPaso Texas Lutheran Texas-San Antonio Texas Southern Texas State Texas Tech Toledo Troy Tulane Tulsa Univ. of Ozarks Utah State Valparaiso Washburn Wiley College Western Illinois Western Kentucky West Texas State West Virginia Wheaton Whittier College Wichita State Wyoming Xavier (LA)
NSU Won 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 27 2 1 4 96 17 0 18 11 6 2 2 )3 0 77 10 0 59 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 22 0 1 2 17 1 24 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
NSU Lost 0 1 0 1 1 4 0 5 22 0 0 3 52 7 4 25 2 8 0 0 0 2 45 6 1 48 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 3 3 26 3 3 0 18 0 23 2 1 5 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 2 1 0 1 1 2 3
First Game 80-81 06-07 48-49 55-56 48-49 69-70 82-83 80-81 51-52 45-46 01-02 68-69 38-39 45-46 53-54 48-49 52-53 70-71 07-08 68-69 48-49 95-96 12-13 47-48 07-08 25-26 77-78 93-94 73-74 59-60 49-50 79-80 92-93 52-53 06-07 72-73 62-63 60-61 67-68 91-92 86-87 58-59 89-90 78-79 73-74 70-71 49-50 07-08 05-06 04-05 50-51 86-87 48-49 46-47 48-49 05-06 53-54 46-47 05-06 89-90 47-48
Last Game 80-81 06-07 48-49 55-56 48-49 99-00 82-83 97-98 08-09 45-46 01-02 94-95 08-09 65-66 85-86 89-90 71-72 06-07 08-09 74-75 04-05 96-97 87-88 67-68 07-08 08-09 77-78 93-94 74-75 07-08 49-50 88-89 92-93 05-06 08-09 08-09 01-02 01-02 92-93 08-09 86-87 08-09 07-08 78-79 08-09 04-05 04-05 07-08 06-07 04-05 50-51 97-98 48-49 62-63 62-63 05-06 53-54 46-47 05-06 99-00 73-74
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2009-10 Opponents MISSOURI VALLEY VIKINGS
CENTENARY GENTS 2008-09 record: 8-23 Head Coach: Greg Gary CC Record: 8-23, 1st year Career Record: same
SID: Allison McClain SID Phone: 318-869-5092 Website: www.gocentenary.com Press Row: 318-869-5400
2008-09 record: 11-17 Head Coach: Chad Lance MVC Record: 90-90, 8th year Career Record: same
SID: Tom Sandwith SID Phone: 660-831-4189 Website: www.moval.edu
NICHOLLS COLONELS
CENTRAL ARKANSAS BEARS 2008-09 record: 10-19 Head Coach: Rand Chappell UCA Record: 95-83, 8th year Career Record: 293-145, 15th year
SID: Steve East SID Phone: 501-450-5743 Website: www.ucasports.com Press Row: 501-852-2673
2008-09 record: 20-11 Head Coach: J.P. Piper Nicholls Record: 53-93, 6th year Career Record: same
SAM HOUSTON STATE BEARKATS
EAST TEXAS BAPTIST TIGERS 2007-08 record: 14-11 Head Coach: Bert West ETBU Record: 190-217, 16th year Career Record: 202-231, 17th year
2008-09 record: 18-12 Head Coach: Bob Marlin SHSU Record: 200-123, 12th year Career Record: 323-158, 17th year
SID: David Weaver SID Phone: 903-932-2129 Website: www.etbu.com Press Row: 903-407-8320 SID: Roderick Mosley SID Phone: 318-274-6562 Website: www.gsutigers.com Press Row: 318-274-3456
2008-09 record: 13-17 Head Coach: Jim Yarbrough SLU Record: 62-56, 5th year Career Record: 158-98, 10th year
SID: Neal Iwamoto SID Phone: 808-956-9748 Website:www.hawaiiathletics.com Press Row: 808-956-9408
2008-09 record: 3-25 Head Coach: Dale Valdery SUNO Record: 3-25, 2nd year Career Record: 237-161
SID: Jeff Sutton SID Phone: 281-649-3098 Website: www.hbuhuskies.com Press Row: 281-649-3205
2008-09: 24-8 Head Coach: Danny Kasper SFA Record: 158-104, 10th year Career Record: 377-156, 19th year
SID: J.D. Campbell SID Phone: 812-855-9794 Website: www.iuhoosiers.com Press Row: 812-855-2724
2008-09 record: 16-14 Head Coach: Scott Cross UTA Record: 50-43, 4th year Career Record: same
SID: Greg Elkin SID Phone: 817-272-5706 Website: www.utamavs.com Press Row: 817-272-3795
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO ROADRUNNERS
LAMAR CARDINALS 2008-09 record: 15-15 Head Coach: Steve Roccaforte LU Record: 49-43, 4th year Career Record: same
SID: Brian Henry SID Phone: 409-880-8329 Website: www.lamarcardinals.com Press Row: 409-880-2343
2008-09 record: 19-13 Head Coach: Brooks Thompson UTSA Record: 39-52, 4th year Career Record: 94-66, 6th year
SID: Kyle Stephens SID Phone: 210-458-4551 Website: www.goutsa.com Press Row: 210-458-4566
TEXAS A&M AGGIES
LSU TIGERS 2008-09 record: 27-8 Head Coach: Trent Johnson LSU Record: 27-8, 2nd year Career Record: 187-129, 11th year
SID: Kent Lowe SID Phone: 225-578-8226 Website: www.LSUsports.net Press Row: 225-578-8226
2008-09 record: 24-10 Head Coach: Mark Turgeon TAMU Record: 49-21, 3rd year Career Record: 202-140, 12th year
SID: Mark Cantrell SID Phone: 318-795-2475 Website: www.lsus.edu/athletics Press Row: 318-218-9428
2008-09 record: 18-15 Head Coach: Perry Clark TAMUCC Record: 27-35, 3rd year Career Record: 277-234, 17th year
SID: Aaron Ames SID Phone: 361-825-3410 Website: www.goislanders.com Press Row: 361-826-4972
TEXAS STATE BOBCATS
LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS 2008-09 record: 15-18 Head Coach: Kerry Rupp LT Record: 21-42. 3rd year Career Record: 30-46. 4th year
SID: Colin Killian SID Phone: 979-229-4706 Website: www.aggieathletics.com Press Row: 979-862-6944
TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI ISLANDERS
LOUISIANA STATE-SHREVEPORT PILOTS 2008-09 record: 22-12 Head Coach: Chad McDowell LSU-S Record: 154-48, 7th year Career Record: same
MBB SID: Brian Ross SID Phone: 936-468-5800 Website: www.sfajacks.com Press Row: 936-468-4635
TEXAS-ARLINGTON MAVERICKS
INDIANA HOOSIERS 2008-09record: 6-25 Head Coach: Tom Crean IU Record: 6-25, 2nd year Career Record: 196-121, 12th year
SID: Eddie Francis SID Phone: 504-286-5343 Website: www.suno.edu/athletics Press Row: 504-286-5191
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN LUMBERJACKS
HOUSTON BAPTIST HUSKIES 2008-09 record: 5-25 Head Coach: Ron Cottrell HBU Record: 379-208, 20th year Career Record: same
SID: Matt Sullivan SID Phone: 985-549-2142 Website: www.lionsports.net Press Row: 985-549-2326
SOUTHERN-NEW ORLEANS KNIGHTS
HAWAI’I RAINBOW WARRORS 2008-09 record: 13-17 Head Coach: Bob Nash UH Record: 24-36. 3rd year Career Record: same
SID: Paul Ridings SID Phone: 936-294-1764 Website: www.gobearkats.com Press Row: 936-294-1838
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA LIONS
GRAMBLING TIGERS 2008-09 record: 6-23 Head Coach: Bobby Washington (interim) GSU Record: 0-0, 1st year Career Record: same
SID: Brandon Rizzuto SID Phone: 985-448-4281 Website: www.geauxcolonels.com Press Row: 985-448-4294
SID: Steve Schoon SID Phone: 318-257-5314 Website: www.latechsports.com Press Row: 318-257-3144
2008-09 record: 14-16 Head Coach: Doug Davalos TXST Record: 36-52, 4th year Career Record: 108-87, 8th year
SID: Rick Poulter SID Phone: 512-245-2966 Website: www.txstatebobcats.com Press Row: 512-245-2434
MCNEESE STATE COWBOYS 2008-09 record: 11-18 Head Coach: Dave Simmons MSU Record: 39-51, 4th year Career Record: 66-81
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Header The SouthlandPage Conference
Preseason Polls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Stephen F. Austin (5) Nicholls (4) Southeastern La. (3) Northwestern State McNeese State Central Arkansas
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Sam Houston State (7) A&M-Corpus Christi (4) Texas-San Antonio Texas-Arlington Lamar Texas State
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Nicholls (5) Southeastern La. (4) Stephen F. Austin (3) McNeese State Northwestern State Central Arkansas
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Sam Houston State (5) A&M-Corpus Christi (4) Texas-San Antonio (2) Texas-Arlington (1) Lamar Texas State
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Preseason Teams Name Kevin Palmer Corey Allmond Marquez Haynes Ashton Mitchell Anatoly Bose
Cl. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr.
Pos. School G/F AMCC G SHSU F/G UTA G SHSU F Nicholls
Hometown Baltimore, Md. Oxon Hill, Md. Irving, Tex. New Orleans, La. Sydney, Australia
Cl. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr.
Pos. School G UTSA F/C SLU F AMCC F UTA G UTSA
Hometown Houston, Tex. Orlando, Fla. Pearland, Tex. Irving, Tex. Philadelphia, Pa.
Name Devin Gibson Patrick Sullivan Justin Reynolds Tommy Moffitt Omar Johnson
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In an era of considerable change in intercollegiate athletics, the Southland Conference continues to be a model of innovation, stability and consistent achievement as it celebrates the academic and athletic accomplishments of its member institutions. What began as a small gathering of college administrators more than 45 years ago, the Southland Conference has transformed itself into a dynamic and respected consortium of 12 member universities in three states. Beginning with a historic meeting of five institutions in Dallas on March 15, 1963, that included current members Lamar University (then Lamar State College of Technology) and the University of Texas at Arlington (then Arlington State College), the Southland Conference set on an extraordinary course that has proven successful well into its fifth decade of existence. In addition to its two newest members, the Southland Conference lineup also consists of Lamar University, McNeese State University, Nicholls State University, Northwestern State University, Sam Houston State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, Stephen F. Austin State University, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Texas State University-San Marcos. All told, the revised membership of the Southland encompasses more than 180,000 current students and an alumni base of approximately 920,000. Famous alums from Southland Conference schools include former President Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas State), former CBS news anchor Dan Rather (Sam Houston State), retired U.S. Central Command General Tommy Franks (UT Arlington), NBA executive Joe Dumars (McNeese State), ABC news anchor Robin Roberts (Southeastern Louisiana), country music star George Strait (Texas State), Major League Baseball stars Hunter Pence (UT Arlington), Kevin Millar (Lamar) and Ben Broussard (McNeese State), NBA legend Scottie Pippen (Central Arkansas) and actor Lou Diamond Phillips (UT Arlington). The cities of the Southland are diverse and progressive, ranging from international business and cultural centers such as the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, San Antonio and the New Orleans area, to the historical cities of Nacogdoches, Texas, and Natchitoches, La., to the home of the modern oil boom, Beaumont, Texas, to the unique Cajun French cultures found in the Louisiana cities of Thibodaux and Lake Charles. Southland Conference institutions also draw large numbers of students from the metropolitan areas of Houston, Little Rock, Baton Rouge, Austin, and Shreveport. The Southland sponsors 17 championship sports, all at the NCAA Division I level. The eight men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track and field. The women compete for nine championships in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball. The Conference earns automatic qualification to NCAA championships in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's golf, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, and volleyball.Southland Conference football ranks among the best Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) leagues in the nation, and enjoys an annual expectation of competing for the national championship with multiple teams advancing to the NCAA playoffs each year. In 2002 and 2003, McNeese State finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation, and advanced to the 2002 national championship contest, the sixth such title game appearance since the league joined FCS in 1982. All told, Southland teams have played in 89 Division I playoff games in 27 years, winning 42 of the contests.
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Individual Records SCORING
Most Free Throws Made
Highest Scoring Average
Game: 20 by Jimmy Leach vs. Southwestern La. 2/27/59 Season: 248 by Dick Brown 1956-57 Consecutive: 32 by Mark Dillon 1992-93 Career: 616 by Dick Brown 1953-57
Season: 26.4 Billy Reynolds (1976-77) Career: 20.6 Vernon Wilson (1970-73)
Most Points Scored BILLY REYNOLDS 1973-77
Game: 54 Jimmy Leach vs. Southwestern La. (2/27/59) Season: 689 Billy Reynolds 1976-77 Career: 2,009 Billy Reynolds 1973-77
Most Free Throws Attempted VERNON WILSON 1971-73
FIELD GOALS
REBOUNDS
Highest Field Goal Percentages
Highest Rebound Average
Game: 100% Jethro Owens vs. Centenary (10 of 10), 12/8/90 85.7 Gayle Hatch vs. Kentucky Wesleyan (18 of 21), 12/31/61 Season: 71.4 Jethro Owens (135-185), 1990-91 Career: 58.7 George Jones (546 of 930), 1984-88 GEORGE JONES 1984-88
Most Field Goals Made Game: 18 Victor Willis vs. Alabama 11/23/85; Billy Reynolds vs. Houston Baptist 2/26/77; Gayle Hatch vs. Kentucky Wesleyan 12/13/61 Season: 270 Billy Reynolds 1976-77 Career: 829 Billy Reynolds 1973-77
Season: 19.6 James Wyatt (490 in 25 games) 1965-69 Career: 15.2 James Wyatt (1549 in 102 games) 1965-69
Most Rebounds DWIGHT MOODY 1984-86
1991-95
Game: 35 Billy Reynolds vs. Houston Baptist (made18), 2/26/77 Season: 599 Billy Reynolds (made 270), 1976-77 Career: 1,904 Billy Reynolds (made 829),1973-77
Most Three Point Goals
Highest A s s i s t Average Season: 7.9 Dwight Moody (198 in 25 games), 1985-86; Howard Hughes (236 in 30 games), 1973-74 Career: 7.5 Dwight Moody (323 in 43 games), 1984-86
Most Assists JOHNN MARTIN 1981-83
Game: 9 Kenny McMillon vs. Texas-San Antonio (att.10), 2/20/93 Season: 80 Jay Scherer (att. 192), 1990-91 Career: 200 Jermaine Wallace (att. 584), 2002-06
Highest Three Point Field Goal Percentage Game: 90.0 Kenny McMillon vs. Texas-San Antonio (9 of 10), 2/20/93 Season (min. 50 att): 45.7 Greg Harden (32-70), 1989-90 Career (min. 100 att): 41.4 Tarius Brown (53-128), 1990-95; Pernell Smith (84-203), 1987-89
Most Blocked Shots Game: 13 D'or Fischer vs. SW Texas (1/22/01) Season: 133 D'or Fischer (30 games), 2001-02 Career: 202 D'or Fischer (52 games), 2000-02 DEXTER GRIMSLEY 1989-93
1953-57
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Highest Steals Average Season: 2.94 Lester Davis (76 in 26 games), 1976-77 Career: 2.52 Richard Taylor (116 in 46 games), 1999-00
Game: 8 Tyronn Mitchell vs. Lamar (2/27/03), Michael ByarsDawson vs. SW Texas (2/17/01); Pernell Smith vs. UTA, 1/21/89; & Houston, 12/05/89 Season: 76 Richard Taylor (30 games), 1999-2000 Career: 264 Tyronn Miitchell (120 games), 2002-06
Highest Free Throw Percentage DICK BROWN
STEALS
Most Steals
FREE THROWS Game (min. 8 att): 100% Roman Banks (12 of 12) vs. Centenary 12/8/90; Kerwin Forges (8 of 8) vs. Texas-San Antonio 3/3/06 Season: .902 by Carlton Walding 1969-70 Career: .878 by Carlton Walding 1968-70
BLOCKED SHOTS Season: 4.43 D'or Fischer (133 in 30 games), 2001-02 Career: 3.26 D'or Fischer (202 in 52 games), 2000-02
Game: 17 Eric Scanlan (made 7), 12/9/89 Season: 194 Eric Scanlan (made 78), 1989-90 Career: 584 Jermaine Wallace (made 200), 2002-06 1990-92
Game: 16 Dwight Moody vs. Sam Houston, 1/25/86 Season: 236 Howard Hughes (30 games), 1973-74 Career: 552 Ryan Bundy (102 games), 1994-98
Highest Blocked Shot Average
Most Three Point Goals Attempted
JAY SCHERER
Game: 30 James Wyatt vs. Northeast La., 1968-69 30 James Wyatt vs. Nicholls State, 1968-69 Season: 497 James Wyatt (29 games) 1968-69 Career: 1,549 James Wyatt (102 games) 1965-69
ASSISTS
Most Field Goals Attempted
KENNY MCMILLON
Game: 23 by Jimmy Leach vs. Southwestern La. 2/27/59 Season: 304 by Dick Brown 1956-57 Career: 793 by Dick Brown 1953-57
MICHAEL PERSONAL BYARS-DAWSON 2000-2002
FOULS
Most Personal Fouls Season: 120 Charles Bloodworth (29 games), 1968-69 Career: 413 Byron Allen (121 games), 2002-06
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PageRecords Header Team Most Three Point Goals Made Game: 17 vs. Texas-San Antonio (att. 34), 2/20/93 Season: 259 (att. 683), 1991-92
Most Three Point Goals Attempted ROMAN BANKS 1987-92
Game: 34 vs. UTSA, SFA, SHSU, 1993 Season: 683 (made 259) 1991-92
FREE THROWS Highest Free Throw Percentage Season: 78.4 (489 of 624), 1981-82
Most Free Throws Made Game: 41 vs. Texas-San Antonio, 2/20/93 Season: 647 (att. 1033), 1965-66 D’OR FISCHER Most Free Throws Attempted Game: 52 vs. Texas-San Antonio, 2/20/93 2000-2002 Season: 1,033 (made 647), 1965-66
REBOUNDS Highest Rebounding Average Season: 52.4 (1,415 in 27 games), 1974-75
Most Rebounds TERRENCE RAYFORD
Game: 85 vs. Southwest Texas, 11/30/74 Season: 1,497 (29 games), 1968-69
1986-89
ASSISTS Highest A s s i s t Average
Jermaine Wallace set career school records in three-pointers made and attempted during the 2005-06 season.
Season: 18.0 (432 in 24 games), 1975-76
SCORING
Most Assists
Highest Scoring Average
Game: 37 vs. Grambling, 12/2/91 Season: 589 (34 games) 2005-06
Season: 95.0 2,660 points (28 games), 1991-92 Game: 140 vs. LeTourneau (140-51), 1991-92 Season: 2,660 1991-92 (28 games)
EARNEST RELIFORD
1977-82
LARRY TERRY Widest Margin of Victory 1990-94 Game: 89 vs. LeTourneau 1/20/92 On the road: 35 vs. Centenary (112-77), 1/9/92 Over Division I team: 50 vs. Grambling (123-73), 12/2/91
Highest Blocked Shot Average Season: 5.74 (178 in 31 games), 2001-02
Most Blocked Shots Game: 17 vs Ouachita Baptist (11/30/91) Season: 178 (31 games), 2001-02
FIELD GOALS Highest Scoring Percentage Game: 70.3 vs. Stephen F. Austin (26 of 37), 1/19/85 ERIC KUBEL Season: 52.9 (703 of 1328), 1985-86
BLOCKED SHOTS
STEALS JETHRO OWENS 1989-93
Highest Steals Average Season: 11.85 (332 in 28 games), 1991-92
1990-94
Most Field Goals Made
Most Steals
Game: 55 vs. LeTourneau, (1/20/92); Season: 1,046 (att. 2,325), 1973-74
Game: 34 vs. LeTourneau, (1/20/92) Season: 332 (28 games), 1991-92
Most Field Goals Attempted Game: 105 vs. LeTourneau, (1/20/92) Season: 2,325 (made 1046), 1973-74 TYRONN MITCHELL 2002-06
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PERSONAL FOULS Most Personal Fouls Game: 42 vs. Northeast La., 1/11/92 BYRON ALLEN Season: 721 (28 games), 1984-85 2002-06
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All-Time Leaders • Individual Superlatives CAREER 1,000 POINT CLUB PLAYER 1. Billy Reynolds 2. James Wyatt 3. Dick Brown 4. Jimmy Leach 5. David Clark 6. Vernon Wilson 7. Roman Banks 8. Dexter Grimsley 9. George McConathy 10. Jermaine Wallace 11. Lester Elie 12. Clifton Lee 13. Bill Collinsworth 14. George Jones 15. Larry Terry 16. Eric Kubel 17. Truit Weldon 18. Frederick Piper 19. Ken Shaw 20. Terrance Rayford 21. Lester Davis 22. Johnny McConathy 23. Jethro Owens 24. Charles Duncan 25. Colby Bargeman 26. Tarius Brown
SEASONS 1973-77 1965-69 1952-57 1954-59 1962-67 1969-73 1987-92 1989-93 1951-56 2002-06 1973-78 2002-06 1950-55 1984-88 1991-94 1991-94 1957-62 1975-81 1950-54 1986-89 1973-78 1947-51 1989-93 1994-98 2004-07 1990-95
PTS 2,009 1,874 1,802 1,736 1,583 1,548 1,454 1,437 1,436 1,427 1,416 1,391 1,352 1,348 1,342 1,325 1,289 1,213 1,184 1,129 1,116 1,092 1,078 1,073 1,046 1,040
SINGLE SEASON 400 POINT CLUB
PLAYER 1. Billy Reynolds 2. Jimmy Leach 3. Eric Kubel 4. Terrance Rayford 5. Johnny McConathy 6. Pernell Smith 7. James Wyatt 8. Vernon Wilson 9. Trey Gilder 10. Eric Kubel 11. James Wyatt 12. Dick Brown 13. Dick Brown 14. David Clark 15. Vernon Wilson 16. Billy Reynolds 17. Vernon Wilson 18. Ken Shaw 19. Wayne Waggoner 20. Michael Byars-Dawson 21. Clifton Lee 22. Kenny Hale 22. Roman Banks 24. Larry Terry 25. Wayne Waggoner 26. Larry Terry 27. Jermaine Wallace 28. Luke Rogers 29. George Jones 30. Michael Byars-Dawson 31. Charles Duncan
YEAR 1976-77 1958-59 1993-94 1988-89 1950-51 1988-89 1967-68 1971-72 2007-08 1992-93 1968-69 1956-57 1955-56 1966-67 1970-71 1975-76 1972-73 1952-53 1981-82 2001-02 2005-06 1982-83 1987-92 1993-94 1980-82 1992-93 2003-04 2006-07 1984-85 2000-01 1996-97
SINGLE GAME TOP SCORERS PLAYER 1. Jimmy Leach 2. Gayle Hatch 3. Jimmy Leach 4. Billy Reynolds 5. Larry Terry 6. Billy Reynolds 6. Larry Terry 8. Vernon Wilson 8. Jimmy Leach 10. Victor Willis 10. Vernon Wilson 10. Damon Jones
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PTS 686 675 632 591 562 559 556 543 542 539 535 534 519 510 507 499 498 498 493 491 482 471 454 449 446 439 434 433 429 423 414
OPPONENT Southwestern La. Kentucky Wesleyan Southeastern La. Lamar North Texas Houston Baptist Arkansas Baptist Univ. of New Orleans Southern State Alabama Southern Miss. Central Arkansas
GMS 107 102 116 109 95 75 118 110 116 120 103 117 121 107 102 96 103 103 78 78 102 67 111 108 127 105
AV G 18.8 18.4 15.5 15.9 16.7 20.6 12.3 13.1 12.4 11.9 13.7 11.9 11.2 12.6 13.2 13.8 12.5 11.8 15.2 14.5 10.9 16.3 9.7 9.9 8.3 9.9
GMS 26 28 26 29 26 29 25 25 33 26 29 27 28 25 25 24 25 32 28 31 34 28 29 20 28 26 28 32 28 32 28
AV G 26.4 24.1 24.3 20.4 21.6 19.3 22.2 21.7 16.4 20.7 18.5 19.8 18.5 20.4 20.3 20.8 19.9 15.6 17.6 15.8 14.2 16.8 14.7 22.5 15.9 16.9 15.5 13.5 15.3 13.2 14.8
D ATE 2/27/59 12/13/61 2/25/59 12/4/76 2/17/94 2/26/77 12/15/92 1/6/73 2/17/59 11/25/85 1/29/73 1/31/09
PTS 54 44 43 42 39 38 38 37 37 36 36 36
CAREER 500 REBOUND CLUB PLAYER 1. James Wyatt 2. Billy Reynolds 3. Frederick Piper 4. Truitt Weldon 5. Ken Shaw 6. Lester Elie 7. Clifton Lee 8. George McConathy 9. Reggie Grace 10. Eric Kubel 11. George Jones 12. Sam Watts 13. Dexter Grimsley 14. Jethro Owens 15. Philip Haley 16. Seth LeGrand 17. Jim Hoops 18. William Stewart 19. Thurman Baptiste 20. Charles Bloodworth 21. Byron Allen
SEASONS 1965-69 1973-77 1976-81 1958-62 1951-54 1974-78 2002-06 1952-56 1972-75 1991-94 1984-88 1962-65 1989-93 1989-93 1957-61 1994-98 1977-81 1956-60 1969-72 1968-70 2002-06
RBS 1,549 1,150 941 928 888 885 722 715 709 702 701 699 664 655 631 617 582 569 567 564 502
GMS 102 107 103 103 78 103 117 116 75 96 107 76 110 111 110 108 108 76 71 55 121
AV G 15.2 10.7 9.1 9.0 11.4 9.6 6.2 6.2 9.5 7.3 6.6 8.8 6.0 6.0 5.7 5.7 5.5 7.5 8.0 10.3 4.1
GMS 29 25 28 32 26 31 27 26 23 26 24
AV G 17.1 19.6 13.8 11.6 13.1 10.7 12.3 12.3 13.7 12.1 12.8
OPPONENT Southwestern La. Nicholl State Northeast La. Southeastern La. Northeast La. Stephen F. Austin Southeastern La. McNeese State Stephen F. Austin Southwestern La. Northeast La. Stephen F. Austin Spring Hill
RBS 30 30 30 26 25 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 24
D ATE 2/5/68 2/15/69 2/19/69 12/18/93 3/5/81 12/29/73 1/29/69 1/3/68 12/18/68 2/2/70 1/21/69 12/3/68 12/9/67
SEASONS 1994-98 1987-92 2002-06 2003-07 1974-78 1984-86 1977-80 2006-Present 1997-2001 1973-75
AV G 5.4 4.4 4.2 3.8 4.6 7.5 4.3 3.0 2.7 7.9
SINGLE SEASON 300 REBOUND CLUB PLAYER 1. James Wyatt 2. James Wyatt 3. Bill Stewart 4. Ken Shaw 5. Eric Kubel 6. Ken Shaw 7. Frederick Piper 8. Charles Bloodworth 9. James Wyatt 10. Billy Reynolds 11. Billy Reynolds
SEASON 1968-69 1967-68 1959-60 1952-53 1993-94 1953-54 1977-78 1969-70 1966-67 1976-77 1975-76
RBS 497 490 379 373 341 333 332 319 316 315 308
SINGLE GAME TOP REBOUNDERS PLAYER 1. James Wyatt James Wyatt James Wyatt 4. Eric Kubel 5. Guy Charles Reggie Grace James Wyatt James Wyatt James Wyatt 10. Charles Bloodworth James Wyatt James Wyatt James Wyatt
CAREER ASSISTS PLAYER 1. Ryan Bundy 2. Roman Banks 3. Tyronn Mitchell 4. Kennan Jones 5. Lester Davis 6. Dwight Moody 7. Mike Brey 8. Michael McConathy 9. Josh Hancock 10. Howard Hughes
AST 552 515 509 468 466 323 311 297 307 291
SINGLE-GAME TRIPLE DOUBLES PLAYER
D ATE, OPPONENT
PERFORMANCE
1.
Jethro Owens
12/2/91, Grambling (W 123-73)
19 pts., 10 reb., 11 asst.
2. 3.
D'or Fischer D'or Fischer
1/22/01, SW Texas (W 76-70) 11 pts., 14 reb., 13 blk. 11/21/01, Siena (W 99-91, 2 OT) 22 pts., 15 reb., 12 blk
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Header All-Time Leaders • Individual Page Superlatives CAREER BLOCKED SHOTS
PLAYER 1. D'or Fischer 2. Dexter Grimsley 3. Jethro Owens 4. George Jones 5. Lester Elie 6. Jermaine Spencer 7. Johnny Martin 8. Larry Terry 9. Earnest Reliford 10. Frederick Piper 10. William Mosley
CAREER STEALS PLAYER 1. Tyronn Mitchell 2. Lester Davis 3. Roman Banks 4 Colby Bargeman 5. Ryan Bundy 6. Jethro Owens 7. Ryan Duplessis 8. Billy Reynolds 9. Jermaine Wallace 10. Larry Terry
SEASONS 2000-02 1989-93 1989-93 1984-88 1974-78 2002-07 1981-83 1991-94 1977-82 1976-81 2008-Present
BLKS 202 153 111 107 106 94 91 91 78 76 76
AV G 3.26 1.39 1.00 1.00 1.02 0.78 1.63 0.89 0.74 0.74 2.45
SEASONS 2002-06 1974-78 1987-92 2004-08 1994-98 1989-93 1998-2002 1973-77 2002-06 1991-94
STL 264 251 190 167 160 152 149 136 133 120
AV G 2.20 2.46 1.53 1.31 1.57 1.37 1.26 1.78 1.11 1.18
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NAME 1. Jethro Owens 2. William Mosely 3. George Jones YEAR 1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1970-71 1971-72 1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
SEASON 1990-91 2008-09 1985-86
SCORING Hatch-218 Mathis-437 Mathis-339 Clark-383 Clark-435 Clark-510 Wyatt-556 Wyatt-535 Bloodworth-461 Wilson-507 Wilson-543 Wilson-498 Grace-476 Reynolds-415 Reynolds-499 Reynolds-686 Elie-488 Lewis-402 Piper-325 Waggoner-446 Waggoner-493 Hale-471 Walker-293 Jones-429 Willis-391 Willis-423 B. Smith-354 Rayford-591 Banks-425 Scherer-477 Banks-454 Kubel-539 Kubel-632 Brown-488 Johnson-314 Duncan-414 LeGrand-372 Polk-319 Taylor-367 Byars-Dawson - 423 Byars-Dawson - 491 Wallace - 299 Wallace - 434 Wallace - 380 Lee - 482 Rogers - 433 Gilder - 542 Jones - 378
FGM-FGA 132-185 80-119 120-207
FIELD GOAL % Hatch-57.7% Watts-59.6% Clark-49.7% Lee-48.2% Clark-46.1% Clark-47.0% Gray-57.4% Bloodworth-50.8% Bloodworth-53.0% Baptiste-52.4% Baptiste-52.7% Hunt-52.6% Holder-52.4% Elie-46.0% Elie46.9% Elie-53.2% Elie-55.8% Charles-52.4% Piper-56.4% Piper-56.0% Reliford-57.7% Madlock-58.2% Mays-52.9% Mays-57.7% Jones-62.8% Jones-61.6% Jones-59.0% Rayford-56.5% Owens-55.7% Owens-71.4% Owens 59.9% Owens-61.6% Trailer-56.5% Whittaker-48.7% Barnes-54.1% Barnes-54.6% LeGrand-54.3% Sardinea-52.0% Thompson-48.8% Thompson-49.4% Lynch - 54.8% Dyer - 46.5% Allen - 50.9% Spencer - 62.0% Allen - 57.1% Moody - 53.1% White - 57.5% Mosley -.672
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2004-05 1985-86 1986-87 1991-92 1962-63 1965-66 1987-88
114-184 153-247 130-211 106-177 99-166 72-121 111-188
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SEASON FREE THROW PERCENTAGE (min. 2 FTA pg) NAME SEASON FTM-FTA PCT. 1. Carlton Walding 1969-70 55-61 .902 2. Stan Lee 1971-72 50-57 .877 3. Jimmy Leach 1957-58 158-182 .868 4. Mark Dillon 1992-93 58-67 .866 5. Wayne Waggoner 1981-82 77-89 .865 5. Tyronn Mitchell 2005-06 77-89 .865 7. Kenny Arthur 1962-63 50-58 .862 8. David Clark 1964-65 87-101 .861 9. Dan Bell 1976-77 73-85 .859 10. Perry Ball 1971-72 95-111 .856
CAREER FREE THROW PERCENTAGE
PCT. .714 .672 .628
NAME 1. Carlton Walding 2. Wayne Waggoner 3. David Clark 4. Kenny Hale 5. Dan Bell 6. Michael McConathy 7. Keithan Hancock 8. Stan Lee 9. Marvin Willett 10. Jimmy Leach
NORTHWESTERN'S YEAR FREE THROW % Weldon-69.0% Arthur-86.2% Mathis-74.0% Clark-86.1% Clark-84.5% Clark-85.0% Watts-80.6% Watts-72.4% Walding-90.2% Willett-77.6% Lee-87.7% Procell-79.7% Grace-59.0% Reynolds-74.4% Davis-76.5% Bell-85.9% Lewis-81.4% Charles-80.0% Francis-84.0% Waggoner-84.2% Waggoner-86.5% Hale-82.3% Harris-72.3% Harris-76.9% Willis-70.2% McCrimmon-74.6% Rayford-76.5% Wesley-87.5% Jones-81.6% Scherer-74.5% Stapler-78.6% Dillon-86.6% McMillon-79.3% Johnson-82.2% Johnson-80.7% S.Alexander-86.0% McQuarters-75.9% Polk-78.4% Shropshire-79.2% Byars-Dawson - 75.5% Fischer - 75.2% Burch - 75.7% Forges - 75.0% Mitchell - 83.6% Mitchell - 86.5% Gilder - 80.8% M. McConathy - 82.3% McConathy - 82.1%
SEASONS 1968-70 1980-82 1963-67 1981-83 1975-77 2006-Present 2004-09 1969-72 1969-71 1955-59
BY YEAR LEADERS REBOUNDING ASSISTS Weldon-299 Watts-231 Watts-157 Watts-192 Wyatt-246 Wyatt-316 Wyatt-490 Wyatt-497 Watts-94 Bloodworth-319 Watts-89 Baptiste-244 Janese-145 Horner-222 Veuleman-71 Grace-185 Wilson-84 Grace-306 Hughes-236 Reynolds-26 Hunt-100 Reynolds-308 Davis-121 Reynolds-315 Davis-110 Piper-332 Davis-183 Charles-164 Brey-180 Piper-171 Brey-107 Piper-198 Youngblood-97 Martin-244 Waggoner-111 Martin-166 Hale-81 Mays-175 Walker-64 Jones-214 Moody-125 Bush-145 Moody-198 Jones-201 McCrimmon-81 Rayford-197 Smith-115 Rayford-237 P. Smith-118 Grimsley-200 Banks-157 Grimsley-215 Beaubouef-98 Terry-178 Banks-108 Kubel-252 Dillon-135 Kubel-341 McMillon-87 Brown-204 Bundy-127 Barnes-132 Bundy-106 LeGrand-198 Bundy-163 LeGrand-192 Bundy-154 Burks-163 Hancock-99 Thompson-210 Hancock-69 Thompson-196 Hancock-89 Fischer - 216 Duplessis - 116 Lee - 156 Mitchell - 89 Lee - 194 Mitchell - 107 Lee, Spencer - 160 Mitchell - 142 Lee - 212 Mitchell - 171 Moody - 142 Jones - 200 Gilder - 204 M. McConathy - 111 Mosley - 263 McConathy - 124
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FTM-FTA 72-82 141-165 382-456 142-173 117-143 143-178 110-138 84-107 86-110 504-641
PCT. .878 .855 .838 .821 .818 .803 .797 .785 .782 .781
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Hunt-25 Elie-27 Elie-34 Elie-26 Charles-18 Reliford-21 Reliford-25 Martin-66 Martin-29 Mays-27 Jones-34 Jones-30 Jones-81 Jones-15 P. Smith-9 Grimsley-38 Grimsley-48 Grimsley-42 Terry-36 Terry-25 Whittaker-15 Hollins-17 LeGrand-15 LeGrand-14 Sardinea-9 Thompson-38 Fischer-69 Fischer - 133 Spencer - 26 Lee - 27 Spencer - 28 Spencer - 23 Moody - 37 White, Moody - 33 Mosley - 76
Hunt-57 Davis-64 Davis-76 Davis-70 Lewis-41 Francis-40 Martin-28 Martin-30 Francis-56 Walker-47 Moody-29 Moody-61 Jones-33 Rayford-37 P.Smith-68 Banks-50 Scherer-38 Banks-65 Dillon-51 Terry-31 McMillon-26 Bundy-39 Bundy-58 Bundy-40 Sardinea-43 Taylor-76 Thompson-58 Byars-Dawson 61 Mitchell - 70 Mitchell - 49 Mitchell - 70 Mitchell - 75 Bargeman - 60 Bargeman - 61 McConathy - 51
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All-Time Lettermen • Builders of Tradition ! "#$%&$#' ( "#$"' ' ) ! * & ! ! + , ' -' Adkins, Jimmy (C/F), 1956-60 Gibsland, LA Alexander, Kenta (G), 1996-97 Atlanta, TX Alexander, Sam (G), 1996-98 St. Peters, MO Allen, Byron(C),2002-2006 Leland, MS Anglin, John (G), 2005-08 Shreveport, LA Anthony, Robert (F/C), 1983-84 Birmingham, LA Arthur, Bobby (G), 1973-75 Natchitoches, LA Arthur, Kenny (G), 1962-66 Natchitoches, LA Arthur, Raymond (C), 1962-64 Natchitoches, LA Ashworth, Don (G), 1965-69 Oakdale, LA Ashlock, Greg (G),1989-90 Malakoff, Tx Baggett, Ray (G), 1980-81 Oberlin Bailey, Andre (F), 1978-80 Minden, LA Ball, Perry (F), 1969-72 Baton Rouge, LA Bamer, Frank (F), 1965-66 Dover, NJ Banks, Roman (G), 1987-92 Shreveport, LA Bankston, Mixon (G), 1952-53 Dry Prong, LA Baptiste, Thurman (F), 1969-72 Natchitoches, LA Bargeman, Colby (G), 2004-08 Lafayette, LA Barnes, Stephen (C), 1995-97 Birmingham, England Bates, Buddy (G), 1947-50 Winnfield, LA Bates, Sonny (G), 1952-53 Coushatta, LA Beard, Marche' (G), 1996-98 Jena, LA Beaubouef, Tony (F), 1990-94 Berwick, La Bell, Dan (G), 1975-77 Huntsville, AL Bell, Demetrius (F), 2003-08 Summerfield, LA Bivens, Larry (F), 1973-75 Tampa, FL Bloodworth, Charles (F), 1968-70 Natchitoches, LA Blunt, Canfield (F), 1973-76 Colfax, LA Bonnette, Buddy (G), 1950-51 Natchitoches, LA Booras, Sam (G), 1950-53 Shreveport, LA Bozeman, James (G), 1944-45 Belmont, LA Bradley, Darnell (F), 2001-02 Leesville, LA Brey, Mike (G), 1977-80 Rockville, MD Bray, Virgil (F), 1963-64 Pocasset, OK Brinson, Doug (G), 1973-74 Morgan City, LA Britton, Claude (G), 1973-75 Calhoun, LA Brock, Judson (F), 1971-72 Milwaukee, WI Brooks, Aramie (F) 2008-active Earle, AR Brown, A.E. (F), 1944-45 Minden, LA Brown, Clifton (G), 1984-85 Lafayette, LA Brown, David (C), 1958-59 Jonesboro, LA Brown, Dick (G), 1953-57 Converse, LA Brown, Robbie (G), 1982-83 Lafayette,LA Brown, Tarius (G), 1990-93, 1994-95 Birmingham, AL Brownwell, George (G), 1944-45 Corpus Christi, TX Bryant, Brooks (F) 1990-93 Huntsville, AL Bundy, Ryan (G), 1994-98 Peoria, IL Burch, Stephen(G)2001-2004 Mansfield, LA Burks, Will (F), 1998-2001 Decatur, AL Bush, Gerald (F), 1985-87 Birmingham, AL Byars-Dawson, Michael (G), 2000-02 Fort Worth, TX
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Header All-Time Lettermen • BuildersPage of Tradition Ex-NSU point guard Mike Brey begins eighth year coaching Irish While answering the first question at the July 15, 2000 press conference announcing his hiring as basketball coach at Notre Dame, Mike Brey talked about his days playing college basketball for Tynes Hildebrand at Northwestern State. Brey, a two-year starter for the Demons, still ranks sixth at NSU in career assists with 311 from 1977-80, an average of 4.3 per game. He led the team as a sophomore with 180, still the fourth-best single-season total in school history. In the moments after being introduced as the new Notre Dame coach, Brey listed Hildebrand alongside Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Morgan Wooten, the legendary DeMatha High School coach, as major influences in his basketball philosophies. Brey played for Wooten, who helped Hildebrand recruit him. After college, Brey coached under Wooten, then moved to Duke and helped the Blue Devils reach six Final Fours and win two NCAA titles. Brey then took over as head coach at Delaware and was 99-52 there in five years before taking the Notre Dame job. When Brey took over, the Irish hadn't been to the NCAA Tournament in 11 seasons. Now they've been to five NCAA Tournaments, three times winning first-round games, reaching the 2003 Sweet 16 after winning the Big East Conference title, and also making four NIT appearances. Brey was voted the 2008 Big East Conference Coach of the Year and led the Irish to the 2009 NIT semifinals in Madison Square Garden. He has a career 287-153 coaching record. Mitchell, Tyronn (G), 2001-2006 New Iberia, LA Moody, Dwight (G/F), 1984-86 Memphis, TN Moody, Jerry (F), 2006-08 Bossier City, LA Moody, Kenneth (F), 1983-84 Memphis, TN Moore, Edward (C), 1948-50 Natchitoches, LA Moran, Ken (F), 1959-63 Natchitoches, LA Morris, George, 1947-48 Hometown unknown Mosley, William, (F)2008-active Shreveport, LA Murphy, Kenneth (F), 1944-45 Natchitoches, LA Nash, Charles (G), 1983-84 Birmingham, AL Nears, Kevans (F), 1984-85 Winnfield, LA Neely, Mike (G), 1970-73 Detroit, MI Netterville, B.J. (G), 1999-2003 Zachary, LA Nickelberry, Cedric (F), 1997-98 Pearl, MS Nix, Max (F), 1960-61 Bossier City, LA Nolan, Roger (C), 1977-78; 80-81 Benton, LA Nooen, Bill (G), 1945-46 Hometown unknown Norris, Ronnie (F), 1966-68 Doyline, LA Norton, John J. (C), 1944-45 Phillipsburg, NJ Oatley, Don (F), 1956-57; 1959-60 Baton Rouge, LA Outz, Linwood, (G), 1948-52 Minden, LA Owens , Jethro (G) 1989-93 Houston, TX Palmer, William (F), 1955-56 Mansfield, LA Patten, DeWitt (G), 1948-50 Bossier City, LA Pearre, Hulon (G), 1984-85 Jonesboro, LA Peffer, Jim (G), 1967-69 Hempfield, PA Pender, Bob (F), 1950-51 Hometown unknown Petravicius, Deividas (F), 2007-09 Klaipeda, Lithuania Piper, Frederick (C), 1976-81 Alexandria, LA Polk, Alann (G), 1997-2002 Emerson, AR Poole, Dan (F), 1949-50 Natchitoches, LA Porterie, Kalem (F), 2005-09 Marksville, LA Posey, Allen (G), 1967-71 Natchitoches, LA
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Year-by-Year Results 1912-13 (3-0) Score Oppenent 37-35 Southwestern 32-10 Coushatta 28-24 Southwestern Pts: Normal-97 Opponents-69
Northwestern’s Head Coaches
1915-16 Score Opponent 22-24 LSU 17-15 Louisiana College 27-19 Louisiana College 24-23 Louisiana College Remaining records not available. 1916-17 (14-1) Score Opponent 57-7 Goldonna 22-13 LSU 26-13 Louisiana College 47-12 Louisiana College 68-11 St. Charles 56-12 St. Charles 34-18 Southwestern 35-23 Southwestern 35-18 Southwestern 27-22 Southwestern 33-20 Ruston 42-22 Ruston 43-22 Louisiana College 47-25 Louisiana College 15-38 Tulane Pts: Normal-587 Opponents-276 1917-18 No records available. World War I. 1918-19 (10-1) Score Opponent 54-5 Southwestern 29-6 Southwestern 57-11 Southwestern 52-12 Southwestern 25-19 Louisiana College 36-22 Louisiana College 42-20 Louisiana College 37-6 Louisiana College 68-9 St. Charles 54-5 St. Charles 25-38 Louisiana State Pts: Normal-479 Opponents-153 1919-20 No records available. 1920-21 (10-3) Score Opponent 25-29 LSU 18-28 Southwestern 9-12 Southwestern 34-19 Louisiana College 27-14 Louisiana College 33-15 Ruston 26-15 Ruston 47-23 Southwestern 37-27 Southwestern 69-14 Louisiana College 35-20 Louisiana College 33-16 St. Charles 29-18 St. Charles Pts: Normal-422 Opponents-250 1921-22 (10-5) La. Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champions Score Opponent Date 42-8 NHS 1/12/22 24-18 Centenary 1/14/22 19-27 Centenary 1/15/22 15-31 LSU 1/20/22 30-40 LSU 1/21/22 32-16 LSI 1/22/22 24-12 LSI 1/23/22 13-10 LBC 1/24/22 14-20 LBC 1/25/22 32-16 SLI 2/8/22
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Seasons
Won
Lost
Pct.
H. Lee Prather
1913-50
36
473
169
.737
77
.624
Prather becomes NSU’s president in 1951
1913-14 No records available. 1914-15 (5-2) Score Opponent 30-14 Goldonna 57-7 Boyce 25-22 Lafayette 9-5 Lafayette 15-18 Louisiana College 21-18 Louisiana College 5-16 Louisiana College Pts: Normal-162 Opponents-110
Coach
Charles “Red” Thomas 1951-57
7
138
Thomas served as an NSU vice president and a scout for the New York Knicks Thomas
Huey W. Cranford
1957-65
8
116
98
Hildebrand
.542
Cranford led two of his first three teams to championships
Tynes Hildebrand
1965-80
15
191
199
.490
Also a former Demon star, Hildebrand later became athletic director
Wayne Yates
1980-85
5
48
92
.343
41
.506
Yates steered NSU to a 19-9 record in his second year
Don Beasley Cranford
1985-88
3
42
A former Demon football quarterback, Beasley played on the 1966 unbeaten team
Dan Bell
1988-94
6
68
98
Bell
.410
The former Demon guard coached NSU over Kentucky in his first year
J.D. Barnett
1994-99
5
55
79
.410
Veteran coach netted wins over Baylor and South Alabama
Mike McConathy
1999-active 10
156
155
.502
Has led NSU to a 2-2 record in two NCAA Tournament appearances Beasley 27-25 SLI 31-16 LBC 31-20 LBC 21-27 Centenary 21-17 Centenary Pts: Normal-349 Opponents-303
Barnett 2/9/22 2/10/22 2/11/22 2/17/22 2/18/22
1922-23 (8-7) Score Opponent W Centenary W Centenary L Centenary L Centenary W Marshall W Jefferson College W Jefferson College W Louisiana College L Louisiana College W Louisiana College L Louisiana College W Southwestern W Southwestern L Southwestern W Southwestern 1923-24 No records available. 1924-25 (10-5) Score Opponent Date 32-15 Glasco 1/10/25 29-25 LSU 1/16/25 27-37 LSU 1/17/25 21-10 La. College 1/21/25 21-36 La. College 1/22/25 48-23 Marshall Coll.1/28/25 42-23 Marshall Coll.1/29/25 28-25 @ La. College 2/4/25 43-22 @Southwestern 2/5/25 25-30 @Southwestern 2/6/25 17-39 @La. College 2/7/25 28-26 Southwestern 2/12/25 27-28 Southwestern 2/13/25 54-25 Centenary 2/19/25 36-25 Centenary 2/20/25 Pts: Normal-478 Opponents-369 1925-26 (13-1) Date Score Opponent 40-15 S’port YMCA 1/8/26 52-31 @ Southwestern 1/13/26 27-33 @ Southwestern 1/14/26 45-33 @ La. College1/15/26 38-31 @ La. College 1/16/26 50-17 Southwestern 1/21/26 31-27 Southwestern 1/22/26 38-17 La. Tech 1/23/26 29-28 La. College 2/1/26 41-22 La. College 2/2/26 37-27 @ LSU 2/11/26 33-31 @ LSU 2/12/26 45-18 SFA 2/18/26 45-24 SFA 2/19/26 Pts: Normal-551 Opponents-354
1926-27 (20-2) Score Opponent 54-20 Desoto Cranes 34-22 Louisiana Tech 49-3 Rusk College 54-14 Rusk College 61-20 Magnolia Aggies 50-6 Magnolia Aggies 56-11 Southwestern 17-23 Southwestern 30-28 Louisiana College 34-18 Southwestern 50-22 Centenary 36-25 Southwestern 19-28 Louisiana College 61-9 Stephen F. Austin 54-12 Stephen F. Austin 32-19 Louisiana College 32-23 Louisiana College 49-23 Stephen F. Austin 38-16 Stephen F. Austin 42-20 Louisiana Tech 44-17 Magnolia Aggies 89-24 Magnolia Aggies Pts: Normal-973 Opponents-403 1927-28 (11-2) Score Opponent 63-13 Marshall College 73-17 Marshall College 30-23 Louisiana College 40-21 Louisiana College 39-27 Southwestern 26-16 Southwestern 35-29 Louisiana College 32-15 Louisiana College 40-27 Shreveport Lorecos 43-21 Birmingham Southern 31-32 Louisiana Tech 24-34 Louisiana Tech 24-34 Louisiana Tech 44-20 Shreveport YMCA Pts: Normal-533 Opponents-295 1928-29 (16-6) Score Opponent 56-20 Marshall 62-19 Marshall 43-19 Southwestern 29-32 Southwestern 39-44 Louisiana College 32-21 Southwestern 32-20 Southwestern 39-47 Louisiana College 27-24 Louisiana Tech 42-30 Louisiana Tech 33-34 Louisiana College 50-37 Stephen F. Austin 31-43 Stephen F. Austin 36-33 Louisiana College 39-28 S.P.U. 39-30 Centenary 31-29 Mississippi 36-30 Stephen F. Austin 34-29 Stephen F. Austin 44-30 Centenary 26-29 Louisiana Tech
43-31 Louisiana Tech Pts: Normal-840 Opponents-659 1929-30 (8-11) Score Opponent 29-36 Tulane 20-28 Southwestern 21-27 BLI 35-17 Louisiana College 40-27 Louisiana College 8-29 Centenary 30-31 Centenary 25-50 Southwestern 12-29 Southwestern 21-39 Centenary 24-35 Louisiana Tech 34-33 Centenary 21-26 Louisiana Tech 6-25 Southwestern 30-31 Louisiana Tech 34-32 Southwestern 39-30 Union 39-30 Union 33-24 Louisiana College 26-34 Louisiana College Pts: Normal-542 Opponents-613 1930-31 (17-6) Score Opponent 46-18 Tulane 49-41 Louisiana College 49-37 Louisiana College 63-35 Loyola 62-52 Millsaps 33-36 Centenary 46-38 Southwestern 55-24 Southwestern 44-37 Mississippi College 50-48 Louisiana Tech 37-21 Louisiana Tech 26-28 Loyola 51-29 Loyola 33-48 Southwestern 41-49 Louisiana Tech 25-30 Louisiana Tech 52-43 Louisiana College 45-38 Louisiana College 30-22 Centenary 45-43* SW of Memphis 39-38* Mississippi College 39-34* Western Kentucky Teachers 24-35* Centenary Pts: Normal-977 Opponents-824 *SIAA Tourney 1931-32 (15-1) Score Opponent 49-23 Louisiana College 35-29 Stephen F. Austin 32-28 Louisiana College 35-31 Louisiana Tech 30-29 Mississippi College 57-28 Mississippi Teachers 29-33 Millsaps College
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45-38 Louisiana Tech 37-33 Union University 49-31 Southwestern 37-28 Louisiana College 33-20 Centenary College 29-24 Millsaps College 39-15 Southwestern 51-30 Louisiana College 42-25 Centenary College Pts: Normal-625 Opponents-445 1932-33 (12-7) Score Opponent 53-28 Lon Morris 52-36 Lon Morris 23-30 Stephen F. Austin 46-35 Stephen F. Austin 51-42 Southwestern 39-34 Louisiana College 38-31 Union University 52-27 Southwestern 49-44 Mississippi Teachers 63-32 Louisiana College 44-33 Mississippi Teachers 44-46 Mississippi College 44-48 Millsaps College 53-38 Louisiana Tech 34-45 Centenary 51-53 Louisiana Tech 39-41 Centenary W* Eastern KY Teachers L* Millsaps Pts: Normal-775 Opponents-643 *SIAA Tourney 1933-34 (12-10) Score Opponent 34-45 Magnolia A&M 35-48 Magnolia A&M 52-22 Lon Morris 36-22 Lon Morris 29-33 West Kentucky 50-44 Mississippi Teachers 43-49 Mississippi College 51-32 Millsaps College 44-38 Stephen F. Austin 44-47 Stephen F. Austin 49-38 Southwestern 49-28 Louisiana College 45-36 Mississippi College 47-42 Millsaps College 48-49 Louisiana Tech 40-44 Centenary 48-41 Birmingham Southern 46-47 Mississippi Teachers 36-31 Louisiana Tech 47-44 Centenary 26-44 Centenary 41-43* Berea College Pts: Normal-940 Opponents877 *SIAA Tourney 1934-35 (8-6) Score Opponent W na
W W L W W L L L L L W W 38-35
na na na Southwestern Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech Centenary Louisiana College Louisiana College Southwestern Stephen F. Austin Union University Centenary
1935-36 (12-6) Score Opponent L Magnolia A&M L Commerce TX Teachers L na W na W na W Louisiana Tech W Louisiana Tech W Louisiana College W Louisiana College W Southwestern W Southwestern W Centenary W Miss. State Teachers 46-64 Stephen F. Austin 51-32 Stephen F. Austin L Centenary W Mississippi College L Murray State Teachers 1936-37 (15-7) Score Opponent L Centenary L Centenary 48-34 Stephen F. Austin Remaining records not available. 1937-38 No records available. 1938-39 (16-4) Score Opponent L Louisiana Tech W Centenary W Centenary W Centenary W Louisiana College W Louisiana College W Southwestern W Alabama Teachers W Mississippi Delta W Miss. St. Teachers W Stetson University W Murray Teachers 39-35 Stephen F. Austin W Southeastern W Magnolia A&M W Magnolia A&M L Southwestern L Centenary L Louisiana Tech L Western Kentucky
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Page Header Year-by-Year Results 67-40 64-45 57-51 40-45 69-66 58-49 57-32 54-46 65-51 61-40 72-50 71-64 40-47 43-41 54-57 54-62 57-61 44-49 55-60 53-58 60-55
@ Austin College 12/10/49 Spring Hill 12/15/49 vs. Ark. Tech 12/20/49 vs. Tulsa 12/28/49 vs. Centenary 12/29/49 vs. NW Okla. 12/30/49 Southwest La. 1/09/50 @ La. College 1/10/50 Loyola 1/13/50 @ Loyola 1/30/50 @ SE La. 1/31/50 @ Spring Hill 2/03/50 @ Southern Miss 2/04/50 Louisiana Tech 2/07/50 @ Southern Miss 2/10/50 @ Centenary 2/14/50 @ SW La. 2/17/50 Southeast La. 2/18/50 @ La. Tech 2/20/50 @ Southeast La. 2/27/50 Centenary 3/03/50
Pts: NSU-1609 Opponents-1352
Shown are the 1940 Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference Champions. Known as Louisiana Normal at the time, the team finished the season 19-2 overall. 1939-40 (19-2) Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference Champions Score Opponent 47-30 Arkansas St. Teachers 25-21 Arkansas St. Teachers 41-34 Louisiana Tech 56-33 Louisiana College 56-24 Louisiana College 26-51 SW Louisiana 46-36 Delta Teachers 45-40 Stephen F. Austin 56-25 Louisiana Tech 56-37 Louisiana Tech 53-49 Centenary 58-32 Louisiana College 36-32 SW Louisiana 67-43 Louisiana College 64-46 Centenary 36-45 Southwestern 28-21 Louisiana College 42-30 Centenary 42-37 Southwestern 47-46 Centenary 64-51 Southeastern Pts: Normal-991 Opponents-763 1940-41 (17-2) Score Opponent W Southeastern W* Stetson L* Western Kentucky *SIAA Tourney Remaining records not available. 1941-42 (5-11) Score Opponent 30-38 Oklahoma 35-42 Oklahoma 52-28 Arkansas 46-22 Arkansas 32-38 Louisiana Tech 30-35 Centenary 38-32 Centenary 59-56 Louisiana College 47-56 Louisiana Tech 38-42 Southeastern 32-46 Loyola 49-54 Southwestern 33-38 Southwestern 56-60 Southeastern 48-62 Loyola 53-31 Louisiana College Pts: Normal-678 Opponents-730 1942-43 (13-11) Score Opponent 37-70 Camp Claiborne 38-35 Pollock Air Base 60-59 Alexandria Air Base 46-44 Essler Field 48-54 Selman Field 52-47 Louisiana College 38-37 Camp Livingston 58-37 Camp Beauregard 42-40 Louisiana College 43-36 Southwestern 49-51 Louisiana Tech 49-48 Louisiana Tech
36-33 35-72 48-23 38-58 38-90 50-51 44-45 43-54 56-40 48-36 40-44 36-70
Southwestern Camp Claiborne Essler Field Selman Field Alexandria Air Base Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech Camp Livingston Camp Beauregard Pollock Air Base Louisiana State Louisiana State
Pts: Normal-1072 Opponents-1174
1943-44, 1944-45 No records available. World War II. 1945-46 (18-9) Score Opponent Date 60-51 Selman Field 12/01/45 51-31 Barksdale AFB 12/08/45 53-23 SE Okla. 12/11/45 29-37 SE Okla. 12/12/45 78-51 @ Fort Polk 12/13/45 38-42 LaSalle 12/17/45 49-67 Baylor 1/03/46 66-46 Selman Field 1/07/46 62-43 Stephen F. Austin1/11/46 51-27 @ LaSalle 1/14/46 78-48 Mississippi Coll. 1/16/46 54-19 Louisiana Tech 1/19/46 49-51 @ Miss. Coll. 1/26/46 57-59 @ Barksdale AFB 1/30/46 67-48 Southwestern La.2/02/46 53-55 @ S.F. Austin 2/04/46 63-31 Southeastern La. 2/08/46 71-42 @ La. College 2/11/46 54-36 @ SWLA 2/15/46 71-42 @ SELA 2/16/46 56-42 @ La. Tech 2/20/46 64-28 Centenary 2/23/46 74-25 La. College 2/25/46 64-40 @ Centenary 2/26/46 36-38 Louisiana Tech 3/01/46 41-39 @ La. Tech 3/02/46 45-52 @La. Tech 3/06/46 Pts: NSU-1534 Opponents-1128
Score 55-57 71-36 65-31 52-50 82-52 73-27 88-24 60-54 44-35 65-48 78-52 37-48 56-53 84-37 61-76 52-38 58-45 38-36 50-82 56-70
1946-47 (15-5) Opponent Date @ S.F.Austin (ot) 12/06/46 BarksdaleAFB 12/10/46 @ Mississippi Coll.12/14/46 Stephen F.Austin 12/16/46 Peru (Nebraska) 12/19/46 Louisiana College 1/07/47 @ Southeastern La.1/10/47 @ Southwestern La.1/11/47 @ Centenary 1/14/47 Southeastern La. 1/25/47 @ BarksdaleAFB 1/31/47 @ Louisiana Tech 2/04/47 Louisiana Tech 2/08/47 @Louisiana Coll. 2/13/47 Southwestern La. 2/19/47 Centenary 2/22/47 Loyola 2/28/47 Centenary 3/01/47 !Western Kent 3/06/47 #Whittier College 3/10/47
Pts: NSU-1225 Opponents-951
!-SIAA Tourn. #-NAIB Tourn.
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1947-48 (19-6) Score Opponent Date 62-42 E.t Texas Bapt.12/10/47 56-38 @ Okla. City 12/15/47 32-27 @ Okla. City 12/16/47 114-44 @ Barksdale AFB 12/19/47 54-41 @ Spring Hill Col.1/03/48 40-45 @ Loyola 1/05/48 74-49 Barksdale AFB 1/06/48 77-40 @ La. College 1/08/48 63-41 Southwestern La.1/10/48 44-54 @ Centenary 1/13/48 65-27 Southeastern La.1/17/48 55-46 Centenary 1/26/48 36-40 Okla. City (ot) 1/28/48 48-41 Louisiana Tech 1/31/48 51-63 @ Delta State 2/03/48 43-26 La. Colllege 2/06/48 62-39 E. Texas Bapt. 2/07/48 42-40 Delta State 2/11/48 67-34 @ SE La. 2/13/48 49-50 @ La. Tech 2/16/48 59-52 @SW La. 2/19/48 48-31 !Centenary 2/26/48 62-37 !SE La. 2/27/48 57-33 #Louisiana Tech2/28/48 43-67 #Xavier 3/09/48 Pts: NSU-1403 Opponents-1047
!-NAIB Playoffs #-NAIB Tourn 1948-49 (23-5) GULF STATES CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS National NAIA Semifinalists Score Opponent Date 99-35 Barksdale AFB 12/04/48 65-60 @ Spring Hill 12/06/48 63-49 Central State 12/09/48 82-34 @ Barksdale AFB 12/10/48 43-57 @ Loyola 12/13/48 53-56 Western Illinois12/16/48 56-50 Western Illinois12/17/48 75-49 vs. SW KS 12/28/48 42-51 vs. West Texas 12/29/48 61-53 vs. Phillips Univ.12/30/48 52-48 @SW La. 1/08/49 69-49 @ SE La. 1/15/49 61-39 @ Southern Miss 1/17/49 77-40 Spring Hill 1/22/49 73-47 @ La. College 1/29/49 40-45 @ La. Tech 1/31/49 61-35 Loyola 2/04/49 68-49 Southeastern La.2/09/49 54-43 Southwestern La.2/12/49 57-46 Louisiana Tech 2/16/49 70-36 Louisiana College2/17/49 66-34 Austin College 2/18/49 58-34 Southern Miss 2/22/49 54-49 Centenary 3/02/49 53-50 @ Centenary 3/04/49 70-58 !Puget Sound 3/08/49 59-57* !Brigham Young 3/09/49 51-52* !Regis 3/10/49 Pts: NSU-1730 Opponents-1305
*NAIB Tournament
1949-50 (18-8) Score Opponent Date 111-46 Barksdale AFB 11/21/49 70-66 Texaco Town 11/28/49 70-56 vs. S.F. Austin 12/01/49 87-57 @ Barksdale AFB12/06/49
1950-51 (15-11) Score Opponent Date 87-55 @ Lamar 12/04/50 83-61 Lamar 12/05/50 56-52 SE Okla. 12/11/50 49-41 SE Okla. 12/12/50 60-42 Henderson 12/19/50 50-59 vs. Washburn 12/27/50 69-64 vs. East Central12/28/50 79-84 vs. Maryville 12/29/50 62-79 vs. Ark. State 1/04/51 84-71 @ Henderson 1/07/51 56-74 @ SW La. 1/09/51 58-68 Loyola 1/13/51 61-63 Centenary 1/15/51 76-57 Louisiana Tech 1/17/51 65-80 @ SE La. 1/19/51 56-53 @ Loyola 1/20/51 75-19 La. College 1/27/51 51-56 Spring Hill 2/03/51 68-66 @ La. Tech 2/08/51 71-52 Southwestern La.2/10/51 67-65 @ La. College 2/13/51 50-53 @ Spring Hill 2/16/51 75-83 @ Southern Miss2/17/51 76-80 Southeastern La. 2/20/51 54-51 @ Centenary 2/23/51 80-70 Southern Miss 2/28/51 Pts: NSU-1718 Opponents-1698
1951-52 (17-14) Score Opponent Date 81-49 Alexandria AFB 11/23/51 76-62 Sam Houston 11/27/51 62-60 @ Alexandria AFB 11/28/51 62-37 Lamar Tech 12/03/51 48-67 @ McNeese 12/04/51 50-52 @ Lamar Tech 12/05/51 82-58 @Sam Houston 12/06/51 60-68 Northeast La. 12/08/51 94-72 McNeese 12/18/51 71-49 @Northeast La. 12/29/51 45-48 Spring Hill 1/04/52 66-54 @La. College 1/05/52 76-60 Southwestern La.1/12/52 48-52 Loyola 1/15/52 63-69 @SE La. 1/18/52 53-73 @ Loyola 1/19/52 57-60 @ Centenary 1/30/52 55-73 @Southern Miss. 2/01/52 59-58 @ Spring Hill 2/02/52 48-55 Centenary 2/06/52 57-58 Southern Miss. 2/08/52 41-46 Southeastern La. 2/09/52 49-47 Louisiana Tech 2/11/52 72-62 La. College 2/14/52 67-57 @SW La. 2/21/52 78-74 @ Louisiana Tech2/25/52 81-54 @ Louisiana Tech2/27/52 69-54 @ McNeese 2/28/52 74-77 @ South. Miss. (OT) 2/29/52 66-48 !Southeastern La.3/03/52 53-54 !Centenary 3/04/52 Pts: NSU-1963 Opponents-1807
!NAIB Tourn.
1952-53 (22-10) Score Opponent Date 60-64 @ Lamar Tech 11/29/52 61-48 Lamar Tech 12/02/52 91-51 Northeast La. 12/05/52 73-64 @ Southern Ark.12/09/52 58-53 @ Texas A&M 12/12/52 85-69 @ Sam Houston 12/13/52 67-64 Southern Ark. 12/16/52 80-67 E. New Mexico 12/17/52 86-64 Sam Houston 12/20/52 59-70 vs. SW La. 12/29/52 66-46 vs. McNesse 12/30/52 53-51 vs. Northeast La. 12/31/52 53-54 McNeese State 1/03/53 78-60 @ Northeast La. 1/06/53 77-75 Southern Miss. 1/17/53
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79-71 57-52 66-46 67-59 59-73 54-73 80-74 59-69 62-70 77-64 83-62 64-71 50-55 76-72 80-78 72-64 59-63
Mexico Oil Co. 1/21/53 @ Fort. Polk 1/24/53 @ La. College 1/29/53 Southeastern La. 1/30/53 Centenery 1/31/53 @ SW La. 2/03/53 La. College 2/05/53 @ SE La. 2/07/53 @ Louisiana Tech2/09/53 @ McNeese 2/12/53 Southwestern La.2/14/53 Spring Hill 2/16/53
@ Southern Miss. 2/20/53
@ Spring Hill Louisiana Tech @ Centenary vs. Centenary
2/21/53 2/24/53 2/27/53 3/02/53
Pts: NSU-2191 Opponents-2016
1953-54 (23-9) GULF STATES CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS Score Opponent Date 73-79 @ North Texas 11/30/53 71-90 @ SMU 12/01/53 99-55 @ L.C. AFB 12/05/53 61-71 @ Arkansas 12/08/53 85-54 Southern State 12/11/53 79-68 SE Oklahoma 12/14/53 56-63 SE Oklahoma 12/15/53 81-58 Central Missouri 12/17/53 70-62 vs. Wheaton 12/28/53 80-78 vs. MO Central 12/29/53 71-68 vs. Findlay 12/30/53 69-73 @Spring Hill 12/31/53 82-65 Northeast La. 1/06/54 58-51 @ McNeese 1/08/54 76-69 @La. Tech 1/14/54 81-66 Centenary 1/16/54 89-71 @ La. College 1/19/54 81-73 La. Tech (OT) 1/23/54 64-69 @ Loyola 1/30/54 109-89 !@ Fort Polk 2/02/54 75-65 @ SW La. 2/03/54 92-67 Louisiana College2/06/54 80-62 Northeast La. 2/08/54 87-82 SW La. (2OT) 2/11/54 71-60 Spring Hill 2/13/54 62-38 McNeese State 2/16/54 76-83 Southeastern La. 2/20/54 77-70 @ Centenary 2/22/54 70-62 Southeastern La. 2/27/54 60-64 Southeastern La. 3/01/54 67-63 @ SE La. 3/03/54 50-54 @SE La. 3/04/54 Pts: NSU-2403 Opponents-2142
!-March of Dimes
1954-55 (20-9) GULF STATES CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS Score Opponents Date 74-68 Arkansas 11/29/54 71-53 @ North Texas 12/04/54 86-99 @ SMU 12/06/54 79-65 Southern State 12/09/54 54-72 S. F. Austin 12/11/54 79-104 SE Oklahoma 12/16/54 64-60 SE Oklahoma 12/17/54 89-75 vs. C. Missouri 12/28/54 62-61 vs. Ark. Coll. 12/29/54 65-59 vs. Anderson 12/30/54 91-74 North Texas 1/3/55 80-84 Lousiana Tech 1/6/55 101-94 Northeast La. 1/10/55 94-91 Centenary 1/15/55 73-78 @ SF Austin 1/18/55 91-55 Southwestern La.1/22/55 80-72 @ La. College 1/25/55 84-82 @ SE La. 1/29/55 82-69 McNeese State 2/01/55 106-78 Southeastern La. 2/05/55 99-94 @ SW La. 2/08/55 59-60 @ McNeese 2/12/55 98-85 Louisiana College2/15/55 79-76 Centenary (OT) 2/17/55 72-93 Louisiana Tech 2/22/55 92-69 @ Northeast La. 2/26/55 93-91 @ Louisiana Tech3/01/55 80-83 Louisiana Tech 3/02/55 93-95 @La. Tech 3/03/55 Pts: NSU-2375 Opponents-2239
1955-56 (18-10) Score Opponent Date 76-81 @North Texas 12/03/55 85-77 Central Missouri 12/08/55 61-78 @SF Austin 12/08/55 79-63 North Texas 12/10/55 68-58 E. Texas State 12/12/55 75-72 Midwestern 12/13/55 50-49 SE Oklahoma 12/15/55 76-69 SE Oklahoma 12/16/55 61-55 @East Texas St 12/19/55 61-86 @Midwestern 12/20/55 67-90 vs. Qauntico 12/28/55 78-112 @Memphis St. 1/02/56
74-69 62-72 78-66 67-56 80-66 79-58 60-65 67-86 74-57 87-77 84-63 60-53 85-59 58-76 82-78 65-78
@Northeast La. 1/06/56 Centenary 1/09/56 McNeese State 1/14/56 @SE La. Stephen F. Austin1/18/56 Southwestern La.1/21/56 @Centenary 1/25/56 @McNeese 1/27/56 Southeastern La. 1/30/56 Louisiana Tech 2/04/56 Northeast La. 2/07/56 @SW La. 2/10/56 La. College @Louisiana Tech 2/21/56 @La. College 2/25/56 Memphis State 2/28/56
Pts: NSU-1990 Opponents-1969
1956-57 (14-13) Score Opponent Date 66-70 S. F. Austin 11/27/56 55-58 @East Texas St 12/07/56 49-59 @SF Austin 12/08/56 71-64 Centenary 12/10/56 71-61 East Texas State12/12/56 53-66 SE Oklahoma 12/14/56 67-78 SE Oklahoma 12/15/56 70-53 SW La. 12/17/56 63-74 @Southern Ark. 12/20/56 54-39 vs. Hardin Simmons 12/27/56 83-86 vs. Loyola (NO) 12/28/56 103-73 vs. LSU 12/29/56 60-59 North Texas (OT) 1/02/57 87-85 @La. College 1/05/57 96-74 Southern Ark. 1/07/57 41-52 McNeese State 1/11/57 43-56 @Louisiana Tech 1/15/57 83-86 @Northeast La. 1/19/57 86-81 @North Texas 1/26/57 85-93 @Centenary 1/29/57 55-82 @McNeese 2/02/57 90-85 Louisiana College2/05/57 58-72 @SW La. 2/08/57 56-43 Louisiana Tech 2/12/57 70-57 Northeast La. 2/23/57 66-59 @SE La. 2/26/57 89-70 Southeastern La. 3/01/57 Pts: NSU-1970 Opponents-1835
1957-58 (20-7) GULF STATES CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS Score Opponent Date 53-64 @La. College 12/02/57 51-53 @East Texas St 12/04/57 48-59 @SF Austin 12/05/57 42-40 SF Austin 12/11/57 57-50 Southern Ark. 12/12/57 49-45 SE Oklahoma 12/13/57 67-60 SE Oklahoma 12/14/57 57-54 East Texas State12/16/57 60-51 @Southern Ark. 12/17/57 84-60 @Southern Miss. 2/21/57 69-66 vs. W. Texas St. 12/27/57 71-68 vs. Centenary 12/27/57 40-41 vs. La. Tech 12/28/57 75-66 Louisiana College1/11/58 70-71 Centenary 1/14/58 69-54 Northeast La. 1/18/58 66-60 Louisiana Tech 1/25/58 56-47 @McNeese State 2/01/58 47-42 Southern Miss. 2/05/58 81-66 Southeastern La. 2/10/58 71-72 @Centenary 2/13/58 54-64 McNeese State 2/15/58 90-75 Southwestern La.2/18/58 95-80 @Northeast La. 2/22/58 71-65 @Southeastern La. 67-65 @SW La. 2/28/58 72-66 @Louisiana Tech 3/03/58 Pts: NSU-1732 Opponents-1604
1958-59 (18-10) Score Opponent Date 78-57 !Nicholls State 50-64 S. F. Austin 12/02/58 65-85 @E. Texas St. 12/04/58 79-70 @Southern State 12/06/58 63-60 @La. College 12/08/58 72-66 @SF Austin 12/12/58 66-65 East Texas State12/15/58 71-69 @E. Texas Bapt12/18/58 60-48 SE Oklahoma 12/19/58 69-71 SE Oklahoma 12/20/58 92-57 Missouri Valley 12/27/58 72-65 vs. North Texas 12/29/58 72-77 vs. La. Tech 12/30/58 72-81 vs. Centenary 12/31/58 77-72 @SE La. 1/07/59 82-79 McNeese State 1/10/59 83-68 Louisiana College1/13/59 78-60 @Northeast La. 1/17/59 59-88 @Louisiana Tech 1/24/59 59-61 @Centenary 1/31/59 96-83 Northeast La. 2/05/59 90-95 Southwestern La.2/07/59
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Year-by-Year Results 64-66 83-84 61-79 107-89 70-82 68-72 78-90 86-80 58-75 63-75 82-84 65-75 102-99 74-64 75-83 84-103
@Louisiana Tech 1/07/67 Centenary 1/10/67 @SW La. 1/14/67 Nicholls State 1/21/67 @Southern Miss. 1/23/67 @Arkansas St. 1/26/67 @Norhteast La. 1/27/67 Southeastern La. 1/30/67 @Northeast La. 2/02/67 Louisiana Tech 2/06/67 @Nicholls State 2/09/67 Southwestern La. 2/13/67 Southern Miss. 2/16/67 @McNeese 2/20/67 @Centenary 2/23/67 Louisiana College2/28/67
Pts: NSU1848 Opponents 1947
The 1965-66 Demons posted an 18-7 record. 50-52 78-62 65-89 86-69 92-77 110-84
@McNeese (OT) 2/14/59 Southern State 2/17/59 Louisiana Tech 2/21/59 Centenary 2/24/59 Southeastern La. 2/25/59 @SW La. 2/27/59
Pts: NSU-2086 Opponents1974
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1959-60 (23-5) GULF STATES CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS Score Opponent Date 85-62 Nicholls State 11/25/59 88-86 @Murray State 12/03/59 60-89 @Western Kent.12/05/59 82-84 @Tenn. Tech 12/07/59 64-67 @Middle Tenn. 12/08/59 5-55 @E. Texas Bapt.12/12/59 79-52 S. F. Austin 12/14/59 68-49 @La College 12/15/59 91-80 Lipscomb 12/19/59 80-61 vs. Hardin-Simmons 12/28/59 64-51 vs. George Wash. 2/29/59 60-59 vs. Eastern Kent. 12/30/59 59-66 @SW La. 1/04/60 84-69 @S. F. Austin 1/05/60 75-61 Southeastern La. 1/08/60 59-57 @McNeese 1/12/60 78-67 Northeast La. 1/15/60 80-73 East Texas State 1/16/60 79-71 @Nicholls State 1/28/60 83-70 Louisiana College2/02/60 72-56 Southwestern La.2/05/60 90-71 Louisiana Tech 2/08/60 68-65 @SE La. 2/09/60 59-57 @Centenary 2/11/60 69-59 McNeese State 2/13/60 73-61 @Northeast La. 2/17/60 78-57 Centenary 2/23/60 47-50 @Louisiana Tech 2/27/60 Pts: NSU-2405 Opponents-2370
1960-61 (16-11) Score Opponent Date 87-53 Southern Ark. 11/29/60 63-66 @SF Austin 12/05/60 58-70 vs. Southern Miss. 12/12/60 70-55 vs. SW Texas 12/13/60 79-64 vs. Nicholls State 12/16/60 85-83 S. F. Austin 12/19/60 66-62 SE Oklahoma 12/20/60 60-57 SE Oklahoma 12/21/60 74-81 vs. Middle Tenn. 12/28/60 65-90 vs. Georgetown 12/29/60 80-79 vs. UTEP 12/30/60 61-69 @Northeast La. 1/04/61 42-41 Louisiana Tech 1/07/61 58-63 @McNeese 1/10/61 76-69 @SE La. 1/27/61 65-71 @Nicholls State 1/28/61 79-57 Louisiana College1/31/61 83-63 Northeast La. 2/02/61 60-59 McNeese State 2/06/61 63-50 @Centenary 2/08/61 57-66 @Louisiana Tech 2/11/61 71-68 Southwestern La. 2/14/61 52-63 @La College 2/16/61 54-68 Southern Miss. 2/18/61 65-91 @SW La. 2/23/61 73-60 Centenary 2/25/61 62-54 Southeastern La. 2/28/61 Pts: NSU-1808 Opponents-1712
1961-62 (10-17) Score Opponent Date 114-109 @Miss. Coll. (OT) 12/02/61 125-102 Mississippi Col. 12/08/61
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@Murray State 12/11/61 @Western Kent.12/13/61 @Kent. Wesleyan12/14/61 @Eastern Kent. 12/15/61 S. F. Austin 12/19/61 vs. Hamline 12/28/61 vs. Memphis State 12/29/61 vs. La. Tech 12/30/61 @ SF Austin 1/02/62 Southwestern La.1/04/62 @Centenary (OT) 1/06/62 @Louisiana Tech 1/08/62 Southeastern La. 1/12/62 Northeast La. 1/16/62 Louisiana College1/20/62 @McNeese 1/26/62 @Nicholls State 1/27/62 @SW La. 2/02/62 McNeese State 2/06/62 Nicholls State 2/07/62 @Louisiana Tech 2/09/62 @Centenary 2/14/62 @SE La. 2/16/62 @Northeast La. 2/20/62 @La College 2/22/62
Pts: NSU-1755 Opponents-1783
1962-63 (8-17) Score Opponent Date 87-91 SF Austin (OT) 12/03/62 73-69 Nicholls State 12/08/62 60-71 @ SF Austin 12/11/62 53-54 E. Texas Baptist 12/13/62 88-72 La. College 12/17/62 71-85 vs. Southern Miss. 12/27/62 70-80 vs. TCU 12/28/62 77-85 vs. West Texas St. 12/29/62 67-71 Northeast La. 1/03/63 61-82 @SE La. 1/07/63 88-66 @Southern Miss. 1/08/63 61-66 McNeese State 1/11/63 82-80 Louisiana Tech 1/19/63 78-91 @Nicholls State 1/26/63 53-67 @McNeese 1/28/63 75-82 @SW La. 2/01/63 87-86 Southern Miss. 2/05/63 92-78 Southeastern La. 2/08/63 73-79 @La College 2/12/63 72-87 @E. Texas Bapt. 2/16/63 69-62 SW La. (OT) 2/18/63 85-78 Centenary 2/20/63 73-89 @Louisiana Tech 2/26/63 68-79 @Northeast La. 3/01/63 74-110 @Centenary 3/04/63 Pts: NSU-1837 Opponents-1960
1963-64 (12-14) Score Opponent Date 79-89 SE Oklahoma 11/25/63 79-92 SE Oklahoma 11/26/63 71-84 @SF Austin 12/02/63 96-73 Nicholls State 12/07/63 63-53 McNeese 12/12/63 77-72 @E. Texas Bapt.12/14/63 100-88 S. F. Austin 12/16/63 77-70 E. Texas Baptist 12/19/63 54-83 vs. SW La. 12/27/63 88-80 vs. La. Tech 12/28/63 75-79 @SW La. 1/07/64 74-113 Centenary 1/11/64 53-79 @Louisiana Tech 1/14/64 79-75 Northeast La. 1/18/64 87-103 @Nicholls State 1/25/64 54-63 @McNeese 1/27/64 74-76 Louisiana College1/30/64 61-59 Southwestern La.2/03/64 91-92 Southern Miss. 2/05/64 79-75 Louisiana Tech 2/10/64
89-98 90-83 78-112 71-81 96-76 98-96
@Northeast La. 2/15/64 @SE La. 2/17/64 @Southern Miss. 2/18/64 @Centenary 2/21/64 Southeastern La. 2/25/64 @Louisiana Coll. 2/27/64
Pts: NSU-2033 Opponents-2144
1964-65 (9-17) Score Opponent Date 62-53 SE Oklahoma 11/27/64 59-46 SE Oklahoma 11/28/64 72-62 Nicholls State 12/01/64 62-57 La. College 12/05/64 72-101 @Lamar Tech 12/07/64 76-69 S. F. Austin 12/09/64 64-53 @Nicholls State 12/12/64 59-78 @Delta State 12/14/64 79-71 Lamar Tech 12/17/64 67-86 @ SF Austin 12/30/64 77-80 Southeastern La. 1/05/65 72-87 Southern Miss. 1/06/65 58-62 McNeese State 1/08/65 81-104 @Northeast La. 1/12/65 81-67 Oglethorpe Univ. 1/16/65 84-89 Centenary 1/23/65 68-83 Louisiana Tech 1/28/65 72-79 Southwestern La.2/02/65 80-118 @Southern Miss. 2/04/65 70-78 @SE La. 2/06/65 84-112 @Centenary 2/08/65 76-62 McNeese State 2/13/65 72-76 Northeast La. 2/16/65 55-85 @Louisiana Tech 2/23/65 76-91 @SW La. 2/26/65 64-75 @La. College 3/01/65 Pts: NSU-1832 Opponents-2024
1965-66 (18-7) Score Opponent Date 40-36 SE Oklahoma 11/22/65 65-61 SE Oklahoma 11/23/65 61-65 @Oglethorpe 12/02/65 71-69 Delta State 12/10/65 83-79 SE La. 12/17/65 63-70 Springhill 12/20/65 94-92 @SF Austin 12/30/65 73-68 @Louisiana Tech 1/03/66 61-56 Centenary 1/06/66 66-67 Southwestern La. 1/08/66 53-48 @Nicholls State 1/11/66 58-54 McNeese State 1/15/66 76-70 @Southern Miss. 1/18/66 91-59 Louisiana College1/22/66 70-69 @McNeese 1/28/66 61-71 @La. College 1/29/66 90-88 Northeast La. 2/01/66 69-86 @SE La. 2/05/66 87-68 Louisiana Tech 2/08/66 77-75 @ SW La. (OT) 2/12/66 68-66 Nicholls State 2/15/66 74-88 @Centenary 2/18/66 100-75 Southern Miss. 2/21/66 77-88 @Northeast La. 2/26/66 61-57 @La College 2/28/66 Pts: NSU-1789 Opponents-1715
Score 70-96 95-70 62-46 71-63 61-60 63-65 64-75 71-93 71-79
1966-67 (8-17) Opponent Date @Delta State 12/01/66 Ga. Southern 12/03/66 @Springhill 12/05/66 McNeese 12/08/66 @SE La. 12/15/66 Delta State 12/17/66 @La College 12/19/66 @SF Austin 12/29/66 Northeast La. 1/04/67
1967-68 (12-13) Score Opponent Date 95-102 @Ga Southern 12/02/67 108-120 Southern Miss. 12/07/67 102-76 Springhill 12/09/67 93-81 @Houston Bapt.12/11/67 90-91 SE La. 12/14/67 69-78 S. F. Austin 12/18/67 87-74 Texas Lutheran 12/20/67 101-106 Centenary 12/30/67 58-93 @McNeese 1/03/68 104-99 Northeast La. 1/06/68 87-97 @Louisiana Tech 1/07/67 82-128 Southwestern La.1/13/67 103-75 Louisiana College1/20/68 91-77 @Nicholls State 1/22/68 87-101 @Southern Miss. 1/27/68 99-89 @SE La. 1/29/68 86-99 McNeese State 2/01/68 114-111 @Northeast La. 2/05/68 97-89 Louisiana Tech 2/08/68 79-92 @SW La. 2/12/68 91-85 Nicholls State 2/15/68 115-75 Houston Baptist 2/19/68 97-95 @Centenary 2/20/68 83-107 @Louisiana Coll. 2/26/68 79-81 vs. Athens 3/01/68 Pts: NSU-2297 Opponents-2324
1968-69 (16-13) Score Opponent Date 84-114 @North Texas 11/30/68 91-98 S. F. Asutin 12/03/68 86-94 Lamar Tech 12/06/68 60-73 @SW La. 12/09/68 77-78 @Lamar Tech 12/12/68 99-83 Southwest Texas 12/14/68 72-67 @La College 12/16/68 105-85 Southwest Bapt.12/20/68 69-80 vs. Henderson St. 12/27/68 122-102 vs.ArkansasA& M12/28/68 85-66 McNeese State 1/03/69 86-76 @Louisiana Tech 1/07/69 78-73 South Alabama 1/11/69 61-65 Centenary 1/18/69 88-69 Northeast La. 1/21/69 106-99 @Southern Miss. 1/27/69 88-76 @SE La. 1/29/69 82-80 Nicholls State 2/01/69 86-84 Southwestern La.2/04/69 66-65 @McNeese State2/07/69 84-86 Louisiana Tech 2/11/69 89-97 Louisiana College2/15/69 80-107 @Northeast La. 2/19/69 106-92 Southeastern La. 2/22/69 77-74 @Nicholls State 2/25/69 75-77 @Centenary 2/27/69 56-73 Grambling 3/01/69 68-62 Grambling 3/05/69 79-85 Grambling 3/06/69 Pts: NSU-2405 Opponents-2370
1969-70 (13-13) Score Opponent Date 90-96 North Texas 12/01/69 73-71 @Texas A & M 12/04/69 78-80 @Rice 12/05/69 82-88 @East Texas St.12/08/69 72-71 @McNeese 12/11/69 74-75 Louisiana Tech 12/15/69 102-80 La College 12/18/69 101-79 vs. Ouachita Bapt. 12/29/69 95-94 vs. Northeast La. 12/30/69 74-81 @Arkansas 1/02/70 83-109 Southern Miss. 1/05/70 78-75 Centenary 1/10/70 72-69 Henderson State 1/19/70 115-86 @Nicholls State 1/24/70 102-81 @SouthAlabama 1/26/70 81-86 @Northeast La. 1/28/70 88-90 Southwestern La. 2/02/70 63-59 McNeese State 2/05/70 66-70 @Louisiana Tech 2/09/70 79-86 @Louisiana Coll. 2/12/70 89-92 Northeast La. 2/16/70 85-90 @SE La. 2/19/70 97-73 Nicholls State 2/23/70 109-69 Southeastern La. 2/25/70 85-81 @SW La. 2/28/70
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Pts: NSU-2221 Opponents-2124
1970-71 (14-11) Score Opponent Date 88-77 @Tulane 12/1/70 68-81 @Houston 12/03/70 87-86 E. Texas Baptist 12/07/70 62-88 @La. Tech 12/10/70 61-69 @SW La. 12/14/70 88-82 Nicholls State 12/17/70 117-77 E. Texas Baptist 12/21/70 78-84 @SF Austin 12/23/70 85-74 Southern 12/29/70 89-88 @Southern 12/30/70 100-88 Northeast La. 1/04/71 73-72 @SW La. 1/07/71 85-78 @McNeese 1/18/71 73-90 @Southern State 1/20/71 103-85 @Southern Miss. 1/27/71 97-83 @Centenary 1/29/71 80-70 McNeese State 2/01/71 59-68 Lousiana Tech 2/04/71 53-61 @La College 2/08/71 69-97 @Northeast State2/11/71 72-65 Southeastern La. 2/15/71 82-89 @Nicholls State 2/18/71 21-25 Southwestern La.2/22/71 75-73 La. College 2/25/71 57-69 @Grambling 2/28/71 Pts: NSU-1922 Opponents-1919
1971-72 (11-14) Score Opponent Date 66-71 S. F. Austin 12/01/71 75-91 @Texas A&M 12/04/71 83-90 @ Nevada 12/07/71 89-70 La. College 12/09/71 97-82 @Southern Miss. 12/13/71 60-79 @Northeast La. 2/16/71 96-98 @Southern 12/20/71 83-58 Grambling 12/21/71 72-70 vs. East Tenn St12/29/71 89-82 @Centenary 12/30/71 76-67 SE La. 1/03/72 99-92 Centenary 1/04/72 74-80 @Nicholls State 1/06/72 88-101 Southwestern La.1/10/72 71-85 @McNeese 1/13/72 87-77 Southern State 1/22/72 70-72 @La College 1/24/72 68-76 Louisiana Tech 1/31/72 74-78 @Centenary 2/02/72 70-76 Northeast La. 2/07/72 75-69 @SE La. 2/10/72 108-88 Nicholls State 2/14/72 92-80 McNeese State 2/21/72 75-81 @Louisiana Tech 2/24/72 73-90 @SW La. 2/28/72 Pts: NSU 2010, Opponents 2003
1972-73 (6-19) Score Opponent Date 86-78 Nicholls State 11/27/72 76-90 @SF Austin 11/29/72 29-45 @UTEP 12/2/72 81-82 @UTA 12/04/72 63-81 @La. Tech 12/06/72 67-81 S. F. Austin 12/08/72 74-85 Louisiana Tech 12/12/72 63-65 @Grambling 12/20/72 87-101 @New Orleans 1/06/73 69-81 @Xavier 1/08/73 63-82 @McNeese 1/11/73 87-106 Centenary 1/13/73 87-74 Houston Baptist 1/22/73 65-73 @Northeast La. 1/25/73 107-88 Southern Miss. 1/29/73 70-76 Northeast La. 2/01/73 79-60 La. College 2/05/73 75-84 @Nicholls State 2/07/73 82-100 @Houston Bapt. 2/10/73 96-86 Xavier 2/12/73 75-55 @La. College 2/17/73 64-70 McNeese State 2/19/73 65-66 @SE La. 2/24/73 75-87 @Centenary 2/26/73 84-92 Southeastern La. 3/01/73 Pts: NSU-2103 Opponents-2023
1973-74 (21-9) Score Opponent Date 86-73 Lamar 11/30/73 74-70 Delta State 12/03/73 101-103 @Northeast La. 12/06/73 79-80 @McNeese 12/08/73 72-86 @Centenary 12/19/73 95-84 Southern 12/20/73 91-83 S. F. Austin 12/29/73 88-65 E. Texas Baptist 1/04/74 77-73 McNeese State 1/07/74 81-71 @SE La. 1/10/74 77-90 Centenary 1/14/74 66-68 @Nicholls State 1/17/74 75-86 Northeast La. 1/19/74 79-66 Louisiana College1/21/74 72-69 Mississippi Coll. 1/25/74
89-73 73-61 82-60 81-79 81-69 77-82 72-68 84-79 100-83 78-71 66-79 90-76 78-69 95-76 76-85
Livingston College 1/26/74 @Mississippi Coll.1/31/74 @Delta State 2/02/74 Texas-Arlington 2/05/74 @Jacksonville St.2/09/74 @Troy State 2/11/74 Southeastern La. 2/14/74 Nicholls State 2/18/74 Tennessee-Martin2/23/74 Florence State 2/25/74 @Xavier (NO) Xavier (NO) Xavier (NO) @Millersville (PA) @Hanover (IN)
Pts: NSU-2435 Opponents-2277
1974-75 (13-14) Score Opponent Date 107-57 SE TX 11/30/74 76-70 McNeese 12/02/74 75-86 @La. College 12/05/74 89-102 @Centenary 12/09/74 84-104 @Southern 12/19/74 89-84 @Lamar 12/21/74 78-95 @SF Austin 12/30/74 73-77 @McNeese 1/03/75 86-72 Delta State 1/06/75 56-53 Southeastern La. 1/09/75 76-73 Nicholls State 1/13/75 70-74 Northeast La. 1/16/75 57-81 @La. College 1/20/75 56-53 Misissippi College1/12/75 70-61 @Livingston 1/25/75 69-90 @Mississippi Coll.1/27/75 77-100 @Northeast La. 1/30/75 75-71 @Delta State 2/01/75 81-101 Centenary 2/04/75 78-76 Jacksonvile State 2/08/75 93-83 Troy State 2/10/75 74-75 @SE La. 2/13/75 72-68 @Nicholls State 2/17/75 74-90 @Tenn-Martin 2/22/75 69-79 @NorthAlabama 2/24/75 75-64 @Louisiana Coll. 2/27/75 74-87 @Alcorn State Pts: NSU-2053 Opponents-2126
1975-76 (14-10) Score Opponent Date 82-79 @OBU 11/28/75 73-66 La. College 12/01/75 67-82 @Centenary 12/04/75 79-65 UCA 12/18/75 89-81 Hendrix (AR) 12/19/75 79-88 McNeese State 12/22/75 79-84 @McNeese 1/13/76 100-69 NW State (OK) 1/05/76 77-83 @Nicholls (OT) 1/10/76 60-66 @Delta State (OT) 1/15/76 62-66 Southeastern La. 1/17/76 82-84 Centenary 1/19/76 81-71 @Mississippi Coll.1/22/76 76-73 Livingston 1/24/76 80-64 Delta State 1/26/76 69-80 Northeast La. 1/31/76 75-67 Mississippi Coll. 2/02/76 83-76 @Troy State 2/07/76 67-69 @Jacksonville St 2/09/76 89-84 Nicholls Stae 2/14/76 102-78 North Alabama 2/16/76 75-71 @Northeast La. 2/19/76 69-61 @Louisiana Coll. 2/21/76 71-76 @Southeastern La. Pts: NSU-1866 Opponents-1783
1976-77 (17-9) FIRST YEAR AS NCAA DIVISION I PROGRAM Score Opponent Date 81-86 McNeese State 11/30/76 92-97 @Lamar 12/04/76 70-67 Centenary 12/06/76 88-82 Louisiana Tech 12/11/76 97-81 Nicholls State 12/14/76 78-80 @McNeese 12/18/76 86-81 @UTA 12/20/76 81-67 Northeast La. 1/03/77 90-85 Louisiana College1/07/77 75-76 Arkansas State 1/10/77 101-82 Lamar 1/15/77 122-84 Georgia State 1/17/77 65-84 @Arkansas St. 1/20/77 73-91 @SouthAlabama 1/24/77 71-79 @Centenary 1/27/77 95-86 Texas-Arlington 1/29/77 62-60 @Georgia State 1/31/77 89-81 South Alabama 2/05/77 72-99 @North Texas 2/07/77 74-72 @Northeast La. 2/10/77 77-63 @Houston Bapt. 2/14/77 80-78 @Southern Miss. 2/17/77 75-63 Southeastern La. 2/21/77 83-79 @Louisiana Coll. 2/24/77 108-88 Houston Baptist 2/26/77 99-115 @Louisiana Tech 2/28/77 Pts: NSU-2184 Opponents-2106
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Page Header Year-by-Year Results 1977-78 (12-15) Score Opponent Date 80-85 @ UNLV 11/26/77 69-66 Arkansas State 11/30/77 91-89 @Nicholls State 12/03/77 80-93 @Centenary 12/05/77 90-84 S. F. Austin 12/10/77 110-99 Campbell College 12/14/77 69-72 Hardin-Simmons 12/17/77 93-88 La. Coolege 12/21/77 78-75 @Morehead State12/29/77 77-112 @Northeast La. 12/30/77 46-51 @McNeese 1/02/78 55-59 @Louisiana Tech 1/05/78 89-81 McNeese State 1/07/78 67-74 East Texas Bapt. 1/10/78 71-68 @Hardin-Simmons 1/14/78 67-64 Louisiana Tech 1/16/78 76-89 Centenary 1/23/78 65-88 @SW La. 1/26/78 73-71 @Houston Bapt. 1/28/78 62-69 @SE La. 1/31/78 96-101 Southern Miss. 2/02/78 56-57 Northeast La. 2/06/78 71-69 @Southern Miss. 2/09/78 70-67 Houston Baptist 2/11/78 72-79 @Northeast La. 2/13/78 65-80 @La College 2/14/78 70-85 @Stetson Univ. 2/18/78 Pts: NSU-2008 Opponents-2115
1978-79 (7-19) Score Opponent Date 81-93 @Centenary 11/25/78 61-72 @McNeese 11/27/78 65-72 Northeast La. 11/30/78 62-66 La. College 12/06/78 66-79 South Alabama 12/09/78 48-64 @Toledo 12/13/78 63-72 @Cleveland State 12/14/78 71-72 Grambling 12/18/78 81-75 Nicholls State 12/20/78 63-61 Southeastern La. 1/03/79 80-79 Centenary 1/08/79 58-66 @Louisiana Tech 1/13/79 66-76 McNeese State 1/15/79 60-73 @Northeast La. 1/18/79 60-51 Hardin-Simmons 1/22/79 63-60 @S. F. Austin 1/24/79 64-67 @Campbell College1/27/79 64-73 @Grambling 1/31/79 70-72 Southern Miss. 2/03/79 51-50 Houston Baptist 2/05/79 60-61 @Arkansas State 2/07/79 63-58 @Hardin-Simmons 2/10/79 59-67 @Houston Baptist 2/12/79 58-67 @La. College 2/17/79 76-85 @Southern Miss. 2/26/79 97-98 @SouthAlabama 2/28/79 Pts: NSU-1704 Opponents-1828
Score 76-83 73-98 52-69 61-72 41-51 54-64 46-71 55-68 57-62 64-63 46-59 61-74 69-63 63-68 61-49 55-53 66-78 59-74 56-69 52-60 73-80 55-61 58-67 50-52 79-69
1979-80 (5-20) Opponent Date @Texas 11/30/79 @SW La. 12/03/79 McNeese 12/05/79 La. College 12/08/79 Louisiana Tech 12/10/79 @Bowling Green 12/15/79 @Ohio State 12/29/79 @Louisiana Tech 1/03/80 Centenary 1/07/80 East Texas Bapt. 1/10/80 @McNeese 1/14/80 Southern Miss. 1/17/80 @Northeast La. 1/23/80 Grambling 1/23/80 Southeastern La. 1/26/80 @Houston Bapt. 1/28/80 @Southern Miss. 1/31/80 @Nicholls State 2/04/80 Southwestern La.2/07/80 Houston Baptist 2/09/80 Northeast La. 2/16/80 @Grambling 2/20/80 @Centenary 2/23/80 @SE La. 2/25/80 Nicholls State 2/28/80
Pts: NSU-1484 Opponents-1677
1980-81 (11-17) Score Opponent Date 68-71 Louisiana Tech 12/01/80 67-79 @La. Tech 12/05/80 97-70 @La. College 12/08/80 71-63 @ UALR 12/18/80 77-87 vs. Pepperdine 12/29/80 70-86 vs. Akron 12/30/80 65-66 Northeast La. 1/08/81 51-52 Houston Baptist 1/10/81 71-73 Grambling 1/12/81 71-72 @Centenary 1/17/81 90-71 Southeastern La. 1/19/81 67-65 Southern Miss. 1/22/81 77-72 Georgia Southern1/24/81 78-70 Hardin-Simmons 1/26/81
63-66 92-69 60-71 58-60 67-79 91-81 59-67 71-81 66-94 84-72 91-84 60-64 88-92 73-79
@Grambling 1/28/81 Portland State 1/31/81 @SE La. 2/02/81 @Houston Baptist 2/05/81 @Northeast La. 2/07/81 Centenary 2/12/81 @Nicholls State 2/14/81 @Southern Miss. 2/17/81 @Mercer 2/19/81 Samford 2/21/81 Nicholls State 2/23/81 @Hardin-Simmons 2/28/81 vs. Hardin-Simmons 2/04/81 vs. Northeast La. 3/05/81
Pts: NSU-2046 Opponents-2252
1981-82 (19-9) Score Opponent Date 105-78 Arkansas Tech 11/28/81 81-86 @ UALR 12/01/81 77-62 E. Texas Baptist 12/12/81 81-82 @Louisiana Tech 12/14/81 63-79 @Houston Baptist 12/18/81 74-68 Houston Baptist 1/02/82 76-63 Nicholls State 1/04/82 89-73 New York State 1/09/82 74-54 Louisiana College1/11/82 77-64 @Hardin-Simmons 1/16/82 73-75 Centenary 1/19/82 98-86 Mercer 1/23/82 87-79 Southeastern La. 1/25/82 83-72 @Samford 1/28/82 53-62 @Georgia Southern1/30/82 65-57 Louisiana Tech 2/03/82 76-85 @Northeast La. 2/06/82 60-54 @Nicholls State 2/08/82 75-56 Hardin-Simmons 2/11/82 96-86 UA-Little Rock 2/13/82 84-80 Northeast La. 2/15/82 82-86 @Mercer 2/17/82 101-80 Samford 2/20/82 90-88 @Centenary 2/22/82 64-59 Georgia Southern2/25/82 65-66 @SE La. 2/17/82 85-74 vs. Mercer 3/04/82 64-81 @Northeast La. 3/05/82 Pts: NSU-2199 Opponents-2114
1982-83 (9-19) Score Opponent Date 76-79 UA-Little Rock 12/01/82 59-97 @Miss. State 12/04/82 44-55 @Northeast La. 12/06/82 72-84 @La. College 12/09/82 72-96 McNeese State 12/11/82 79-84 Louisiana Tech 12/13/82 55-65 @Louisiana Tech 12/15/82 59-74 Houston Baptist 12/18/82 93-68 St. Joseph’s (ME)1/03/83 43-44 @Houston Bapt. 1/08/83 46-72 @McNeese 1/10/83 64-67 Hardin-Simmons 1/15/83 77-75 Centenary 1/17/83 64-67 @Nicholls State 1/19/83 65-61 Mercer 1/22/83 47-50 @UA-Little Rock 1/25/83 70-90 Samford 1/27/83 78-62 Georgia Southern1/29/83 53-56 Northeast La. 2/01/83 65-47 @Hardin-Simmons 2/07/83 81-63 Mississippi College 2/10/83 78-90 @Georgia Southern2/16/83 74-90 @Mercer 2/17/83 67-84 @Samford 2/19/83 76-102 @Centenary 2/22/83 82-66 Louisiana College2/24/83 75-66 Nicholls State 2/26/83 65-80 @Houston Bapt. 3/05/83 Pts: NSU-1879 Opponents-2030
Score 66-96 55-79 69-56 61-77 89-61 66-90 54-57 65-81 63-79 50-65 75-55 59-57 50-73 68-81 70-85 66-89 76-59 75-70 78-80 62-80 67-91 53-80 46-65 59-83 75-83
1983-84 (6-22) Opponent Date Northeast La. 11/28/83 @Louisiana Tech 11/30/83 Louisiana College 12/06/83 Louisiana Tech 12/08/83 E. Texas Baptist 12/15/83 vs. SE La. 12/29/83 vs. Jackson State 12/30/83 @Mercer 1/05/84 @Ga. Southern 1/07/84 Houston Baptist 1/12/84 Hardin-Simmons 1/14/84 @La. College 1/16/84 Nicholls State 1/18/84 @Centenary 1/21/84 @Samford 1/26/84 @UA-Little Rock 1/28/84 Southeastern La. 1/31/84 Mercer 2/02/84 Georgia Southern2/04/84 @Hardin-Simmons 2/09/84 @Houston Baptist 2/11/84 @Northeast La. 2/13/84 Centenary 2/18/84 Samford 2/23/84 UA-Little Rock 2/25/84
57-60 60-76 53-71
@Nicholls State 2/27/84 @SE La. 2/29/84 @Houston Bapt. 3/03/84
Pts: NSU-1787 Opponents-2079
1984-85 (3-25) Score Opponent Date 52-87 @Texas 11/29/84 57-89 @SMU 12/01/84 66-85 vs. Northeast La. 12/05/84 72-62 vs. Centenary 12/06/84 69-72 vs. SE La. 12/14/84 82-92 vs. Drexel 12/15/84 78-90 Chicago State 12/16/84 50-78 Louisiana Tech 12/17/84 76-79 Southern Univ. 12/19/84 52-68 @UA-Little Rock 12/23/84 67-68 @Centenary 1/03/85 63-92 @Louisiana Tech 1/05/85 71-88 Northeast La. 1/07/85 62-98 @Oklahoma 1/12/85 56-59 @S. F. Austin 1/19/85 65-72 @Northeast La. 1/21/85 66-73 UA-Little Rock 1/22/85 77-72 Sam Houston 1/24/85 69-75 Southeastern La. 1/28/85 79-112 @Southern Univ. 1/30/85 56-76 @SW Texas 2/02/85 71-84 @Sam Houston 2/04/85 57-55 Stephen F. Austin 2/14/85 70-80 @Nicholls State 2/16/85 84-87 Centenary 2/18/85 62-67 Southwest Texas 2/21/85 47-70 Nicholls State 2/25/85 81-89 @SE La. 2/28/85 Pts: NSU-1857 Opponents-2219
1985-86 (11-16) Score Opponent Date 58-77 @Kentucky 11/22/85 77-82 @Alabama 11/25/85 59-77 @SMU 11/27/85 49-62 McNeese 11/30/85 63-69 Louisiana Tech 12/02/85 60-69 @Northeast La. 12/04/85 76-75 vs. Florida A&M 12/05/85 64-60 Northeast La. 12/09/85 61-64 @McNeese 12/19/85 53-58 @Rice 12/21/85 47-61 @Lamar 12/23/85 68-61 UA-Little Rock 12/30/85 50-70 @Louisiana Tech 1/07/86 44-75 @UA-Little Rock 1/11/86 64-82 @Northeast La. 1/18/86 54-55 Stephen F. Austin1/20/86 63-71 @Sam Houston 1/25/86 71-55 @SW Texas 1/27/86 80-62 Centenary 1/30/86 70-53 Nicholls State 2/01/86 64-61 Southeastern La. 2/03/86 57-61 @SF Austin 2/08/86 66-70 @Centenary 2/10/86 84-68 @Nicholls State 2/15/86 65-62 @SE La. 2/17/86 74-70 Sam Houston 2/22/86 75-70 Southwest Texas 2/24/86 Pts: NSU-1716 Opponents-1800
1986-87 (15-13) Score Opponent Date 93-70 Wiley College 11/29/86 79-72 @Centenary 12/01/86 84-63 East Texas State12/02/86 79-70 vs.TX Southern 12/05/86 45-48 @Rice 12/06/86 75-80 @Texas 12/08/86 78-72 @NE La. (OT) 12/13/86 57-71 vs. UNO 12/19/86 68-59 vs. Hardin-Simmons12/20/86 67-58 @East Texas State 1/03/87 54-63 @Lamar 1/06/87 91-66 Arkansas Baptist 1/10/87 56-51 @McNeese 1/14/87 57-60 Northeast La. 1/17/87 62-69 @S. F. Austin 1/19/87 81-77 Southern Univ. 1/21/87 69-67 Sam Houston (OT) 1/23/87 81-84 Southwest Texas 1/25/87 65-57 @Nicholls State 1/31/87 56-64 @SE La. 2/02/87 52-58 Stephen F. Austin2/07/87 77-63 Centenary 2/09/87 61-75 McNeese State 2/11/87 66-60 Nicholls State 2/14/87 88-70 Southeastern La. 2/16/87 66-78 @Sam Houston 2/21/87 69-82 @SW Texas 2/23/87 73-102 @Southern Univ. 2/25/87 Pts: NSU-1949 Opponents-1910
1987-88 (16-12) Score Opponent Date 54-53 vs. SF Austin 11/27/87 74-59 @Centenary 11/28/87 80-70 Centenary 11/30/87 55-77 @Arkansas 12/03/87 61-63 @Texas A&M 2/07/87
67-74 68-63 54-70 82-76 68-45 65-52 60-58 75-87 64-65 82-61 55-54 92-65 77-71 74-66 72-78 59-68 59-63 83-76 61-59 71-76 66-48 64-66 71-76
@SW La. 12/18/87 vs. E. Wash. 12/19/87 @Baylor 12/30/87 @Oral Roberts 1/04/88 Southeastern La. 1/09/88 Nicholls State 1/11/88 @Northeast La. 1/16/88 @North Texas 1/21/88 @UTA 1/23/88 McNeese State 1/28/88 Stephen F. Austin1/30/88 @Nicholls State 2/01/88 Southwest Texas 2/04/88 Sam Houston 2/06/88 @SW Texas 2/11/88 @Sam Houston 2/13/88 @S. F. Austin 2/18/88 @McNeese (OT) 2/20/88 Texas-Arlington 2/25/88 North Texas 2/27/88 @SE La. 2/29/88 Northeast La. 3/03/88 Texas-Arlington 3/05/88
Pts: NSU-1912 Opponents-1839
1988-89 (13-16) Score Opponent Date 76-69 vs. Drake 11/25/88 102-80 @Centenary 11/26/88 81-97 @Mississippi 11/30/88 104-109 @Texas 12/03/88 78-96 @Houston 12/05/88 85-82 @Kentucky 12/07/88 84-64 SE La. 12/19/88 91-101 vs. Marshall 12/30/88 104-105 vs. Southern 12/31/88 96-109 @Centenary 1/04/89 77-78 @Nicholls State (OT) 1/09/89 102-108 Northeast La. (2 OT)1/14/89 81-86 North Texas 1/19/89 80-66 Texas-Arlington 1/21/89 87-69 @McNeese 1/26/89 74-84 @SF Austin 1/28/89 86-83 @SW Texas 2/02/89 82-80 @Sam Houston 2/04/89 92-85 Southwest Texas 2/09/89 80-85 Sam Houston St. 2/11/89 77-62 Stephen F. Austin2/16/89 110-100 McNeese State 2/18/89 81-82 @SE La. (OT) 2/20/89 82-90 @Texas-Arlington2/23/89 101-113 @North Texas 2/25/89 111-83 Nicholls State 2/27/89 88-93 @Northeast La. 3/02/89 82-81 Southwest Texas 3/04/89 77-100 @North Texas 3/07/89 Pts: NSU-2551 Opponents-2540
1989-90 (10-19) Score Opponent Date 72-97 @Southern 11/25/89 69-72 @Grambling 11/27/89 87-65 Grambling 12/1/89 80-84 Southern 12/4/89 61-94 @Colorado State 12/7/89 68-80 @Wyoming 12/9/89 71-86 @Lamar 12/16/89 63-73 @LSU 12/20/89 67-79 @Texas Tech 12/30/89 67-96 @Southern Miss. 1/3/90 95-89 @S. F. Austin 1/11/90 71-74 McNeese 1/13/90 93-76 Nicholls 1/15/90 51-63 Texas Arlington 1/18/90 118-94 North Texas 1/20/90 81-106 @Sam Houston 1/25/90 90-111 @SW Texas 1/27/90 86-76 @Jackson State 1/31/90 75-83 Northeast La. 2/3/90 109-96 Sam Houston 2/8/90 64-66 @McNeese 2/10/90 99-83 @Nicholls 2/12/90 69-72 @Texas Arlington2/15/90 77-69 @North Texas 2/18/90 102-82 Stephen F. Austin2/22/90 90-92 Southwest Texas 2/24/90 67-82 @Northeast La. 3/1/90 82-58 !Southwest Texas 3/5/90 61-63 !North Texas 3/6/90 Pts: NSU-2284 Opponents-2361
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1990-91 (6-22) Score Opponent Date 82-93 Centenary 11/26/90 60-77 @Baylor 11/30/90 90-102 vs. Delaware St.12/01/90 86-91 @Centenary 12/08/90 97-101 OBU (2OT) 12/10/90 88-59 Wiley College 12/12/90 44-60 Colorado State 12/17/90 71-88 @Fresno State 12/20/90 91-82 @U.S. International 1/03/91 56-64 @Rice 1/05/91 74-76 Sam Houston 1/10/91 66-71 @McNeese 1/12/91 65-66 Northeast. La. 1/14/91
84-80 77-88 58-55 72-76 66-65 76-95 68-74 76-77 85-76 77-98 85-90 56-71 72-67 59-72 72-78
@Texas-Arlington1/17/91 North Texas 1/19/91 S. F. Austin (OT) 1/24/91 Southwest Texas 1/26/91 Southeastern La. 1/31/91 @Northeast La. 2/2/91 @S. F. Austin 2/7/91 McNeese State 2/8/91 @Nicholls State 2/11/91 Texas-Arlington 2/14/91 North Texas 2/16/91 @SE La. 2/18/91 @Sam Houston 2/21/91 @SW Texas 2/23/91 Nicholls State 2/25/91
Pts: NSU-2113 Opponents-2194
1991-92 (15-13) Score Opponent Date 131-107 Harding 11/23/91 124-71 E. Texas Baptist 11/25/91 116-89 Ouachita Baptist11/30/91 123-73 Grambling 12/2/91 85-90 vs. Ala. State 12/6/91 91-93 vs. Jackson St. 12/7/91 88-117 @Nevada 12/19/91 79-81 @Nicholls State 1/2/92 101-92 @McNeese State 1/4/92 112-77 @Centenary 1/9/92 88-109 @Northeast La. 1/11/92 86-72 Southwest Texas 1/16/92 77-94 UTSA 1/18/92 140-51 LeTourneau 1/20/92 74-64 @Sam Houston 1/23/92 76-73 @S. F. Austin 1/25/92 79-94 North Texas 1/30/92 95-91 Texas-Arlington 2/1/92 93-85 Northeast La. 2/8/92 87-97 Nicholls State 2/10/92 99-104 @UTSA 2/13/92 68-81 @SW Texas 2/15/92 89-83 Stephen F. Austin2/20/92 83-81 Sam Houston 2/22/92 86-102 @Grambling 2/24/92 82-97 @UTA 2/27/92 86-95 @North Texas 2/29/92 122-90 McNeese State 3/2/92 Pts. NSU-2660 Opponents-2453
1992-93 (13-13) Score Opponent Date 94-70 Univ. of Dallas 12/2/92 118-68 Texas Lutheran 12/4/92 81-91 @Tulane 12/12/92 127-92 Arkansas Baptist12/15/92 113-102 Centanary 12/19/92 91-80 Texas A&I 12/21/92 79-93 @LSU 12/29/92 78-89 @North Texas 1/2/93 75-89 @Texas-Arlington 1/4/93 79-72 Nicholls State 1/7/93 94-96 McNeese State 1/9/93 68-65 @SF Austin (OT) 1/16/93 82-84 @Sam Houston (OT) 1/19/93 99-105 UTSA 1/21/93 65-67 Southwest Texas 1/23/93 94-71 @SEn La. 1/26/93 79-89 Northeat La. 1/30/93 81-100 @McNeese State 2/4/93 79-74 @Nicholls State 2/6/93 121-97 North Texas 2/8/93 79-73 Stephen F. Austin 2/11/93 114-89 Sam Houston 2/13/93 87-99 @SW Texas 2/18/93 117-108 @UT-SanAntonio 2/20/93 73-94 @Northeast La. 2/27/93 90-93 Texas-Arlington 3/1/93 Pts: NSU-2357 Opponents-2250
1993-94 (11-15) Score Opponent Date 97-69 Ouachita Baptist 11/26/93 63-59 Tarleton State 12/1/93 76-111 @Arkansas 12/4/93 116-71 Ambassador 12/6/93 84-85 @Alabama 12/9/93 118-123 @Troy State 12/11/93 89-82 SE La. 12/18/93 95-81 Henderson St. 12/20.93 72-69 UTSA 12/28/93 92-82 SW Texas (OT) 12/30/93 90-93 @SF Austin (OT) 1/6/94 81-88 @Sam Houston 1/8/94 77-92 Nicholls State 1/13/94 75-71 McNeese State 1/15/94 81-89 @UTA 1/20/94 65-88 @North Texas 1/22/94 87-95 Northeast La. 1/29/94 93-64 Sam Houston 2/3/94 83-80 S. F. Austin 2/5/94 64-76 @SW Texas 2/7/94 58-72 @McNeese 2/10/94 95-100 @Nicholls State (OT) 2/12/94 90-91 North Texas 2/17/94 123-101 Texas-Arlington 2/19/94 80-88 @Northeast La. 2/26/94 79-87 @UTSA 2/28/94
1994-95 (13-14) Score Opponent Date 61-91 @Baylor 11/25/94 102-63 Emporia State 11/26/94 100-82 Troy State 11/29/94 77-73 @SE La. 12/3/94 89-76 Henderson State 12/5/94 100-86 vs. South Ala. 12/9/94 53-80 @BYU 12/10/94 69-66 *Northeast La. 1/2/95 75-68 *@Texas-Arlington 1/5/95 52-77 *@North Texas 1/7/95 87-78 *McNeese 1/12/95 71-86 *Nicholls State 1/14/95 58-98 @Miss. State 1/16/95 78-101 *@SF Austin 1/19/95 57-55 *@Sam Houston 1/21/95 74-65 *UTSA 1/26/95 63-64 *SW Texas 1/28/95 59-64 *North Texas 2/2/95 67-75 *UTA 2/4/95 79-100 *@Nicholls State 2/9/95 76-70 *@McNeese 2/11/95 74-73 *S. F. Austin 2/18/95 67-70 *Sam Houston St.2/20/95 78-73 *@SW Texas 2/23/95 81-91 *@UTSA 2/25/95 72-75 *@Northeast La. 3/2/95 79-89 **@UTSA 3/6/95 Pts: NSU-1996 Opponents-2089
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Score 73-81 82-85 67-88 46-50 90-75 68-79 61-91 89-69 75-94 67-75 74-94 56-62 72-61 68-83 62-68 63-61 59-63 57-80 70-80 57-41 84-95 69-70 64-73 58-73 70-76 64-85
1995-96 (5-21) Opponent Date La. Christian 11/25/95 @Colorado 11/27/95 @Texas-El Paso 12/2/95 @New Mexico St.12/4/95 SE La. 12/12/95 @SW Missouri 12/16/95 @La. Tech 12/18/95 Grambling 12/30/95 @*McNeese State 1/4/96 @*Nicholls State 1/6/96 @*Northeast La. 1/13/96 *UTSA 1/18/96 *SW Texas 1/20/96 *S. F. Austin 1/22/96 @*North Texas (OT) 1/25/96 @*UTA 1/27/96 *Nicholls State 2/1/96 *McNeese State 2/3/96 *Northeast La. 2/9/96 @*SW Texas 2/15/96 @*UTSA 2/17/96 *Sam Houston 2/19/96 *Texas-Arlington 2/22/96 *North Texas 2/24/96 @*SF Austin 2/27/96 @*Sam Houston 2/29/96
Pts: NSU-1760 OPPONENTS-1957
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1996-97 (13-15) Score Opponent Date 61-78 @Miss. State 11/23/96 116-77 Ark-Monticello 11/25/96 83-77 @Centenary 12/2/96 56-77 Louisiana Tech 12/5/96 73-75 SW Missouri St. 12/10/96 58-46 Samford 12/14/96 69-71 @Grambling 12/19/96 92-87 @SE La. 12/21/96 56-65 @Baylor 12/28/96 70-82 @Colorado 12/30/96 63-47 @*Sam Houston 1/4/97 75-66 @*S. F. Austin 1/6/97 77-59 *UTSA 1/9/97 58-65 *SW Texas 1/11/97 71-86 @*Nicholls State 1/16/97 77-97 @*McNeese 1/18/97 58-53 *Texas-Arlington 1/25/97 65-70 *Northeast La. 1/27/97 77-87 @*SW Texas 1/30/97 64-89 @*UTSA 2/1/97 87-67 *Sam Houston 2/6/97 69-63 *Stephen F. Austin 2/8/97 90-73 *Nicholls State 2/13/97 96-88 *McNeese State 2/15/97 75-87 @*Northeast La. 2/22/97 65-73 @*Texas-Arlington 3/1/97 85-74 vs. **SF Austin 3/5/97 54-72 vs. **Northeast La. 3/7/97 Pts: NSU-2040 OPPONENTS-2041
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1997-98 (13-14) Score Opponent Date 83-52 Belhaven 11/18/97 58-76 @Colorado 11/22/97 65-60 @Baylor 11/25/97 84-73 @Miss. State 11/29/97 76-66 @Samford 12/2/97 58-69 Centenary 12/8/97
Pts: NSU-2223 Opponents-2201
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*Lamar 1/17/04 *@Sam Houston 1/22/04 *@UTSA (ot) 1/24/04 Huston-Tillotson 1/28/04 *Texas State 1/31/04 *McNeese State 2/5/04 *@ Lamar 2/7/04 *@ Nicholls State 2/12/04 *@ SE Louisiana 2/18/04 *Sam Houston St.2/21/04 *Texas-Arlington 2/26/04 *UTSA 2/28/04 *@ SF Austin 3/2/04 *@ UL-Monroe 3/5/04 #@ SE La. 3/8/04
Pts: NSU-2078 OPPONENTS - 2150
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The 2000-01 SLC Tournament Champs and NCAA Opening Round winner 104-83 57-60 64-78 52-99 68-60 96-85 70-60 78-69 85-75 72-69 83-89 77-67 62-71 68-71 84-61 96-84 78-79 82-80 80-68 74-84 72-77
Wiley College 12/10/97 Grambling 12/16/97 @La. Tech 12/18/97 @Mississippi 12/30/97 *UTSA 1/3/98 @*S. F. Austin 1/5/98 *McNeese State 1/8/98 *Sam Houston 1/10/98 *Northeast La. 1/15/98 @*UTA 1/17/98 @*Northeast La. 1/24/98 @*SE La. 1/29/98 @*Nicholls State 1/31/98 *UTA 2/5/98 *S. F. Austin 2/7/98 @*McNeese 2/12/98 @*UTSA 2/19/98 @*SW Texas (0t) 2/21/98 *SE La. 2/26/98 *Nicholls State 2/28/98 **UTA 3/6/97
Pts: NSU-1993 OPPONENTS-1998
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1998-99 (11-15) Score Opponent Date 55-75 @Oklahoma 11/14/98 65-90 @Okla. State 11/16/98 46-75 @Miss. State 11/21/98 66-65 @Grambling (ot) 11/24/98 41-63 Louisiana Tech 11/30/98 70-73 @Centenary 12/6/98 97-37 Belhaven 12/17/98 92-71 La. College 12/30/98 84-77 *Sam Houston 1/4/99 63-69 *@McNeese 1/7/99 79-60 *Lamar 1/9/99 66-78 *@UTA 1/14/99 66-63 *@S. F. Austin 1/16/99 65-70 *Nicholls State 1/21/99 63-62 *Northeast La. 1/23/99 72-75 *@SW Texas 1/28/99 53-60 *@UTSA 1/30/99 81-79 *Southeastern La. 2/1/99 66-65 *Southwest Texas 2/4/99 68-77 *UTSA 2/6/99 60-68 *@Sam Houston 2/9/99 58-78 *@Northeast La. 2/13/99 60-71 *UTA 2/18/99 97-70 *S. F. Austin 2/20/99 72-69 *@SE La. 2/25/99 65-70 *@Lamar 2/27/99 Pts: NSU- 1770 OPPONENTS- 1810
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1999-2000 (17-13) Score Opponent Date 54-92 @Wyoming 11/19/99 71-76 @Kansas St. 11/21/99 61-58 La. College 11/23/99 79-93 @Troy State 11/27/99 61-97 @TCU 11/30/99 49-52 @Rice 12/2/99 81-65 Southern 12/14/99 83-48 SW Kansas 12/20/99 63-60 *@McNeese 12/28/99 58-70 *@Lamar 12/30/99 64-94 *Texas-Arlington 1/6/99 50-60 *Sam Houston 1/8/99 65-56 *@S. F. Austin 1/13/99 62-52 Centenary 1/15/99 63-61 *@UL-Monroe 1/17/99 57-55 *UTSA 1/20/99
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*Southeastern La.1/27/99 *@Nicholls State 1/29/99 *McNeese 2/3/00 *Lamar 2/5/00 *@UTA 2/10/00 *@Sam Houston 2/12/00 *Nicholls State 2/14/00 *@SW Texas 2/17/00 *@UTSA 2/19/00 *SF Austin (ot) 2/24/00 *La.-Monroe 3/4/00 *@UTA (ot) 3/7/00 **Sam Houston 3/9/00 **Lamar 3/11/00
Pts: NSU- 1990 OPPONENTS- 2003
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66-73 79-65 89-72 73-66 72-63 90-63 88-86 77-81 83-98 64-72 63-67 79-74 69-85 67-77 93-72 62-52 65-57 58-66 70-65 53-75 83-96
*S. F. Austin 1/3/02 *@ UTA 1/5/02 @ Centenary 1/7/02 *@ Nicholls State1/10/02 *@ SE La. 1/12/02 *SW Texas 1/17/02 *UTSA 1/19/02 *Lamar 1/24/02 *Sam Houston 1/26/02 **UL-Monroe 1/31/02 *McNeese State 2/2/02 *@ Sam Houston 2/4/02 *@ SW Texas 2/8/02 *@UTSA 2/10/02 *Nicholls State 2/14/02 *SE La. 2/16/02 Centenary 2/19/02 *@ SF Austin 2/21/02 *Texas-Arlington 2/23/02 *@ McNeese 2/28/02 *@ UL-Monroe 3/2/02
2000-2001 (19-13) SLC TOURNAMENT Champions • NCAA Tournament • Opening Round Winner Score Opponent Date 69-102 @TCU 11/17/00 57-53 @Southern 11/21/00 71-59 Oral Roberts (@Bossier City) 12/5/00 59-73 @Oklahoma St. 12/16/00 85-78 @Oral Roberts 12/18/00 47-115 @Arkansas 12/20/00 77-75 *Sam Houston 12/28/00 62-43 *Lamar 12/30/00 63-61 *@UL-Monroe 1/4/01 77-96 *McNeese 1/8/01 59-72 *@UTA 1/11/01 64-63 *@S. F. Austin 1/13/01 74-81 *UTSA 1/20/01 76-70 *SW Texas 1/22/01 74-88 *@Nicholls State 1/25/01 92-65 *La.-Monroe 1/27/01 71-63 *@SE La. 1/29/01 71-88 *@Sam Houston 2/3/01 73-81 *@Lamar 2/5/01 60-58 *SE La. 2/10/01 72-77 *Nicholls State 2/12/01 74-84 *@UTSA 2/15/01 87-76 *@SW Texas 2/17/01 80-78 @Centenary 2/21/01 92-103 *@McNeese 2/24/01 68-62 *S.F. Austin 3/1/01 87-69 *UTA 3/3/01 68-61 !@Nicholls State 3/6/01 86-73 !UTSA 3/9/01 72-71 !McNeese 3/10/01 71-67 $NCAA-Winthrop 3/13/01 54-96 $NCAA-Illinois 3/16/01
2002-2003 (6-21) Score Opponent Date 56-60 @New Mexico 11/25/02 54-82 @Baylor 11/27/02 63-64 @Centenary 11/30/02 55-74 @Wichita State 12/7/02 51-77 @Oklahoma St. 12/8/02 71-74 Grambling State 12/14/02 49-51 *@SE La. 12/30/02 76-67 *UTSA 1/2/03 62-71 *Texas State 1/4/03 56-71 *@McNeese 1/9/03 72-83 Centenary 1/13/03 65-59 *SE La. 1/16/03 70-61 *Nicholls State 1/18/03 63-79 *@Lamar 1/23/03 62-76 *@Sam Houston 1/25/03 66-75 *Texas-Arlington 1/30/03 59-71 *Stephen F. Austin 2/1/03 73-63 *@UT-San Antonio2/6/03 62-95 *@Texas State 2/8/03 57-70 *McNeese State 2/13/03 63-75 *UL-Monroe 2/15/03 62-53 *@Nicholls State 2/20/03 83-78 *@UL-Monroe 2/22/03 47-62 *Lamar 2/27/03 72-83 *Sam Houston St. 3/1/03 50-68 *@UTA 3/5/03 63-75 *@S. F. Austin 3/7/03
Pts: NSU-2292 OPPONENTS-2397
Pts: NSU-1682 OPPONENTS-1917
* - SLC Games
! - SLC Tournament, Bossier City
$ - NCAA Tournament Dayton, Ohio
2001-2002 (13-18) Score Opponent Date 79-93 @ TCU 11/16/01 69-97 @ Memphis 11/18/01 60-66 !UTEP 11/19/01 107-86 !Ark-Monticello 11/20/01 99-91 !Siena (2 ot) 11/21/01 58-60 @ Hawaii 11/27/01 54-91 @ LSU 12/2/01 88-91 @ Grambling 12/8/01 44-79 @ Oklahoma St.12/17/01 65-82 *@ Lamar 12/29/01
Pts: NSU-2266 OPPONENTS-2361
* - SLC Games !Las Vegas Tournament (Las Vegas, NV)
**at CenturyTel Center, Bossier City
2004-2005 (21-12) SLC CHAMPIONS SLC TOURNAMENT FINALIST Score Opponent Date 53-91 @ Oklahoma St.11/19/04 54-63 @ Tulsa 11/21/04 107-80 LSU-Shreveport 11/24/04 91-58 SW Kansas 11/26/04 83-76 Centenary 11/30/04 72-46 Jarvis Christian 12/1/04 85-72 Tulane 12/6/04 74-83 @ LSU 12/11/04 61-74 #@ Valparaiso 12/16/04 65-81 #@ Cincinnati 12/18/04 55-64 @ Dayton 12/20/04 51-69 #vs. Illinois 12/30/04 62-69 #vs. Northern Iowa12/31/04 86-46 Huston-Tillotson 1/3/05 69-63 *@SF Austin 1/6/05 71-66 *UT-San Antonio 1/8/05 69-58 *@ UT-Arlington 1/12/05 65-63 *SE Louisiana 1/15/05 72-69 *@ Texas State 1/20/05 78-86 *@UTSA 1/22/05 65-77 *@ Sam Houston 1/29/05 84-89 *Lamar 2/3/05 92-73 *@ McNeese 2/5/05 95-93ot *Nicholls State 2/10/05 88-71 *UL-Monroe 2/12/05 90-83 *@ Lamar 2/16/05 67-65 *@ Nicholls State2/23/05 64-62 *SF Austin 2/26/05 82-63 *Sam Houston 3/2/05 103-73 *McNeese 3/4/05 81-67 ! UT-Arlington 3/8/05 90-75 ! Lamar 3/10/05 42-49 ! SE Louisiana 3/13/05 Pts: NSU-2466 OPPONENTS-2317
* - SLC Games ! - SLC Tournament # - Las Vegas Holiday Classic
2005-2006 (26-8) SLC CHAMPIONS SLC TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS • NCAA Tournament • First Round Winner Score Opponent Date 77-74 E. TEXAS BAP. 11/18/05 72-81 @ Missouri 11/20/05 76-75ot @ Mississippi St.11/26/05 76-74 @ Centenary 11/29/05 55-57 @ Wichita St. 12/3/05 68-64 @ Oklahoma St. 12/5/05
89-61 92-82 72-61 77-81ot 76-80 61-73 79-67 81-68 70-60 73-80 60-58 70-59 89-71 77-68 72-66 82-79 81-65 79-70 63-66 80-67 97-79 76-71 85-64 75-61 80-66 95-87 64-63 54-67
HARDING 12/10/05 LSU-Shreveport 12/14/05 #vs. Oregon St. 12/21/05 #vs. Iowa St. 12/22/05 #@Hawaii 12/23/05 @ Texas A&M 12/31/05 *@ UT-Arlington 1/5/06 *@ UL-Monroe 1/7/06 * SE LOUISIANA 1/11/06 *@ Sam Houston1/14/06 *@ SE Louisiana 1/21/06 *UTSA 1/26/06 * TEXAS STATE 1/28/06 * SAM HOUSTON2/2/06 *@S. F. Austin 2/4/06 * UT-ARLINGTON 2/9/06 * UL-MONROE 2/11/06 *@ Nicholls 2/16/06 %@ Utah St. 2/18/06 * LAMAR 2/23/06 * MCNEESE ST. 2/25/06 *@ Texas State 3/1/06 *@ UTSA 3/3/06 ! UTSA 3/7/06 ! LAMAR 3/9/06 ! SAMHOUSTON 3/12/06 $ vs. Iowa 3/17/06 $ vs. West Virginia 3/19/06
Pts: NSU-2573 OPPONENTS-2365
* - SLC Games ! - SLC Tournament # - Rainbow Classic $ - NCAA Tournament Auburn HIls, Michigan
2006-2007 (26-8)
SLC EAST DIVISION CHAMPIONS
SLC TOURNAMENT FINALIST Date Score Opponent 88-71 UTAH STATE 11/10/06 76-79 at Oklahoma St. 11/15/06 87-100 at Louisville 11/18/06 84-64 HENDERSON ST.11/22/06 71-67 at UNO 11/25/06 89-86 CENTENARY 11/28/06 67-83 #at Marquette 12/1/06 51-53 #vs. Princeton 12/2/06 64-57 SOUTHERN 12/5/06 78-89 at Hawai’i 12/16/06 67-97 at DePaul 12/29/06 59-85 at Northwestern 12/31/06 81-85 *at Texas State 1/4/07 78-65 *at UT-Arlington 1/6/07 57-69 *TAMU-CC 1/11/07 82-62 *UTSA 1/13/07 98-90ot *MCNEESE ST. 1/18/07 81-68 *at Lamar 1/20/07 98-88 *at Nicholls 1/25/07 98-91 *SE LOUISIANA 1/27/07 78-66 *CENTRALARK. 2/3/07 80-90 *SAM HOUSTON 2/8/07 67-57 *at S.F. Austin 2/12/07 81-83 *at McNeese 2/14/07 84-85ot at Tenn. Tech 2/17/07 92-93 *NICHOLLS 2/22/07 71-65 *at SE Louisiana 2/24/07 89-82 *LAMAR 2/27/07 86-92 *at Central Ark. 3/3/07 85-76 !vs. S.F. Austin 3/8/07 78-65 !vs. Lamar 3/9/07 78-81 !vs. TAMU-CC 3/11/07 Pts: NSU-2523 OPPONENTS-2484
* - SLC Games # - Marquette Classic ! - SLC Tournament (Houston, Texas)
2007-08 (15-18) SLC TOURNAMENT FINALIST Date Score Opponent 71-92 #vs. UCSB 11/8/07 58-97 #vs. at Stanford 11/10/07 60-90 #vs. Harvard 11/11/07 66-72 UNO 11/14/07 93-78 UNIV. OF OZARKS 11/16/07 105-96 HOUSTON BAPT. 11/20/07 96-76 TENN. TECH 11/24/07 90-105 at Centenary 11/27/07 96-76 SUNO 12/4/07 73-79 LSUS 12/8/07 58-82 at LSU 12/15/07 59-90 at Arkansas 12/19/07 71-95 at Texas Tech 12/29/07 36-82 at Oklahoma St. 12/31/07 86-82 *UTA 1/5/08 95-84 *TEXAS STATE 1/10/08 67-58 *at A&M-CC 1/17/08 78-81ot *at UTSA 1/19/08 74-85 *at McNeese 1/23/08 82-91 *at Lamar 1/26/08 70-67 *NICHOLLS 1/31/08 60-55 *at SE La. 2/2/08 67-66ot *at UCA 2/9/08 78-69 *at Sam Houston 2/13/08 59-67 *S. F. AUSTIN 2/16/08 81-71 *MCNEESE 2/21/08 95-103 *at Lamar 2/23/08 60-82 *at Nicholls 2/28/08 72-75 *SE LA 3/1/08 75-74 *UCA 3/8/08 71-51 ! vs SE La. 3/13/08 69-66 ! vs. S. F. Austin 3/14/08 79-82 ! vs. UTA 3/16/08 Pts: NSU-2437 OPPONENTS-2624
* - SLC Games ! - SLC Tournament # - Stanford Classic
2008-2009 (11-20) Date Score Opponent 65-83 at Indiana 11/15/08 87-65 E. Texas Bapt. 11/18/08 69-66 !vs. Centenary 11/21/08 60-91 !at LSU 11/23/08 77-65 !vs. Alcorn St. 11/28/08 63-100 !vs. Troy 11/29/08 90-84 ot Centenary 12/1/08 66-94 at Miami (OH) 12/6/08 85-64 LSUS 12/13/08 83-79 at Grambling 12/17/08 84-76 at Houston Bapt.12/20/08 92-63 SUNO 12/22/08 56-95 at Arkansas 12/27/08 68-69 Miami (OH) 12/30/08 73-122 at Okla. State 1/3/09 60-69 *Nicholls 1/10/09 59-84 *at SE La. 1/14/09 68-69 *TAMUCC 1/17/09 69-85 *at Nicholls 1/24/09 45-73 *at S.F. Austin 1/28/09 80-64 *UCA 1/31/09 75-81 *at McNeese 2/4/09 66-85 *UTA 2/7/09 51-59 *S.F. Austin 2/11/09 79-77 *at UCA 2/14/09 74-88 *McNeese 2/18/09 67-89 *at Lamar 2/21/09 77-74 *UTSA 2/25/09 65-98 *at Texas State 2/28/09 66-84 *at Sam Houston 3/4/09 69-79 *SE La. 3/7/09 Pts: NSU-2188 OPPONENTS-2475
* - SLC Games ! - LSU Classic
* - SLC Game
2003-2004 (11-17) Score Opponent Date 62-90 @ Oklahoma St.11/21/03 49-78 @ Tulsa 11/22/03 88-80 LSU-Shreveport 11/25/03 61-69 @ Northwestern 11/29/03 67-90 @ Centenary 12/02/03 66-83 @ Tulane 12/09/03 80-59 Loyola-NO 12/13/03 76-78 ^Troy State 12/20/03 51-87 !@ New Mexico 12/28/03 77-80 !Arkansas State 12/29/03 64-63 *Stephen F. Austin 1/8/04 84-78 *@ McNeese 1/10/04 90-55 *Nicholls State 1/15/04
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Recapping the 2008-09 Season
Overall Statistics Home: 6-7 Away: 3-12 Neutral: 2-1
Record: 11-20 ## Player 24 15 23 14 31 42 11 01 34 22 02 33 25 12 05 21 25 03 03 04
GP-GS Min--Avg
Damon Jones Devin White Keithan Hancock Michael McConathy Kalem Porterie William Mosley C.J. Clark Dominic Knight Charles Clark Deividas Petravicius Aramie Brooks James Hulbin Brandon Gregory Dwayne Watkins Logan McConathy Darius Richardson Andrew Edgar Marcus Jackson Jin Cheng John Conine TEAM Total Opponents
FG-FGA Pct.
3FG-FGA Pct.
31-28 21-16 29-5 31-30 31-14 31-30 18-9 24-7 31-5 31-7 29-0 9-0 1-0 12-0 31-1 25-3 1-0 1-0 1-0 9-0
729-23.5 374-17.8 526-18.1 720-23.2 548-17.7 766-24.7 350-19.9 375-15.6 357-11.5 389-12.5 291-10.0 68-7.6 0-0.0 79-6.6 426-13.7 213-8.5 2-2.0 3-3.0 0-0.0 10-1.1
138-338 .408 83-166 .500 22-267 .330 73-243 .300 77-152 .507 80-119 .672 39-100 .390 34-75 .453 42-87 .483 41-115 ..357 43-104 .413 8-19 .421 1-1 1.000 7-28 .250 14-71 .197 12-41 .293 0-3 .000 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 0-3 .000
55-153 3-13 53-172 32-117 0-0 0-0 2-11 3-8 5-17 6-32 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-8 2-17 1-9 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
31 31
6226 6226
780-1934 .403 839-1872 .448
164-561 .292 224-623 .360
Score by Periods & OTs Northwestern State Opponents
1st 993 1157
2nd 1178 1307
OT 17 11
.359 .231 .308 .274 .000 .000 .182 .375 .294 .188 .000 .000 1.000 .125 .118 .111 .000 .000 .000 .000
FT-FTA Pct. 47-23 38-56 34-44 69-84 41-58 34-95 24-33 40-59 29-67 36-32 20-44 13-20 0-0 16-23 23-29 11-16 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
.887 .679 .773 .821 .707 .358 .727 .678 .418 .813 .455 .650 .000 .696 .793 ..688 .000 .000 .000 .000
464-713 .651 573-860 .666
SLC: 3-13
Off-Def Tot Avg PF-FO A TO Blk Stl 43-29 35-85 17-30 13-28 56-92 95-168 18-40 16-44 34-38 32-59 36-39 8-9 0-0 4-10 7-35 8-21 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 53-69 489-783 413-813
72 120 47 41 148 263 58 60 72 91 75 17 0 14 42 29 1 0 0 1 122 1272 1226
2.3 5.7 1.6 1.3 4.8 8.5 3.2 2.5 2.3 2.9 2.6 1.9 0.0 1.2 1.4 1.2 1.0 0-0 0 0.1 3.8 41.0 39.5
43-0 68-5 52-3 107-6 57-0 72-1 56-4 65-3 26-0 34-0 31-0 11-0 0 9-0 50-0 16-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 2 701-22 643-
25 19 26 124 20 19 20 26 16 35 11 1 0 4 55 20 0 0 0 0
52 44 60 104 45 23 36 33 30 42 21 7 0 10 65 23 0 0 0 1 2 421 599 503 535
7 41 0 0 2 76 11 2 6 2 10 7 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
20 24 28 51 11 39 11 11 11 19 16 1 0 6 7 13 0 0 0 0
Pts Avg 378 207 263 247 195 194 104 111 117 114 106 29 3 31 53 36 0 0 1 0
12.2 9.9 9.1 8.0 6.3 6.3 5.8 4.6 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.2 3.0 2.6 1.7 1.4 0.0 0-0 0.0 0.0
128 269 2188 70.6 90 313 2475 79.8
Total 2188 2475
Southland Conference Statistics Record: 3-13 ## Player 24 14 23 31 42 11 01 15 22 34 02 25 05 03
Home: 2-6
GP-GS Min--Avg
Damon Jones Michael McConathy Keithan Hancock Kalem Porterie William Mosley C.J. Clark Dominic Knight Devin White DeividaPetravicius Charles Clark Aramie Brooks Brandon Gregory Logan McConathy Jin Cheng TEAM Total Opponents
FG-FGA Pct.
16-15 16-16 14-2 16-13 16-16 3-2 13-6 6-1 16.1 16-5 16-0 1-0 16-0 1-0
419-26.2 373-23.3 252-18.0 354-22.1 437-27.3 60-20.0 231-17.8 74-12.3 218-13.6 230-14.4 159-9.9 0-0.0 211-13.2 0-0.0
75-187 45-143 43-137 52-97 39-65 7-20 21-44 9-30 25-74 25-58 22-54 1-1 9-41 0-0
.401 .315 .314 .536 .600 .350 .477 .455 .338 .431 .407 1.000 .220 .000
16 16
3200 3200
381-985 .387 444-946 .469
Away: 1-7 Finish: T-5th in East, 11th Overall 3FG-FGA Pct. 25-73 19-68 24-85 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-5 0-1 4-24 2-11 0-0 0-0 2-8 0-0
.342 .279 .282 .000 .000 .000 .600 .000 .167 .182 .000 ..000 .250 .000
81-284 .285 107-304 .352
2008-09 Final Results Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan.
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at Indiana L 83-65 EAST TEXAS BAPIST W 87-65 !vs. Centenary W 69-66 !vs LSU L 91-60 !vs.Alcorn State W 77-65 !Troy L 100-63 CENTENARY W 90-64OT at Miami(OH) L 94-66 LSU-SHREVEPORT W 85-64 at Grambling W 83-79 at Houston Baptist W 84-76 SOUTHERN-NO W 92-64 at Arkansas L 95-56 MIAMI(OH) L 69-68 at Oklahoma State L 122-73 *NICHOLLS L 69-60 *at Southeastern La. L 84-59 *at TEXAS A&M CC L 69-68
Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar.
24 28 31 4 7 11 14 18 21 24 28 4 7
*at Nicholls L 85-69 *at SFA L 73-45 *CENTRAL ARK W 80-64 *at McNeese State L 81-75 *UTA L 85-66 *SFA L 59-51 *at Central Ark W 79-77 *MCNEESE STATE L 88-74 *at Lamar L 89-67 *UTSA W 77-74 *at Texas State. L 98-65 *at Sam Houston L 84-66 SOUTHEASTERN LA. L 79-69
FT-FTA Pct. 27-32 36-43 14-16 18-28 23-59 4-6 26-40 11-11 20-25 16-40 12-24 0-0 11-13 0-0
.844 .837 .875 .643 .390 .667 .650 1.000 .800 .400 .500 .000 .846 .00
227-349 .650 263-380 .692
Off-Def Tot Avg PF-FO A TO Blk Stl 22-15 7-16 5-15 36-60 51-97 1-9 9-23 5-15 18-30 21-21 21-21 0-0 3-19 0-0 23-33 236-381 194-446
37 23 20 96 148 10 32 20 48 42 42 0 22 0 56 617 640
2.3 1.4 1.4 6.0 9..3 3.3 2.5 3.3 3.0 2.6 2.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 3.7 38.6 40.0
Score by Periods & OTs Northwestern State Opponents
20-0 52-2 22-1 36-0 42-0 12-1 36-1 18-1 20-0 16-0 15-0 0-0 23-0 0-0 0 327-6 316-
1st 486 591
13 57 12 17 13 2 21 3 16 11 4 0 20 0
22 56 31 29 2 7 21 16 24 18 9 0 29 0 1 209 286 263 272
2nd 584 667
Pts Avg
5 0 0 1 43 3 0 24 1 3 7 0 1 0
10 24 13 9 17 4 7 1 16 5 10 0 3 1
202 145 124 122 101 18 71 29 74 68 56 3 31 0
12.6 9.1 8.9 7.6 6.3 6.0 5.5 4.8 4.6 4.3 3.5 3.0 1.9 0.0
72 63
134 1070 66.9 150 1258 78.6
Total 1070 1258
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Louisiana Sports
Scoring
Coach H. Lee Prather, 1965 Charles “Red” Thomas, 1969 Lee Arthur Smith, 2003 Gayle Hatch, 2008
45, MIKE MCCONATHY, La. Tech, 12/11/76 42, Dwight Lamar, USL, 1/10/72 40, Paul Poe, La. College, 12/21/77 39, Larry Terry, NSU, 2/17/94 39, Vernon Freeman, Houston Baptist, 2/26/77 39, Marvin Winkler, USL, 2/2/70 38, Larry Terry, NSU, 12/15/92 38, Billy Reynolds, NSU, 2/26/77 37, Jesse Ratliff, North Texas, 2/8/93 37, Raymond Lawrence, Ark. Baptist, 12/15/92 37, Roy Ebron, USL, 1/10/72 37, Vernon Wilson, NSU, 12/16/72 36, Melvin Henderson, Southern, 12/16/72 36, Damon Jones, NSU, 1/31/09 vs. UCA 36, Vernon Wilson, NSU, 1/29/73 35, Eric Kubel, NSU, 2/8/93 35, Billy Reynolds, NSU, 1/29/77 35, Jimmy Critten, Ark. Baptist, 12/15/92
Louisiana Basketball Dick Brown, 1988 David Clark, 1994 Tynes Hildebrand, 1992 Jimmy Leach, 1985 Johnny McConathy, 1982 George McConathy, 1993 Coach H. Lee Prather, 1977 Billy Reynolds, 1988 Charles "Red" Thomas, 1979 James Wyatt, 1987
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Rebounding
30, James Wyatt, NSU, 2/15/68 29, Wendell Lanier, So. Miss., 1/27/68 26, Eric Kubel, NSU, 12/18/93 25, Guy Charles, NSU, 2/22/80 25, Reggie Grace, NSU, 12/29/73 25, James Wyatt, NSU, 2/20/67 24, James Wyatt, NSU, 12/3/68 24, James Wyatt, NSU, 1/21/69 24, Charles Bloodworth, NSU, 2/2/70 24, Roy Ebron, USL, 1/10/72
Attendance
3,930 Sam Houston St. (W 95-87), 3/12/06 3,800 Grambling (L 73-71), 1/12/81 3,721 Utah State (W 88-71), 11/10/06 3,623 SE Louisiana (L 49-42), 3/13/05 3,580 Northeast La. (L 95-87), 1/29/04 3,500 Centenary (W 91-88 ot), 2/12/81 3,461 Northeast La. (L 89-79), 1/30/93 3,403 Lamar (W 80-66) 3/9/06 3,299 McNeese (W 103-73), 3/4/05 3,200 La. Tech (W 65-57), 2/3/82 3,130 Lamar (W 90-75), 3/10/05 3,114 Northeast La. (W 93-85), 2/8/92 3,023 Texas-Arlington (W 81-67), 3/8/05
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Tynes Hildebrand, 1981 Jerry Byrd, 1992 Eugene "Doc" Christmas, 1998 Billy Montgomery, 2009
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Billy Baucum, 1977 Thurman Baptiste, 2004 Sammy Booras, 1991 Dick Brown, 1974 David Clark, 1987 Bill Collingsworth, 1985 Coach Huey Cranford, 1998 Mickey Crnkovic, 2004 Wiley Cummings, 1991 John Elkins, 1986 Reginald Grace, 2002 Gayle Hatch, 2002 Tynes Hildebrand, 1985 Tandy Jackson, 1983 Frank Lampkin, 1996 Jimmy "Red" Leach, 1976 Tommy Mathis, 1994 Elvin McCann, 2006 George McConathy, 1982 Johnny McConathy, 1972 J.L. "Leslie" McConathy, 1998 Leroy Miller, 1976
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Linwood Outz, 1995 Frederick Piper, 2006 Coach H. Lee Prather, 1969 Billy Reynolds, 1989 Ocie Richie, 1980 E.B. Robert, 1969 J.A. Rockhold, 1981 Murphy Rogers, 1968 Ken Shaw, 1988 Larry Skinner, 1986 C.L. Starnes, 1972 Bill Stewart, 2004 R.J. Stoker, 1980 Jodie Stoutamire, 1980 Charles "Red" Thomas, 1970 Jim "Buddy" Thomas, 1990 Bernard Waggoner, 1982 Murrell Walker, 1992 Jim Willis, 1976 Vernon Wilson, 1988 Gene Wright, 1989 James Wyatt, 1981
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All-Americans • All-Conference • Demons in the Pros
Northwestern’s All-Americans and Retired Jerseys 5- CHARLES “RED” THOMAS Northwestern State’s first All-America basketball player, winning that honor in 1941. He later became head basketball coach at NSU and guided the Demons to an outstanding 129-76 (.629) record in seven years at the helm, never experiencing a losing season during his entire tenure. Also an excellent trackman, Thomas was enshrined into the Northwestern State Graduate “N” Club Hall of Fame in 1971.
14 - JOHNNY McCONATHY Northwestern’s second All-America selection, the father of Demon baskeball coach Mike McConathy earned that distinction for his play during the 1951 season. McConathy set a school record for most points scored in a single season with 562 and a 21.6 average. He was invited to play in the College All-Star Game in Chicago and was the fifth pick in the first round of the 1951 NBA Draft by Syracuse. McConathy, who also participated in track at NSU, was a member of the 1973 class that was enshrined into the Graduate “N” Club Hall of Fame.
2 4 - VERNON WILSON Named as an All-America in 1973. Wilson remains NSU’s all-time leader in average points-per-game with a career figure of 20.6 ppg, scoring 1,548 points in just 75 games. Wilson led the Demons in scoring during each of the 1971, ’72 and ’73 seasons, earning team MVP honors for those three years. Named the 1971 Gulf States Conference Rookie of the Year, first team all-Louisiana in ’72 and ’73, he was chosen to the first team of the NAIA District 30 squad that toured Israel while playing against that country’s Olympic team.
All-Conference Demons All-SIAA or All-LIAA (1913-48) Southern/Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Josh Briley John Elkins Tandy Jackson Frank Lampkin Ray Miller Leroy Miller Howard Moorman Ocie Richie Ted Roberts Vernon Roberts Cara Lee Starnes Claude Stoutamire Charles Thomas Ed Tullos All-Gulf States Conference 1949 - Claude Stoutamire, Bernard Waggoner 1950 - Claude Stoutamire 1951 - Johnny McConathy 1953 - Ken Shaw 1954 - Bill Collingsworth 1956 - Dick Brown, George McConathy 1957 - Dick Brown 1958 - Jimmy Leach, Mickey Crnkovic 1959 - Jimmy Leach 1960 - Larry Skinner, Gene Wright 1961 - Truitt Weldon 1962 - Truitt Weldon, Sam Watts 1963 - Tommy Mathis, Sam Watts 1964 - Tommy Mathis 1965 - David Clark 1966 - David Clark, James Wyatt 1967 - David Clark 1968 - James Wyatt, Pete Gray 1969 - James Wyatt, Charles Bloodworth 1970 - Charles Bloodworth 1971 - Vernon Wilson 1972 - Vernon Wilson
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All-Gulf South Conference 1974 - Reggie Grace 1975 - Billy Reynolds All-South Independent, NCAA Division I 1977 - Billy Reynolds All-Trans America Conference 1981 - Wayne Waggoner 1982 - Wayne Waggoner 1983 - Kenny Hale, Johnny Martin Johnny McConathy was the No. 5 pick in the 1951 NBA Draft.
All-Gulf Star Conference 1985 - George Jones 1986 - George Jones, Victor Willis, Dwight Moody 1987 - George Jones, Victor Willis All-Southland Conference 1988 - Terrence “Bo” Rayford 1989 - Terrence “Bo” Rayford, Pernell Smith 1990 - Roman Banks 1991 - Dexter Grimsley, Jay Scherer 1993 - Eric Kubel 1994 - Eric Kubel (Player of the Year), Larry Terry 1995 - Tarius Brown 1997 - Charles Duncan 1998 - Seth LeGrand 2001 - Chris Thompson, Michael Byars-Dawson 2002 - Michael Byars-Dawson 2004 - Jermaine Wallace, Clifton Lee 2005 - Jermaine Wallace, Jermaine Spencer 2006 - Clifton Lee, Tyronn Mitchell, Jermaine Wallace, Byron Allen 2008- Trey Gilder
Demons in the Pros NBA Trey Gilder, 2009 Memphis Larry Terry, 1994, 1995 New Jersey, Boston Wayne Waggoner, 1982 Dallas Billy Reynolds, 1977 Seattle Johnny McConathy, 1952 Syracuse Charles “Red” Thomas Scout, New York NBDL Trey Gilder, 2008-09 Clifton Lee, 2006 D’or Fisher, 2006 ABA James Wyatt, 1969 New Orleans Charles Bloodworth, 1970 Virginia David Clark, 1967 New Orleans USBL Ryan Duplessis, 2002-03 St. Louis Skyhawks UPBL Jerrold McRae, Jr., 2003 Louisville Eagles CBA Eric Kubel, 1995, 2002 Connecticut, Gary Terrance Rayford, 1990 Sioux Falls Dwight Moody, 1986 Cedar Rapids
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Overseas Stephen Barnes, 1997-active Europe (Portugal) Colby Bargeman, 2008-active England Michael Byars-Dawson, 2002-active France (2) , Turkey (past and current), Venezuela, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Ukraine D’or Fisher, 2006-present Germany, Polan, Isreal Josh Hancock, 2001 China Clifton Lee, present Japan, Australia Chris Lynch, 2002-05 Australia Johnny Martin, 1983 Europe Tyronn Mitchell, 2006-present Romania Dwight Moody, 1992 Europe Frederick Piper, 1981-97 Europe (France) Alann Polk, 2001 China Terrance Rayford, 1991-2001 Europe (Portugal) Melvin Roberts, 2003-present Australia, Portugal, South America Pernell Smith, 1990 Greece Chris Thompson, 2002-2003 Ireland Tim Van, 2009 Mexico Kory Wilson, 2002-2003 Mexico
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Northwestern has a long, proud tradition of producing highly successful basketball coaches Northwestern State University's long tradition of producing educators is easily traced back to 1884. It was then that Louisiana State Normal School was formed and dedicated to the preparation of teachers. Coaches are, in the most fundamental sense of the word, teachers. They issue highly technical instructions, they constantly test their students, and they seek to inspire them. Basketball coaches at Northwestern have been doing it for almost a century now. These "teachers" have turned out hundreds of great students who have become successful coaches. The tradition of producing basketball coaches from within the Demon program goes back to: H. Lee Prather, Charles"Red" Thomas, Huey Cranford, Tynes Hildebrand, Wayne Yates, Don Beasley, Dan Bell, J.D. Barnett and continues today under Mike McConathy. NSU's acclaimed School of Health and Human Performance has produced many notable high school and college coaches. These coaches were taught by the likes of Buddy Bonnette and Jim Simmons. At last count the list of NSU graduates in the coaching ranks (past and present) in the sport of basketball is well over 500. Here is a partial list of some notable former Demon players and NSU graduates who have made impact in the coaching profession (please submit additions via e-mail to ireland@nsula.edu):
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(Top, left to right) one of Tynes Hildebrand’s Demons, Mike Brey, led Notre Dame to the 2001 NCAA Tournament in his first season coaching the Fighting Irish; former Demon player Dan Bell who coached his 1992-93 NSU team to an NCAA-leading 94.5 points per game average; former Demon player Tynes Hildebrand early in his 15-year reign as NSU’s coach. (Middle, left to right) former players Brian Rayner, Josh Hancock, and Chris Thompson. (Right) former Demon player Emmett Hendricks, then coach at La. Tech, with future Demon coach Mike McConathy.
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Charlie Alexander - Head Coach Hornbeck High School Roman Banks - associate head coach, Southeastern La.; former head coach, LSUS Thurman Baptiste - former head coach, Natchitoches Central High School Dan Bell - former NSU head coach; head coach, Huntsville (Ala.) High School the late Buddy Bonnette - former head coach, Springhill HS (state champion 1959, runner-up 1954); former assistant, LSU Mike Brey - head coach, Notre Dame; former asst. coach, Duke; former asst. coach, DeMatha HS the late Dick Brown - former head coach, Many High School Stephen Burch - head coach North Desoto High School Billy Carter - head coach Quitman High School Gabe Carter - assistant coach, Loyola Marymount Micah Coleman - head coach, Natchitoches Central HS, asst. coach, 2001 NSU NCAA tourney team Clay Corley - former head coach Florien HS, Many HS, Hornbeck HS (Top 28 with each team) Mickey Crnkovic - former head coach, Florien High School Davey Davis - former head coach, Baton Rouge Darrin Dyess - head coach Many HS boys, girls (‘05 state champs, 2AA Coach of the Year) Kenton Fisher - former assistant coach, Natchitoches Central High School Mike Greene - head coach, DeRidder High School Josh Hancock - asst. coach Natchitoches Central HS; former assistant coach, NSU Tramaine Hancock - asst. coach Kountze HS the late Emmett Hendricks - former head coach, Louisiana Tech University Vincent Hicks - assistant coach Des Moines area community college Tynes Hildebrand - former head coach, Natchitoches High School, NSU Adrian Hill - assistant coach Ruston High School J.C. Howell - former head coach Airline High School Johnny Janese - former head coach, Beauregard High School Casey Johnson - assistant coach Pitkin High School Lem Jones - assistant coach, Piney Woods HS (Miss.) the late Frank Lampkin - former head coach, Bossier High School Jeremy Leach - head girl’s coach Many HS Jimmy "Red" Leach - former head coach, Florien High School (state champions) Johnny McConathy - former head coach, Bossier High School (state champions 1967) Kenny McMillon - former head coach, Stanley High School Terry Mercer - head boy’s coach Converse HS Billy Wayne Montgomery - former head coach, Haughton HS (state champions, 1964 & 1965) Jeff Moore - assistant coach, NSU; former head coach, John Wood Community College Joe O'Brien - head coach Idaho State; Southeastern CC, 2000, ‘03 NJCAA national champion; assistant coach Detroit Pistons Tim Parker - head coach Hornbeck High School girls team Alan Polk - Building Basketball Academy (Dallas, TX) Brian Rayner - assistant coach Parkway High School Dale Skinner - head coach, Pleasant Hill HS; former head coach, DeRidder HS (state finalist, 1977) Larry Skinner - former Many HS (state champion 1967) Scott Stapler - assistant coach, Coastal Carolina Jimmy Stewart - former head coach, Minden High School Red Thomas - former NSU head coach and New York Knicks scout Chris Thompson - assistant coach Bossier High School Bernard Waggoner - former head coach, Logansport High School Murrell Walker - former head coach, Dry Prong High School Paul Weir - assistant coach, New Mexico State Brian Williams - coach Red River Elementary Gene Wright - “N” Club Hall of Fame, head coach Tioga High School
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Bob Austin - assistant coach, NSU Lady Demons J.D. Barnett - former head coach, Hawaii Pacific, Tulsa, VCU, La. Tech Kevin Johnson - asst. coach Nicholls State; head coach, Centenary College Tynes Hildebrand - officials observer, Big 12 Conference, SLC, Sun Belt, WAC Billy Kennedy - head coach Murray State; assistant coach Univ. of Miami, former head coach, SLU & Centenary Rick McCormick - former head coach, Arkansas Tech; 2001 NJCAA Division III Coach of the Year, national champions, Cedar Valley College Steve Payne - assistant coach, Tennessee Tech; head coach, Frank Phillips JC Dave Simmons - head coach, McNeese State Jason Tinsley - former head coach, UNC-Pembroke Buzz Williams - head coach Marquette; asst. coach, Texas A&M Kurt Young - assistant coach, Northern Kentucky
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Pontiac Game Changing Performance Award One shot, years in the making, and making a difference for years to come. There’s obvious historic sports significance of the game-winning 3-point basket just before the buzzer by NSU’s Jermaine Wallace in the 2006 NCAA Tournament win over 15th-ranked Iowa. It’s burned into the history of March Madness and is sure to reappear for years to come, in anticipation of more magic by underdog teams, and in comparison to fantastic finishes yet to be achieved. But the shot also has a more tangible impact at Northwestern, thanks to General Motors and its sponsorship of the Pontiac Game-Changing Performance contests awarding General Motors Regional Director Tim Hughes (right) presents a check to Demon head coach Mike $100,000 to the university whose McConathy, NSU President Dr. Randy Webb, and the Demon basketball team. moment in each March Madness is voted by fans as the most spectacular play of that year’s NCAA Tournament. There is a $5,000 winner for each of the four weeks in the tournament, and the “final four” winners compete against each other before the fans vote determines the top prize winner during the national championship game. The funds are designated for use in the university’s general scholarship fund. Fans in 2006 picked the Wallace game-winner as the play of the tournament. GM Regional director Tim Hughes came to the NSU campus to present the $100,000 check to President Dr. Randy Webb, Coach Mike McConathy and the Demons. McConathy and a committee including university faculty and administrators set up guidelines for the money. McConathy and the group set up an endowment with the money, so that it would benefit students for decades to come. The “Wallace Pontiac Game Changing Performance Scholarship” is dedicated to undergraduate students who have attended college for at least four years in pursuit of their first undegraduate degree. The $750 per/semester award goes to students who meet criteria including: • Leadership outside of the classroom • Participation and leadership in recognized student organizations, spirit groups, marching band, club sports or intercollegiate sports for athletes who have completed their eligibility • Community and university service Already, 13 NSU students have been helped by the scholarship. One grateful recipient is Sandra Shirah, 36, of Pineville, a criminal justice major and single mother who graduated in December of 2007. Her daughter is a student at Louisiana College. Shirah took her classes online as many NSU students do. She saw an email notice about the scholarship sent to all NSU undergraduates and applied for the scholarship. She has been affiliated with the Pineville police department for 20 years. She has a long list of community service activities, including teaching resume development to inner city residents. “If not for the Wallace Pontiac scholarship, I would not have been able to complete getting my undergraduate degree without taking out another student loan,” she said. “I’ve never met Coach McConathy, but I hope I get the chance when I go to commencement at the coliseum in December.” That’s just one shining example of how the shot that made Demons’ dreams come true in March Madness will do the same thing for generations of NSU students. 66
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This photo by Gary Hardamon of Jermaine Wallace getting ready to fire the winning shot.
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She has been affiliated with the Pineville police department for 18 years. She has a long list of community service activities, including teaching resume development to inner city residents. “If not for the Wallace Pontiac scholarship, I would not have been able to complete getting my undergraduate degree without taking out another student loan,” she said. “I’ve never met Coach McConathy, but I hope I get the chance when I go to commencement at the coliseum in December.” That’s just one shining example of how the shot that made Demons’ dreams come true in March Madness will do the same thing for generations of NSU students. Coach Mike is a winning thoroughbred Mike McConathy is a winning coach, but Coach Mike is also a winning horse. Natchitoches native, NSU graduate and longtime Louisiana thoroughbred horse owner Firal Ryder, a season ticket holder, named one of his horses after the Demons’ coach. “Coach Mike” has lifetime earnings of more than $300,000. She – yes, that’s right, this “Coach Mike” is a filly – made her big splash two years ago at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, wining a $50,000 allowance race, her second win. Coach McConathy and Mr. Ryder regularly attend races at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City. “Great Tradition, Brighter Future”
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Demon Reunion
Column courtesy of Jeff Matthews Alexandria Town Talk
Division championship, the first conference titles for NSU since 1960. • six Southland Conference Tournament title game appearances. • the first two NCAA Tournament appearances in school history. • two NCAA Tournament wins, including the buzzer-beating 2006 victory over Iowa that earned the team and the university national recognition.
Somewhere along the line of Mike McConathy turning a downtrodden Northwestern State program into a champion, folks figured out it was about more than basketball. Nowhere was that on display better than on that Saturday on Oct. 24, when former players from McConathy's 10 years at NSU got together for a reunion lunch at Prather Coliseum. "I don't know that I've had a prouder day in my coaching career," said longtime assistant Mark Slessinger. Including conference championships and NCAA Tournament wins? "Yes," Slessinger said without hesitation. Indeed, in Saturday's celebration graduation rates and solid citizenship were feted as much or more than success on the court. Make no mistake, there has been plenty of winning since McConathy came back to Natchitoches in 1999. Among the highlights of McConathy's first decade in charge of the Demons are: • two 20-win seasons. The last one before McConathy was 1974. • two Southland Conference championships and one SLC East
As impressive as those feats are, though, they take a backseat to what those present Saturday say the program is really about -- concepts McConathy has stressed such as sublimating personal goals for the good of the group, taking care of the people who take care of you, treating people the way you would want to be treated and being a man of your word. "We've still got that family atmosphere," said Chris Thompson, who played on McConathy's first NCAA Tournament team in 2000 and is in his first year as head basketball coach at Calvary Baptist in Shreveport. "The guys who come through here, we all still stay in touch. We're a family." The reunion was set up so recent players could "see each other and be a family again," Slessinger said. It was also, McConathy said, an opportunity to further tie recent players into the program, with the idea that they will continue to be a part of it and give back. "The way we play, everybody has a part, everybody contributes," said McConathy, who uses a rotation of 10 or more players. "One night it's going to be one guy, the next night it's going to be another guy. I think that culminated today, you see that everybody is a part of this."
Celebrating 10 dynamic years of Demon hoops
Northwestern State basketball coach Mike McConathy (center, third from left) talks with former NSU baskeball players (l-r) Richard Taylor, Brentt Shropshire, Pooh Davis and Kenton Fisher. Photo by Melinda Martinez/mmartinez@thetowntalk.com
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