THE OFFICIAL NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES
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2020 FINAL FOUR & NABC CONVENTION Head to Atlanta
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THE OFFICIAL NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES
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2020 FEATURES
From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Some Thoughts On My Road To The Final Four Rick Leddy
Parity Has Long Been A Buzzword In College Basketball But Never Buzzed As Loudly As This Season. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Seth Davis
Q&A with Executive Director Jim Haney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Looking Back On 28 Years
Jefferson University’s Herb Magee A.k.a. “The Shot Doctor” And A Coach For Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Dana O’Neil
National High School Basketball Coaches Association. . . . . . . 18 The NHSBCA Is Busy All Year Long Dave Archer NCAA Eligibility Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Taking Action: Name, Image And Likeness Integrity All The Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Carey Casey
Improving The Coach-Official Relationship Begins With Mutual Understanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Andy Katz 2020 NABC Division III Outstanding Service Awards. . . . . . . . . . . 16 NABC 2020 Convention Headline Events Schedule . . . . . . . . . . 23
NABC Chaplain’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Selfless - Less Me. More We. Pastor Donnell Jones
National Association of Basketball Coaches 1111 Main Street, Suite 1000 Kansas City, Missouri 64105 Phone: 816-878-6222 • Fax: 816-878-6223 www.NABC.org ______________________________________________ NABC EXECUTIVE STAFF Jim Haney Executive Director Reggie Minton Deputy Executive Director Carol Haney Senior Director of Internal Affairs Troy Hilton Senior Director of Corporate Relations and Association Affairs Stephanie Whitcher Chief Financial Officer Rick Leddy Senior Director of Communications Rose Tate Director of Membership Ebony Donohue Associate Director of Membership Mark Heatherman Senior Director of Special Events Janelle Guidry Director of Convention Wade Hageman Director of Corporate Relations Jenna Wright Director of Convention Housing Eric Wieberg Director of Digital & Social Media
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2019-20 NABC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mike Brey, President, University of Notre Dame Jamie Dixon, 1st Vice President, TCU Gary Stewart, 2nd Vice President, Stevenson University Lennie Acuff, 3rd Vice President, Lipscomb University John Calipari, 4th Vice President, University of Kentucky Matt Margenthaler, Director, Minnesota State University Tommy Amaker, Director, Harvard University Bill Coen, Director, Northeastern University Pat Cunningham, Director, Trinity University Frank Martin, Director, University of South Carolina Matt Painter, Director, Purdue University Bob Huggins, Director, West Virginia University Cuonzo Martin, Director, University of Missouri Mike McGrath, Director, University of Chicago Pat Estepp, Director, Cedarville University Charlie Brock, 2018-19 Past President, Springfield College Phil Martelli, Director Emeritus, University of Michigan Ernie Kent, Director Emeritus John Moore, Director, Westmont College Dave Archer, National High School Basketball Coaches Association Thom McDonald, NJCAA and Two-Year Colleges
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS NABC Executive Director: Jim Haney NABC Deputy Executive Director: Reggie Minton Accountant: Brian Welch, Welch & Associates, LLC N ABC General Counsel: Dennis Coleman and Christopher Conniff, Ropes & Gray, LLP B oard Secretary: Rick Leddy, NABC Senior Director of Communications Dan Gavitt, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Judy McLeod, Conference USA Commissioner and Chair/NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee Dan Guerrero, UCLA J eff Hathaway, NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee Kevin Lennon, NCAA Vice President for Division I Governance PHOTO CREDITS: Cover – Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, site of the 2020 NCAA Final Four. (courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Stadium) Page 8 – courtesy of Corey Kispert/Gonzaga Athletics; Page 9 (top L-R) - courtesy of Louisville Athletics; courtesy of San Diego State Athletics; courtesy of Florida State Athletics; courtesy of Seton Hall Athletics; Page 9 (bottom L-R) – courtesy of Maryland athletics; courtesy of Erik Schelkun, Elsestar Images; courtesy of Baylor Athletics; courtesy of Michigan athletics; Page 10 – courtesy of Oregon Athletics; courtesy of Duke Athletics; Page 11 – courtesy of Kentucky Athletics; Page 13 – courtesy of Jefferson Athletics; Page 15 (L-R) courtesy of Springfield Athletics; courtesy of Creighton Athletics; courtesy of Florida State Athletics; Page 16 – courtesy of Maine Farmington Athletics; courtesy Calvin Athletics Time-Out is published quarterly by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Printed by Allen Press.
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FROM THE EDITOR, Rick Leddy
Some Thoughts on My Road to the Final Four It really doesn’t seem that long to me, but the reality is that this year in Atlanta, I will be working at the annual NABC Convention and NCAA Final Four for the 35th-consecutive year. As you might expect, during that time there has been considerable change with the convention, the Final Four and the NABC. I’m hopeful that my recollections bring back memories for our older members and provide some historical perspective for others.
Taking minutes of the long meetings held over three to four days by hand on a yellow legal pad, which later had to be typed for publication in the NABC magazine (no laptops or tablets then), seems archaic in this day and age. For me it was the beginning of a journey that not only opened another career opportunity for me but one that enabled most of my family, extended family and friends to experience the very best in college basketball at the Final Four.
My journey with the NABC began following the 1985 NABC Convention. Joe Vancisin was the executive director of the NABC following a long and distinguished career as Yale’s head basketball coach. I was the sports information director at Southern Connecticut State University, about 14 years into my 36-year tenure there.
The summer meetings with the NCAA and CBS in the early days of my tenure were special, traveling to magnificent venues including the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., The Sheraton in Eagle Creek, Colo., and several trips to the Monterey Peninsula. The best part of these gatherings was that it was a time when we got to know not only the coaches but their families as well.
The local sports editor called to tell me that Joe was looking for some assistance with the NABC and that he had recommended me. I knew nothing about the NABC at the time, but it was a local opportunity with the NABC office located in Branford, Conn. Not long after meeting, Joe offered me a part-time position to assist with media at the convention and be the secretary for the board of directors. My first assignment was to attend the board’s summer meeting, accompanied by my wife, in July with the NCAA and CBS in Monterey, Calif. I felt like I won the lottery! Arriving home that afternoon, I told my wife Nancy that I had accepted the offer and that we would be going to the meeting. “Are they going to pay you too?” she said. I assured her there was some compensation involved.
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My first two NABC conventions were very impactful. At the 1986 NABC Convention in Dallas, my second meeting with the board of directors, Georgetown coach John Thompson, Jr., was the president and the room was full of legendary coaches including Jud Heathcote, Eddie Sutton, Clarence “Big House” Gaines and Johnny Orr. This Hall of Fame group could not have been more welcoming to the newcomer in the room. A year later, the storyline was much more personal. Our third child and second daughter, Caitlin, was born on March 11 and two weeks later I was in New Orleans, leaving Nancy behind with our three children under age seven. It was a big sacrifice in many ways, especially for Nancy, but the benefits received over the next 30 years helped to mitigate the situation.
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Many may remember the Final Four being played in much smaller arenas and none smaller than McNichols Sports Arena in Denver (seating 17,171) in 1990. It was a time when almost everyone there was up close and personal to the action, nothing like the 70,000-plus seat stadiums the games are played in today. The most memorable play I’ve ever witnessed came in the 1991 national semifinals in Indianapolis as Duke upset defending NCAA champion UNLV. On a Blue Devil fast break, Bobby Hurley threw a high lob to freshman forward Grant Hill on the right wing who had to reach back to slam it home (video is still available on YouTube). You could hear the crowd’s collective gasp throughout the RCA Dome. The 1992 NABC Convention and Final Four was memorable in a very different way as it marked the retirement of my great friend and mentor, Joe Vancisin, as executive director. Fortunately, we have remained very close throughout the years and I am happy to report that Joe and his wife, LizAnn, ages 97 and 95 respectively, reside in Atlanta near their daughter, Susan. I have tried for years to keep Joe abreast of Yale’s basketball results (“they don’t know the Ivy League exists down here”) and hope to visit with him in April. Following the 1992 convention, Jim Haney was appointed as executive director, the NABC offices moved to Overland Park, Kan., and a fulltime staff was hired. I am forever grateful to Jim for retaining me as the board secretary while also assisting with other duties during the convention. As I mentioned briefly earlier in this column, among the best things about my position with the NABC was the ability to invite friends and family to join Nancy and me for the Final Four. In 1995, Seattle, the site of three previous championships and one of my all-time favorite cities, served as the host, marking the last time a Final Four was held in the western time zone until the 2017 event in Phoenix.
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Our seats for the game happened to be directly in front of seats occupied by Seattle Mariner players Ken Griffey, Jr., and Jay Buhner. Friends who had joined us, Gene and Marilyn Rosadino, had sons who played baseball and my wife thought they would like an autograph from Griffey. He politely explained that he did not want to sign anything but just enjoy the game. Nancy then planned a different strategy. With a large box of Hot Tamale candies in her hand, she noticed Griffey eyeing the sweet treat. “Would you like some Hot Tamales,” she asked Griffey. After he answered in the affirmative, Nancy gave him the box and followed with “well I would like an autograph.” She even gave him the pen. Taking a big leap forward to February 2007, I retired from my position at Southern Connecticut and Jim Haney graciously offered me a full-time position as public relations director for the NABC, replacing staff that was taking over operations of the incredible College Basketball Experience in Kansas City. This year’s NABC Convention in Atlanta will mark a milestone as another mentor and great friend, Jim Haney, will head to the NABC Convention for the final time before retiring in September after an illustrious 28-year tenure. Just the fourth executive director in the history of the association, he has created a significant legacy for the NABC including the creation of the NABC Foundation, which oversees the College Basketball Experience, the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the NABC Benevolent Fund to help members in need due to job loss, critical illness and natural disasters. I feel privileged to work with an outstanding NABC staff and with all of the coaches in the NABC, in every division and category, and look forward to seeing you at the 2020 NABC Convention in Atlanta.
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Jim Haney
Looking Back on 28 Years As you approach your final NABC Convention and NCAA Final Four as NABC Executive Director, take us back to your first full year in the position. It is hard to believe that I have served as executive director of the NABC for 28 years! Wow! Okay, July 1, 1992, was the official start date as executive director. There was only one employee, me. Joe Vancisin, the previous executive director who had his office close by his home in Connecticut, had retired. Upon being hired by then NABC president Johnny Orr, I was told to move the offices to Kansas City to be close to the NCAA headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. The move of the NABC offices to Kansas City was just one of a number of initiatives the NABC Board of Directors had identified as important next steps for the NABC to become more influential. In addition, they authorized me to hire a staff and, of course, find and negotiate an office lease. The offices were located approximately a mile from the NCAA headquarters in Overland Park. Over the next weeks and months a staff was hired. The huge challenge was to develop a revenue source or sources beyond member dues to support staff salaries and benefits not to mention rent, purchase of furniture and equipment, including computers, printers, etc. To generate new revenue streams, we focused on gaining approval of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee to present a fan event during the Final Four in which our coaches would participate. Thankfully and critically,
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they agreed. We called our fan event Fan Jam. That event opened the door for us to seek corporate sponsorship dollars to support a growing association. The 1993 Final Four was in New Orleans and we held Fan Jam in a hotel ballroom. It was modest with one corporate partner, Nike.
With a solid foundation created in year one, tell us about the years that followed. Just a year later, at the Final Four in Charlotte in 1994, Fan Jam had taken off. We had multiple corporate partners and the event was held in the convention center. ESPN telecast its SportsCenter shows inside Fan Jam. We were receiving national exposure through ESPN telecasts and college basketball fans in Charlotte flocked to the venue. They loved it! Our coaches were very visible. Over 80,000 people came through the turnstiles during a five-day period! We would continue to present Fan Jam in Final Four cities with good success after that. Years later, the NCAA would take over presenting a fan event, now titled Fan Fest, at the Final Four events of both the men and women. The confidence we experienced from building Fan Jam into a terrific attraction would become the foundation for creating a permanent fan event, the College Basketball Experience and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as part of Sprint Center in Kansas City. That venue has received acclaim as one of the best interactive museums in the United States. The College Basketball Experience opened its doors in 2007 and continues to receive wonderful reviews! Thirteen Hall of Fame induction
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ceremonies have been presented. Among those honored include John Wooden, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Dean Smith, Kareem Abdul Jabber, Jerry West, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Shaquille O’Neill.
Tell us some of the other initiatives in those early years as well as more recent programs conducted by the NABC. In no specific order, we wanted to attract wives and children to accompany their husbands to the NABC Convention and Final Four. Our own Fan Jam provided a wonderful, fun destination for coaches and their families. We created a familyfriendly lobby environment at the headquarters hotel and initiated a spouse program that continues to this day. Soon to follow was a program offered to entertain children - “I’m A Coach’s Kid”. Another target was to reveal the heart of coaches as caring people and not just focused on winning. Jim Valvano was in the fight for his life against cancer. It was a fight he lost but also was a catalyst for the creation of the V Foundation. The NABC Board decided to partner with the American Cancer Society and launch a national effort to address cancer awareness and raise money for cancer research. That collaboration resulted in Coaches vs Cancer, which influences nine million dollars annually for cancer research. Suits And Sneakers week is one of the many Coaches vs Cancer fundraising activities. Over the years the NABC has partnered with other organizations including Samaritans Feet to provide footwear to those without shoes throughout the world. Last year alone over 600,000 pairs of shoes were distributed to those who had no shoes. We also pulled together a Ministry Team including representatives from Athletes-in-Action, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Focus on the Family, Every Nation, Nations of Coaches, National Center for Fathering, Championship Fathering and
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NABC coaches to plan and present Christian based clinics including marriage seminars and a nondenominational worship service. The Ministry Team events during the annual convention have expanded in number over the years and are very well attended. Over the five days of the convention the Ministry Team events draw several thousand attendees including coaches and their families. Over the last several years, a Catholic Mass is offered on Sunday for members at the headquarters hotel and groups for Asian coaches and Jewish coaches have been formed. Other impactful initiatives launched include Coaches Powering Forward for Autism when our coaches wear blue puzzle piece lapel pins to raise awareness. Ticket to Reading Rewards incentivized middle school kids to read outside of school and receive rewards for doing so. It was impactful! Somewhat similarly, Stay In to Win is a retention program for middle school aged children, encouraging them to stay in school and graduate from high school. This program too has been received very well. There are other initiatives that have been initiated over the years that we are proud of including the NABC Foundation Court of Honor Gala held annually in June in New York City honoring individuals who have roots in college basketball and impact society in a meaningful way. Among those honored are Jerry Colangelo, Bill Bradley, Phil Knight, Jim Nantz, Dick Vitale, John Thompson, George Raveling, John Rogers, Arnie Duncan, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim.
Any concluding thoughts you would like to share. Simply, I thank God the Father, God the Son, Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit who lives in me for the privilege of serving as NABC/NABC Foundation executive director these past 28 years! Without their guidance what has been accomplished would not have happened!
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Parity has Long Been a Buzzword in College Basketball But Never Buzzed as Loudly as This Season By Seth Davis
It was supposed to be a meaningless nonconference game during Thanksgiving week, one of those easy nights against an unglamorous opponent that was there just to pick up a check and go home. Except it didn’t turn out that way. Instead, a heretofore unknown senior guard named Nate Bain scooped up a loose ball, dribbled the length of the floor and converted a layup at the buzzer to deliver Stephen F. Austin to an 85-83 overtime win at Duke. “I told our players that banners can’t beat us,” Lumberjacks coach Kyle Keller said after the game. “The players have to beat us.” It was one of the biggest regular season upsets in many years, and it also snapped the Blue Devils’ 150-game homecourt win streak against nonconference opponents. But it did more than that. Bain’s game-winning layup perfectly encapsulated the world of college basketball during this wild 2019-20 season. Up is down, the world is flat, no streak is safe, and banners don’t win. The only thing we should expect these days is the unexpected. Parity has long been a buzzword in college basketball, but it has never buzzed as loudly as it did this season. By the end of January, seven teams had taken their turn at No. 1 in the AP’s top 25. That broke the record set in 1983, when a sixth-seeded darling at N.C. State shocked the world (and Houston’s Phi Slamma Jamma)
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by winning the NCAA tournament. Will there be another coach running around trying to find someone to hug in Atlanta this year? Duke’s loss to Stephen F. Austin came exactly two weeks after Evansville knocked off Kentucky in Rupp Arena. During the second week of January, three teams in the AP’s top five lost twice in the same week. Meanwhile, two other epic streaks came to a dramatic end. On Jan. 11, Baylor knocked off Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse for the first time in 18 tries. And a few hours later, Clemson won in Chapel Hill after going 0-59 in its previous attempts. Those two schools have been playing since 1925-26, but it wasn’t until this season that we saw something we haven’t quite seen before. Figures. Meanwhile, we saw the rise of some unusual suspects. Baylor climbed to the top of the polls on the strength of guards Jared Butler and MaCio Teague. San Diego State, which did not garner a single vote in either of the preseason top 25 polls, surprised everyone by being the last unbeaten team. Dayton advanced to the championship game of the Maui Invitational and climbed into the top 10, propelled by the excellence of redshirt sophomore forward Obi Toppin. Butler rediscovered some of its old magic, and Florida State emerged as a contender for the ACC championship. No one saw any of this coming.
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On the flip side, North Carolina suffered its worst season in decades. Reigning champ Virginia struggled with an anemic offense. Ohio State looked to be steamrolling on a clear path to the No. 1 ranking until the wheels came off in Big Ten play. UCLA lost at home to Hofstra in its fifth game and never recovered under first-year coach Mick Cronin. There are a variety of reasons for the mass parity. In the first place, this wasn’t a particularly strong freshman class, so the blue-chip schools like Duke, Kentucky and Kansas were not able to create their standard separation. Plus, a couple of those top freshmen landed at unconventional places. James Wiseman chose to stay home and play for Memphis (although he withdrew from school in mid-December), Anthony Edwards wanted to remain in his home state and play for Georgia, and Isaiah Stewart headed across the country to play for Washington. Moreover, the rampant transferring in college basketball over the last decade is having its effect. With nearly a thousand players changing schools each spring, things are leveling off, like water inevitably finding its level. This parity will be even more ever present when and if the NBA gets rid of its so-called one and done rule. The top half dozen or so freshmen will not play college basketball anymore. The teams that win will be those that can recruit three- and four-year players, develop them properly and integrate them into a winning culture. That means there will be plenty more surprises. Rutgers turned out to be one of those this season. Steve Pikiell was hired from Stony Brook in hopes he could get the Scarlet Knights back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1991. He and his staff scavenged the northeast in search of hidden gems like Ron Harper Jr., the son of the longtime NBA player. None of Rutgers’ players were ranked in anyone’s top 100 in high school. They came to Piscataway with the intent of proving everyone wrong. Penn State also lived up to preseason expectations behind an older lineup that featured two senior forwards, Lamar Stevens and Mike Wakins. This university has always been known for excellence in football but has scant basketball tradition. Pat Chambers is trying to start his own. Michigan State came into the season as everyone’s No. 1, but the Spartans lost their season opener to Kentucky in Madison Square Garden and had to slog
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it out in the Big Ten with everyone else. There were no great teams in the Big Ten this season, but there were a lot of good ones, including a resurgent Illinois under coach Brad Underwood. For a while it seemed like no one could win on the road in that league, but the Illini, despite their young lineup, evinced a toughness that belied their age. The Big East was defined as usual by its guard play. The league had two of the top scoring guards in the country in Seton Hall’s Myles Powell and Marquette’s Markus Howard. Colin Gillespie spearheaded the attack at Villanova, which remains the prime example of why stay-and-develop is a better formula than one-and-done, and Butler’s Kamar Baldwin is proving that the midrange jumper does not need to be an endangered species in the Age of Analytics. Out west, Oregon point guard Payton Pritchard made every big shot, Arizona relied on freshmen Nico Mannion, Josh Green and Zeke Nnaji to light up McKale Center and Colorado rode junior point guard McKinley Wright IV into the top 25 and the upper tier of the Pac 12 standings. But lording over that party once again was mighty Gonzaga, the little school that wins big, both in the West Coast Conference and beyond. Gonzaga may be the only thing that we can count on year after year. We are long past the point where we think of the Zags as the cute little Cinderella. That slipper doesn’t fit anymore. As the 2019-20 season gets ready to crest in the NCAA tournament, we are left with the twin feelings that this has been something we have never seen before, yet it could be the start of a new normal. The old guard has had its time. College basketball is being overturned by fresh faces and a new paradigm. Nothing feels ordinary anymore. The only times we should be surprised is when we aren’t surprised. Ain’t it grand?
Seth Davis is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and best-selling author. He is the managing editor of The Athletic’s national college basketball platform and a college basketball analyst for CBS Sports.
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JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY’S HERB MAGEE A.K.A. “THE SHOT DOCTOR” AND A COACH FOR LIFE By Dana O’Neil
Before he won more than 1,100 games, before the Hall of Fame, the shot doctoring fame and the five-decade career, Herb Magee was a lousy coach. “Terrible,’’ Magee says while sitting at his desk at Jefferson University. “I mean terrible.’’ It should be noted, Magee is not talking basketball. He’s talking tennis and cross country, which rank as the host of jobs he held when he first got hired in 1963 at then Philadelphia Textile Institute, and now Jefferson. He prayed for rainouts in tennis and recalls one crosscountry meet against the University of Delaware, when the Delaware runners linked arms as they crossed the finish line, nary an opponent in sight. Magee, in fact, had to double back in his car to find one laggard, a competitor who decided it would be best to walk the course, instead of run it. But all of 21 years old and a recent graduate himself, Magee gladly accepted the job that his old coach, Bucky Harris, created for him - it also included duties as a physical education instructor. It meant he didn’t have to take a sales job with Roman Haas, a local chemical company, and more, it meant he could coach basketball. That, Magee, knew he could do. You won’t find anyone to argue that point. This year’s recipient of the Hillyard Golden Anniversary Award for long and outstanding service to men’s college basketball, Magee is as respected as he is liked, a standard for both excellence and commitment. He jokes that the wins, second only to Mike Krzyzewski, are a byproduct of his longevity but that is simply not true. Since taking over as head coach of his alma mater in 1967, he’s had three losing seasons. That’s three in 52 years. Since the 2005-06 season, his team has finished first or second in its league every single
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year. A two-time national coach of the year and four-time regional coach of the year, he’s already been named a Guardian of the Game and inducted into the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, West Catholic High School and, of course, the Naismith Hall of Fame. Yet when you speak with Magee what you hear most is contentment. He has the luxury of a life lived with no regrets because the Philadelphia lifer doesn’t track in what might have, but rather treasures what has been. He had offers to move on - and to, at least in the opinions of others, move up. A few times he was tempted but that was decades ago now, Magee long ago deciding that, despite his profession’s obsession with climbing the ladder, the grass wouldn’t be greener for him elsewhere. “Coaching is coaching,’’ he says. “I never really thought I had to step up to prove myself.’’ A terrific shooter out of college (he scored 2,235 points without the option of a three-pointer) and a two-time AllAmerican, Magee was drafted by the Boston Celtics, but the chance fell apart due to injury. He gave the Eastern League a go but was stunned by the brutal physicality. “After you’d score, they’d try to kill you,’’ he says. “They wanted their money.’’ That’s when Harris cobbled together the combo job for his former player. When Harris retired in 1967, Magee slid into the head coaching chair. In his third season, he led the Rams to a Division II national championship. “That’s when the offers came in,’’ Magee says. “But after a while, they stopped asking because they knew I wasn’t going anywhere.’’
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A few years into his head-coaching stint, Magee was asked to speak at the Pocono Invitational Camp on a topic of his choosing. He opted for what he knew best - shooting. “Let me teach kids how to shoot properly,’’ that was his thinking. A second career was born. Known today as the Shot Doctor, Magee has worked with players at every level, and developed videos aimed at teaching what he insists is a very learnable skill - the lost art of shooting. He demonstrates at his desk just how easy it is - keeping his elbow in, showing how the ball should roll off the fingertips, and explaining how crucial the follow-through is. The problem, he says, is no one teaches it and worse, no one wants to practice it anymore. He’s happy to work with anyone but the work has to be a two-way street. Too many people, he’s learned, want a magic potion instead of putting in the time. These days, Magee’s reputation for fixing maimed strokes is so well known that he can’t push his cart down an Acme supermarket without at least one Philadelphia 76er fan stopping him. “Can you please help Ben Simmons?” they ask. Magee chuckles. There is, of course, a simple correlation between his own success and his concentration on the very most basic skill necessitated for good basketball. “Look how big the rim is,’’ he says, motioning to a hoop sitting next to his desk. “You can’t win if you can’t shoot.’’ Even after all these years Magee’s teams can shoot, and thereby they can win. But soon it will be time for someone else to take over, which is hard to imagine. Magee has outlasted four name changes at his alma mater - Philadelphia Textile Institute, Philadelphia College of Textile and Sciences, Philadelphia University and now Jefferson University - and counting his undergrad term,
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is now in his 60th season at the school on Henry Avenue. Already the university has tabbed his assistant, Jimmy Reilly, as his replacement - a decision Magee wholeheartedly endorses. He’s not the least bit afraid of retirement. Fit and trim at the age of 78, he’s got plenty he wants to enjoy. He and his wife, Geri, walk a good three miles each morning, and visit Disney almost every year. Magee loves to golf, and like any good Philadelphian, loves his week at the Jersey Shore. There’s no grand plan as to when he’ll retire. He says he’ll simply know when it’s time. And when the time does come, Magee will leave proud of what he’s accomplished but more happy with himself. “I know I can coach,” he says. “That’s what I set out to do when I started - to prove to myself that I could coach.’’ Well, maybe not tennis or cross country but basketball? Basketball, definitely.
On Sunday, April 5, 2020, during the annual NABC Convention and NCAA Men’s Final Four, Magee will receive the 2020 Hillyard NABC Golden Anniversary Award for long and outstanding service to men’s college basketball. The award will be presented during the AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show at 6:30 p.m. in the Sidney Marcus Auditorium in the Georgia World Congress Center. Dana O’Neil is a senior writer for The Athletic.
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Improving the Coach-Official Relationship Begins with Mutual Understanding by Andy Katz
Officials aren’t loved by fans, coaches or players. They are in a no-win situation. No one has much sympathy for their attempts to call a game and make split-second decisions, interpret the rules correctly and ensure the game is played smoothly. But what they deserve is respect and to be given a fair chance to call the game. The relationship between officials and coaches needs to improve. It’s never going to be a love fest, but there should at least be a common goal of wanting the game to go as scripted as best as possible. The first way to get coaches to better relate to officials is to understand what they do on a gameby-game basis. “These guys are professionals,’’ said JD Collins, the NCAA’s coordinator of officials. “They have a 90-percent accuracy rate or higher. We may miss a call, but we don’t miss 20 in a game. “What officials desire is to get an equal amount of respect that the officials show to the coaches,’’ said Collins. To bridge the gap that can be wide at times, Collins is hoping there is better communication. Coaches want to be heard. But officials need to make sure they are listening. “We do have room to grow in communicating well,’’ said Collins. One collection of key personnel who have changed their opinion on officials are conference basketball coordinators — former coaches — who must deal with officials and coaches.
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“Everyone should understand that the ultimate goal for both coaches and officials is perfection, which is an unattainable result,’’ said Rick Boyages, the Big Ten’s associate commissioner in charge of men’s basketball and the executive director of an officiating consortium. “Student-athletes and officials are human,’’ said Boyages. “In a game with 120 to 140 possessions, they will make mistakes. It would be great if head coaches thought about incorrect officiating calls, or no-calls, the same way they think about studentathlete mistakes, team turnovers or even coaching errors. Officials are just as disappointed about their mistakes as student-athletes are about theirs, and everyone is striving for continuous improvement in a fast-moving, competitively-charged environment.” Boyages would love for coaches to understand the skills needed to officiate. “Coaches have a great feel for play-calling, but could really benefit from a better understanding of officiating mechanics such as positioning, rotations, signaling, and primary/secondary coverage areas,’’ said Boyages, a former head coach in the MAC and longtime assistant in the Big East and Big Ten. “I didn’t have a grasp of those officiating fundamentals during my coaching career and it led to unfair evaluations and expectations on my part.” “Young officials and coaches could mutually benefit from improving communication and conflict resolution skills,” Boyages added. Nate Pomeday, the men’s basketball administrator for the American Athletic Conference, said his perception changed when he had a better understanding of the type of work officials put into the pregame and postgame, and the amount
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of rules they had to interpret and adjudicate in a split second.
That communication is exactly what Jeff Jackson has been stressing in the Big 12.
“Before I was paranoid like every coach out there,’’ said Pomeday, a former longtime assistant coach in the Pac-12 and Big Ten. “Some veteran coaches understand when to turn it on and when to give ground. Some of the younger coaches seem to be a little calmer as they find their identity and grow their relationship with the officials, more strategic communication and not just yelling. Everyone has their own identity.”
Jackson, who is the associate commissioner in the Big 12 overseeing men’s basketball and was a former head coach in the America East and assistant in the SEC, Pac-12, A-10, Ivy and MWC, said communication is the key.
Dan Leibovitz, the SEC’s associate commissioner for basketball, said he found out that what happens in the pregame officials’ locker room is similar to a coach’s pregame message in the locker room. “Coaches want their teams to be great in fourminute segments,’’ said Leibovitz, a former head coach in the America East, former NBA assistant and assistant in the Ivy and A-10. “You hear it all the time. The irony is, in an officials’ locker room before the game, they are saying the exact same thing. ‘Let’s be great four minutes at a time and strive to be perfect down the stretch.’ “If you spend too much time obsessing about officiating it can become a real distraction,’’ said Leibovitz. “We have spent a great deal of time working to improve the communication and relationship between our coaches and officials. Officials must understand just how important each game is to student-athletes and coaches. They must be poised and professional on a consistent basis, while having an appreciation of a coach’s will to win.” Leibovitz said having SEC officials come to the league meetings is a way to build bridges.
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“Communicating well when you make a bad call or a mistake is important,’’ said Jackson. “The guys who do that can create a more trusting relationship with the coaches. “I really don’t think there is a clear understanding how much time and effort and how much work goes into what these guys do to prepare themselves for the game.” Jackson is hoping coaches will come to officiating clinics in the fall before the season. Do that and the communication might improve. There is lot of work to be done for both sides to come together. There is no reason for constant animosity. Understanding the pressures each side faces would help alleviate some of the misconceptions. Communicating more during the offseason would help. Listening, not just hearing, by both sides and avoiding antagonistic behavior is a must. There is no reason why the two sides can’t better understand each other and find a common goal — to ensure a clean, well-played, accuratelyofficiated game is always first. Andy Katz is a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and a college basketball correspondent for the NCAA.
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With a Combined Total of More than 1,000 Career Wins MEADER AND VANDE STREEK
to Receive 2020 NABC Division III Outstanding Service Awards Recognizing the long-term, home-grown success of Dick Meader at the University of Maine at Farmington and the championship building of Kevin Vande Streek at Calvin University, the NABC Division III coaches will honor both with Outstanding Service Awards at
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their annual meeting on Friday, April 3, in Atlanta during the annual NABC Convention.
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Recognizing the long-term, homegrown success of Dick Meader at the University of Maine at Farmington and the championship building of Kevin Vande Streek at Calvin University, the NABC Division III coaches will honor both with Outstanding Service Awards at their annual meeting on Friday, April 3, in Atlanta during annual NABC Convention. There is no doubt that Meader is a consummate Mainer. He grew up in The Pine Tree State, was one of 16 students in his high school class and went on to play basketball and baseball at Farmington State College, now the University of Maine at Farmington. After earning an undergraduate degree in secondary education, he moved on to the University of Maine, earning a master’s degree. As a teacher and coach, Meader has spent his career in his home state of Maine. He served for 17 seasons as the head basketball coach at Thomas College in Waterville before returning to his alma mater. In addition to 28 seasons as head basketball coach, he also was the head baseball coach from 19932010.
Meader, recognized five times as coach of the year by the Maine Men’s Basketball Coaches and Writers Association, has many great memories of his career, none better than having coached his two sons.
in 2000 as Calvin topped UW-Eau Claire, 79-75, in Salem, Va. The Knights finished with a 30-2 won-lost record and Vande Streek earned coach of the year honors in Division III from the NABC.
There have been some notable upsets along the way including the 2009-10 season. Meader’s Beavers won their conference title, upset Bridgewater State and came close to upsetting eventual NCAA runnerup Williams College. Farmington was the fourth team from Maine to win a game in the NCAA championship tournament.
Calvin also reached the Division III semifinals in 2005, finishing with a 27-7 record.
Outside of his college coaching career, Meader was the coowner of the highly successful Pine Tree Basketball Camp with Dick Whitmore, the retired Colby College coach who won this award in 2012. The camp opened in 1973 and closed in 2011, having served some 50,000 campers.
Vande Streek began his coaching career at the University of Sioux Falls before moving on to Calvin. His overall record at Sioux Falls and Calvin is 528-288 (.647) and ranks 12th all-time on the NCAA Division III men›s basketball coaching list in coaching victories. “I was drawn to Calvin by its history of success,” said Vande Streek. “Calvin is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church, which I also grew up in and I was confident that I could attract the right fit of players with strong values and core beliefs.”
“Dick is not only one of the finest men I have ever worked with but also one of the finest I have ever met. He is a great friend,” said Whitmore. “He’s had great success winning at two schools and he does it in a very quiet but positive way, always with the emphasis on teaching.”
“Kevin’s teams at Calvin were always well coached, played hard and did all the right things,” said Jody May, the head coach of MIAA member Albion College. “He had a lot of good players and we all knew that if we wanted to win, we had to go through Calvin.”
On January 10, 2020, he guided the Beavers to an 83-51 victory over Northern Vermont University, Lyndon for the 500th win in his 44-year coaching tenure.
“The camp was a place for Maine kids to learn and play the game of basketball,” Meader said. “It started at Thomas and then moved on to Colby College.”
“I really didn’t think much about the 500th win. We have a good group this year with five seniors and our team has played very well,” said Meader.
The longest tenured and winningest coach in the history Calvin University men’s basketball, Vande Streek had an outstanding 23-year run. His teams had a record of 435-208 (.677) including nine regular season titles and tournament championships in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association with 10 appearances in the NCAA Division III tournament.
Vande Streek was a strong advocate for the game of basketball, having served as a member of the NCAA men’s basketball rules committee and on the NCAA Division III men’s basketball committee, with a term as its chair.
“I think of myself as a teacher and always carried larger rosters than most to provide opportunities. As a state institution, we recruit almost exclusively from Maine and have been fortunate to have players who worked very hard.” NABC
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The crown jewel for Vande Streek was a NCAA Division III championship
“You get into coaching for the love of the game, the competition and relationships,” said Vande Streek, who retired from coaching after the 2018-19 season. “As you get older, relationships are most important. I met with my players individually once a week. They learn lessons on the court and also about being a positive influence in the community.”
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The NHSBCA is Busy All Year Long
by Dave Archer, Sr. Director of Operations, NHSBCA The National High School Basketball Coaches Association continues to grow in numbers and activities. Below are a few of the items we are working on now.
NABC ATLANTA CONVENTION The NHSBCA leads the high school coach portion of the annual NABC Convention. Clinics, meetings and gatherings are planned to meet the needs of high school coaches that gather in Atlanta.
JUNE 2020 NCAA D-I SCHOLASTIC RECRUITING EVENTS Building upon last year’s highly successful June events, the NHSBCA has been working collaboratively with the NCAA and National Federation of State High Schools on the June 2020 versions. The NHSBCA leadership has held phone conferences almost weekly since August to try to make a logical comprehensive nationwide plan of the number and location of events. Additionally, each of the eight NHSBCA Geographic Regions are working collaboratively for their areas.
SCHOLASTIC BASKETBALL COACHING PROFESSION IS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING JOB As we all know – “coaching scholastic basketball is one of the toughest jobs that everyone thinks they can do.” The number of challenges that high school basketball coaches face continues to increase in variety and number. Coaching scholastic basketball used to be an extracurricular activity that you practiced after school and played games on some evenings. You coached because you loved the game of basketball and wanted to help student-athletes develop their skills, learn teamwork and discipline. And it was a seasonal commitment!
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Basketball coaches throughout the years have focused on teaching and drilling individual and team skills, in addition to game strategies. We have always had a list of “off the court things to pay attention to.” That list of items has continued to grow. Here are some of the things on today’s list: Mental health of players…bullying…social media… players and their parents intense desire to showcase their skills (or lack of) to earn a college scholarship… travel basketball…who has the most influence on the scholastic player? – school coach, travel coach, personal trainer?...social acceptance…anxiety… depression…time management…expectations of increasingly unreasonable parents…player leaving a practice to go to an off-season workout for another sport…and will the NCAA new “image and likeness” initiative work its way into scholastic sports? The NHSBCA has the national presence and networks to try to help current and future scholastic basketball coaches do their jobs. Our plan is to email a survey to every varsity scholastic coach in the country this spring. The survey will be used to gather data about challenges coaches face as well as solicit ideas that will help coaches. Working Groups of NHSBCA leaders will prepare a draft of actions that the NHSBCA could initiate. The NHSBCA Board of Directors will discuss options and develop an action plan during their annual Summer Conference to held in Cleveland, Ohio, in July. About the NHSBCA The National High School Basketball Coaches Association also serves as the High School Congress of the NABC. About thirty-five state basketball coaches’ associations and representatives of some states that do not have a basketball coaches association work together to improve scholastic basketball and scholastic coaches. The NHSBCA is the national voice for high school basketball coaches, working to foster high standards of professionalism and to support coaches. The NHSBCA conducts two general meetings per year, one at the NABC Convention and the other in July. Additionally, the NHSBCA Executive Committee conducts monthly phone conference meetings. For additional information about the NHSBCA, visit www.NHSBCA.org.
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Taking Action: Name, Image and Likeness.
What Student-Athletes Should Know. A new resource is available to help you address any questions you may receive.
As the NCAA moves forward with their commitment to allow name, image and likeness opportunities for student-athletes consistent with the college athlete model, providing coaches with the information they need remains a priority. A new resource is available at https:// on.ncaa.com/NIL-SA to help you address questions you may receive. This resource addresses what “name, image and likeness” actually means; who makes the rules; the current rules of NCAA studentathletes; what’s happening now; and how student-athletes can get involved. This easyto-read flyer provides insights and information that can help coaches address questions from their student-athletes, parents and other basketball advocates. We encourage you to download it and share it with your studentathletes who have questions. As the NCAA moves forward on this isuse, please keep in mind that the college athlete model is not the professional model, meaning students will only compete against other students, not professionals or employees. The NCAA is best positioned to provide a uniform and fair name, image and likeness approach for all student-athletes on a national scale. Additional information regarding name, image and likeness is available on the NCAA’s webpage at ncaa.org/NIL. A series of questions and answers is available at ncaa.org/ questions-and-answers-name-image-and-likeness. These pages will be updated as additional information becomes available, so be sure to bookmark and check back regularly.
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Integrity All the Time
by Carey Casey, CEO & President of Championship Fathering
“ Great results attained by dishonesty or taking shortcuts really aren’t great results.”
My father used to say, “Son, if you’re going to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back to the crowd.” He also said, “Your honesty and integrity will carry you more than any touchdown you score or any 100-yard dash that you win.” And I can honestly say, if there’s one great characteristic that I saw in my dad and other fathers that I admired and learned from, it was integrity. And I’ve learned that his words are true: integrity will carry us through difficulties and uncertainties no matter what our race, education or economic background might be. Recently I had the privilege of talking with Dayton Moore, General Manager of the Kansas City Royals. He’s a dear friend and a great man of humility and integrity. Our conversation happened right after news came out about the sign-stealing scandal in Major League Baseball involving the Houston Astros, with ripple effects around the league. We were both understandably disturbed by what had happened. There are numerous other examples of champion-level sports performers who were later discovered to be lacking integrity—from Rosie Ruiz to Lance Armstrong, and yes, quite a few college basketball coaches. I can understand it to a degree. They are in competitive environments where there’s great pressure to win, and they give in to the temptation and push the boundaries. For coaches, it shows up in recruiting, academics, money improprieties, and so on. Coach, I’m sure you already know that your integrity matters to everyone around you, especially your players and your family. And one great test of a person’s integrity is what happens when no one is looking. One of my heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., echoed that sentiment when he said, “Midnight is the hour when men desperately seek to obey the eleventh commandment: ‘Thou shalt not get caught.’”
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the NABC.
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When a man’s cheating habits or dirty secrets are exposed, I often wonder about his legacy and what he is surely losing with his children (and for coaches, his players) in terms of character and integrity. That’s where his reputation matters most. Either now or someday in the future, what will that man’s children and grandchildren think about him? How will his actions affect them and their future?
Although results are important, how we achieved those results and how we handled ourselves along the way are even more important. Great results attained by dishonesty or taking shortcuts really aren’t great results. This speaks directly to modeling—setting an example for our children and others to follow. And it starts with each one of us realizing that we’re always setting an example. We have to be intentional about making sure it’s a good example. As men, we have to guard our character and integrity. We can do honorable things with our lives, help thousands of people and be great men 99 percent of the time, but it only takes one bad mistake to bring it all crashing down. We can’t be too careful. One poor decision or indiscretion could cost each of us dearly. We should eliminate or avoid anything we wouldn’t want to show up someday in our children’s lives. Here’s one approach: try to avoid any situation that would be hard to explain if one of your children showed up. You can’t always control their choices, but you can do a lot about yours. Pay attention to what your kids are picking up from you and make corrections where you can. Commit yourself to integrity all the time— even when you’re not around your family or your players. Doing what’s right in your work, having high character, and treating people with dignity all make you a better man, which makes you a better father and coach. It’s all connected! How you carry yourself in your other areas of life will spill over to how you treat the people you’re really trying to invest in. Even when life seems to be against you, do the right thing. In the long run, people will notice and appreciate you for maintaining a high reputation and a virtuous life. Our integrity is like a tree we plant and nurture through the years. It takes time, but if we do it right, the tree will grow deep roots and bear much fruit. Carey Casey is CEO, President, and the author of Championship Fathering. He has also authored the book Championship Grandfathering: How to Build a Winning Legacy and is the general editor of the book 21-Day Dad’s Challenge: Three Weeks to a Better Relationship with Your Kids. Carey and his wife Melanie live in Chicago. They are the parents of four children and have nine grandchildren. www.ChampionshipFathering.org
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SELFLESS LESS ME. MORE WE. by Donnell Jones, Pastor, Grace Covenant Church DC www.GraceCovDC.org
“ By myself, I can do nothing.” -Jesus
Humility is not thinking LESS of myself. Humility is thinking of myself LESS.
Only when we’re selfless are we at our best
Young inexperienced athletes - or coaches for that matter - often lack the maturity to engage the game with true humility. Thinking too highly or too lowly of themselves, they find themselves at one of two extremes. On the one hand, rpms are too high and on the other hand, they gas it in neutral.
So resist the pressure to prove you’ve got handles!
Seated courtside, I watch a young player take to the court with unrequited swag. Convinced of personal superior ability, he relishes the opportunity to showcase his talent. Double teamed by the defense, he cuts right and drives to the basket. A third defensive player steps up to guard. Overlooking his options, the young ball handler attempts the shot under triple coverage rather than pass to any of his three open teammates. The play breaks down. He misses the shot.
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Coach cannot believe it. “Are you kiddin’ me?” Over and over again, the lesson of LESS ME is taught but seemingly takes a long while before it’s caught. It’s so hard to make the shift from MORE ME, LESS WE to LESS ME, MORE WE! And it is not a matter of talent or skill. It’s a matter of will. It requires an open mind and change of heart; each one of us embracing the whole team, not just our part. What if we shared a common conviction about who we are and how we play? Here’s a locker room spoken word: EMBRACE the way we play If you start it doesn’t make you more If you ride the bench it doesn’t make you less
Why gamble? Pass the ball, make the defense scramble. Just think of yourself LESS Protect this house, nothing LESS Don’t be stressed, And don’t worry about the REST Remain SELFLESS That’s what God will BLESS Why would God bless the selfless? I’m glad you asked. If there is anyone for whom LESS ME, MORE WE might not apply, I think JESUS would be the one person above all others. Certainly, he is the single person who can say, “I got this all by myself!” If there were ever anyone who would be just in saying I don’t need your help, It’s Him. Yet he says “I can do nothing by myself.” HELLO?!?! Jesus takes LESS ME, MORE WE to another level. Jesus never acts alone. Everything he does - thoughts, attitudes, words, deeds - is in relationship with His Father and The Holy Spirit. He says I do nothing of my own initiative. In fact, he goes further to say I only do what I see my Father doing. The work I do is not me alone. It is my Father doing his work in me. It’s never about ME, It is always WE. Since God himself sets us an example of LESS ME MORE WE, we would do well to follow. Pastor Donnell Jones is pastor of Grace Covenant Church in Washington, D.C., Character Coach for the Maryland Terrapins and Chaplain of the NABC.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the NABC.
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Mike Brey President University of Notre Dame
Jamie Dixon First Vice President TCU
Gary Stewart Second Vice President Stevenson University
Lennie Acuff Third Vice President Lipscomb University
Matt Margenthaler Director, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Tommy Amaker, Director John Thompson III Harvard University
Bill Coen, Director Northeastern University
Pat Cunningham, Director Trinity (TX) University
Frank Martin, Director University of South Carolina
Matt Painter, Director Purdue University
Bob Huggins, Director West Virginia University
Cuonzo Martin, Director University of Missouri
Mike McGrath, Director University of Chicago
Pat Estepp, Director Cedarville University
Charlie Brock 2018-19 Past President Springfield College
Phil Martelli, Director Emeritus University of Michigan
Ernie Kent, Director Emeritus
John Moore, Diretor Westmont College
Dave Archer NHSBCA
John Calipari Fourth Vice President University of Kentucky
Thom McDonald NJCAA & Two-Year Colleges
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2020 NABC Convention Headline Events
For the complete 2020 NABC Convention schedule, event locations, listing of speakers and descriptions of each PDS Clinic, download the NABC Event Guide mobile app at nabc.com/app, or visit nabc.com/convention.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
NABC Convention Registration................................................................. 1:00-7:00 p.m. NABC MARKETPLACE.......................................................................... 1:00-7:00 p.m. PDS Clinics................................................................................................ 3:00-7:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
NAIA Caucus/2021 Basketball Format Review................................................. 8:00 a.m. Division I Head Coaches Meeting...................................................................... 8:30 a.m. PDS Clinics........................................................................................ 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. NAIA Business Meeting.....................................................................................9:00 a.m. NABC Convention Registration...................................................... 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. NABC MARKETPLACE................................................................ 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Division I Assistant Coaches Meeting.............................................................. 11:00 a.m. Hillyard NABC Champions Luncheon.............................................................12:00 p.m. Division II Coaches Meeting..............................................................................2:45 p.m. Division III Coaches Meeting.............................................................................3:00 p.m. Two-Year College Coaches Meeting..................................................................2:30 p.m. Reese’s NABC College All-Star Game...............................................................3:30 p.m. Nike NABC Welcome Reception.......................................................................5:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
PDS Clinics........................................................................................ 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. NABC MARKETPLACE.................................................................. 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. High School Coaches Meeting.......................................................................... 10:00 a.m. NCAA Division I Semifinals..............................................................................6:09 p.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
NCAA Division III Championship Game..........................................................12:30 pm NCAA Division II Championship Game .............................................................4:00 pm AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show ���������������������������������������6:30 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 6
PDS Clinics....................................................................................... 8:00 a.m.-1:45 p.m. NCAA National Championship Game...............................................................9:20 p.m. NABC Trophy Presentation............................................................................... Postgame Full Schedule Available at NABC.com NABC
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2020 AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show Sunday, April 5 | 6:30pm
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Georgia World Congress Center Sidney Marcus Auditorium
Featuring The only opportunity to see both NCAA National Championship Game coaches interviewed live! • NABC Coaches of the Year (Presented by Wilson Sporting Goods)
• NABC Players of the Year (Powered by ShotTracker)
• NABC Freshman of the Year (Presented by adidas)
• NABC Defensive Player of the Year (Presented by Marriott Bonvoy)
• Golden Anniversary Award (Presented by Hillyard)
• Guardians of the Game Awards (For Service, Education, Leadership and Advocacy)
• NABC 30 Under 30 Team (Presented by Under Armour)
• NABC Metropolitan Award (Presented by NIKE)
• Pete Newell Big Man of the Year
Tickets Available! Tickets for the 2020 AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show and post-show reception presented by Marriott Bonvoy can be purchased by NABC members at the NABC Convention registration booth, located inside Hall A1 at the Georgia World Congress Center.
