A weekly round-up of Atlantic 10 men’s basketball.
Atlantic 10 announces travel partners, home and away opponents
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Atlantic 10 Conference has announced its 2011-12 men’s basketball travel partners and home and away opponents.
The Bonnies, who had the same travel partners last season, will face Duquesne, Fordham and Rhode Island twice each during the year. In addition, SBU will host Dayton, George Washington, Saint Joeseph’s, Richmond and Temple.
The complete conference schedule will be announced at a later date.
GW adds Pete Strickland and Kevin Sutton as assistant coaches
WASHINGTON, DC — Pete Strickland and Kevin Sutton have been hired as assistant coaches for men’s basketball at The George Washington University, head coach Mike Lonergan announced today. Strickland and Sutton join Associate Head Coach Hajj Turner to round out Lonergan’s staff. Strickland comes to GW after spending the last five seasons as an assistant coach at NC State under Sidney Lowe. Sutton spent the last eight seasons at Florida’s Montverde Academy where he coached former Colonial Joseph Katuka (`11) among others.
“Pete and Kevin are both well-respected basketball coaching veterans,” Lonergan said. “It is a luxury to have someone of Pete’s stature and experience on our staff, and I plan to lean on him for his insight and wisdom. Kevin is also someone I’ve wanted to work with for a long time. He has built a solid reputation as one of the best teachers of the game.”
Strickland has 21 years of Division I coaching experience overall, including serving for seven years as a head coach at Coastal Carolina from 1999-05. He earned Big South Coach of the Year honors in 1999-00 and left CCU with the second-most career victories in school history. While at Coastal Carolina, Strickland helped produce three All-Americans. One of Strickland’s players was the Big South Player of the Year three times in his last five years at Coastal, while three players made the All-Rookie Team, and two were named Rookie of the Year.
Coach Lonergan meets Capitol Hill alumni
A little of the future: 2011 Richmond signees video
A little of the past: St. Bonaventure vs. Duquesne – Feb. 13, 1960
SBU-TV a finalist for national award
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — SBU-TV Sports is a finalist for a 2011 College Sports Media Award for its coverage of St. Bonaventure’s heart-stopping win over Duquesne Feb. 5 at the Reilly Center.
The Bonnies defeated the Dukes, then 8-0 in conference play, when Michael Davenport hit a three-pointer with 1.6 seconds to play.
SBU-TV is one of five finalists in the Live Game and Event Category in the College Athletics Division. The students are up against game productions from Purdue (men’s basketball), New Mexico State (softball), Mississippi (baseball) and Rochester Institute of Technology (men’s hockey).
La Salle’s Steve Weingarten named to Philadelphia Inquirer academic all-area team
PHILADELPHIA – Recent La Salle graduate Steve Weingarten has been named to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men’s Basketball team, in voting conducted by the area’s 28 sports information offices.
Weingarten was also named the Atlantic 10 and Big 5 Student-Athlete of the Year this season and carries a 3.86 GPA as a dual major in history and American studies. He has been a two-time CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District First Team selection and also received Academic All-Atlantic 10 honors this winter.
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Dalton Pepper signs scholarship agreement to attend Temple
PHILADELPHIA – Former Pennsbury High standout Dalton Pepper, who played the last two seasons at West Virginia University, has signed a men’s basketball scholarship agreement to attend Temple University. The Mountaineer transfer will sit out the 2011-12 season per NCAA rules and have two years of eligibility remaining starting with the 2012-13 season.
“Dalton is a fine young man from a wonderful family,” said Temple head coach Fran Dunphy. “He is a tremendous addition to our basketball program and we are looking forward to great things from him during his Temple career.”
Former St. Joseph’s star a force in youth hoops
HAMPTON, Va. – It’s 12:05 p.m. on a sunny Friday, and Marcellus “Boo” Williams Jr. is sequestered in his State Farm agency office on Coliseum Drive.
Across the parking lot, a lunchtime crowd forms at Hooters Restaurant. But as on most days, the laid-back 51-year-old, who also runs the renowned Nike-sponsored, nonprofit Boo Williams Summer League Amateur Athletic Union program, doesn’t have time for lunch.
PITTSBURGH — Duquesne coach Ron Everhart withdrew his name from consideration for the same job at Penn State on Thursday.
Everhart, 49, who has led the Dukes to four consecutive winning regular seasons and three straight postseason appearances, interviewed with Penn State athletic director Tim Curley on Tuesday at an undisclosed location. He was in the mix along with Milwaukee’s Rob Jeter and Boston University’s Pat Chambers for the position left vacated by Ed DeChellis, who took the same job at Navy last week.
SARASOTA, Fla. — On stage, Dick Vitale is most of the things you’d expect Dick Vitale to be. Excited? He’s yelling so loud his voice cracks. Demonstrative? His hands fire out in opposite directions every time he jams more emphasis on a syllable.
But Vitale isn’t smiling. He isn’t talking about Diaper Dandies or Primetime players. He’s choking back tears.
Behind him stand three couples. Three sets of parents who buried their children in the past six months because of a disease Vitale swore to his friend he would help fight.
Adams, a 54-year-old government worker, has had connections to all of it for years, as the father of a former IU basketball staff member, as a basketball coach for two decades, and as the current coach of the top team in that AAU program, Indiana Elite. Since 2003, he’s even used his Bloomington-based nonprofit, African Hoop Opportunities Providing an Education (A-HOPE) foundation to try to help fulfill the hoop dreams of young international players.
Coming soon
Stay tuned for the first annual Pickin’ Splinters rundown of the A10′s incoming class. Fans can get an in-depth look at the new student-athletes to play next season in the Atlantic 10.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette on Coach Everhart staying at Duquesne: https://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11154/1151057-143.stm
Another article on the Everhart decision: https://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Everhart-couldn-t-leave-Duquesne-before-rebuildi?urn=ncaab-wp3188&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Excellent!! Huge decision for the Dukes and for the Atlantic- 10!
Smitty – I knew that would make you happy.