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Austin College's Alade, Trinity's Caldarera, and Centre's Noll named NABC All-District
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Austin College senior Kola Alade, Centre College senior Danny Noll and Trinity University junior Luke Caldarera earned postseason recognition as the trio each earned National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District honors, the organization announced this morning.
Alade Selected to Play in NABC All-Star Game
SHERMAN, Texas - Austin College senior men’s basketball player Kola Alade has been selected to participate in the inaugural National Association of Basketball Coaches NCAA Division III All-Star Game in Salem, Virginia, it was announced today. The game will be played on Saturday, March 20 as a part of the NCAA Division III Final Four festivities.
Centre's Noll, Colorado College's Rose named D3hoops All-Region
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Centre College senior Danny Noll and Colorado College junior Nick Rose earned postseason recognition as the pair each earned a spot on the 2010 D3hoops.com All-Region teams, the website announced this afternoon.
Centre falls to Eastern Mennonite in NCAA First Round
HARRISONBURG, Va. - Making its fourth consecutive NCAA appearance, the Centre College Colonels held Eastern Mennonite to 25 points below their season average, but could not hold on as the Colonels dropped a 63-53 decision to the host Royals in an NCAA First Round contest Saturday night.
DePauw widens lead in quest for fifth consecutive President's Trophy
SUWANEE, Ga. - Seeking its fifth consecutive Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) President's Trophy, DePauw University increased its lead from 40 to 60 points following the completion of the 2009-2010 winter sports season.
Rhodes' Hilgeman Announces Retirement
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Herb Hilgeman, who just completed his 34th year as the Rhodes head basketball coach, announced today will retire from his position at Rhodes effective May 15. Herb is the dean of college coaches in the Memphis area having served as the Lynx head basketball coach since 1976.
Centre College's Noll named Jostens Trophy Finalist
SALEM, Va. – The finalists for the prestigious Jostens Trophy were announced today by members of the Rotary Club of Salem, Va. Senior forward Danny Noll of Centre College was one of the 10 men's finalists.
Centre draws Eastern Mennonite in NCAA First Round
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Centre College, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference champions, will play at host Eastern Mennonite University on Friday, March 5 in the first round of the 2010 NCAA Division III Tournament. The Colonels won the SCAC's automatic bid with a 60-56 win over DePauw in the championship game.
Centre College Repeats as SCAC Men's Basketball Champions; Third Title for Colonels in Four Years
JACKSON, Miss. - The Centre College Colonels, the East's top seed, edged the second seeded DePauw University Tigers 60-56 to lay claim to the program's third Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in the last four years.
Austin College's Alade And Wecker Highlight 2009-10 All-SCAC Men's Basketball Honors
JACKSON, Miss. – In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Kola Alade of Austin College was selected as SCAC Men’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year, while Austin College head coach Rodney Wecker was named the league’s Coach-of-the-Year.
Centre and DePauw to clash for SCAC title
JACKSON, Miss. - The East's top two seeds, Centre College and DePauw University, won their semifinal match-ups on Saturday to advance to the SCAC Championship game. Centre defeated Trinity University 62-44 while DePauw beat Austin College 53-47.
Top seeds advance to SCAC Semifinals
JACKSON, Miss. - The top four seeds advanced to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament semifinals with wins on day one. One seeds Austin College and Centre College will take on two seeds DePauw University and Trinity University, respectively, on Saturday in the semifinal round.
SCAC Announces 2010 Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket
SUWANEE, Ga. - The SCAC office today announced the bracket for the 2010 men's basketball tournament, which will be begin Friday, Feb. 26 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Colorado College's Nick Rose Named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week
STERLING, Va. – Colorado College's Nick Rose was named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week for his performance for games played from February 8 through February 14.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 12) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - Trinity University clinched a spot in the 2010 SCAC Tournament with a 79-78 overtime win at Colorado College. All but one of the eight tournament spots have been wrapped up and the final spot in the West will be determined on the final weekend of the regular season (Feb. 19-21).
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 11) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - With only two weeks left in the regular season, only two spots remain for the 2010 SCAC Basketball Tournament Feb 26-28 in Jackson, Miss.. DePauw, Centre, Oglethorpe and Rhodes clinched bids in the East. Meanwhile, Austin College and Southwestern have wrapped up spots in the West.
SCAC has four selected to ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's Basketball Team
ITHACA, N.Y. - Four SCAC men's basketball student-athletes were named to the 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's Basketball Team. Centre College's Danny Noll and Millsaps College's Blake Martinez were named to the First-Team in their districts.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 10) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - As the basketball season enters the final month of regular season play, the division races for spots in the 2010 SCAC Basketball Tournament are heating up. In the East, DePauw holds the top spot followed closely by Centre and Oglethorpe. In the West, only three games separates the No.1 seed Austin College(8-3 SCAC) through the No. 4 seed (Millsaps and Trinity 5-6 SCAC).
Herb Hilgeman honored for becoming all-time SCAC wins leader
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - This past Friday evening, prior to the Rhodes and Millsaps men’s basketball game, Herb Hilgeman was recognized for becoming the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference all-time winningest men’s basketball coach.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 9) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - The Eastern Division dominated the Western Division in the second weekend of cross division play. East teams went a combined 10-2 against the West highlighted by Birmingham-Southern, DePauw, Oglethorpe and Rhodes all sweeping home two game SCAC sets.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 8) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - In the first weekend of cross division play, both DePauw University and Southwestern University swept SCAC games last week. The Tigers earned road victories at Hendrix (89-81) and Millsaps (67-65) while the Pirates picked up home wins against Sewanee (64-56) and Oglethorpe (60-57).
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 7) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - Colorado College junior guard Nick Rose had a monster week as he led the Tigers to two wins this week. He poured in a career-high 34 points in an 93-89 home win over Austin College. He then scored 31 points in a 84-75 home win over Johnson & Wales.
Mason gets career win #200 in 71-36 victory over Sewanee
DANVILLE, Ky. - In his 11th season at Centre College, head men's basketball coach Greg Mason recorded his 200th career win as Centre beat the University of the South 71-36 on Sunday, Jan. 10.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 6) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - Paced by a 71-66 home win over conference rival and previously unbeaten Birmingham-Southern, the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels extended their winning streak to six games on Jan. 1. The win improved Oglethorpe to 8-3 overall and 3-0 in the SCAC.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 5) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - The Southwestern Pirates continued their solid play as the Pirates extended their winning streak to six games with two wins at the Southwestern University/Trinity University Classic in Georgetown, Texas Dec. 19-20. The wins improved Southwestern to 7-1 overall.
SCAC Men's Basketball Podcast - Week Three
SUWANEE, Ga. - On this week's holiday edition of the SCAC Men's Basketball Podcast we will take a look back at last weeks light schedule of action with so many of our student athletes in the midst of exams. Look ahead to the schedule of games this week as team close out their games in 2009 plus troll the polls looking inside the top 25 and finally bring you up to date with the latest conference standings.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 4) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - As final exams and the holidays approach, only five of the SCAC's 12 men's basketball teams were in action the week of Dec. 6-13. The SCAC posted a 4-2 non-conference record highlighted by Oglethorpe's 97-93 double-overtime win over cross town rival Emory University.
SCAC Men's Basketball Podcast - Week Two
SUWANEE, Ga. - On this week's SCAC Men's Basketball Podcast we will take a look back at all of last weeks action including the opening weekend of SCAC play. Look ahead to the light schedule of games this week as students begin to tackle exams plus troll the polls looking inside the top 25 and finally bring you up to date with the latest conference standings.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 3) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - SCAC play began the week of Nov. 30 through Dec. 6. Colorado College's Nick Rose, this week's Player of the Week, paced the Tigers to two SCAC wins and a tie for first-place in the Western Division. Colorado College's five wins already match their total from a year ago.
DePauw's Fenlon notches 400th career win
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Steve Lemasters scored 23 and David Gray posted a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds as DePauw posted an 86-64 win at Rhodes in the SCAC opener for both schools. The win was also the 400th career victory for DePauw head coach Bill Fenlon who is in his 25th season at the collegiate level. Of that total, 293 have come in 18 years at DePauw.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 2) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - DePauw University, behind two wins, won its fifth consecutive Mike Rockicki Community Versus Cancer Challenge. The Tigers (4-0) topped Washington & Jefferson 76-68 Nov. 28. They then beat rival Wabash for the championship, 65-57 on Nov. 29.
Men's Basketball Recap (Week 1) - Around the SCAC
SUWANEE, Ga. - The SCAC tipped off the 2009-10 men's basketball season with games Nov. 15-22. The season got off on the right foot when the Austin College Kangaroos came back and upset #12 Texas-Dallas, 79-77 in overtime in the season opener.
SCAC Releases 2009-10 Basketball Media Guides
SUWANEE, Ga. - The 2009-2010 SCAC Men's and Women's Basketball Media Guides has been released. The media guides are filled with all kinds of information dealing with Baskeball in the SCAC - Stats, Previews, Recaps, History, Predicted Order of Finish and much more!
Centre and Trinity favored to win respective SCAC divisions in 2009-10
SUWANEE, Ga. - In exclusive balloting by SCAC men's head basketball coaches, defending league champion Centre College and Trinity University were tabbed as preseason favorites to capture the SCAC Eastern Division and Western Division championships respectively.
Oglethorpe's Ward; Centre's Noll selected to D3hoops.com preseason All-America Teams
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference had Oglethorpe University junior Todd Ward and Centre College senior Danny Noll named to the 2009-10 D3hoops.com preseason All-American teams.
Centre ranked 21st in 2009-2010 Preseason D3hoops Men's Top 25; Oglethorpe and Trinity receive votes
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Centre College, the defending SCAC men's basketball champion, is ranked 21st in the 2009-2010 Preseason D3hoops Men's Top 25. Oglethorpe University and Trinity University both received votes in the preseason poll.
Grizzlies to hold training camp at Birmingham-Southern
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Grizzlies will officially begin their ninth season in the Bluff City by holding training camp in Birmingham, Ala., Grizzlies General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations Chris Wallace announced today. The weeklong camp will take place at Bill Battle Coliseum on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College from Sept. 29-Oct. 5.
Rhodes' Cory Smith inks professional contract in Luxembourg
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - All the hard work has paid off for Rhodes College graduate Cory Smith as he has signed a professional contract with the AS Soleuvre team in the Luxembourg-Dietrich League of Europe.
Elaine Penn To Speak To SCAC Student-Athletes About Building Better Communities
SUWANEE, Ga. - Elaine Penn has been working in higher education for more than a decade. Her years on a college campus have given Penn the chance to work with and learn from students.
