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First half of December 2000
2001
men's tournament will feature 8 from Pool C
The 2001 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament will feature
35 automatic bids and eight Pool C bids for runners-up in those conferences.
The addition was made possible because the American Southwest and Northwest Conferences qualified for automatic bids this season, shifting a large number of teams from Pool B (independents and non-qualifying conferences) to Pool A (conferences with automatic bids).
That leaves the breakdown as 35 Pool A teams, five Pool B teams and eight Pool C teams.
Kern's return from ACL
success so far
Apparently,
6-2 senior center Karyn Kern is returning to form at Susquehanna -- returning
for a fifth year after suffering a torn anterior crutiate ligament in
her right knee in last season's fifth game. She received a medical redshirt
year (more info on medical redshirts, click search box above). Kern posted
double-doubles in wins last week over Moravian (64-52) and Allentown (67-65)
-- the 47th of her Susquehanna career -- as she averaged 19.5 points and
16.0 rebounds. She scored a season-high 25 points and pulled down 14 rebounds
in the Moravian win, and had a season-best 18 rebounds with 14 points
as her team sent Allentown to just its second loss in nine games.
After leading her team to a 5-0 start last year while averaging 26.2 points and 13.2 rebounds, the senior tri-captain has led her team to a 6-1 record heading into the semester break this season -- topping the team in scoring (16.9 ppg), rebounding (11.9 per game) and field goal percentage (57.1%). In the 12 games Kern has played over the past two seasons, Susquehanna is 11-1.
"She was a little hesitant as to how her knee would react at the start of the season, but I think she's getting more confident with each game now. She's getting sharper with all her basketball skills too because you have to remember, she couldn't even play basketball again until the middle of last summer," said 14th-year Susquehanna head coach Mark Hribar.
Kern is seeking to become the first basketball player in Susquehanna history, male or female, to score 1,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds. She presently has 1,476 points and 879 rebounds. Susquehanna returns to action at the Lutheran Brotherhood Tournament at Cal Lutheran on Dec. 29-30.
Dzik wins 400th career game at Cabrini
RADNOR,
Pa. -- Senior center Gabe Hargrove scored 14 points, and junior Gary Goldman
added 12, as the Cabrini Cavaliers (3-4) defeated the Marymount Saints,
59-51, giving head coach John Dzik the 400th win of his coaching career.
The Saints (1-6) were led by Dallas Crawley, who had a game-high 18 points.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Cavaliers and ended the three-week wait for the coaching milestone. Dzik has been the head coach at Cabrini for 21 years, compiling an overall record of 400-168 (.704).
After Marymount scored the game's first bucket, the Cavaliers went on a 16-0 run, capped by a Nate Harrell (10 points) bucket with 14:27 remaining in the half, to seize control of the contest.
Marymount cut the lead as close as seven on two occasions in the first half, but Cabrini finished the stanza with a 7-2 run to take a 12-point lead into the locker room at 31-19.
The teams traded baskets throughout much of the second half, but Crawley brought the Saints within five, 52-47, with a conventional three-point play with 3:34 remaining.
Goldman extended the Cavalier lead to seven with a one-handed dunk with 1:46 to play, and Cabrini clinched the win with three free throws in the last minute.
In Dzik's 21 years at the helm of the Cavaliers, he has posted 13 20-win seasons. Along the way, Dzik's teams have won titles in the following conferences: Keystone Athletic Conference, Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, Eastern States Athletic Conference and the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference. In addition, he has guided the Cavaliers to nine postseason tournament bids (five NCAA, four NAIA). Dzik has been assisted by Mike Keeley (left) and Joe Kelley (right) for all 21 years.
Wartburg
men open 6-0, match 1990-91 squad
PELLA, Iowa -- The Wartburg College men's basketball team is off
to its best start in 10 years following a 61-47 win over Central on Dec.
9. The Knights (6-0 overall, 4-0 Iowa Conference) held the Dutch to just
seven field goals in the first half, taking a 30-19 halftime lead.
The 1990-91 unit opened 6-0 and ended with a 23-5 record.
Central made a valiant comeback effort in the second half. The Dutch (3-6, 2-3) trimmed the lead to 53-47 with 1:56 left on a three-point play by Chris Hinson. However, Wartburg ended the game on an 8-0 run, hitting five of six free throws and a three-point bucket by junior guard Marcus Meeks.
Sophomore forward Mike Pipho led the way with 15 points and two assists. Senior guards Troy Osterhaus and Patrick Morrison finished with 14 and 13 points, respectively. Osterhaus added six rebounds and three steals.
Tony Messer was the only Central player in double figures, tallying 13 points.
St. Ben's upsets No. 3
St. Thomas at buzzer
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. -- Sophomore post Danni Hannon dropped in a baseline
jumper on a pass from another sophomore, Michelle Barlau with 1.7 seconds
remaining as No. 22 St. Benedict edged No. 3 St. Thomas 66-65 at Claire
Lynch Hall.
The Blazers (6-1, 4-0 MIAC) led at intermission by three points 35-32, but fell behind by 10 points with just over six minutes remaining. CSB came charging back, but did lead until the end. St. Ben's sophomore Andrea Bennett led all scorers with 18 points, while Hannon and Barlau scored 14 and 13 points respectively. St. Thomas (5-1, 3-1) was led by junior Missy Pederson with 16 points. The Blazers made 28 of 32 free throws, including 10 in row by Bennett.
The Blazer victory snapped a 26 game MIAC winning streak that UST established dating back to February 1999.
Wooster's home streak now longest in NCAA WOOSTER, Ohio -- With Utah's 79-77 home loss to Weber State on Dec. 9, No. 2 Wooster currently owns the longest active home winning streak among all NCAA affiliated institutions. Utah had won 54 in a row at Jon M. Huntsman Center. Wooster has won its last 36 home dates at 3,400-seat Timken Gymnasium, dating back to a 78-59 setback to John Carroll in the NCAA tournament on March 7, 1998. Defending NCAA Division I champion Michigan State University ranks second, having won its last 34 home games.
The Scots, who are currently ranked second in the D3hoops.com Top 25, are off to a 7-0 start for the first time since 1950-51. They do not play this coming week due to final exams, but will resume action on Dec. 17, when they travel to Hiram. They will next put their home winning streak on the line against Denison on Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Wooster, which is currently coached by Steve
Moore, who has guided the team to a record of 290-78 in 14 years at the
school, has had a long and storied men's basketball history, dating back
to 1901 and spanning a total of 1,274 victories - third-highest among
Division III schools.
Simpson women beat
Central in Top 25 matchup
In a game between two nationally ranked teams, No. 15 Simpson defeated
No. 23 Central 78-63. The Storm used a 15-0 run that began with two Casey
Spree free throws with a little under 10 minutes to go in the first half
and ended with a little under four minutes to go when the Dutch's Amy
Steenhoek scored from eight feet out. The Storm took a 41-26 lead into
halftime.
The closing frame was marred by total of 34 fouls. Simpson (4-1, 2-1 IIAC)
was whistled for 21 fouls while the Dutch (5-1, 2-1) were cited 13 times.
Simpson scored its final field goal of the second half with 7:34 to go
and posted its final 14 points of the game from the charity stripe.
Steenhoek led all scorers with 19 points. Molly Parrott added 13 points
for the Dutch. Simpson sophomore guard Tiffany Whitsell charted a career-high
17 points. Spree totaled 15 points and a game high nine rebounds. While
Lisa Cowling was 8-8 from the free throw line and registered a season
high 13 points.
Carthage nearly knocks
off Eastern Ill.
Carthage
lost to Division I Eastern Illinois 72-71, despite 23 points from Greg
Ktistou. Eastern Illinois was ranked No. 123 of 325 teams in Division
I in Jeff Sagarin's power ranking.
The Redmen (6-1) rallied from a 64-57 deficit to take a 65-64 lead on a Ktistou three-pointer with 4:34 left. Eastern Illinois (5-2) scored the final points of the game with 2:04 left on a layup, and following missed shots on each side, Eastern Illinois turned the ball over with 33 seconds left. Carthage played for the last shot but a layup by Theo Powell rolled off the rim with three seconds left.
The closest vote in the history of the D3hoops.com Top 25 poll saw Carthage edging out Wooster by six votes and UW-Stevens Point by 10. Five teams got first-place votes, with nobody getting more than eight of them.
Kings Point women win
first varsity game
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy women's
team posted the first win of their inaugural varsity campaign tonight
by a 50-49 final score. SUNY-Old Westbury led by three points with 2:04
remaining in the game before freshman Rebecca Segert hit a jumper at 1:58
to cut the Panthers' lead to one point. Segert then added the game-winning
layup with 51 seconds to play.
The Mariners were led by the freshman pair of guards in Segert and forward
Llexandra Landreth. Segert had 24 points and six rebounds. Landreth was
a demon on the boards, grabbing 25 rebounds and adding 16 points. She
also tallied five blocked shots in the victory. Senior captain Malia Schoch
added 11 rebounds in the win.
SUNY-Old Westbury was led by freshman Shaniqua Haughton with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Junior Rosemarie Martin had 13 points while sophomore forward Candis Clemons had 14 points. Kings Point is now 1-3 overall, 1-1 in the Skyline Conference while SUNY-Old Westbury stands at 0-3, 0-2.
Roanoke men lose second
in a row
Another lackluster performance proved costly
for the Roanoke men's team Monday night, as the Maroons lost to
Randolph-Macon 63-54. The loss was the second in a row for the Maroons,
who fall to 4-3 on the year and 1-2 in the Old Dominion Athletic
Conference. The Yellow Jackets return home at 3-3, 2-1.
The Randolph-Macon defense had the Maroons on edge for the entire 40
minutes. Roanoke committed 30 turnovers and shot just 34.7% from the field
in the contest. The Yellow Jackets recorded 17 steals in the contest, led
by six from freshman Ryan Stein. Eight Yellow Jackets posted at least one
steal in the win.
Despite their poor play, the Maroons took a 34-25 lead into the
intermission. The Maroons shot 38.5% from the field in the first half, but
held the Yellow Jackets to 28.6%. After two free throws by Alex Phillips
gave the Maroons an 11-point lead with just seconds left, RMC's Stein
stole the inbound pass and converted an easy layup to trim the halftime
lead to nine.
Jason Strickland's jumper early in the second gave RC a 10-point lead, but
it was all Randolph-Macon from their on out. The Yellow Jackets quickly
went on a 9-0 run to cut the lead to one, and then took the lead for good
with 9:20 remaining on a Stein free throw. After Strickland's jumper, the
Maroons were outscored by Randolph-Macon 25-7 over an 11-minute span.
Stein finished the contest as the leading scorer, posting 16 points. He
also had six rebounds to go along with the six steals. Jared Mills was the
only other Yellow Jacket in double-figures in the scoring column, dropping
in 12.
Colby Leftwich scored 12 points to pace the Maroons, while Robby Pridgen
had 11, but was just 2-for-12 from the field. Leftwich added nine rebounds
for RC, which won the rebounding battle 46-33.
The Maroons, who were without starting point guard Brad Dunleavy, suffer
back-to-back home losses for the first time since the 1998-99 season.
Roanoke is now off until Jan. 2, when it hosts Babson College in the first
round of the V-Foundation Classic.
Wooster improves to 5-0,
could be new No. 1
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Wooster extended the longest
active home winning streak in NCAA Division III men's basketball to 36
games and improved to 5-0 on the season with a 75-59 win over visiting
Earlham College in North Coast Athletic Conference action at Timken
Gymnasium today.
The University of Chicago had owned the longest home unbeaten string in
Division III at 38 games until it lost 85-67 to Lake Forest College this
past Tuesday. Among all NCAA affiliated institutions, Wooster's current
streak only ranks behind the University of Utah, which has won 54 in a row
at home.
With the victory, the No. 2 ranked Scots also opened the year at 5-0 for
the first time since the 1954-55 season when legendary coach E.M. "Mose"
Hole's team won its first five. The Scots, whose hold on the second spot
in the D3hoops.com Top 25 is by four points over Carthage and nine points
over UW-Stevens Point, could get the top spot after No. 1 Calvin's loss.
Carthage and UW-Stevens Point each received two first-place votes in the
most recent poll.
The key run in Saturday's contest was when Wooster was able to turn a
six-point lead (41-35) at the 13:05 mark of the second half into a 65-43
advantage less than eight minutes later. The Scots held their largest lead
of 22 points on three occasions before settling for the 16-point margin of
victory.
In the first half, it was close for the first five minutes of play, but
then Wooster went on a 15-2 run to open up a 15-point lead with 8:18 left
before Earlham cut it down to 37-28 at the half.
Seven Scots scored seven or more points led by the starting backcourt of
senior Nate Gaubatz and junior Antwyan Reynolds, who each scored 14 points
and dished out four assists. In addition, Reynolds had a game-high four
steals, which was just two less than the Quakers' entire total.
Other major contributors for Wooster included sophomores Matt Smith and
Bryan Nelson, who added 12 and 10 points, respectively, with Nelson also
grabbing a game-best seven rebounds.
Earlham sophomore Nathan Stoops had a game-high 17 points on 6-for-10
shooting from the field, however, no other Quaker scored more than seven
points.
Stockton
men hand Paterson second loss
POMONA, N.J. -- In a rematch of last year's New Jersey Athletic
Conference
final, Richard Stockton upset nationally ranked William Paterson 70-66 at
the
Stockton Sports Center. The Ospreys evened their record at 3-3 (2-2
NJAC), while William Paterson fell to 4-2 (2-2).
Junior center B. Woolford led a trio of Stockton players in double figures
with 20 points. Senior swingman Billy Gilligan tallied 17 points and
freshman guard Ryan Stokes finished with 10. The balanced attack offset a
game-high 33 points by Pioneers' guard Horace Jenkins.
The Ospreys raced out to a 20-5 advantage and led for the entire first
half. At the break, the score was 39-34 in Stockton's favor. In the second half, Stockton was able to push its lead as high as 12
points at 57-45 on a three-pointer by Paul Super at 12:17.
The trey was Stockton's last field goal of the game. William
Paterson then went on a 15-2 run to take its first lead of the game at
60-59 with 4:38 remaining. Billy Gilligan hit two free throws to put
the Ospreys back in front 61-60, but the Pioneers regained the lead on a
Ray Ortiz bucket. Gilligan scored the next four points of the game at the
line to give Stockton a 65-62 lead.
William Paterson outscored Stockton 4-2 at the line over the next minute
to trim the Ospreys' lead to 67-66. But freshman Ryan Stokes made
one of two from the line to give Stockton a 68-66 lead, then clinched the
70-66 victory with two more free throws following a William Paterson
turnover.
Nebraska Wesleyan women
beat Buena Vista
LINCOLN, Neb. -- In a key women's game between
West Region foes, Nebraska Wesleyan University held off Buena Vista
University 78-73 on Dec. 1 at Snyder Arena.
Senior guard Rachel Klein, who led NWU with a game-high 23 points, scored
on
a put-back after a missed free throw to seal the win with 12 seconds
remaining.
Klein was 4-for-5 from behind the three-point arc and also had three
steals to lead the Prairie Wolves. Junior Ronda Hofmann added a
career-high 15 points, including several key free throws down the stretch.
Senior center Shuree Oldehoeft added 13 points and 15 rebounds for NWU,
which improved to 4-1. Oldehoeft, who limited Buena Vista's leading scorer
Allison Schultz to just seven points, also contributed a team-high five
assists and three blocked shots for the Prairie Wolves.
The Beavers (1-3) were led by Jessica Jensen with 14 points and Sally
Rezabek with 12 points and seven boards.
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