2005-06 archives

August 4, 2006
Dante Terry Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coach at MOC

July 27, 2006
BC Alum Making Impact Abroad
The evaluation after spending a week at the San Antonio Spurs' workout facility back in 2004 didn't leave Tim Black deflated. The acclaimed Barton College basketball player was told that, at best, he had an outside shot at playing in the National Basketball Association. Black, now age 25, was braced, but heeded was the attached advice: Set your a goal for a specific time frame and then determine where you are.

July 25, 2006
MOC Star Spends Part of Summer Down Under
During the 2005-06 season, Elton Coffield established a career high with 35 points against Pfeiffer in the semifinal round of the Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. That total is now only his best single-game scoring performance in the Northern Hemisphere. Elton Coffield, a rising senior at Mount Olive, joined a group of basketball student-athletes from college division schools on a trip to Australia under the auspices of USA Athletes International, a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for amateur athletes to participate in international competition.

July 24, 2006
Limestone Alumni To Coach for Saints Men's Basketball
GAFFNEY, S.C.- Limestone College alumni Brandon Scott and Marquintus Jones will join the Limestone men’s basketball program as assistant coaches for the 2006-07 season. Both newcomers had great playing careers for the Saints and will be valuable assets to the team. Jones and Scott will assist head coach Larry Epperly in all facets of the program.

July 5, 2006
Brookman Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coach at Anderson
ANDERSON, S.C. – Jeff Brookman has been named assistant men’s basketball coach at Anderson University, head coach Jason Taylor announced Wednesday afternoon. Brookman, a native of Charlotte, N.C., has served as an assistant coach at the semi-pro, Division I, Division II, and AAU levels.

June 17, 2006
MOC's Head Basketball Coach and AD Take Part in Flight Exercises at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Mount Olive Director of Athletics Jeff Eisen and Head Men's Basketball Coach Bill Clingan joined East Carolina Director of Athletics Terry Holland and Head Football Coach Skip Holtz in flight and refueling exercises Thursday at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

June 16, 2006
Lees-McRae Names New Men’s Basketball Coach
BANNER ELK, NC – Lees-McRae College recently named Scott Polsgrove as the new men’s basketball head coach. Polsgrove joins the Lees-McRae Bobcats from King College, Bristol, Tenn., where he was head men’s basketball coach for 14 years. Before coaching at King College, Coach Polsgrove was the assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, Taylor University, Upland, Ind.

May 31, 2006
Jason Taylor Named Head Men’s Basketball Coach At Anderson University
ANDERSON, S.C. – Jason Taylor, assistant coach for the Anderson University men’s basketball program for the past three seasons, has been elevated to head coach, AU athletic director Bobby Beville announced Wednesday afternoon. “Jason has worked very hard and has been very dedicated to our men’s basketball program for the last three years,” Beville said. “He impressed the search committee with his plans for the program and his vision for the future. We believe Jason is a good fit for Anderson University.” Taylor replaces Doug Novak, who resigned in late April join the basketball staff at The Citadel. Taylor, a 27-year-old native of Clarkrange, Tenn., came to Anderson in 2003 after two years at Roane State (Tenn.) Community College.

April 30, 2006
Novak Leaving Anderson MBB Head Post To Join Citadel Staff

April 3, 2006
NCCSIA Announces North Carolina All-State College Division Men's Basketball Teams
DURHAM, N.C. -- Twelve student-athletes comprise the 2005-06 North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA) College Division All-State Men's Basketball Teams released on Monday. The team consists of non-NCAA Division I student-athletes from North Carolina colleges and universities. Nominees were submitted by North Carolina sports information professionals. NCCSIA members voted for the all-state teams. The All-State basketball teams include a five-player first-team, as well as a five-player second team (plus those involved in ties). Teams are selected for men and women in both the college (Division II, III and NAIA) and university (NCAA Division I) divisions.

April 3, 2006
Mount Olive Holds Sportsmanship Symposium
Just like the weather, everybody talks about sportsmanship. Mount Olive College senior Chuckie Jefferson is helping Mount Olive do something about. As part of his internship, Jefferson helped coordinate a Sportsmanship Symposium Thursday at Mount Olive. A capacity audience, comprised primarily of Trojan student-athletes, filled the Hennessee Room

March 29, 2006
Coker’s Pierce Drafted by the World Basketball Association

March 26, 2006
Division II Buletin Names Women's & Men's All-American Teams

March 22, 2006
Barton's 'Elite 8' Dream Season Ends in OT
WINONA STATE 86, BARTON 78 (OT) SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ? Winona State (Minn.) scored 16 points in overtime en route to an 86-78 victory versus Barton (N.C.) in an opening round game of the ?Elite Eight? tonight at the MassMutual Center. Winona State will now meet the winner of the Stonehill/Tarleton State contest in a national semifinal encounter tomorrow at 8:30 pm. That game will be aired live on CSTV. The Warriors (30-4) ran the entire emotional spectrum throughout the evening. They allowed a 14-point first half lead to slip away, only to rally from a 12-point second half deficit after Barton had outscored them by a 44-18 margin throughout an 18 minute span that bridged the two regulation periods.

March 21, 2006
Barton's Elite 8 Basketball Games to be Webcast
BETHESDA, MD (22 March 2006) ? Fans of the NCAA Division II Men?s Basketball Tournament will be able to follow live action on their computers through a partnership between PrestoSports, American International College and the NCAA. Up-to-the-second, official live stats will be made available for fans to follow online throughout Championship Weekend. The basketball games are being played this weekend at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass. American International College is the host institution. Quarterfinal games will be played on March 22, with the Semifinals on March 23. The 50th annual NCAA Championship contest is slated for March 25 at one o?clock in the afternoon. CSTV will televise the Semifinal round, with the title game televised live on CBS.

March 18, 2006
Updated Information for Broadcast of Barton Men's Basketball Games @ Elite 8

March 15, 2006
Barton MBB Advance to NCAA Elite 8; Sixth Straight CVAC Team to Win East Region
WILSON , N.C. ? The Barton College men's basketball team, amid the greatest season in school history, is going to the NCAA D-II Elite Eight in Springfield, MA . The top-seeded Bulldogs, under the direction of 10th -year head coach Ron Lievense, rallied from way down late in the game for the second straight night to beat third-seeded Alderson-Broaddus 73-70 Tuesday in the East Regional Championship game. The 28-3 Bulldogs will play fifth-ranked Winona State (29-4) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in the MassMutual Center in the Elite Eight.

March 12, 2006
Barton College Host NCAA DII Men's Basketball Regional Champioinship
Barton College is hosting the NCAA DII Men's Basketball Regional Championships in Wilson, NC. Five of the eight qualifing teams are ranked in the national top twenty-five, including CVAC member and Barton arch rival Mount Olive College. Link here for stories, stats, scores, and all tournament information for the championships.

March 8, 2006
BC Moves Up to #9 in Final MBB National Poll; MOC Holds @ #25

March 8, 2006
Conference Players of the Year Highlight Men's Daktronics All-East Region Squad; BC's Atkinson on 1st Team as PU's Grier on 2nd

March 7, 2006
Queens University of Charlotte Earns Second Allan Sharp Award
Thomasville, NC> Queens University of Charlotte won this year?s Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Allan Sharp Award with a 67% graduation rate. The Sharp Award identifies the CVAC member institution with the year?s highest graduation rate among student athletes receiving athletics aid.

March 6, 2006
Barton & Mount Olive MBB Teams Going to National Tournament; As the #1 Seed, Barton Named Regional Host
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division II Men?s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2006 NCAA Division II Men?s Basketball Championship. Twenty-two conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 42 teams were selected at large by the committee. Seven of the regional tournaments, consisting of eight teams each, will be conducted March 11, 12 and 14 at regional sites. The West regional will be conducted March 10, 11 and 13. The eight quarterfinalists will advance to the finals at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 22, 23 and 25.

March 4, 2006
Barton Men Beat Mount Olive After 2 OT's For CVAC Championship; All-Tourney Teams Announced
Tournament Most Valuable Player Anthony Atkinson (pictured, right) scored 37 points and a Mount Olive three-pointer rimmed out at the buzzer as top-seeded and nationally 12th-ranked Barton defeated the second-seeded and nationally 25th-ranked Trojans 102-100 in the championship game of the 2006 Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Men's Basketball Championship Friday at Kornegay Arena. Mount Olive was the host site for the CVAC Tournament "final four."

March 2, 2006
Basketball All-CVAC Teams, FOY, COY, & POY Winners Announced
The CVAC announced the All-Conference Teams, Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Freshmen of the Year award winners at the Honors Banquet during this weekend's CVAC Basketball Conference Championship Tournament. The banquet was held at the host institution, Mount Olive College. The women?s awards were first given out, followed by the men?s awards. Head Coaches from CVAC member institutions nominate and then vote upon the award winners who represent the best of the best for the conference.

March 2, 2006
Pfeiffer's Clark Awarded CVAC Murphy Osborne 'Best of the Best Student-Athlete' Award
The Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference is proud to recognize Brenna Clark of Pfeiffer University as the 2006 Murphy Osborne Award recipient. Brenna was selected as the CVAC?s most outstanding student-athlete from a field of ten nominees. To be eligible for the award, a student must be a senior student-athlete with a minimum grade point average of 3.25. The student must be a full-time student at the time of nomination, must have been a full-time student for at least two years at the member school, and must be a starter or important substitute in a conference sport. The recipient is selected by the Faculty Athletics Representatives of CVAC institutions. The Murphy Osborne award was presented March 2, 2006, at the annual CVAC winter meeting held in conjunction with the basketball tournament hosted by Mount Olive College.

March 1, 2006
NCAA Releases Men's & Women's Basketball Regional Rankings

March 1, 2006
BAC's Nicole Woods Leads Nation in Scoring

February 28, 2006
Mount Olive's Young Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 2/28/2006

February 28, 2006
Erskine's "Fullcourt Family" Featured On Columbia`s WLTX
COLUMBIA, SC?WLTX, the CBS affiliate in Columbia, aired a segment, ?Fullcourt Family,? featuring Athletic Director and head men?s basketball, Mark Peeler, and his wife and head women?s basketball coach, Maggie Peeler. The segment, which aired on the 11 o?clock news on February 27th, is viewable on www.wltx.com under ?Video Headlines? on the left side of the webpage.

February 25, 2006
Men's Basketball Bracket Set for CVAC Championship Tourney

February 25, 2006
Women's Basketball Bracket Set for CVAC Championship Tourney

February 23, 2006
Coker College: 'Tiny' Would Surely be Proud
HARTSVILLE - God had a good idea when he created Coker College. It's another one of those pretty little schools tucked away in one of the richest little towns in our fair little state. As small colleges go these days, Coker reminds us of how things used to be. The campus is closed to vehicular traffic which gives it a quiet composure similar to the farmland that surrounds this town on all sides.

February 21, 2006
Limestone's Jones Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 2/21/2006

February 18, 2006
Erskine's 1978 Men`s Basketball Team Reunites

February 16, 2006
Mount Olive to Host 2006 CVAC Men's/Women's Basketball Tournament "Final Four;" Tickets Now on Sale

February 14, 2006
Barton's Barovero Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week : 2/14/06

February 10, 2006
PU's Matt Austin Named to ESPN's The Magazine's Academic All-District First Team
Matt Austin has been named to the Academic All-District Team. Matt Austin, starting center on the men's basketball team at Pfeiffer, has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Team. The selections are made by CoSida.

February 9, 2006
Erskine, The Princeton of Division II
DUE WEST - Ask three people how to get here and you'll get three different answers. But, eventually, all roads lead to Due West. For those who have never been here, this college town sits somewhere between Abbeville and Anderson in a really nice neck of the woods. And because there are no interstate highways or big cities nearby to distract your attention, kids who attend Erskine tend to come out four years later with a pretty special kind of education.

February 7, 2006
Erskine's Taylor Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 2/7/2006

February 1, 2006
Losses Create Shakeup in Men's Top 25; BC Moves up to #8 & MOC Just Slips Out

January 31, 2006
Coker's Pierce Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 1/31/2006

January 25, 2006
CVAC Basketball Teams Move in Regional Rankings

January 24, 2006
Barton Men's Basketball Moves Into Top 10, While MOC Tied At No. 18 In NABC Division II Top 25

January 24, 2006
Barton's Anthony Atkinson Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 1/24/2006

January 19, 2006
LC's Benton Named Spartanburg Tip-Off Club Player of the Week

January 18, 2006
CVAC Women's & Men's Basketball Teams Top-In at 3rd & 4th in Seasons 1st Regional Rankings

January 17, 2006
CVAC Teams Continue the Move Up NABC National Poll

January 17, 2006
Barton's Barovero Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 1/17/2006

January 13, 2006
BAC's Damien Humphrey Honored for Scoring 1000 Career Points

January 10, 2006
Barton Moves Back into MBB National Rankings at #13; Mount Olive Slips to #21

January 10, 2006
Barton's Moore Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 1/10/2006

January 6, 2006
QUC's MBB Coach Brian Good Named Head Coach for USA Athletes International
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 20, 2005) ? Queens University of Charlotte head men?s basketball coach Brian Good has been selected by USA Athletes International to lead the US team in the 2006 Bajan Unifest Games to be held on the island of Barbados from June 26 ? 30, 2006.

December 20, 2005
Mount Olive Moves Up to NO. 9 In NABC DII Top 25
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. ? Mount Olive moves up a spot to No. 9 in this week?s NABC Division II Men?s Basketball Top 25 Poll. The Trojans have been ranked as high as No. 6 and have been in the top 10 in four of the first five polls this season. Mount Olive (7-1 overall, 2-1 Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference) received 120 points in the poll, 18 points behind No. 8 Florida Southern and four points ahead of No. 10 West Virginia State. The Trojans play at West Virginia State on January 4 in a battle of top 10 teams.

December 20, 2005
Mount Olive's Young Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week

December 13, 2005
Mount Olive Returns To MBB Top 10; Pfeiffer Also in National Top 25

December 13, 2005
Erskine's Matt Odom Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 12/13/2005

December 7, 2005
CVAC Men's Basketball Features 3 Teams In NABC Top 25
Catawba, whose 8-0 record is the best among the undefeated teams along with Northern State, heads the next group at No. 11, followed by the highest ranked newcomer this week, Barton (5-0), who comes in at No. 12 thanks in part to a road win last week over then-No. 14 Pfeiffer. Those two schools, along with No. 16 Mount Olive, gives the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference three teams in the Top 25. The only other league with that distinction is the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association with CMSU, No. 20 Emporia State and No. 24 Southwest Baptist.

December 6, 2005
Barton's Barovero Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 12/6/2005

November 30, 2005
Former Coker Men's Basketball Player Honored

November 29, 2005
Mount Olive Men's Basketball Moves Up To No. 6 In NABC Top 25; Pfeiffer at #14

November 29, 2005
Pfeiffer's Grier Named CVAC MBKB Player of the Week: 11/29/2005

November 28, 2005
PU Men Win Currence Classic; Grier Named Tourney MVP

October 24, 2005
Mount Olive Tops CVAC Men's Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll; Pfeiffer 2nd with Erskine & Queens 3rd
Thomasville, NC> Mount Olive College sits atop the 2005-2006 preseason poll as voted on by the conference coaches. Pfeiffer University moves down one spot from last years poll to place second in this year?s survey. Erskine College and Queens University of Charlotte finish in a dead tie for the third spot.

October 24, 2005
Mount Olive Ranked No. 7 in DII Bulletin Preseason MBB Poll; Elton Coffield Earns All-American Honorable Mention
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. ? Mount Olive earned its second national top 10 preseason ranking as the Trojans are picked No. 7 in the 2005-06 Division II Bulletin Preseason Men?s Basketball Top 25. Division II Bulletin also named guard Elton Coffield as a Preseason All-America Honorable Mention and Preseason Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Player of the Year. Mount Olive was also picked No. 5 in Street and Smith?s Preseason Division II Top 10. The magazine also named Coffield as a Preseason All-America Honorable Mention.

October 2, 2005
Mount Olive Ranked #5 Nationally in Street & Smith's Preseason MBB Poll...Pfeiffer Close Behind at #9
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. ? Mount Olive is ranked No. 5 in the Street and Smith?s Preseason Division II Men?s Basketball Top 10 and guard Elton Coffield is named as a Preseason All-America Honorable Mention. The poll was published in the 2005-06 edition of Street and Smith?s College Basketball Annual. Mount Olive posted a 29-5 record last season and earned its first-ever trip to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. The Trojans won the East Regional before falling to eventual national runner-up Bryant in the national quarterfinals. The Trojans return four starters in addition to Coffield, who Street and Smith?s Magazine refers to as ?perhaps the best sixth man in the nation.? Coffield, who came off the bench in 32 of 34 games last year, averaged 17.6 points per game and was among the nation?s leaders with 45.5 percent shooting from three-point range. The Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference is one of two conferences with multiple teams in the preseason top 10. Along with Mount Olive at No. 5, Pfeiffer is ranked No. 9. Bentley (Mass.) and St. Anselm (N.H.) of the Northeast-10 are both ranked in the top 10.

September 26, 2005
Pfieffer University Men's Basketball To Play Charlotte 49ers Again!