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Southern Conference Basketball Preview: 08-09

CHN — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:38:50 -0500

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Conference Rank: 17th

10 year average: 19th

All-Southern Team
Pos.	Player	Team	Yr.

G	Stephen Curry	Davidson	Jr
G	Donald Sims	Appalachian St	So
G	Tony White	Charleston	Jr
F	Nicchaeus Doaks	Chattanooga	Sr
F	Jermaine Johnson	Charleston	Sr
CHN Award Winners		Returning Leaders
CHN All-Americans Stephen Curry Mid-Major All-Americans Stephen Curry* *Mid-Major POY		Points: Stephen Curry 25.1 Rebounds: Jermaine Johnson 8.5 Assists: Cameron Wells (Citadel) 3.8

Southern Conference Standings
Nat'l	Team	League	Tourney

40	Davidson	Southern	1	NCAA
116	Appalachian St	Southern	2
141	Charleston	Southern	3
169	Chattanooga	Southern	4
205	Georgia Southern	Southern	5
216	UNC Greensboro	Southern	6
239	Furman	Southern	7
269	Elon	Southern	8
278	Wofford	Southern	9
292	Samford	Southern	10
293	Western Carolina	Southern	11
324	Citadel	Southern	12

*Click on links for full Top 144 team preview

** returning conference champion

Poll: Who Do You Think Will Win the SoCo? (soon)

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Rise & Fall: Patriot

Top SG's: Stephen Curry

Top Non-BCS Players: Stephen Curry

State of '08: South Carolina

Shawn Siegel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:11:18 -0400

Duke or Carolina? BC or UMASS? Gonzaga or Washington.. or Washington State? What is the best program in each state? While there's not much competition in Hawaii.. there are great debates to be had in loaded regions like California, North Carolina, and Texas. The State of '08 is a ranking of every program in every state.. based mostly on recent success (the last five years) mixed in with subjective factors such as conference prestige, historical success, and overall program direction.

For more info, check out the State of '08 introduction.

SOUTH CAROLINA

CLEMSON - Amazingly Clemson made the NCAA Tournament for just the first time in a decade, losing to Villanova in the opening round. The Tigers were an NIT team the previous three seasons, but have still trumped Winthrop in RPI in 6 of 8 seasons.

WINTHROP - The Eagles simply own the Big South right now. In Greg Marshall's ten-yea reign, Winthrop has made an amazing 8 NCAA Tournaments, and a 9th is possible in '09. In '07, Winthrop also knocked off Notre Dame in the tourney's First Round.

SOUTH CAROLINA - In Dave Odom's 7-year tenure, the Gamecocks were invited to one NCAA Tournament and 2 NITs. Former WKU Coach Darrin Horn was brought in to make the program more competitive in the SEC. Not since 1998 has USC finished over .500 in conference play.

CHARLESTON - For a long-time in the 90's up until a few years ago, Charleston was one of the top mid-major programs in the country. Ever since John Kresse retired, the Cougars have lost a little bit of their lustre and last year was the first time they finally finished below .500 in the Southern Conference.

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE - This is has long been one of the premier programs in the MEAC.. which isn't saying much because it is the MEAC. Since their last conference title in 2003, there has been some slippage however. Last year's 9-9 conference record was their worst in a decade, and RPIs of 290 & 284 in the past two years are anything but impressive.

6. FURMAN - In the previous six seasons, Furman was consistently a .500 team in the Southern Conference. But last year the bottom fell out and the Paladins struggled to a horrible 6-14 conference record, and an even worse 7-23 overall record. However, the team was young and most onlookers expect serious improvement in Jeff Jackson's third season.

7. COASTAL CAROLINA - In 2006, the Chanticleers were just a basket away from advancing to the Big Dance. This was an an aberration for a program that otherwise has been a middling to poor Big South team over the last 10 years.

8. WOFFORD - The Terriers have had similar overall success to Coastal Carolina above, hovering around winning 40 to 50% of their conference games on a yearly basis. Last season the team shocked Purdue on the road, and played Alabama very close as well.

9. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN - Other than two years of mediocrity in '05 & '06, this has been one of the worst programs in the country for quite some time. The Bucs have only won 10 D1 games the last 2 seasons, with an average RPI of 328th

10. THE CITADEL - Avoid being in last solely because there were two D1-newcomers in South Carolina last year. The Bulldogs haven't won 10 games since 2002, which was also the last season they finished above 290 in the RPI. Brutal stuff.

11. SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE - The Spartans beat six D1 teams in its initial season, including a decent Gardner-Webb squad. Upstate also has an advantage over Presbyterian due to their affiliation with the Atlantic Sun conference.

12. PRESBYTERIAN - Not much to say here. In the program's first full D1 season, the team went 2-25 (against D1 teams) with wins over Radford and Army.

Last: Pennsylvania - Next: Tennessee

State of '08: The Introduction (& State list/links)

Three Stars of the Day: Godzinksi, Larry, Price

Shawn Siegel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:17:00 -0500

Three Stars of The Day

We handpick the best performances of the day, whether it be stat lines that make you drool, or clutch performances. Either way, its our way of showing the love:

Chris Godzinski - Wofford

Scored a team & season-high 15 points, and had the game-winning dunk with 2 seconds left as Wofford upended Charleston

Reggie Larry - Boise State

Scored the game winner against Fresno (6 seconds left), and also set season highs with 27 points and 16 big rebounds

AJ Price - UCONN

Who needs Dyson? Price scored 20 to lead UCONN to a home win over Louisville

Other Top Performers

Antoine Agudio - Hofstra - Another big scoring night for the senior, 28 points against lowly Longwood

Kenny George - UNCA - With 15 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 blocks off the bench, the big men helped UNCA move to 6-0 in the Big South

Paul Stoll - UTPA - Did it all for the Broncs, leading the way with 28 point, 11 assists, 6 boards, and 3 steals

Previous Stars of the Day

January 27th - DeMarcus Nelson, Duke

January 26th - Hackett/Lewis/Mayo, USC

January 24th - Jerryd Bayless, Arizona

January 22nd - Patrick Patterson, Kentucky

January 21st - DJ Augustin, Texas

January 20th - Dezmon Harris, Weber State

January 19th - James Gist, Maryland

January 18th - Abbott/Harden, Arizona State

January 17th - Dionte Christmas, Temple

January 14th - Roy Hibbert, Georgetown

January 11th - Lester Hudson, Tennessee-Martin

January 9th - DJ White, Indiana

January 8th - Lester Hudson, Tennessee-Martin

January 7th - Wayne Ellington, UNC

January 6th - Shan Foster, Vanderbilt

January 5th - Damon Huffman, Brown

January 4th - Luke Harangody, Notre Dame

January 3rd - Damon Huffman, Brown

January 2nd - Martin Zeno, Texas Tech

November/December Star of the Day Archive

Georgia Southern 83 - Wofford 78

Press Release — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:12:24 -0500

STATESBORO, Ga. --- Senior Donte Gennie scored a career high 28 points to help Georgia Southern defeat Wofford 83-78 Monday night at Hanner Fieldhouse.

GSU evens its Southern Conference record at 2-2 after an 0-2 start and is now 9-6 overall. Wofford falls to 5-11 and 0-5.

“You do what you have to do to win,” said GSU head coach Jeff Price. “I’ve never had another team force me to play five guards and they literally forced me to do that. They spread us out and were driving on our post players and we were fouling - they’re just a great shooting team. We got stops when we had to - our defense isn’t where it needs to be - but our effort was good.”

GSU placed five players in double-figures: Gennie, junior Dwayne Foreman had 14, junior Louis Graham and senior Jimmy Tobias each had 11 and senior Diogo Salazar recorded a career-high 10 off the bench.

The Terriers were led by Eric Marshall who had a career-best 33 points, shooting 11-for-14 from the field (3-for-3 from 3-point land) and 8-for-8 from the foul line. Shane Nichols poured in 21 and Drew Gibson had 13.

Georgia Southern was slow out of the gate, missing its first three shots
with two turnovers which helped enable the Terriers to jump out to a 6-0 lead.

It was the Marshall and Nichols show early on for Wofford as the combo started 7-for-7 from the floor, including 3-for-3 from behind the arc.

The Eagles led for the first time, 18-16, at the 12:51 mark, but not for long. Nichols reclaimed the lead with a trifecta and held the advantage for another six minutes.

The game went back-and-forth until GSU took control with a 9-0 run, capped off with a trey from Gennie, to go up 41-34 with 2:22 to go in the half.

Gennie came through again with a fall-down triple from the left corner at the buzzer and Georgia Southern went into halftime with the momentum and a 49-40 lead.

Gennie had 19 of his 28 points in the first 20 minutes, the most by a GSU player in a half this season.

The opening moments of the second period belonged to Wofford thanks to an 8-0 rally, but the Terriers were unable to grab a hold of the contest. Wofford pulled even (58-58) at the 12:10 mark and kept Georgia Southern in reach.

A Marshall jumper cut the deficit to 70-69 with 6:08 left, but seven straight points gave GSU the cushion it needed. Wofford would get to within three with just over a minute left, but no closer.

Georgia Southern dominated the glass, outrebounding the Terriers 47-28, led by Graham’s 12. He notched his seventh double-double of the season.

“Our rebounding was really good,” said Price. “We’ve rebounded well in the last two games, averaging 15 offensive rebounds and I’ve been really pleased with that.”