Jan. 18, 2002
OLD DOMINION VS VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH
Saturday, Jan. 19, 2002, 7:35 p.m. ODU Fieldhouse/ ESPN 1310 Radio
"FAIRWELL TO THE FIELDHOUSE" - Salute to the 1980's
While the Monarchs played no games in the fieldhouse during this era we wantto honor those who played in this decade.* Head Coach Paul Webb (196-99 from 1975-76 to 1984-85 )
* 1980-1989 ODU was 155-111 (.582)
* NCAA's 1980,1982, 1985, 1986
* NIT's 1981, 1983, 1984, 1988
* Conference Players of The Year: Ronnie Valentine 1980 ECAC &Kenny Gattison 1986 Sun Belt.
* Mark West 1980 and 1982 ECAC Tournament MVP
* ODU defeated #1 DePaul, #3 Syracuse, & Russian National Team
ABOUT THE MONARCHS:
9-7 Overall/3-3 CAA/6-3 Home/1-0 Neutral /2-4 Away
Last Game
* Defeated Towson on Monday, 66-53
* Ricardo Marsh 18 pts/7 rebs/ Rasheed Wright 18 pts/ 8 rebs
* Pierre Greene seven steals/ Nance 8 assists
* Outrebounded Tigers, 41-20.
HEAD COACH: Blaine Taylor (Montana '81)
* Top Assistant at Stanford the last three years
* 142-65 at Montana (1991-1998) - five 20+ win seasons.
* 384-156 in 18 years as an assistant and head coach
* 1992 Montana team was 27-4
* 1992 National Rookie Coach of the Year
* 1992 Big Sky Coach of the Year
MONARCH PROBABLES
F 21 Ricardo Marsh, 6-7, 225, Jr, Mebane, NC.15.1 ppg/ 6.7 prg
F 22 Rasheed Wright, 6-5, 195, Jr., Greensboro, NC.13.4 ppg/ 5.4 rpg
C 40 Clay McGowen, 6-11, 220, So, Westerville, OH. 6.1 ppg/ 5.3 rpg
G 13 Troy Nance, 5-9, 175, So., Va.Beach, Va. 8.4 ppg/ 4.6 apg
G 12 Pierre Greene, 6-2, 185, Sr, Chicago, IL. 9.9 ppg/ 2.7 rpg
OR 10 John Waller, 6-4, 175, So, Richmond, Va. 6.3 ppg/ 3.2 rpg
TOP SUBSTITUTES
G 24 Kiah Thomas, 6-4,185, Fr., Norfolk, Va. 4.8 ppg/ 3.0 rpg
C 30 Charles Dunnington, 6-9, 220, So. Washington, DC.3.6 ppg/ 4.0 rpg
G 11 Marcus Drewry, 6-2, 180,Jr., Evanston, IL.0.0 ppg/ 1.0 apg
C 41 Joe Principe, 6-10, 225, So., Gladstone, MO.0.8 ppg/ 1.2 rpg
F 33 James Smith, 6-7, 200, Fr., Norfolk, Va.0.5 ppg/1.0 rpg
THIS DAY IN MONARCH HISTORYJan. 19, 1980, Down 13 (63-50) with 5:02 left, the Monarchs rallied to defeat#3 Syracuse in Scope, 68-67 on Bobby Vaughan's tip in at the buzzer.
TONIGHT'S OFFICIALSStephen Gordon, James Haney, Charles Robinson
CAA GAMES TODAY:W&M at Hofstra, JMU at UNC Wilmington,Drexel at Delaware, GMU at Towson
SERIES VS. VCU
ODU leads, 32-27
First Meeting: 1968-69: ODU won 101-69
Last Year: ODU won 77-65 in Scope, VCU won, 74-53 in the Siegel Center
VCU's last win in Norfolk, 1997-98, VCU won in Scope 61-55.
COMPARING TEAM STATS
ODUVCU
Scoring67.8 76.1
FG%.412436
FT%.715.652
3PT%.336.336
Rebounds37.3 43.1
FG Def..421.372
Scoring Def..66.371.6
MONARCHS VS. CAA TEAMS
Delaware (3-0) Drexel (1-0)George Mason (24-7)
Hofstra (1-1)James Madison(36-20) UNCW(15-14)
Towson (8-0)VCU (32-27)W&M (45-12)
WRIGHT AND MARSHRasheed Wright and Ricardo Marsh are the only two Monarchs who have started all16 games...Marsh has 660 career points thus far.
MARCUS DREWRY JOINS LINEUPJunior Marcus Drewry (Evanston, IL.) Missed the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair an unhaled stress fracture in his right foot. Drewry wasborn in nearby Portsmouth, VA.. His mother Karen was a Virginia High School LeagueAll-Star. She once scored 68 points in a game, and in 1988 helped Hampton Universitywin the NCAA Div. II National Championship. She is HU's fourth all-time assist leaderwith 352.
ALSO BACKFreshman T.J. Waldon, Lakeland, FL. He missed five weeks with a stress fracture inhis right foot. His brother B.B. is a starter and standout at South Florida.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE PERFORMERSRicardo Marsh vs. Coastal Carolina (21 pts/11 rebs)Rasheed Wright vs. Delaware State (18 pts/ 10 rebs)Clay McGowen vs. East Carolina (15 pts/ 10 rebs)
AN ARTISTSophomore center Charles Dunnington (Washington, DC.) is an art major and hasone of his paintings in the lobby of Firestation #7 by the ODU campus.
MONARCH SCORING LEADERS THIS SEASON
Ricardo Marsh (7)Rasheed Wright (5)
McGowen & Waller (1)Nance & Greene (1)
MONARCH REBOUND LEADERS THIS SEASON
Ricardo Marsh (5)+
Clay McGowen (3)
Rasheed Wright (4)+
Dunnington +
Pierre Greene (2)
+ co leaders
INDIVIDUAL SEASON HIGHS (* Career Highs)
MarshWright McGowen
Points *24 vs. Hampton *22 vs. UNCW*15 at ECU
Rebs*11 vs. Coastal 10 vs. Del.State*12 vs. UNCW
Assts:*7 vs. Coastal4 vs. Sac. State*2 vs. ECU
FGM*10 vs. Hampton *8 vs. UNCW*5 vs. ECU
FTM*7-10 vs. Coastal9-11 vs. Hampton*5-7 vs. ECU
3PTM* 1 (4 times)3-7 vs. ECU/UNCW0-0
Waller DunningtonDrewry
Points*20 at UNLV*10 at Gmu0
Rebs*10 vs. UNCW *7 vs. Va.Tech*2 at Hofstra
Assts*4 vs. UNCW1 (3) times*2 vs. UNLV
FGM*4 vs. UNLV*5 at GMU0
FTM*3-4 vs.Del & NCW*3-4 vs. Sac.State0
3PTM*4-6 vs. UNLV0-00-0
NanceGreeneThomas
Points*18 vs. Coastal 24 vs. Drexel*16 vs. Memphis
Rebs*6 vs. Va.Tech 6 vs. Ill-Chicago* 6 at ECU
Assts7 vs. Coastal5 vs. UNCW*3 (7) times
FGM*5 vs. Coastal/Hoft.8 vs. Drexel*6 vs. Memphis
FTM*7-9 vs. Coastal6-9 vs. Drexel*4-4 vs. UIC
3PTM*4-7 at. GMU2 (5) times*4-8 vs. Memphis
Others: Steals- Pierre Greene (7) at Towson (1 shy of school record )Blocks: 5 by Clay McGowen vs. Memphis
TROY NANCE CAA PLAYER OF THE WEEKTroy Nance was named CAA Player of the Week on Dec. 17. He scored a career high18 points (14 in the second half) with 7 assists and four steals in the Monarchs 81-67victory over Coastal Carolina.
GAME TIME CHANGE:*The ODU-W&M game on Jan. 26 originally scheduled for 12 noon has been moved7 p.m. and will be televised on Comcast Sportsnet..
GREENE, THE FIRST TO GRADUATE : When Pierre Greene receives his diplomain May, he will be the first in his family to do so. The Senior guard Pierre Greene was selected to the CAA pre-season men's basketball All-CAA team by the league's head coaches and media in attendance at media day on Oct. 31 in Baltimore, MD. As a team, the Monarchs were picked to finish seventh.
WALK-ON'S:The Monarchs have two walk-ons in sophomore Andreas Themistocleous (Nicosia,Cyprus) and junior Samir Hickson (Collegeville, Pa.). Themistocoleous appeared in15 games last year, including a career high seven points against Taylor's Stanfordsquad in the Puerto Rico Shootout. Hickson got into the Coastal Carolina game.
MONARCHS IN THE FIELDHOUSE: 112-15
Last year, ODU was 6-1
UNCW has beaten ODU three times
BEST YEAR BY YEAR RECORDS IN THE FIELDHOUSE
14-0 in 1974-75 (Div. II National Champions)
11-0 in 1976-77 (First Div. I team/ NIT)
13-1 in 1975-76 (Div. II Final Four)
13-1 in 1973-74 (Div. II Regional Finals)
12-2 in 1970-71 (Div. II Championship Game)
GLOBAL SPECTRUM TO MANAGE CONSTANT CENTEROld Dominion University has selected the Philadelphia based firm Global Spectrumto manage the 8,600 seat Constant Convocation Center, which is slated to open in late fall of 2002. The highly regarded company provides management for public assemblyfacilities across the country, most notably the First Union Center, which is home to theNBA's Philadelphia 76ers, as well as facilities at Temple, South Carolina and RhodeIsland.
CENTER CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:
* General Contractor, S.B. Ballard is ahead of schedule
* Construction is over 55% complete.
* The arena roof long span trusses that will support a four-sided scoreboard With jumbo-tron video screens on each side have been installed.
* Installation of the sound attenuating arena steal roof decking has begun. This System will help improve the quality and clarity of the sound system.
* The building is expected to be completely weather tight by March.
DEFENSE14 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor.Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, the lowest since ODU held Americanto .259 shooting in 1996. The Hokies scored 19 points in the first half, the lowest since VMI was held to11 in 1982. ECU shot .333
When ODU Does the Following:
MONTUEWEDTHUFRISATSUN
3-01-10-20-10-15-10-1
Leading at Halftime: 7-4
Tied at Halftime: 0-1
Trailing at Halftime: 2-2
The Monarchs were 3-4 in December and 3-1 in November
Scoring: 51- 60 Points 3-0
61-70 Points: 2-5
71-80 Points: 3-2
81-90 Points: 1-0
90-100 Points: 0-0
Outrebounds Opponents: 7-2
Opponents Outrebounds ODU:2-5
MONARCHS SIGN TWO IN EARLY PERIODIsaiah Hunter, 6-3 G, Charlotte, NC., Independence High SchoolScored 32 points in a game last week and was named Scholastic Playerof the Week by the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER.
Janko Mrksic, 6-10, 250, C, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, bishop Ryan High School
MONARCH CAA STATISTICAL RANKINGS
Individual
Scoring:Marsh7th15.1
Wright8th13.4
FG PCT:Marsh4th.478
FT PCT: Wright6th.810
REBS: Marsh 8th6.7
ASST: Nance3rd4.6
Steals: Greene7th1.7
Nance9th1.6
Blocked Shots: McGowen4th1.3
Team
Scoring:6th67.8
FG PCT:7th.412
3PT FG:4th.336
Rebs:7th37.2
Scoring Def:4th66.3
FT PCT:3rd.715
FG PCT Def: 8th.421
3PT FG Def:4th.317
Assists:2nd14.7
Blocks4th4.8
Steals:3rd6.9
ALAN TREESE LEAVES OLD DOMINION6-8 Freshman forward Alan Treese (Delaware, OH.)will not return for the Spring semester. Treese played in no games this year.
BLAINE TAYLOR'S RADIO CALL IN SHOWEvery Thursday afternoon from 5-6 p.m. on ESPN 1310 radio withhost John Castleberry.... Fans can also e-mail questions to Taylor at www.odusports.com
MONARCH ASSISTANTSKenny Gattison (ODU'86) Sun Belt Conference All-Decade Team andLeague Player of the Year in 1986.
Larry Krystkowiak (Montana '86) Three-Time Big Sky Player of the Year andAcademic All-American. *Both played nine years in the NBA.
CAA TELECONFERENCE CALLBegins Tuesday Jan. 8. Blaine Taylor is on at 10:30...Call 888-935-0164..Membersof the media should contact Tripp Sheppard at the CAA office for the passwordto access the call.
CURRENT ALUMNI MONARCHS IN NBAMark West ('83) Assistant General Manager with Phoenix Suns(Played 17 years in the NBA)
Cal Bowdler ('99) In third season with Atlanta HawksCurrent Avg:3.9 ppg/ 3.1 rpg (14 pts at Phila./ 6 rebs vs. MIL.)Chris Gatling ('91) Now with the Miami Heat.
(NBA All-Star in 1997) current avg:7.5 ppg/ 4.5 rpgNOTE: Skipper Youngblood ('2000) is playing for Roanoke in the NBADevelopmental league
NEXT GAMEJan. 23 at UNC Wilmington 7:00 p.m.