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| You say goodbye, I say hello Michael Elbe is returning to Dubuque as head men's basketball coach. In an announcement almost as surprising as the one made six weeks before when Mike Elbe resigned, Dubuque athletic director Connie Bandy Hodge announced that Mike Elbe is returning.
Elbe, who had left U.D. for Rockingham Community College (N.C.), is happy to be back. "This past week convinced me I had made a mistake in my decision to leave. Professionally and personally, the University of Dubuque and the Dubuque community is the best place for me and my family."
Elbe's 1997-98 Spartan team compiled a 9-16 record. |
| Permalink | Jul 30, 1998 |
| | Zuver moves from Colorado College to Emory Brett Zuver, head men's basketball coach at Colorado College, has been appointed to the same position at Emory. Zuver spent the past four seasons there as head coach.
As the only Division III school in the state, Colorado College played a schedule composed primarily of scholarship schools. Among Zuver's coaching highlights at Colorado College were the school's first win ever against an NCAA Division I school and wins against an NCAA Division II team ranked in the top 20 nationally, the No. 2 ranked NCAA Division III team in the nation and an NAIA school ranked in the top five nationally.
At the time of Zuver's 1994 appointment, he was, at 24, the youngest head coach at any NCAA school in the country. At Emory, Zuver takes over a team that returns two starters from a squad that finished 14-11 last season. |
| Permalink | Jul 12, 1998 |
| | Fiore named Montclair State coach Ted Fiore, who led Division I St. Peter's to two NCAA Tournaments, was named head men's basketball coach at Montclair State. Fiore, who was 151-110 in nine seasons with the Peacocks, is the first full-time men's basketball coach in the school's history.
Last season Montclair State finished 16-12 and reached the ECAC Metro Region tournament finals under interim coach Darryl Jacobs. |
| Permalink | Jul 1, 1998 |
| | Most successful Plymouth State coach resigns Plymouth State men's coach Paul Hogan has resigned. A two-time Little East Conference Coach of the Year, Hogan will take over as athletic director at Spaulding High School in Rochester July 1.
"It was a very tough decision," said Hogan, "but it's always been a dream of mine to be an athletic director. Plymouth State has been wonderful, but I needed a full-time position, and with the PSC coaching job the only part-time post in New Hampshire and the Little East Conference, I had to make the move."
Hogan, the 1991 and 1998 LEC Coach of the Year, guided his teams to a 136-80 record for a school-best .630 winning percentage and five postseason appearances. |
| Permalink | Jun 20, 1998 |
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 The national champion Pioneers lose four seniors to graduation. |
UW-Platteville reloads with recruits The UW-Platteville men's basketball team, fresh off a 30-0 season and a Division III national championship, restocked its roster with nine in-state recruits, including six selected for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association all-star game.
Coach Bo Ryan announced the following recruits (in alphabetical order):
Mario Boyd: 6-2, guard, Whitefish Bay, 16 points, 6 rebounds per game ... helped lead Whitefish Bay to the North Shore Conference championship and its second state championship in three years ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
Tim Cummins: 6-0, guard, Cuba City, 16 points, 6 rebounds per game ... led Cuba City to the SWAL I Conference championship and the WIAA Division 3 state championship ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
Jeremy Harrison: 6-7, center, Plymouth, 15 points, 8 rebounds per game ... led the Panthers to the Eastern Wisconsin Conference championship and the sectional semifinals.
Kyle Kneser: 6-6, forward, Markesan, 20 points, 9.4 rebounds per game ... led the Hornets to the Flyway Conference championship and the state tournament for the second time in three years ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
Brian McAlister: 6-8, center, Mequon Homestead, 6.5 points, 5.4 rebounds per game ... helped the Highlanders to the North Shore Conference championship and the sectional semifinals.
Jeff Niesen: 6-3, guard, Kiel, 19 points, 7 rebounds per game ... three-time all-Eastern Wisconsin Conference first team ... led Raiders to their best finish since 1992.
Jerry Reaves: 6-4, forward, Whitefish Bay, 12.1 points, 6.3 rebounds per game ... helped lead the Blue Dukes to the North Shore Conference title and the WIAA Division 2 championship ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
Tyler Selk: 6-5, forward, Randolph ... 16.2 points and 7.6 rebounds per game ... led the Rockets to four consecutive undefeated Dual County Conference championships and the past three state title games, with championships in 1996 and 1998 ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
Bryan Stangel: 6-4, guard, Monroe ... 19.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game ... led Monroe to its first Badger Conference title in 31 years ... selected to play in the WBCA All-Star game.
The Pioneers have the best record in all college basketball in the 1990s at 236-25. They captured the last four Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and won national crowns in 1991, 1995 and 1998. |
| Permalink | Jun 15, 1998 |
| | ICAC settles on name change The Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference, facing the loss of conference members DePauw and Rose-Hulman, announced a new name to match its new membership. Effective immediately, the ICAC will be known as the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The name change was prompted by the addition of three Ohio schools, Bluffton, Mt. St. Joseph and Wilmington, bringing the HCAC to eight schools. All ICAC records will be carried forward.
No winner was announced in the renaming contest held by the ICAC; however, two people who submitted entries through D3hoops.com suggested the name eventually chosen. Congratulations to Todd Spurgeon (Wabash '96) and Doug Porterfield, a self-proclaimed Hampden-Sydney fan from the Washington, D.C., area.
Eight other entries that we passed along had some variation of the term Heartland in their title. |
| Permalink | Jun 15, 1998 |
| | Hopkins' Arnold wins Naismith award Johns Hopkins senior guard Angie Arnold received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith award, presented to the nation's top senior women's basketball player under 5-foot-6. Arnold is the second Johns Hopkins player to win the award, joining former teammate Amy Dodrill (1995) in making Hopkins the only school with two recipients.
Only three of the 15 winners of the award have come from non-Division I schools.
To earn the award, the recipient must demonstrate leadership, character, loyalty, all-around basketball ability, and excellence in the classroom. Arnold is the only player in school history, male or female, to score over 1,500 career points (1,803) and dish out over 500 assists (570). |
| Permalink | May 6, 1998 |
| | NESCAC to limit postseason play The New England Small College Athletic Conference presidents voted to become a full-playing conference over the next three seasons and, in the process, limit postseason play to the conference champion.
The NESCAC currently does not keep conference records or standings, and all members are free to accept at-large bids to the NCAA and ECAC tournaments. This action will eliminate ECAC postseason competition.
This season, the NESCAC sent four schools to the NCAA men's tournament. Under the new plan, Williams, which advanced to the Final Four, could not accept a postseason bid. For more details, read the full NESCAC press release courtesy Bates College. |
| Permalink | Apr 23, 1998 |
| | Wisconsin-Platteville wins title
 UW-Platteville celebrates its 1998 national championship. |
By Pat Coleman, D3hoops.com
SALEM, Va. – The nation's best defense showed up for all 40 minutes tonight as Wisconsin-Platteville finished its second undefeated season in the last four years, defeating Hope 69-56 in front of 3,915 at the Salem Civic Center.
The Pioneers (30-0) scored the first seven points of the game and 23 of the first 32 as they pressured Hope (26-5) into eight first-half turnovers.
"We felt it was a factor to get an early lead," said Platteville head coach Bo Ryan. "We knew if they got an early lead they could stretch it with the style they play. We wanted to get an early lead and hold on."
In all three championship bracket games, one team jumped out to a large early lead. Hope took a 13-2 lead in the semifinal game against Wilkes and coasted the rest of the way, while Williams had Platteville on the ropes early at 11-0 but couldn't hold the lead.
Hope battled back to cut the lead to 7-6 four minutes into the game on layups by Joel Holstege and Chris Vander Slice and a jumper by Dan Van Hekken, but the Pioneers took it back to a 14-point advantage by the midway point of the half. The Flying Dutchmen never got back within 11 points, despite 15 second-half turnovers and only nine field goals by Platteville.
Platteville's senior-laden backcourt was key to their success this season. Seniors Ben Hoffmann and Ryan Fuhrmann started, while Andre Dalton, the hero against Williams, came off the bench in all 27 of his appearances. Fuhrmann scored 10 in the title game, while Hoffmann and Dalton each scored nine.
The key to the Platteville offense, however, was sophomore guard Merrill Brunson. Brunson came off the bench to score 15 points in 16 minutes of action and led the Pioneers with six field goals in eight attempts. Brunson, who was Platteville's second-leading scorer during the season, had been held scoreless against Williams.
For Hope, it was another disappointment on championship Saturday. "Congratulations to Platteville on winning the championship," said head coach Glenn Van Wieren. "Right now we are feeling a lot of pain."
Senior guard Joel Holstege, who led Hope with 26 points and four assists, was happy his career ended in Salem. "It was a fun ride, that's the way I look at it now."
Notes: Holstege, Dalton, Wilkes' Dave Jannuzzi and Williams' Michael Nogelo were named to the All-Championship team, while Hoffmann was named Most Valuable Player. . . Williams won the third place game behind Nogelo's 38 points and 13 rebounds, defeating Wilkes 105-93. Nogelo's final point, a free throw with 24 seconds left, gave him 2,000 for his career. Jannuzzi had 32 points and eight assists for the Colonels. . . Neither team shot well from long range in the championship game – Platteville shot 4-for-16 from beyond the arc while Hope was 4-for-23. "How many times will Hope go 0-for-5 from three-point territory," asked Ryan, as they did in the first half. . . Platteville leads the nation in scoring defense, allowing opponents only 51.7 points per game.
D3hoops.com did live text play-by-play from this Final Four: National championship game First semifinal: Hope/Wilkes Second semifinal: UW-Platteville/Williams |
| Permalink | Mar 21, 1998 |
| | Nogelo, Moore win inaugural Jostens Trophy Williams's Michael Nogelo and Emory's Alicia Moore have been awarded the first annual Jostens Trophy. The awards were presented at the Rotary Club of Salem (Va.) on March 19.
Nogelo has averaged 21.9 points and 7.8 rebounds a game for the Final Four-bound Ephs. For her career, Moore averaged 13 points and nine rebounds led the team in each category for the third consecutive season. |
| Permalink | Mar 20, 1998 |
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