Volume 27, Number 14 April 2018

Page 2 Ferris State Matches Division II Win Record (38), Editorial Captures 2018 National Championship Page 3 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — and forth with FSU grabbing throws while making three- capped a six-point advantage with of-eight (37.5%) three’s in Player of the Year off a historic campaign as the 18:12 to go in the game before the triumph. Bulldogs claimed the school’s the Wolves responded in the Northern State, which Page 4 first NCAA Division II na- second-ever series matchup. closed the year with a 36-4 tional championship with a Down the stretch, the two mark, was led by Carter Ev- All-Americans 71-69 win over Northern State teams traded advantages ans’ game-high 20 points. (S.D.) before a sold out crowd before the Bulldogs finally The Bulldogs were out- Page 5 inside the Sanford Pentagon surged in front in the closing rebounded 33-27 for the day. SNA Sports Coach on Saturday. of the Year The Bulldogs won the championship title and also matched the all-time NCAA Division II record with their 38th win of the year, tying Winona State (Minn.) for the most victories in a single- campaign in Division II bas- ketball history. Ferris State finished with a 38-1 overall record and won its last 26 games in a row to close the year. The Bulldogs fell behind early by seven points in the minute. A last-second try from Ferris State became only opening half, but rallied back Northern State fell short and the second Great Lakes In- to take a 39-37 halftime lead. the Bulldogs secured the re- tercollegiate Athletic Confer- The second half went back bound to pull out the victory. ence (GLIAC) school ever to www.smallcollegehoops.com Junior center Zach Hankins win a national championship led the way for FSU with a in men’s , joining News Wire — 4/1/18 team-high 19 points while Findlay’s unbeaten 2009 team earning NCAA Division II in the record books. FSU also • Ferris State wins 2018 national title. Page 1. Elite Eight Most Oustanding matched Winona State’s all- Player honors. time wins record with their • Zach Hankins headlines 2018 DIIB All-American The Bulldogs also got 12 38th triumph of the year. teams. Page 4. points from senior wing Peter The national championship Firlik. is the first one ever for a Fer- • named 2018 SNA Sports Coach of Overall, Ferris State shot ris State University athletics the Year. Page 5. 47.3 percent for the day and squad in NCAA Division II hit 16-of-22 (72.7%) free competition. 1 Division II Bulletin • April 2018 Editorial

A Season to Remember Well, that was a fast season. The 2017- to Division II coaches. 18 men’s season is in The SNA Sports Coach of the Month the books and it seems like we just put and Coach of the Year honors continue to out our Preseason Preview. grow in prestige. The company is eager to Editor & Publisher After 27 years the seasons start to further support Division II coaches, and Gary S. Rubin go pretty quickly. Overall, it was a the president, Jim Peterson, personally ■ memorable year with a number of teams kept his tradition of calling this year’s Art Director outperforming expectations and when it winner, Ferris State’s Andy Bronkema. Steve Fisher came to the tournament, it was fantastic. SNA Sports is a first class company, We had close games, we had drama and so please give it a call if you need new [email protected] we had a strong Elite Eight that gave basketball goals or equipment. us a new champion that won 38 games Finally, thank you for supporting us Send all correspondence and edito- this season. It was also the first time the this season. We hope you received all the rial submissions to above address. Not men’s and women’s Elite Eight tourna- information you needed to stay on top of responsible for unreturned material. ments were held in the same location. the Division II landscape. Editorial deadline is the 20th of the I thought this was a fantastic initiative Have a great summer and we look preceeding publishing month. and it added an air of excitement to the forward to seeing you in October. championships. Division II Bulletin is published 14 Looking back on our campaign, the Gary Rubin times from October to April by GSR 27th in our publishing life, it was one of Editor & Publisher Communications with e-mail updates our best years: our readership continued between issues. Subscription price: $52 to grow; every week from January to the for 14 issues. © Copyright 2018 by GSR end of the campaign Communications. you had a new re- port in your e-mail; www.smallcollegehoops.com and our social me- Twitter: @SmallColHoops dia interaction was strong, particularly in October with our Preseason Issue. Now, to this sea- son. Congratula- tions to all of this year’s tournament Publishing Schedule teams, and to the coaches who put in ❍ Preseason Preview so much time and ❍ November 29 effort this season ❍ December 6 to make their teams ❍ December 20 better. It was a great ❍ tournament. January 3 Our Player of the ❍ January 10 Year is Zach Han- ❍ January 17 kins of Ferris State. ❍ January 24 He had an incred- ❍ February 1 ible junior year and ❍ led his team to a February 7 national title. ❍ February 14 Our corporate ❍ February 21 partners provided ❍ March 1 strong support this ● Postseason Review season. SNA Sports and Molten showed their commitments

2 Division II Bulletin • April 2018 Player of the Year

Ferris State’s Hankins Named 2018 DIIB Player of the Year

2017-18 Player of the Year

Player of the Year Hankins’ Stat Sheet 2017-18 Points 14.9 Rebounds 9.9 FG% 63.4

2017-18 Awards GLIAC Player of the Year DIIB 1st Team All-American NABC Player of the Year

Ferris State junior center Zach Hankins has been named the 2018 Division II Bulletin Player of the Year. Hankins helped lead the Bulldogs to a second consecutive Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) regular-season championship, a fourth-straight league tour- nament title, the school’s second-ever regional crown and a national championship. Hankins has paced the Bulldogs in scoring (14.9) and re- bounding (9.9) while also leading the conference in rebound- ing, field goal percentage and blocked shots. He compiled 31 double-figure scoring efforts for the Bulldogs and ranked among the national leaders in several statistical categories. The standout center also was tabbed as the GLIAC Player of the Year for the second year in a row and was the Elite Eight Most Outstanding Player recipient. Zach Hankins Hankins headlines the DIIB All-Americans, where he is Ferris State joined on the first team by from Northwest Mis- souri, Daeshon Francis of UT Permian Basin, Justin Reyes of St. Thomas Aquinas and David Chavlovich from West Texas A&M. Division II Bulletin has named a Player of the Year every year since the 1991-92 season.

3 Division II Bulletin • April 2018 All-Americans

All-Freshman Team Phoenix Shackelford Cal Poly Pomona Zaccheus Hobbs Elizabeth City State Jake Van Tubbergen Grand Valley State Curtis Lewis Rockhurst Tyree Boykin Union 2018 All-Americans Gaige Prim West Texas A&M Ulyen Coleman So. Connecticut Jordan Thomas College Michael Glen Colorado Mines Player of the Year Max Miller Newberry Zach Hankins

Ferris State Honorable Mention Corey Taite, Goldey-Beacom, Jr. Robert Davis III, J.C. Smith, Sr. Jordan Floyd, King, Jr. Jhonathan Dunn, So. Nazarene, Soph. 2018 Division II Bulletin All-Americans DaVaunta Thomas, UA Fort Smith, Sr. Ethan Alvano, CSU San Marcos, Sr. First Team Dayon Goodman, Westminster, Sr. Justin Pitts Northwest Missouri Senior Guard Keyshawn Liggins, Edinboro, Jr. Zach Hankins Ferris State Junior Center Dan Monteroso, West Liberty, Sr. Daeshon Francis UT Permian Basin Senior Guard Adam Dieball, Christian Bros., Jr. Justin Reyes St. Thomas Aquinas Senior Forward Gage Davis, St. Cloud St., Jr. David Chavlovich West Texas A&M Senior Guard Ryan Richmond, Bentley, Jr. Adam Eberhard, Bellarmine, Jr. Second Team Darryl Tucker, West Florida, Sr. Tanner Omlid Western Oregon Senior Forward Chris Walters, So. NH, Sr. Beau Justice Valdosta State Junior Guard CJ Carr, Mo. Southern, Sr. Tyler Rudolph Minot State Senior Forward Kyle Monroe, Michigan Tech, Jr. Lincoln Memorial Senior Forward Charles Clark, Carson-Newman, Sr. Dustin Sleva Shippensburg Senior Forward Tommy Bolte, Concord, Jr. Luke Chavez, St. Martin’s, Jr. Third Team Akaemji Williams, Lake Superior, Sr. Todd Withers Queens (NC) Senior Forward Brady Skeens, Washburn, Sr. Taren Sullivan Findlay Senior Forward Juvaris Hayes, Merrimack, So. Haywood Highsmith Wheeling Jesuit Senior Forward Christian Oshita, UC San Diego, Jr. Tim Guers St. Anselm Senior Guard Ryan Bruggeman, SW Minn., Jr. Tyrius Walker Morehouse Senior Guard Patrick Burke, Dallas Baptist, Sr. Wendall Davis, Ashland, Sr. Fourth Team Drushaun McLaurn, Eckerd, Jr. Detrek Browning Francis Marion Senior Guard Rasmus Bach, Fort Lewis, Sr. Nolan Berry Maryville Senior Center Dorian Pinson, Lincoln Mem., Sr. Trevor Hill Dixie State Senior Guard Kalidou Diouf, Cal Baptist, Sr. Anthony Glover Indiana (PA) Senior Guard Alex Stein, Southern Indiana, Jr. Elvar Fridriksson Barry Senior Guard Sam Daniel, Florida Tech, Sr. Niksha Federico, Hawaii Pacific, Sr. Micah Till, Slippery Rock, So.

4 Division II Bulletin • April 2018 Coach of the Year

Conference Coaches of the Year CCAA Bronkema Captures 2018 Greg Kamansky, Cal Poly Pomona CACC SNA Sports/DIIB Gerald Holmes, Bloomfield CIAA Coach of the Year Award Lonnie Blow Jr., Virginia State Conference Carolinas Steve Hardin, Lees-McRae

East Coast Mike Ruane, Bridgeport

Great American Adam Bohac, Southern Nazarene

GLIAC Andy Bronkema, Ferris State

GLVC Ferris State University head coach , Bellarmine Andy Bronkema has been named the 2018 SNA Sports/Division II Bulletin GMAC Charlie Ernst, Findlay Coach of the Year. Bronkema guided his Bulldogs to a GNAC 38-1 record, matching the all-time Divi- Jim Shaw, Western Oregon sion II mark, en route to the 2018 NCAA Gulf South Division II national championship. Jeff Burkhamer, West Florida Division II Bulletin has named a Heartland Coach of the Year every season since RJ Allen, Newman 1991-92. Bronkema is the second coach from the GLIAC to win the honor and 2018 Coach of the Year Lone Star Tom Brown, West Texas A&M first since 2009. Andy Bronkema, Ferris State “All college basketball coaches are to MIAA be commended for their tireless devo- DIIB Coaches of the Year , Missouri Southern tion and sacrifices this season. Winning 1992-Jim Thorson, South Dakota St. Mountain East the national championship takes an 1993-, Cal St. Bakersfield Ben Howlett, West Liberty outstanding effort from the first day of 1994-Stan Spirou, N.H College 1995-Ken Shields, Northern Kentucky NE-10 practice to the final buzzer,” said Jim 1996-Gary Garner, Fort Hays St. Patrick Beilein, Le Moyne Peterson, president of SNA Sports, a 1997-Jeff Price, Lynn leading basketball goal and equipment NSIC 1998-Bob Williams, UC Davis Paul Sather, Northern State manufacturer. “SNA Sports is proud 1999-, Kentucky Wesleyan to partner with Division II Bulletin 2000-Robert Corn, Missouri Southern PacWest to recognize Andy Bronkema and all 2001-Ray Harper, Kentucky Wesleyan Jon Judkins, Dixie State of the Division II college basketball 2002-, Metropolitan State Peach Belt coaches.” 2003-Larry Gipson, Northeastern State Jimmy Link, Clayton State 2004-, Kennesaw State 2005-Jay Lawson, Bentley PSAC 2006-, Winona State W - Pat Cleary, Edinboro E - Jeff Wilson, East Stroudsburg 2007-Ron Lievense, Barton 2008-Mike Leaf, Winona State RMAC 2009-Ron Niekamp, Findlay Norm Parrish, Westminster 2010-Greg Kamansky, Cal Poly Pomona 2011-Scott Davenport, Bellarmine SAC Joe Schertz, Lincoln Memorial 2012-Brad Jackson, W. Washington 2013-Derrick Clark, Metro State SIAC 2014-Kim Anderson, C. Missouri Grady Brewer, Morehouse 2015-, Florida Southern 2016-, Augustana Sunshine State Butch Estes, Barry 2017-Ben McCollum, NW Missouri

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