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2011-12 WOLVERINE BASKETBALL UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY Asst. A.D./Sports Information: Clint Burgi l Email) [email protected] l Office) 801-863-8644 l Cell) 801-362-1548 l Fax) 801-863-8813 2011-12 SCHEDULE GAME 2 November 11 Simpson Orem, Utah W, 80-53 vs UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON Cougars 14 at Houston Houston, Tex. 6pm 16 Grambling State Orem, Utah 7:05pm 19 UMKC ^ Orem, Utah 7:05pm Nov. 14, 2011 Radio: 960 AM The Zone 22 at Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. 6pm Hofheinz Pavilion (8,479) Live Stats: WolverineGreen.com 25 at Oakland Rochester, Mich. 5pm Houston, Texas Live Stream: UHCougars.com 28 Northern Illinois Orem, Utah 7:05pm 30 at Wyoming Laramie, Wyo. 7pm UVU FACES FIRST ROAD TEST AT HOUSTON December HOUSTON - Utah Valley will face its first road test of the season on Monday at the University of Houston 2 Haskell Orem, Utah 7:05pm at 7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT. The game can be heard live on 960 AM The Zone with Jim McCulloch on the play- 6 at Utah State Logan, Utah 7:05pm by-play and on WolverineGreen.com. 10 Portland State Orem, Utah 7:05pm The Wolverines (1-0) opened their 2011-12 season last Friday night in the UCCU Center with an 80-53 17 Georgia State Orem, Utah 7:05pm win over Simpson University behind 21 points from Isiah Williams and 18 points and 12 boards by Geddes 19 at Maine Orono, Maine 5pm Robinson. 22 at Montana Missoula, Mont. 7pm 29 vs. Hampton # Chattanooga, Tenn. 2:30pm The Cougars (1-0) scored an 88-42 win in their opener over Grambling State, which happens to be UVU’s 30 Chattanooga/Longwood # Chattanooga, Tenn. TBA opponent in Orem on Wednesday. All five UH starters reached double figures in the win. “Houston is a very athletic team that scores well from multiple positions,” said UVU head coach Dick Hunsa- January ker. “We are well-aware of the uphill battle we’ll be facing.” 3 Wyoming ^ Orem, Utah 7:05pm 7 Seattle Orem, Utah 7:05pm Monday’s matchup is the first meeting between the two clubs and Utah Valley’s first game against a school 13 at Seattle Seattle, Wash. 8:10pm from Conference USA. 16 Saint Mary Orem, Utah 7:05pm 21 North Dakota * Orem, Utah 7:05pm The Wolverines return home to host Grambling State on Wednesday on will cap the week with Saturday’s 26 Chicago State * Orem, Utah 7:05pm Homecoming Week game against UMKC. That game will air live on Fox College Sports nationwide. 28 NJIT * Orem, Utah 7:05pm TWO UVU HOME GAMES TO BE TELEVISED LIVE NATIONWIDE February For the first time in program history, Utah Valley University men’s basketball will have two home games 2 at Texas-Pan American * Edinburg, Tex. 6pm broadcast nationwide. The Nov. 19 Homecoming game against UMKC will air in 56 million homes across 4 at Houston Baptist * Houston, Tex. 6:05pm the country on Fox College Sports as will the Jan. 3 contest against Wyoming. Eight other home games will 9 at NJIT * Newark, N.J. 5pm air on FCS on tape-delay. 11 at Chicago State * Chicago, Ill. 1:05pm 13 Montana Tech Orem, Utah 7:05pm 23 Houston Baptist * Orem, Utah 7:05pm 2011-12 Utah Valley Basketball Roster 25 Texas-Pan American * Orem, Utah 7:05pm # NAME POS HT YR-Exp Hometown (High School/Previous) 03 at North Dakota * Grand Forks, N.D. 1pm 2 Isiah Williams G 6-1 Sr-1V Chicago, Illinois (Farragut HS/Eastern Utah) 3 Keawe Enos G 6-1 So-Tr Mesa, Arizona (Red Mountain HS/Mesa CC) Great West Conference Tournament 5 Kevin Woods G 6-1 Sr-3V Bloomington, Illinois (Chicago Leo Catholic HS) March 7-10 - Chicago, Ill. 12 Holton Hunsaker G 6-0 So-1V North Salt Lake City, Utah (Woods Cross HS) 15 Geddes Robinson F 6-5 Sr-1V Bronx, New York (God’s Academy HS/Western Nebraska) *Great West Conference game 20 Alfonzo Hubbard F 6-4 Jr-Tr Gallup, New Mexico (Gallup HS/Salt Lake CC) # Dr Pepper Classic (at Chattanooga) 24 Zach Jones F 6-8 Jr-1V Phoenix, Arizona (Arcadia HS/Central Arizona) ^ Televised Live on Fox College Sports 32 Taylor Brown G 6-5 So-1V Draper, Utah (Alta HS) 33 Keith Thompson F 6-6 Sr-1V Bellflower, California (Mayfair HS/Citrus College) 34 Ben Aird C 6-9 So-1V Bountiful, Utah (Bountiful HS) NO LONGER UTAH VALLEY STATE 42 Rory Fannon C 6-10 Sr-3V Milford, Auckland, New Zealand (Westlake Boys HS) 45 Will Sinclair C 6-8 Fr-HS Lilydale, Victoria, Australia (Lilydale Heights College) In 2008, Utah Valley officially became a university and dropped the word ‘state’ from its title. Head coach: Dick Hunsaker (10th season) Assistant Coaches: Mike Kelly (4th season), Steve Payne (2nd season), Paul Moss (2nd season) The official title of the school is Utah Valley University Director of Basketball Ops: Rob Goodrow (1st Season) (UVU). Not Utah Valley State University or UVSU. Wolverine.Green.com 1 2011-12 WOLVERINE BASKETBALL UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY WILLIAMS HEADLINES FOUR TO RECEIVE PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE UVU’s Record When... As the 2011-12 college basketball season gets underway, Utah Valley’s Isiah Williams has been selected by the GWC coaches to repeat as Great West Conference Player of the Year in 2011-12. Overall 1-0 Home 1-0 Sophomore Ben Aird was selected along with Williams on the first team while two other Wolverines, Road 0-0 Holton Hunsaker and Geddes Robinson, were picked to the second team. Great West Conference 0-0 Williams, a senior guard from Chicago, Ill., was named 2010-11 GWC Player of the Year after a stellar season, averaging 17.5 points per game and leading the Wolverines to the Great West Leading at Half 1-0 Conference championship. In addition, Williams was also the GWC Newcomer of the Year and Trailing at Half 0-0 became Utah Valley’s first basketball All-America honoree when he was named honorable mention Tied at Half 0-0 All-America by the Associated Press. Overtime 0-0 Also on the first team are Aird, who was a 2010-11 second-team all-GWC honoree, North Dakota’s UVU Outrebounds Opponent 1-0 Troy Huff, also a second-team selection last season as a freshman, and NJIT’s Chris Flores and Isaiah Wilkerson. Opponent Outrebounds UVU 0-0 Rebounds are Equal 0-0 Second-team honorees include Hunsaker, Robinson - who led the league in rebounding with 9.4 rpg - UND’s Patrick Mitchell, Chicago State’s Jeremy Robinson and Texas-Pan American’s Brandon Provost UVU Has Higher Shooting % 1-0 and Aaron Urbanus. Opp. Has Higher Shooting % 0-0 UVU Has Fewer Turnovers Than Opp. 1-0 UVU Has More Turnovers Than Opp. 0-0 UVU MEN’S BASKETBALL HAS NEW RADIO HOME Turnovers are Equal 0-0 UVU basketball is now in The Zone. Utah Valley University Athletics and Utah’s Sports Radio Network - 97.5 FM/1280 AM/960 AM - The Zone have reached an agreement to Games Decided by 3 Points or Less 0-0 broadcast Wolverine men’s basketball games. Games Decided by 4-9 Points 0-0 Games Decided by 10-19 0-0 Beginning with Friday’s season-opener, all UVU basketball games will be carried live on Games Decided by 20-29 Points 1-0 960 AM The Zone. Games Decided by 30 Points or More 0-0 “Having our games broadcast to a wider audience, on an all-sports station has been a Scores 59 Points or Less 0-0 priority for UVU athletics and we’re pleased that we’ll now be on The Zone,” said UVU Scores 60-69 Points 0-0 director of athletics Mike Jacobsen. Scores 70-79 Points 0-0 Scores 80-89 Points 1-0 WILLIAMS IS FIRST UVU MBB ALL-AMERICAN Scores 90-99 Points 0-0 After leading Utah Valley University to the Great West Conference Championship and Scores 100 Points or More 0-0 earning himself the GWC Player of the Year award, Isiah Williams added All-American to his list of accolades when he was named honorable mention All-America by the Associ- Opponent Scores 59 Points or Less 1-0 ated Press on Monday. Opponent Scores 60-69 Points 0-0 Opponent Scores 70-79 Points 0-0 Williams averaged 17.4 points per game in his first year at UVU, receiving the honor Opponent Scores 80-89 Points 0-0 after the Wolverines went 19-11 overall and 11-1 in conference play. The 19 wins are Opponent Scores 90-99 Points 0-0 the school’s highest win total since the 2006-07 team won 22 games. Opponent Scores 100 Points or More 0-0 He upped his season average to 18.8 points per game during Great West games and November 1-0 earned the Player of the Week award on Feb. 7 after scoring a career-high 33 in a win December 0-0 at Texas-Pan American. January 0-0 February 0-0 The junior guard was also named to the Great West’s All-Conference first team and March 0-0 received the league’s Newcomer of the Year award. Williams is the first men’s basketball All-American in Utah Valley’s young NCAA Division I history and the fourth UVU athlete, in Monday 0-0 any sport, to garner the honor. Tuesday 0-0 Wednesday 0-0 Thursday 0-0 Friday 1-0 Saturday 0-0 Wearing White 1-0 Wearing Green 0-0 Wearing Black 0-0 Wearing Pink 0-0 Wolverine.Green.com 2 2011-12 WOLVERINE BASKETBALL UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-GAME SCHOOL RECORDS WOLVERINES PICKED TO REPEAT Defending Great West Conference champion Utah Valley has been selected by the POINTS Ryan Toolson, 63 at Chicago State (Jan.