Knights Basketball 2013-14 Postseason Media Guide
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2013-14 Bellarmine Men’s Basketball KNIGHTS BASKETBALL 2013-14 POSTSEASON MEDIA GUIDE Bellarmine Seniors Vance Keisten Hall Jones Table of Contents, Fast Facts 2013-14 Team Roster Radio Chart 2 BELLARMINE FAST FACTS Bellarmine Fast Facts 3 Name: Bellarmine University 2013-14 Roster 4 Location: Louisville, KY Coaching Staff 5 Founded: 1950 Player Profiles 6-17 Enrollment: 3,422 (Fall 2013) 2012-13 Statistics 19 President: Dr. Joseph J. McGowan GLVC Information 20 Director of Athletics: Scott Wiegandt All-Time Series Results 21 Nickname: Knights Individual Records 22-23 Colors: Scarlet and Silver Bellarmine Honors 24 Affiliation: NCAA Division II NCAA Tournament Records 25 Conference: Great Lakes Valley All Time Results 26-29 Home Arena: Knights Hall Bellarmine Leadership 30 Capacity: 2,196 Bellarmine Athletics Staff 31 Athletic Department Phone: 502-272-8380 Athletics Facilities 32 Athletics FAX line: 502-272-8450 Bellarmine University and Louisville, KY 33 Mailing Address: 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205 Athletics offerings There are 21 varsity sports at Bellarmine, all competing at Athletics AdministratioN the NCAA Division II level, except men’s lacrosse, which Athletics Director, Scott Wiegandt 502.272.8496 plays at the NCAA Division I level in the Eastern College Associate Athletics Director, Pam Stackhouse 502.272.8408 Athletic Conference. With the exception of women’s field Office Manager, Linda Burt 502.272.8381 hockey, which is independent, the remaining sports teams Athletics Secretary, Traci Siemens 502.272.8380 Sports Information Director, John Spugnardi 502.272.8078 compete in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Those teams Cell phone 502.905.0922 include: men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, golf, Director, Athletics Events Management, soccer, tennis, track (indoor and outdoor), tennis, women’s Patrick Crush 502.272.8078 volleyball, softball and baseball. Head Coaches Men’S basketball historical datA No. NAME PoS. YR. HT. WT. HoMEToWN HIGH SCHOOL (PREV. CoLL.) Baseball, Larry Owens 502.452.8278 First Year of Men’s Basketball: 1950 3 Tanner Gibson Guard So. 6-2 195 Zanesville, Ohio Zanesville (Albany) Basketball-Men, Scott Davenport 502.272.8383 Basketball-Women, Chancellor Dugan 502.272.8382 Overall All-Time Record: 927-763 4 George Suggs Forward So. 6-10 210 St. Louis, Mo. Vianney Cross Country-Men & Women, Jim Vargo 502.272.8042 NCAA Appearances: 14 5 Rusty Troutman Guard Fr. 6-5 190 Mt. Washington, Ky. Bullitt East Cross Country-Women/Distance Kris Horton 502.272.8380 Last NCAA Postseason Appearance: 2013 10 Corbin Maynard Guard Jr. 5-11 170 Louisville, Ky. DeSales Field Hockey, Mark Blankebaker 502.272.8380 NCAA Tournament Record: 20-17 Golf-Men, Ernie Denham 502.272.8380 NCAA National Championships: 1 (2011) 11 Michael Parrish Guard So. 5-8 130 Louisville, Ky. Fern Creek Golf-Women, Art Henry 502.272.8380 Lacrosse, Kevin Burns 502.272.8397 12 Jake Thelen Forward Jr. 6-6 215 Edgewood, Ky. Covington Catholic (Spring Hill College) Soccer-Men’s, Tim Chastonay 502.272.8043 Men’S Basketball Coaching Staff InformatioN 14 Josh Stoner Guard Fr. 6-1 170 Louisville, Ky. Male Soccer-Women’s, Jonathan Velotta 502.272.8106 Head Coach: Scott Davenport 15 Donnie Hale Forward R-So. 6-8 221 New Albany, Ind. New Albany (Purdue) Softball-Renee Hicks 502.272.8041 Alma Mater: University of Louisville Swimming, Men’s & Womens, John Brucato 502.272.7727 School Record (Yrs.): 201-77 (9) 20 George Knott Forward Fr. 6-5 190 New Albany, Ind. Providence Tennis - Men’s & Women’s, John Mican 502.272.8380 21 Vance Hall Guard Sr. 6-4 190 Frankfort, Ky. Franklin County (Wright State) Track & Field - Men & Women, Jim Vargo 502.272.8042 Career Record (Yrs.): 201-77 (9) Volleyball, Jenni Grzebin 502.272.8380 Office Phone: 502-272-8383 22 Billy Edelen Guard So. 6-2 180 Clarksville, Ind. Clarksville Email: [email protected] 23 Keisten Jones Guard Sr. 6-3 195 Louisville, Ky. Ballard Assistant Coaches: Drew Cooper, Michael Scott, and Reece other Contact InformatioN 24 Nick Fredrick Guard Fr. 5-11 150 Cincinnati, Ohio Covington Catholic Sports Information e-mail: [email protected] Gaines 25 Max Clemons Guard So. 6-4 205 Louisville, Ky. Pleasure Ridge Park Athletics Website: BUKnights.com MEdIA INFoRMATIoN 31 Tyler Landry Forward Fr. 6-6 205 Radcliff, Ky. North Hardin For information regarding media passes and seating location 32 Christian Meyer Forward Jr. 6-6 205 New Albany, Ind. New Albany for the media, please contact the sports information office at 33 Stevie Loveless Forward R-Sr. 6-6 195 Frankfort, Ind. Frankfort (Purdue) 502.272.8078. 42 Josh Derksen Forward Fr. 6-9 220 Toowoomba, Australia Centenary Heights State Interviews with coaches can be set up through the sports Head Coach: Scott Davenport information office or by calling the coaches directly. To arrange an interview with a student-athlete, media should Assistant Coaches: Damien Anderson, Michael Scott, Reece Gaines contact the sports information office to set up a time. Team Managers: Mack Van Lenten, Austin Galloway Team Trainers: Brad Bluestone Knights Hall is equipped with wireless capability. Phone lines SPorts Performance: Steve Hartman for electronic transmissions are available on request. TEAM PASToR: Fr. Dale Cieslik 2 • www.BUKnights.com 2013-14 Bellarmine Men’s Basketball • 3 Coaching Staff Player Profiles-Seniors Head Coach - Scott Davenport Assistant Coach - Michael Scott On April 29, 2005, Scott Davenport became the Michael Scott enters his eighth season as a member of 21 • VANCE HALL 11th coach in Bellarmine’s history, and in six years the Bellarmine men’s basketball community. Starting as took Bellarmine all the way to the top by leading a freshman undergraduate in the fall of 2005, he has been 6-4 • Senior • Guard • Frankfort, Ky. • Franklin County High School / Wright State the Knights to the 2011 NCAA Division II National with Coach Scott Davenport every step of the way during Major: Business Administration • Parents: Mike and Kim Hall Championship. For his efforts, he was named national Davenport’s tenure at Bellarmine. This season, Scott will assist in all aspects of the program, including recruiting, coach of the year by two different organizations: the 2013-14: Came on late in the season to up State (11/17)…Has led or shared the lead National Association of Basketball Coaches and the scouting, film exchange, team academics, summer camps Division II Bulletin. and player development. On the floor, Scott will work primarily with guard his averages to 14.5 points and 4.73 assists in scoring in 12 games during the sea- development and team offense. and 4.7 rebounds per game…recorded son…Had six games of 20 or more points. In his debut season, Davenport—who The previous three seasons Scott served on the coaching staff while pursuing three double-doubles on the season, doing inherited a team program that had finished last a graduate degree at Bellarmine. During that time, he assisted in all aspects of it with points and assists once and points 2011-12 (Wright State): Starter for three program administration, helped the program obtain the National Championship in the Great Lakes Valley Conference the year be- and rebounds twice…recorded a career- of four games on Italy trip...started at fore—led his troops to BU’s first .500 finish since 2001, and the first conference in 2011, and graduated with his MBA in December of 2011. As a Bellarmine undergrad, Scott headed up all managerial duties for the men’s basketball high 28 points against Fairmont State and Ohio State...eight points vs Kenyon and tournament appearance since 2002. The following year Davenport’s charges went program and earned his BA in business administration in 2009. repeated that performance against William North Florida...10 points vs Cincinnati... 12-15, which included three losses in the NABC Classic at Freedom Hall against A native of South Bend, Ind., Scott is a graduate of Trinity School at NCAA Division I opponents Louisville, Ohio, and Saint Joseph’s. Improvement Jewell in the opening round of the GLVC off the bench for 13 vs C Michigan...three Greenlawn, where he was a three year varsity starter in basketball. Scott is tourney…selected to the GLVC All-Tour- threes at Loyola...missed games due to continued in 2007-08 as Coach Davenport and the Knights once again finished single and resides in Louisville. with a winning record at 17-11 and returned to the GLVC Tourney where they nament Team…named GLVC Player of concussion...13 vs Milwaukee...played in lost in the first round to eventual champion Drury. Assistant Coach - Reece Gaines the Week on 2/24/14. 30 games and started 17...averaged 20.2 minutes...hit 23 threes...shot .806 from the In the 2008-09 season, Davenport led 2012-13: Started all 26 games during the line. Collegiate Head the Knights to one of the best seasons Reece Gaines began his tenure as an assistant coach at Bellarmine in the fall of 2012. He assists in all aspects of Coaching Record in Bellarmine basketball history, setting season, leading the team in scoring (15.4 the program, including recruiting, scouting, film exchange ppg), three-point percentage (47.7%), free 2010-11 (Wright State): Missed games due 2012-13 Bellarmine 24-8 school records for most wins in a season, and player development. 2011-12 Bellarmine 29-4 most games played and highest in-season Gaines was a four year starter at the University of Lou- throw percentage (90.4%) and minutes to achilles injury...saw time vs Air Force... 2010-11 Bellarmine 33-2 national ranking. His 26-7 Knights made it isville from 1999-2003, where current Bellarmine head played (31.7 mpg)…First Team All-GLVC four points in 14 minutes vs Green Bay..