2018 Sun Belt Men's Basketball Championship
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Yearly Statistics 60-61 Table of Contents 1 Year-By-Results 62-71 Quick Facts 2 All-Time Results 72 All-Time Conference Stadnings 73-79 COACHES AND STAFF All-Time Letterwinners 80-81 Head Coach Brian Boyer 3-7 All-Time Numbers 82-83 Assistant Coach Autumn Rademacher 8 Assistant Coach Deidra Johnson 9 HISTORY Assistant Coach Aundrea Gamble 10 Individual Awards & Honors 84-86 Support Staff 11 Red Wolves in the Pros 87 Conference Championships 88 2016-17 RED WOLVES Conference Tournament 89-90 Roster 12 NWIT Championship 90 Returning Players 13-21 NWIT/WNIT 91-97 Newcomers 22-24 Postseason 98 Game-by-Game Career Stats 25-27 Hall of Honor 99-102 2017 SBC SCHEDULE MEDIA Composite Schedule 28 First National Bank Arena 103 Locker Room/Practice Facility 104-105 2016-17 REVIEW Athletics Performance 106 Final Notebook 29 Academics Commitment 107 Results 30 Athletics Facilities 108 Box Scores 31-38 Arkansas State University 109-110 Season Stats 39-41 Jonesboro 111 Sun Belt Conference Recap 42 ASU Administration 112 System President Dr. Charles Welch 113 RECORDS Chancellor Dr. Kelly Damphousse 114 1,000 Point Scorers 43-45 Director of Athletics Terry Mohajir 115-116 Scoring 46-47 Athletics Department Directory 117 Field Goal 48-49 Media Relations 118-119 3-Point 50-51 Media Outlets 120 Free Throws 52 CREDITS Rebounding 53 The 2017-18 Arkansas State Women's Basketball Media Guide is a production of the A-State Athletics Media Relations Office. Assists 54 Written, compiled and edited by Assistant Director of Media Relations, Chris Graddy. Cover design by Arkansas State Univer- Steals/Blocks 55 sity Media Services. Editorial assistance from Media Relations Director Jerry Scott and Assistant Directors Mark Taylor and First National Bank Arena 56-58 Dennen Cuthbertson. Photos courtesy of Nelson Chenault, Bob Harris, Joey Glaub, Hannah Dolle, Justin Manning, Jonesboro Coaches 59 Sun, Sun Belt Conference and A-State Media Relations Office. 2017-18 ARKANSAS STATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL REFERENCE GUIDE 1 UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION 2017-18 SCHEDULE Location Jonesboro, Ark. Date Opponent Time Enrollment 14,085 Nov. 2 UA Monticello# 7:00 p.m. Nov. 7 Lyon College# 7:00 p.m. Founded 1909 Nov. 11 at Indiana 1:00 p.m. Nickname Red Wolves Nov. 14 at Florida 6:00 p.m. Colors Scarlet & Black Nov. 17 at South Florida 6:00 p.m. President Dr. Charles Welch Nov. 21 UT Martin 7:00 p.m. Nov. 25 at Pittsburgh 6:00 p.m. Chancellor Dr. Kelly Damphousse Nov. 30 Tennessee State 7:00 p.m. Athletics Director Terry Mohajir Dec. 2 at Ole Miss 3:00 p.m. Department Phone (870) 972-3880 Dec. 5 UTEP 5:00 p.m. Conference Sun Belt Dec. 14 Belmont 11:30 a.m. Arena (Capacity) First National Bank Arena (10,563) Dec. 16 Grambling State 7:00 p.m. Dec. 22 at Tulsa 1:00 p.m. Press Row Phone (870) 972-2541 Dec. 29 UL Monroe* 5:00 p.m. Ticket Office Phone (870) 972-2781 Dec. 31 Louisiana* 1:00 p.m. Jan. 4 at Georgia Southern* 4:00 p.m. COACHING STAFF Jan. 6 at Georgia State* 11:00 a.m. Jan. 11 Texas State* 5:00 p.m. Head Coach Brian Boyer (Missouri Western, 1993) Jan. 13 UT Arlington* 3:00 p.m. A-State Record/Years 306-254/18 Jan. 20 at Little Rock* 2:00 p.m. Career Record/Years Same Jan. 25 at Coastal Carolina* 4:00 p.m. Assistant Coach Autumn Rademacher (Detroit Mercy, 1997) Jan. 27 at Appalachian State* Noon Assistant Coach Deidra Johnson (Oklahoma State, 2004) Feb. 1 Georgia State* 5:00 p.m. Feb. 3 Georgia Southern* 3:00 p.m. Assistant Coach Aundrea Gamble (Arkansas State, 2016) Feb. 8 at Troy* 5:00 p.m. Director of Basketball Operations Adam Marso Feb. 10 at South Alabama* 1:00 p.m. Athletic Trainer Simone Rush Feb. 17 Little ock*R 3:00 p.m. Strength & Conditioning TBA Feb. 22 Appalachian State* 5:00 p.m. Feb. 24 Coastal Carolina* 3:00 p.m. March 1 at Louisiana* 5:00 p.m. MEDIA RELATIONS March 3 at UL Monroe* Noon Assistant Director/MBB Contact Chris Graddy March 6-11 SBC Tournament TBD Office Phone (870) 972-2707 Cell Phone (870) 340-7836 * - Denotes Sun Belt Conference Game # - Exhibition ^ - South Point Shootout Office Fax (870) 972-3367 Game times are Central Standard Time and subject to change E-mail [email protected] Mailing Address 217 Olympic Drive Jonesboro, AR 72401 WWW.ASTATEREDWOLVES.COM Radio Network EAB Red Wolves Sports Network Contact Person Keith Merritt Phone (870) 273-9727 TEAM INFORMATION 2016-17 Overall Record 7-25 2016-17 Home Record 5-7 2016-17 Away Record 0-15 2016-17 Neutral Record 2-3 2016-17 SBC Record/Finish 4-14/11th 2016-17 SBC Home Record 4-5 2016-17 SBC Away Record 0-9 Final 2017 Ranking N/A Returning Starters 3 Letterwinners Returning 7 (3G, 4 F) Letterwinners Lost 5 (3G, 2F) Newcomers 6 (4G, 2F) PROGRAM HISTORY First Season of Competition 1974-75 All-Time Record (42 seasons) 687-713 FOLLOW A-STATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA All-Time Sun Belt Record (25 seasons) 239-163 Arkansas State athletics can be followed through the social NCAA Appearances 0 media networks of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. You can WNIT Apperances 10 (Last: 2015-16) follow A-State on Twitter through both @AStateRedWolves Best WNIT Finish Champions - 1993 and @AStateGameDay. Fans can become friends of A-State on Facebook by going to Facebook.com/AStateRedWolves. 2 THREE-TIME SUN BELT CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS | 11 POSTSEASON APPEARANCES HEAD COACH Brian Boyer Head Coach • Nineteenth Season One of the most recognizable names and Perhaps the most historic season in school faces in the Sun Belt Conference and women’s history, the 2015-16 campaign saw the Red college basketball, Brian Boyer has built an Wolves set school records in victories (27), illustrious career highlighted by countless mile- consecutive wins (18), field goal percentage stones, including becoming the all-time wins (45.0), scoring margin (14.5) and tie the mark leader in the SBC. for most home victories (14) in a season. The In his 18 years on the sidelines, Boyer squad shattered the mark for regular season was the primary architect in transforming the wins with 25 and won its second regular season Arkansas State women’s program into a model SBC championships since 2013-14. The team of consistency since taking over in 1999 and received national recognition for its accom- guiding the team to an appearance in the Wom- plishments and was ranked in the top-10 of en’s National Invitation Tournament. He has the College Insider and ESPN Mid-Major polls coached the Red Wolves to seven appearances throughout the year. A-State also received votes in the WNIT and three SBC regular-season in both the Associated Press (AP) and Coaches’ championships including the outright regular poll through much of the regular season. season crown in 2013-14 and 2015-16. A-State spent much of the year ranked in An ambassador for both Arkansas State top-40 of the NCAA’s RPI and fell just short and the sport of college basketball, Boyer has appearing in the program’s first-ever NCAA enjoyed an unprecedented level of success Tournament for the second straight season. The through an energetic and positive approach Red Wolves were the third highest RPI in Divi- to the game. A four-time Sun Belt Conference sion I not to make the tournament, but instead Coach of the Year (2003-04, 2004-05, 2013-14 make their third straight appearance in the & 2015-16), Boyer has compiled an impressive WNIT, a feat that had only been accomplished 299-230 (.565) record over his 17-year career. once before in school history. Arkansas State Boyer possesses the most conference wins also extended their home winning streak to 25 by a coach in Sun Belt Conference in both the games, a mark that stands as the fourth longest men’s and women’s game. He is the longest in the NCAA. tenured basketball active coach in the confer- Boyer also tutored Aundrea Gamble to her ence and has also coached more games than third straight Sun Belt Conference Student-Ath- any basketball coach (men’s or women’s) in lete of the Year honor, the only player in league Arkansas State history. history to do that. She also earned Col- A-State had an unprecedented run of legeSportsMadness.com Third-Team Mid-Major success during a recent three year period and All-American honors and was a top-10 finalist compiled 73 wins from the 2013-14 through for the Senior CLASS award, just the second the 2015-16 season, the most in school history student-athlete in A-State history to reach over any three-year span. During the run, that stage of the award. In addition Khadija A-State won two regular Sun Belt Conference Brown-Haywood earned First-Team plaudits, championships, appeared in two SBC Tourna- while Brittney Gill was a third team selection. ment conference championship games and led The 2014-15 season saw numerous records his squad to three straight WNIT berth for the fall in what could be considered one of Arkan- second time in school history. sas State’s top-5 seasons in school history. The 2017-18 ARKANSAS STATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL REFERENCE GUIDE 3 HEAD COACH Red Wolves tied a school record with 21 regular Russo for the most league wins in Sun Belt season victories and fell just one win shy of Conference at 136 on March 5, 2014 and won tying the all-time mark of wins in a single year his third career SBC Coach of the Year award at at 25.