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Volume 20, Number 1 October/November 2012 Player of the Year Preseason Preview 2012-13! Top 25 Predictions Top 10 Teams: 1. Va. Wesleyan 2. Wis. Whitewater 3. North Central 4. Wooster 5. Cabrini 6. Franklin & Marshall 7. Hope 8. Amherst 9. Wm. Paterson 10. Ill. Wesleyan Page 5 AJ Matthews, Farmingdale St. Coaching Changes Page 3 1993 20th D3 Season 2013 Conference Previews Page 5 Twitter: @SmallColHoops Page 11 www.smallcollegehoops.com 2012 All-American Teams Editorial Welcome to DIII News’ 20th Anniversary Season! Welcome to the 2012-13 DIII News to a familiar Preseason Preview issue! We are excited name: Vir- Editor & Publisher about this upcoming season and glad to ginia Wes- Gary S. Rubin have you join us for what should be a leyan (27-4) ■ terrific campaign. w e l c o m e s Art Director This year is a special one for our staff back four of Steve Fisher because it is our 20th season covering its top five men’s Division III basketball. As you scorers from Business & Editorial Office might recall, our company celebrated 20 last year ’s GSR Communications years of writing about small college bas- NCAA tour- 6090 SW Elm Avenue ketball two years ago. When we launched nament team. Beaverton, OR 97005 this venture, Division II men’s hoops Junior All- Email: [email protected] was our only publication. Because of American D.J. the reception it received, we expanded to Woodmore (16.1 ppg) leads the way in DIII News is published 14 times from Division III men’s coverage as well. The the backcourt along with senior Chris October to April by GSR Communi- world is certainly a different place than Astorga (14.9 ppg). A number of teams, cations. Subscription price: $48 per when we started this version in 1993, but including Wisconsin Whitewater and season. © Copyright 2012 by GSR the basketball is as competitive as ever. North Central, are close behind for the Communications. POSTMASTER: As our long-time readers will notice, top spot so it should be a very competi- Send all change of address requests this is the first time we have sent our Pre- tive season. to above address. season Preview issue electronically. Over The DIIIN Preseason Player of the Year the years, the regular season issues mi- is AJ Matthews from Farmingdale State. Printed in USA grated to PDF versions with the advent of See our All-Americans on page 11. the Internet, however we always kept the I want to thank our corporate partners www.smallcollegehoops.com Preseason Preview as a printed edition. for being part of our publication. Schelde Twitter: SmallColHoops But, times change and we asked several North America is back as the title sponsor readers what they thought about going of the DIII News Coach of the Year and digital with the first edition and they were the Coach of the Month award as well. Publishing Schedule fine with it. So, we’re giving it a try this The company is a big supporter of small year. Let us know what you think and if college basketball and was great to work DIII News will publish 14 editions you miss the printed version. with last year for our biggest award. I this season. Here’s a schedule Speaking of change, you’ll see a hope you call on Schelde when your to help you keep track of all the number of new coaches and positions at equipment needs arise and thank them for issues: traditional Division III powers listed on their support of Division III basketball. the next page. This was one of the more Be sure to visit out our web site, www. ● Preseason Preview active off-seasons for coaching moves smallcollegehoops.com, and follow us on ❍ December 5 and we are interested to see how these Twitter (@SmallColHoops) for updates ❍ December 12 new situations and skippers influence between our regular issues. ❍ the Division III landscape. Many of the We’re ready for this season, our 20th December 26 covering men’s Division III basketball ❍ new coaches are replacing long-time January 9 legends and it’s their time to make their and 22nd overall writing about small col- ❍ January 16 own mark. lege basketball, and we hope you are also. ❍ January 23 Two years ago we expanded our Thanks for your support and we’ll see ❍ January 30 schedule to 14 issues a season and it was you in December with the next edition. very well received. We’re sticking to ❍ February 6 ❍ that again this year after the tremendous February 13 feedback. Basically, you’ll hear from us ❍ February 20 weekly in January and February during ❍ February 27 the heart of the season and the run-up to Gary Rubin ❍ March 6 the NCAA tournament announcement. Editor & Publisher ❍ Now, to the upcoming season. As Postseason Review always, the task of compiling the Top 25 was a challenge but the No. 1 spot goes 2 DIII News • October 2012 Newsroom 2012 Division III Coaching Changes Division III Final Headed to Atlanta to Commemorate March Madness School New Coach INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Division III Management Anderson Owen Handy Council has approved a new format for the men’s basketball Arcadia Justin Scott championship this coming year to accommodate the Division Baruch John Alesi III championship game being played in conjunction with the Centenary Brendan Twomey 75th men’s basketball celebration being held in Atlanta during Coe Bryan Martin the Division I Final Four. Edgewood Justin Meyer The one-time format change calls for single games to be Gallaudet Brendan Stern played at individual campus sites on Saturday, March 2, fol- Immaculata Terrence Stewart lowed by second-round games at campus sites the following Kalamazoo Eric Dougal Saturday and third-round contests on Saturday, March 16. Knox Kevin Walden Quarterfinalists will compete in Salem, Va., on March 22 and LaRoche Hermie Carmichael then those winners will play semifinal games on March 23. The Maranatha Keith Salscheider two winners will head to Atlanta two weeks later. New England Ed Silva It’s a different approach than the current format that brackets Nichols Jeff Lindgren the field in regional pods of two or four teams for first- and North Park Tom Slyder second-round games the first Thursday through Saturday after Northland Scott Sorenson selections, followed by four, four-team sectionals the next Ohio Northern Kevin Byrne weekend. Olivet Chris Coles It’s also different than a proposal the Division III Men’s Bas- Otterbein Todd Adrian ketball Committee submitted earlier that called for a one-week Piedmont Mark Bollinger delay between selections and first-round pod play. Ripon Ryan Kane The format changes became necessary when the NCAA Rosemont Robert Hughes decided to stage all three divisions’ men’s finals on the same St. Thomas John Tauer weekend to celebrate the 75th year of NCAA men’s basket- Schreiner Jimmy Smith ball championships in 2013. The Division I Men’s Final Four Swarthmore Landry Kosmalski semifinals and final will be April 6 and 8 in the Georgia Dome Wis. Eau Claire Matt Siverling as previously planned. But given the celebratory nature of the Wis. Oshkosh Patrick Juckem anniversary, Divisions II and III were invited to conduct their Wis. Superior Paul Eberhardt championship games that weekend, too. Both the DII and DIII York (Pa.) Matt Hunter finals will be on Sunday, April 7, in nearby Philips Arena. A back up plan will be developed to accommodate any school Twomey Takes Over at Centenary with a policy that precludes competition on Sunday. HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. — Centenary College Department While Division III embraced the unique opportunity to join the hiring of Brendan Twomey as the new men’s basketball head the most high-profile stage in college sports, it required a dif- coach. Twomey joins the Cyclones after a four-year coaching ferent tournament format, since the 2013 Division III champi- career at Stevens Institute of Technology where he served as onship game will be two weeks later than it would have been the associate head men’s basketball coach. under the current formula. The Division III Men’s Basketball Committee had the first opportunity to suggest how best to mitigate the gap. Based on CAC Adds Three Members feedback from the Division III members of the National Bas- YORK, Pa. — The Presidents Council of the Capital Ath- ketball Coaches Association, the committee at its June meeting letic Conference (CAC) announced the addition of Penn State proposed a week off between the selection date and the first and Harrisburg as a full member of the conference, beginning July second rounds, which would have maintained the pod structure 1, 2013. Penn State Harrisburg is the third institution, along the division is accustomed to on that first weekend of play. That with Christopher Newport University and Southern Virginia would have been followed by single games on Saturday, March University, to join the CAC for the 2013-14 academic year. 16, instead of the customary four-team sectionals. Christopher Newport and Penn State Harrisburg will be im- “Salem has been a tremendous experience for our finalists mediately eligible for conference championships and NCAA ever since the city began hosting that event,” said Division III Division III tournament opportunities. Southern Virginia, which Men’s Basketball Committee chair Ken Schumann, the AD at is entering its first year as an NCAA Division III provisional Pacific (Oregon). “The opportunity to have four more schools member in 2012-13, will become eligible to compete in CAC experience that is another real positive that came out of the playoffs during its third year of the four-year provisional mem- joint 2013 championship.” bership process (2014-15).