2006-07 UTSA Men's Basketball Media Guide
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2006-07 UTSA MEN’S BASKEtbaLL MEDIA GUIDE Introduction Meet The Roadrunners Season Review NCAA Host Institution ________ 2 Kurt Attaway _____________ 26-27 Season Statistics __________ 64-65 Dwain Hall _______________ 28-29 Season Results _______________ 66 This Is UTSA Jon Flansburg ________________ 30 Game Capsules ___________ 67-71 This Is UTSA ________________4-6 Tim Maiden _________________ 31 SLC Review ______________ 72-74 University President ___________ 7 James Peters _________________ 32 UTSA Spirit __________________ 8 Aldric Reynolds ______________ 33 Records/History Cheer & Dance _______________ 9 Chance Williams _____________ 34 Team Records _______________ 76 Convocation Center _______ 10-11 Isaiah Allen _________________ 35 Individual Records ___________ 77 Weight Room ________________ 11 Andrew Francis ______________ 36 1,000-Point Club _____________ 78 Community Involvement ______ 12 Travis Gabbidon _____________ 37 Top 50 Scorers _______________ 79 Student-Athlete Success _______ 13 Dezon Otis __________________ 38 Top Scoring Performances _____ 79 This Is San Antonio ________ 14-15 Melvin Smith ________________ 39 500-Rebound Club ___________ 80 Roadrunner Club ____________ 16 Keith Spencer _______________ 40 Top 50 Rebounders ___________ 81 Ryan Williams _______________ 41 Top 10 Lists _________________ 81 Season Outlook Roadrunners Tidbits __________ 42 Opponent Team Records ______ 82 Season Outlook ___________ 18-19 Opponent Indiv. Records ______ 83 Roster ______________________ 20 Staff Convocation Center Records ___ 84 Schedule ____________________ 21 Brooks Thompson _________ 44-45 Season-by-Season Results __ 85-88 Media Information ___________ 22 Dan O’Dowd ________________ 46 Coaching History ____________ 88 Quick Facts _________________ 23 Robert Guster _______________ 47 All-Time Series Results ____ 89-92 Radio Information ____________ 23 Jay Spoonhour _______________ 48 All-Time Letterwinners _______ 93 goUTSA.com ________________ 24 Gus Argenal _________________ 49 Conference Honor Roll _______ 94 Support Staff ________________ 50 Conference Champions _______ 95 Table Crew __________________ 50 Roadrunners In The Pros ______ 96 Athletics Director ____________ 51 Atlhletic Department Staff _____ 52 Credits The 2006-07 UTSA Men’s Basketball Media Opponents Guide was designed, written and edited by sports information director Kyle Stephens with Opponents _______________ 54-59 assistance from associate SID Brian Hernan- SLC Composite Schedule ___ 60-61 dez, assistant SID Carlos Valdez, student as- sistant Nicole Dunson, Christy Brownlee and Southland Conference ________ 62 former associate athletics director for media relations Rick Nixon. Most photography by Jeff Huehn of Lazy J Photo and Mark McClendon of UTSA Photographic Services. Printing by Multicopy Printing of San Antonio. NCAA HOST INSTITUTION UTSA has served as the host institution for nine NCAA Championship events during the past decade. All but two of those events have been NCAA Division I Basketball Regionals or Final Fours, helping make San Antonio a destination for college hoops enthusiasts. UTSA continues its proud tradition of hosting NCAA Basketball with three major events over the next four years — the 2007 Men’s South Regional (March 22 & 24), the 2008 Men’s Final Four and the 2010 Women’s Final Four. UTSA’s NCAA Championship Legacy • 1997 Men’s Basketball Midwest Regional • 1998 Men’s Final Four • 1998 Men’s Golf Central Regional • 2001 Men’s Basketball Midwest Regional • 2002 Women’s Final Four • 2003 Men’s Basketball South Regional • 2004 Men’s Final Four • 2005 Women’s Volleyball Championship • 2006 Women’s Basketball San Antonio Regional • 2007 Men’s Basketball South Regional • 2008 Men’s Final Four • 2010 Women’s Final Four 2 2006-07 UTSA Basketball This Is UTSA About UTSA ___________________4-6 University President ____________ 7 UTSA Spirit ___________________8-9 Convocation Center _________ 10-11 Community Involvement________ 12 Student-Athlete Success ________ 13 About San Antonio __________ 14-15 ABOUT UTSA n 1969, San Antonio was a 250- year-old city famous for its historic Spanish missions, the River Walk Iand military bases. The University of Texas at San Antonio existed only in the minds of the visionaries who pushed for its creation that year by the Texas Legislature. Today, the city and its only public university have reached levels of maturity not even dreamed of 36 years ago. With a population of more than 1.2 million, San Antonio is the eighth-largest city in the United States and UTSA is among the fastest-growing universities in the nation (an enrollment of more than 27,000 students). These rising stars of Texas – one in its third century and the other in only its Main Building fourth decade – are now making history together. UTSA’s earliest students attended college at the Koger Center, Today, UTSA is rapidly moving toward premier research an office park. Master’s degrees were offered in business university status while remaining committed to its original administration, education, bicultural-bilingual studies, English mission of providing affordable, accessible higher education as a second language, environmental management, Spanish, to the people of Texas and beyond. Balancing excellence with biology, mathematics and systems design. access is a challenge that has been embraced by the university community as both a goal and a responsibility. In 1973 construction began on UTSA’s original campus — the 1604 Campus — on 600 acres at the intersection of Interstate History 10 and Loop 1604 near the northwestern edge of San Antonio. Governor Preston Smith founded the University of Texas As enrollment grew, five colleges — Business, Fine and Applied at San Antonio on June 5, 1969. The university has come a Arts, Sciences and Mathematics, Humanities and Social long way in just 35 years. Administrative offices for the first Sciences and Multidisciplinary Studies — opened in 1975. One UTSA president, Arleigh B. Templeton, were set up in 1970 in year later, the John Peace Library Building, which also served Hemisfair Park, and architects Ford, Powell and Carson Inc. as the new administration building, opened. began developing a conceptual master plan for the campus. James W. Wagener was named UTSA president in 1978, and In 1973 Peter T. Flawn was appointed UTSA’s second president, in the 1980s, four new colleges were put in place and new and by this time, more than 670 students had enrolled in undergraduate programs were offered in civil, mechanical graduate level courses taught by 52 faculty members. and electrical engineering. Later in the decade, the College of Sciences and Mathematics was reorganized to form the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center College of Sciences and Engineering. Also, UTSA’s athletics teams began competing as San Antonio’s only NCAA Division I sports program. More than 12,000 students enrolled at UTSA in this era and a recital hall, university center and the first on-campus residence — Chisholm Hall — opened. The Institute of Texan Cultures also became a part of UTSA during this period. Samuel A. Kirkpatrick became the fourth UTSA president in 1990. UTSA began offering classes downtown in the Institute of Texan Cultures, and as enrollment increased, the university began looking for a new location. Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises purchased the Fiesta Plaza site for the new campus. The Texas Legislature-funded South Texas Border Initiative allocated $71.5 million to UTSA, with $20 million stipulated for the Downtown Campus. 4 2006-07 UTSA Basketball The 11-acre Downtown offerings through such Campus was dedicated initiatives as the Learning in fall 1997 and now has C o m m u n i t i e s a n d four academic buildings. expanded student success A g r o w i n g n u m b e r prog ram, U TSA ha s of undergraduate and made the commitment graduate degrees can be to become a premier completed on-site at the research university. Downtown Campus. Other Enhancing the prospect facilities constructed or of Top 100 Public Research opened during the 1990s University status are ever- included the Engineering- expanding, state-of-the- Biosciences Building, art teaching and research Business Building, a facilities, the recruitment campus visitor center, and a of outstanding faculty computer lab. The student- and students and strategic centered University Center collaborations with both has tripled its original public and private partners size. throughout the region, UTSA Downtown Campus with San Antonio skyline state and nation. Dr. Ricardo Romo became UTSA’s fifth president in 1999 and was the first Hispanic Development of new doctoral programs, which are designed president in the university’s 30-year history. Academic to address the socioeconomic concerns of the region, is reorganization the following year included a move to six occurring at a rate unmatched by other Texas institutions. colleges — Business, Education and Human Development, UTSA recently implemented doctoral programs in English, Engineering, Liberal and Fine Arts, Sciences, and Public Policy. business administration, environmental science, electrical A School of Architecture, Honors College and The Graduate engineering, cellular and molecular biology, biomedical School were subsequently developed. engineering, counseling and physics, as well as a master of social work program. New construction and additions to the campuses recently completed include the Downtown Campus Durango Annex, Student Life home of the UTSA Institute for Economic Development;