2014-2015 Bellarmine Men's Basketball
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KNIGHTS BASKETBALL BELLARMINE 2014-2015 Bellarmine Men’s Basketball Seniors (From left to right): Chris Whitehead, Jake Thelen, Josh Sewell & Corbin Maynard Radio Chart Bellarmine Knights 3 4 5 10 11 Chris Whitehead George Suggs Rusty Troutman Corbin Maynard Michael Parrish 5-9 • Guard 6-10 • Forward 6-5 • Guard • So. 5-11 • Guard 5-8 • Guard Sr. • New Albany, IN Jr. • St. Louis, MO Mt. Washington, KY Sr. • Louisville, KY Jr. • Louisville, KY 12 14 15 20 21 Jake Thelen Josh Stoner Brent Bach George Knott Jarek Coles 6-7 • Forward • Sr. 6-1 • Guard • So. 6-1 • Guard • Fr. 6-5 • Forward • So. 6-0 • Guard • Fr. Edgewood, KY Louisville, KY Augusta, KY New Albany, IN Omaha, NE 22 23 24 31 32 Billy Edelen Josh Sewell Nick Fredrick Yasin Kolo Rhett Troutman 6-2 • Guard • Jr. 6-5 • Guard • Sr. 6-0 • Guard • So. 6-10 • Center • Jr. 6-0 • Guard • Fr. Clarksville, IN Louisville, KY Cincinnati, OH Goettingen, Germany Mt. Washington, KY ALPHABETICAL 33 42 15-Brent Bach PRONUNCIATION GUIDE 21-Jarek Coles Bellarmine: 33-Josh Derksen bell-UHR-men 22-Billy Edelen 24-Nick Fredrick 22-Edelen EE-duh-len 20-George Knott 4- Suggs SUGS 31-Yasin Kolo 12-Thelen THEE-lynn 42-Tyler Landry 31 Yasin Kolo yah-SEEN 10-Corbin Maynard koh-loh 11-Michael Parrish 23-Josh Sewell HOMETOWNS: Goettingen: guh-TEE-uhn Josh Derksen Tyler Landry Scott Davenport 14-Josh Stoner Toowoomba: tuh-WOOM-buh 6-9 • Forward • So. 6-7 • Forward • So. Head Coach, 10th Season 4-George Suggs Toowoomba, Australia Radcliff, KY 201-78 (.720) 12-Jake Thelen 32 Rhett Troutman 5-Rusty Troutman 3-Chris Whitehead Page 1 Table of Contents Bellarmine Knights Roster.........................................................................3 BELLARMINE UNIVeriSTY Coaches.....................................................................4 Players..................................................................5-19 FAST FACTS 2013-2014 Statistics...............................................20 Name: Bellarmine University Individual Records.................................................21 Location: Louisville, KY Bellarmine Records................................................22 Founded: 1950 Honors.....................................................................23 NCAA Tournament History.................................24 Enrollment: 3,609 (Fall 2014) All Time Record...............................................25-29 President: Dr. Joseph J. McGowan Team by Team Reocrd...........................................30 Director of Athletics: Scott Wiegandt GLVC Information.................................................31 Nickname: Knights Bellarmine University Leadership........................32 Bellarmine Athletics Administration/Coaches...33 Colors: Scarlet and Silver Bellarmine Athletic Facilities..........................34-35 Affiliation: NCAA Division II Conference: Great Lakes Valley Home Arena: Knights Hall ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION Athletics Director, Scott Wiegandt 502.272.8381 Capacity: 2,222 Associate Athletics Director, Pam Stackhouse 502.272.7997 Office Manager, Linda Burt 502.272.8381 Athletics Phone: 502-272-8380 Athletics Secretary, Traci Siemens 502.272.8380 Athletics FAX line: 502-272-8450 Sports Information Director, John Spugnardi 502.272.8078 Cell phone 502.905.0922 Mailing Address: 2001 Newburg Road, Director, Athletics Events Management, Chris Cooper 502.272.8036 Louisville, KY 40205 Assistant Director of Athletics, Compliance Melanie Brunsdon 502.272.8408 Men’S BASkeTball hiSTOrical daTA HEAD COACHES Baseball, Larry Owens 502.452.8278 First Year of Men’s Basketball: 1950 Basketball-Men, Scott Davenport 502.272.8383 Basketball-Women, Chancellor Dugan 502.272.8382 Overall All-Time Record: 934-780 Cross Country-Men & Women, Jim Vargo 502.272.8042 Cross Country-Women/Distance, Kris Horton 502.767.3853 NCAA Appearances: 15 Field Hockey, Mark Blankebaker 502.272.8380 Last NCAA Postseason Appearance: 2014 Golf-Men, Ernie Denham 502.272.8380 Golf-Women, Art Henry 502.272.8380 NCAA Tournament Record: 21-15 Lacrosse, Kevin Burns 502.272.8397 Soccer-Men’s, Tim Chastonay 502.272.8043 NCAA National Championships: 1 (2011) Soccer-Women’s, Chris Tinius 502.272.8106 Softball, Renee Hicks 502.272.8041 Swimming, Men’s & Womens, John Brucato 502.272.7727 Tennis - Men’s & Women’s, John Mican 502.272.8380 Men’S BASkeTball Track & Field - Men & Women, Jim Vargo 502.272.8042 COaching STaff InfOrmaTION Volleyball, Jenni Grzebin 502.272.7461 Head Coach: Scott Davenport OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION Alma Mater: University of Louisville Sports Information e-mail: [email protected] Athletics Website: BUKnights.com School Record (Yrs.): 201-78 (10) MEDIA INFORMATION Career Record (Yrs.): 201-78 (10) For information regarding media passes and seating location for the media, please contact the sports information office at Office Phone: 502-272-8380 502.272.8078. Email: [email protected] Interviews with coaches can be set up through the sports information office or by calling the coaches directly. To Assistant Coaches: Michael Scott, Reece arrange an interview with a student-athlete, media should Gaines, and Damien Anderson contact the sports information office to set up a time. Knights Hall is equipped with wireless capability. Phone lines for electronic transmissions are available on request. Page 2 2014-2015 Roster Bellarmine Knights NO. NAME YR. POS. HT. WT. HOMETOWN HIGH SCHOOL (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 3 Chris Whitehead Sr. G 5-9 190 New Albany, IN New Albany (Fordham) 4 George Suggs Jr. F 6-10 215 St. Louis, MO Vianney 5 Rusty Troutman So. G 6-5 190 Mt. Washington, KY Bullitt East 10 Corbin Maynard Sr. G 5-11 170 Louisville, KY DeSales 11 Michael Parrish Jr. G 5-8 140 Louisville, KY Fern Creek 12 Jake Thelen Sr. F 6-7 205 Edgewood, KY Covington Catholic (Spring Hill College) 14 Josh Stoner So. G 6-1 170 Louisville, KY Male 15 Brent Bach Fr. G 6-1 160 Augusta, KY Augusta 20 George Knott So. F 6-5 190 New Albany, IN Providence 21 Jarek Coles Fr. G 6-0 175 Omaha, NE Omaha Central 22 Billy Edelen Jr. G 6-2 200 Clarksville, IN Clarksville 23 Josh Sewell Sr. F 6-5 190 Louisville, KY Trinity (Miami, OH) 24 Nick Fredrick So. G 6-0 160 Cincinnati, OH Covington Catholic 31 Yasin Kolo Jr. C/F 6-10 245 Goettingen, Germany Fayetteville (Hartford) 32 Rhett Troutman Fr. G 6-0 175 Mt. Washington, KY Bullitt East 33 Josh Derksen So. F 6-9 215 Toowoomba, Australia Centenary Heights State 42 Tyler Landry So. F 6-6 205 Radcliff, KY North Hardin HEAD COACH: Scott Davenport ASSISTANT COACHES: Damien Anderson, Michael Scott, Reece Gaines TEAM MaNAGERS: Mack Van Lenten, Austin Galloway TEAM TRAINER: Brad Bluestone SPORTS PERFORMANCE: Steve Hartman TEAM PASTOR: Fr. Dale Cieslik Page 3 Coaches Bellarmine Knights Head Coach - Scott Davenport Assistant Coach- Mike Scott On April 29, 2005, Scott Davenport Michael Scott enters his eighth season as a mem- became the 11th coach in Bellarmine University men’s basketball history, and ber of the Bellarmine men’s basketball community. in six years took BU all the way to the Starting as a freshman undergraduate in the fall top by leading the Knights to the 2011 of 2005, he has been with Coach Scott Davenport NCAA Division II Tournament national every step of the way during Davenport’s tenure championship. For his efforts, he was at Bellarmine. This season, Scott will assist in named national Coach of the Year by all aspects of the program, including recruiting, two different organizations: the National scouting, film exchange, team academics, summer Association of Basketball Coaches and camps and player development. On the floor, Scott the Division II Bulletin. will work primarily with guard development and team offense. Davenport has had a stellar career turn- The previous three seasons Scott served on the ing the Bellarmine University basketball coaching staff while pursuing a graduate degree at Bellarmine. During that time, team into vying for the Division II he assisted in all aspects of program administration, helped the program obtain Nation Championship every year. In his the National Championship in 2011, and graduated with his MBA in December first season as head coach, Davenport took the Knights to a .500 record, a of 2011. As a Bellarmine undergrad, Scott headed up all managerial duties for record that has only been seen once in the eight years prior to that. the men’s basketball program and earned his BA in business administration in 2009. The following season the team finished with a 12-15 record, with three A native of South Bend, Ind., Scott is a graduate of Trinity School at Green- losses coming from Louisville, Ohio and Saint Joseph’s. The next season, lawn, where he was a three year varsity starter in basketball. Scott is single and Davenport turned the team around to a 17-11 record. From that point on, resides in Louisville. the Knights would not look back. Assistant Coach- Reece Gaines The 2008-2009 season saw the Knights back into the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1991. Davenport led his team to a 26-7 record and a Reece Gaines began his tenure as an assistant second seed in the NCAA tournament. The same success occurred in the coach at Bellarmine in the fall of 2012. He assists 2009-2010 season where the Knights had a record of 23-9 and again were in all aspects of the program, including recruiting, awarded the two seed in the NCAA tournament. scouting, film exchange and player development. Gaines was a four year starter at the University of In 2011, everything came together as Davenport led Bellarmine to a 33-2 Louisville from 1999-2003, where current Bellarm- record while capturing the Knights’ first national championship in any ine head coach Scott Davenport was an assistant at sport. Among the milestones reached by the 2011 squad were best winning the time. While at Louisville, Gaines scored 1,945 percentage, most wins and most consecutive wins, while also recording points, which ranks No. 4 on the Cardinals’ all-time a third straight 20-win season. Davenport’s Knights had a 17-1 GLVC scoring list and was named to All-America teams regular-season record while competing in arguably the toughest conference by The Sporting News, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, division in all of college basketball.