GENERAL Hansbro ...... 73 INFORMATION Johnson ...... 88 CAA Schedule ...... 171 Krubally ...... 76 CAA Championship ...... 174 Lott ...... 79 Conference Information 175 Nero ...... 89 Directions ...... 168 Taylor ...... 90 Media Information ...... 168 Vincent ...... 91 Opponent Contacts ...... 170 Pronunciation Guide ...... 43 RECORDS & Radio & TV ...... 169 HISTORY Staff Directory ...... 167 All-America ...... 116 All-Conference ...... 117 THE YEAR AHEAD Career Records ...... 118 Radio/TV Chart ...... 42 Coaching History ...... 147 Roster ...... 43 Letterwinners ...... 138 Season Preview ...... 44 NCAA Tournament ...... 140 Overtime Games ...... 157 2008-09 REVIEW NBA Players...... 116 Boxscores ...... 100 Season Records ...... 122 CAA Standings ...... 96 Series Results ...... 157 Results ...... 94 Single-Game Records .... 128 Statistics ...... 95 Starting Lineups ...... 136 GENERAL INFORMATION Winning Streaks ...... 134 Full name ...... Georgia State University COACHES & STAFF Year-by-Year Results ...... 147 Location...... Atlanta, GA Assistant Coaches ...... 55 Founded ...... 1913 Director of Athletics ...... 166 GEORGIA STATE Enrollment ...... 30,000 Head Coach ...... 50 Nickname ...... Panthers President ...... 23 Academics ...... 32 Colors ...... Blue and White Support Staff ...... 58 Atlanta ...... 28 Arena: ...... Georgia State Sports Arena Campus Housing ...... 26 Colonial Athletic Assoc. ....14 Capacity ...... 3,400 PLAYERS Community Outreach ...... 36 Affi liation ...... NCAA Division I Ali ...... 84 Georgia State University ..20 Conference ...... Colonial Athletic Association Brown ...... 92 Curry ...... 82 Head Coach Rod Barnes ...4 President ...... Dr. Mark Becker Dukes ...... 62 Panther Tradition ...... 6 Athletic Director ...... Cheryl L. Levick Fields ...... 86 Panther Pros ...... 12 Goldston ...... 66 Sports Arena ...... 14 BASKETBALL INFORMATION Hampton ...... 70 Strength & Conditioning ..34 Head Coach...... Rod Barnes (Mississippi, 1988) At Georgia State ...... 21-41 (3rd Year) Overall ...... 162-150 (11th Year) 2008-09 Record ...... 12-20, 8-10 CAA/8th Starters Returning Lost ...... 3/2 CREDITS: Lettermen Returning Lost...... 9/2 Editor: Allison George Printing: Bennett Graphics BASKETBALL HISTORY Cover Design: Summit Athletic Media First Year of NCAA Basketball ...... 1963-64 Photography: Gary Brittain/Dominion Photography, Meg All-Time Record ...... 438-801 Bucsema, Carolyn Richardson, Georgia State University NCAA Appearances ...... 1991, 2001 Relations; Stephen Jones, Dale Zanine, Stanley Leary, Pete NIT Appearances ...... 2002 Stankowski, Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images and Conference Titles : many unidentifi ed photographers of the past. Regular Season/Tournament ...... 3/2 Date Day Opponent Location Time Nov. 3 Tuesday SHORTER (Exhibition) Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Nov. 12 Thursday at NC State (Glenn Wilkes Classic) Raleigh, N.C. 7 p.m. Nov. 17 Tuesday CARVER BIBLE COLLEGE Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Glenn Wilkes Classic, Daytona Beach, Fla. Nov. 20 Friday Drake Daytona Beach, Fla. 1:15 p.m. Nov. 21 Saturday Howard Daytona Beach, Fla. 11 a.m. Nov. 22 Sunday IUPUI Daytona Beach, Fla. 1:15 p.m. South Alabama Thanksgiving Tournament, Mobile, Ala. Nov. 25 Wednesday Utah Valley Mobile, Ala. 6 p.m. Nov. 26 Thursday South Alabama/Alcorn State Mobile, Ala. 3/5 p.m. Nov. 30 Monday JACKSONVILLE Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Dec. 5 Saturday at James Madison * Harrisonburg, Va. (TV) 2 p.m. Dec. 13 Sunday at Florida A&M Tallahassee, Fla. TBA Dec. 15 Tuesday at Florida State Tallahassee, Fla. (TV) 7 p.m. Dec. 19 Saturday EASTERN MICHIGAN Atlanta, Ga. 4 p.m. Dec. 22 Tuesday GEORGIA SOUTHERN Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Jan. 2 Saturday TOWSON * Atlanta, Ga. 6 p.m. Jan. 4 Monday DREXEL * Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Jan. 6 Wednesday at UNC Wilmington * Wilmington, N.C. 7 p.m. Jan. 9 Saturday NORTHEASTERN * Atlanta, Ga. (TV) 12 p.m. Jan. 13 Wednesday at George Mason * Fairfax, Va. TBA Jan. 16 Saturday VCU * Atlanta, Ga. 6 p.m. Jan. 20 Wednesday UNC WILMINGTON * Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Jan. 23 Saturday at Delaware * Newark, Del. 2 p.m. Jan. 28 Thursday at Old Dominion * Norfolk, Va. (TV) 7 p.m. Jan. 30 Saturday at VCU * Richmond, Va. TBA Feb. 3 Wednesday GEORGE MASON * Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Feb. 6 Saturday WILLIAM & MARY * Atlanta, Ga. 6 p.m. Feb. 10 Wednesday at Northeastern * , Mass. TBA Feb. 13 Saturday at Towson * Towson, Md. 4 p.m. Feb. 16 Tuesday JAMES MADISON * Atlanta, Ga. 7 p.m. Feb. 20 Saturday BRACKETBUSTERS (Home) Atlanta, Ga. TBA Feb. 23 Tuesday OLD DOMINION * Atlanta, Ga. (TV) 7 p.m. Feb. 27 Saturday at Hofstra * Hempstead, N.Y. TBA Mar. 5-8 Fri-Mon CAA Championships Richmond, Va. TBA

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ark P. Becker, the seventh and assistant vice president of Public president of Georgia State Health, Preparedness and Emergency MUniversity, began his tenure Response. on Jan. 1, 2009. From 1989 to 2000, Becker was A biostatistician, public health a professor and associate dean for researcher and academic leader, academic affairs at the University of Becker, 50, had served as executive Michigan’s School of Public Health. vice president for academic affairs He also has held academic posts at and provost at the University of South the University of Washington, the Carolina before assuming Georgia University of Florida and Cornell State’s presidency. University. Prior to that appointment, Becker Becker earned his bachelor’s spent three years at the University of degree in mathematics from Towson Minnesota as a biostatistics professor, State University and his doctorate in dean of the School of Public Health statistics from the State Disease Control, Agency for Health- University. care Research and Quality, and other As provost at University of granting agencies. South Carolina, Becker was During his career, Becker has responsible for formulating been involved in several professional and implementing academic associations, including the American policy, coordinating the uni- Association for the Advancement of versity’s teaching, research Science, the International Biometric and public service programs Society and the American Statistical and allocating resources in all Association, where he is a fellow. academic areas, among other Becker, who is married to Laura roles. Voisinet and has two children, Internationally recognized Matthew, 22, and Julia, 18, enjoys out- as a researcher in biostatis- door activities like hiking and white- tics and public health sci- water rafting and “experiencing and ences, Becker has published learning about new cultures.” more than 40 articles and has He said he will bring to the been principal investigator Georgia State presidency “energy, on research grants from the a passion for and a commitment National Institutes of Health to public higher education as well and the National Science as signifi cant academic leader- Foundation and co-investiga- ship experience in both established tor on numerous research and up and coming public research grants from the Centers for universities.” heryl L. Levick brings a resume of experi- the nation’s Top 25 Female Sports Executives by ence and success from prestigious athletics Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal. Levick is Cprograms across the nation to her position also a past president of the NCAA Division I-AAA as Director of Athletics at Georgia State University. Athletic Directors Association. She is charged with leading Panther athletics in an Before going to Maryland in August 2007, she era of unprecedented exposure and opportunity served three years as athletics director at Saint with the launch of Georgia State football and the Louis (2004-07), where she led the transition from continued growth of the overall program. Conference USA into the Atlantic 10 Conference Levick came to Georgia State from the Univer- for the 18-sport program. Not only did she lead sity of Maryland, where she served as chief of staff/ fund-raising efforts for the school’s new $80 million executive senior athletic director, overseeing daily on-campus arena, but she was responsible for the management of 27 sports programs, a 180-member design and layout of the 10,600-seat staff and an annual budget of $51 million. and the adjacent practice and offi ce complex. Her impressive career is highlighted by a total In addition, she served on the 2005 NCAA of seven years as director of athletics at Santa Clara Men’s Basketball Final Four executive committee University and and features and partnered with the St. Louis Sports Commission won 44 national championships and six straight nearly two decades in senior administrative posi- to serve as host for the 2006 NCAA Men’s Soccer Sears Cup titles. She oversaw the addition of three tions at Maryland and at Stanford University as well College Cup. She was honored with the 2006 Carl women’s sports, increasing participation from 600 as stints with the Pacifi c 10 Conference and the O. Bauer Award from the Athletic Club as to 800 student-athletes. NCAA headquarters. the top amateur sports fi gure in the St. Louis area. She was the WCC representative to the NCAA “Cheryl Levick is widely considered one of Before joining Saint Louis in June 2004, Levick Management Council and completed a term as chair the best collegiate athletics administrators in the spent four years as the director of athletics and of the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics. country,” said Georgia State President Dr. Mark recreation at Santa Clara University, a 17-sport Levick served on the board of directors for the San Becker as he introduced Levick on Feb. 25, 2009. program in the . She also Jose Sports Authority, the organizing committee “Her dedication to excellence both on and off was a senior administrator at Santa Clara. for the Bay Area’s bid for the 2012 Olympics, and the fi eld made her the obvious choice to lead the Levick reorganized the department’s admin- the Pacifi c-10 Conference Council. She chaired the charge for exciting change in athletics at Georgia istrative staff and oversaw a major renovation Local Organizing Committee for the 1999 NCAA State University.” of the Broncos’ basketball arena while securing Women’s Basketball Final Four, which was hosted A recipient of numerous awards, Levick was approval for a $42.75 million commitment within by Stanford at the San Jose Arena. named the 2001 Division I Athletic Administrator the University’s capital campaign. Santa Clara added In 2001, Levick was honored with a Bay Area of the Year by the National Association of Colle- athletic scholarships, sold out and managed the Woman Achievement Award. She is an active giate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA). 2002 NCAA Men’s Basketball West Regional, won speaker on issues of sport and leadership, profes- In 2005-06, she received the General Sports TURF the school’s fi rst NCAA title in a women’s sport sional development and gender equity, and she Systems Athletic Director of the Year Award for with the 2001 soccer championship and completed has served as an executive mentor in the NCAA the NCAA Division I Central Region, and she an NCAA certifi cation. Fellowship Leadership Development Program. was recognized in both 1998 and 1999 as one of Prior to Santa Clara, Levick spent 12 years at Prior to her time at Stanford, Levick was an Stanford as senior associate athletic assistant commissioner of the Pac-10 Conference, an director and senior woman adminis- assistant director of communications and women’s trator. As the department’s chief oper- programs at the NCAA, the women’s gymnastics ating offi cer, she supervised internal coach and associate athletic director at Slippery operations and served as the primary Rock University, and assistant gymnastics coach and administrator for 33 varsity sports synchronized swim coach at Indiana University. She programs that for more than a decade began her career at Pattonville Senior High School have been considered the best in the in St. Louis, Mo., where she coached gymnastics and country. She also oversaw student assisted in coaching women’s track. services, NCAA compliance and eligi- Levick is a 1974 graduate of the University of bility, sports medicine and strength Missouri, and she holds a masters degree in athletic programs, postseason championships administration from Indiana University. She has two and personnel. daughters: Heather (photo, left), who is married to During Levick’s tenure, Stanford Michael Klass, and Melissa (photo, right). 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KEVIN OLIVETT JOHN PORTLAND AWILDA RAGLAND ROBERT SLAVIS CHARLIE TAYLOR Assistant AD - Assistant AD -Facilities, Assistant AD - Business Assistant AD - Assistant AD - Marketing Operations & Events Compliance Communications THE J. MACK ROBINSON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES is the prepares students to lead by pursuing ethical, largest college at the University, offering undergraduate innovative and value-enhancing strategies in a and graduate majors in fi ne arts, humanities, natural culturally diverse and technologically advanced world. and computational science and social and behavioral The under-graduate program has been ranked among sciences. the nation’s top 50 business school programs for seven straight years, according to U.S. News & World Report. THE COLLEGE OF LAW promotes legal scholarship Three of the colleges departments-risk management and service that enriches the legal profession and the and insurance, computer information systems, and real community. The college is consistently ranked among estate-also rank among the top 10 in their categories, the top 10 best law schools for the money. while the college’s fl ex MBA program has been ranked THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION offers compre- in the top 10 in the nation the past 13 years. hensive programs in all areas of teacher education, THE ANDREW YOUNG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC counseling, and education fi elds related to sports. Six POLICY STUDIES educates students to analyze, education alumni have been named Georgia Teacher evaluate and design policies addressing economic of the Year. and social development issues at the local, regional, THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN national and global levels. U.S. News & World Report SCIENCES offers programs in nursing, physical rankings consistently place the school’s public fi nance therapy, nutrition, cardiopulmonary care, social work and urban management programs among the top 10 and criminal justice that are designed to improve in the nation. health and well-being and address social justice issues in a multi-cultural society.