TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Table of Contents 1 About the Atlantic 10 2-3 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade 4 Atlantic 10 Staff Listing/Executive Committee 5 Atlantic 10 Honors & Awards 6-7 Website/Social Media 8 SEASON PREVIEW Atlantic 10 Media Services 10 Atlantic 10 Television Schedule 11-12 2014 Tournament Brackets/Information 13 2013-14 Composite Schedule 14-15 Team Pages - Dayton 16-18 Team Pages - Duquesne 19-21 Team Pages - Fordham 22-24 Team Pages - George Mason 25-27 Team Pages - George Washington 28-30 Team Pages - La Salle 31-33 Team Pages - Massachusetts 34-36 Team Pages - Rhode Island 37-39 Team Pages - Richmond 40-42 The Barclays Center will host the Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Championship March 12-16. Team Pages - St. Bonaventure 43-45 Team Pages - Saint Joseph’s 46-48 HISTORY & RECORDS CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS Team Pages - Saint Louis 49-51 History and Records Breakdown 66 Atlantic 10 Championship History 140-141 Team Pages - VCU 52-54 Year-by-Year Breakdown 67-100 All-Time Championship Results 142-148 National Award Winners 101 2012-13 SEASON IN REVIEW Atlantic 10 Annual Awards 102-103 POSTSEASON HISTORY 2012-13 Standings/Championship/Postseason 56 Career Records 104-107 All-Time Postseason Records 150-151 Notes 57-58 Single-Season Individual Records 108-110 Year-by-Year Postseason Results 152-157 2012-13 Individual Stats Leaders 59-60 Single-Season Team Records 111-112 Atlantic 10 NBA Draft History 158 2012-13 Team Stats Leaders 61-62 Single-Game Individual Records 113-115 Alumni in the NBA 159 2012-13 Individual Superlatives 63 Single-Game Team Records 116-117 2014 NCAA Tournament 160 2012-13 Team Superlatives 64 Individual Year-by-Year Records 118-120 Team Year-by-Year Records 121-123 Coaching Records 124-126 All-Time Atlantic 10 Roster 127-138 2013-14 ATLANTIC 10 MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE CREDITS Editor: Drew Dickerson Editorial Assistance: Chris Kilcoyne, Caitlin Bonner and Tom Waterman Design and layout: Grant Hawkins Design Photography: Mitchell Leff, Sideline Photos, Edward Lea, William A. Guerro & SnapShot Photo, NBA Entertainment, Atlantic 10 Sports Information Offices, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment/ Barclays Center, Associated Press, Atlantic 10 Member Institutions Printing: The Brandt Company ATLANTIC10.COM PAGE 1 ABOUT THE ATLANTIC 10 On March 2, 1975, the idea of what is now the Atlantic 10 Conference The league sponsors Academic All-Conference teams in each of its was conceived. What started as an eight-school, men’s basketball- sports and honors two student-athletes as the A-10 Student-Athletes 2012-13 REVIEW BASEBALL only affiliation has grown into a 13-university, 21-sport league that of the Year. Moreover, the Atlantic 10 provides four postgraduate Saint Louis used three home runs to power its way to the 2013 is universally hailed as one of the best conferences in the country. scholarship grants to qualified student-athletes. In 2012-13, nearly Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship with a 7-4 victory over Charlotte. 200 student-athletes earned Academic All-Conference recognition, It is the third A-10 title for Saint Louis (2006, 2010 & 2013) and That growth and prominence is a direct result of the ideals and while Saint Louis’ Alejandro (Alex) Aleman, Shane Basen of the Billikens earned the A-10’s automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA commitments of the member institutions of the Atlantic 10 – The Charlotte, Nicole Cherok of Duquesne and Sadie Wonders from Division I Baseball Championship. SLU, which dropped its opening University of Dayton, Duquesne University, Fordham University, Dayton were named Postgraduate Scholarship recipients. The game of the championship to Xavier on Thursday, won four games George Mason University, The George Washington University, Postgraduate Scholarship program has been so successful that over the course of 24 hours to take the title. Saint Louis becomes La Salle University, University of Massachusetts, University of the Atlantic 10’s Directors of Athletics recently voted to more than the first teams since XU’s 2009 squad to win the championship Rhode Island, University of Richmond, St. Bonaventure University, double the number of recipients to 10 individuals and increase the out of the consolation bracket. SLU’s Alex Kelly was named the Saint Joseph’s University, Saint Louis University and Virginia value each recipient receives to $7,000. The program will expand Championship’s Most Outstanding Player after setting records for Commonwealth University. The league will add one more to its ranks beginning with the 2014 honorees. in 2014 when Davidson College becomes the 14th institution to join hits with 12 and RBI with 13. The Billikens as a team hit seven the A-10. The Atlantic 10 Conference once again earned high marks in the homeruns during the week, which ties a championship record, while latest Academic Progress Rates (APR). This includes ranking fifth their 92 hits in seven games is a championship best. Saint Louis In 2012-13, the Atlantic 10 continued to be proactive in navigating among all 32 Division I Conferences with a 984 average, 10 points played in the Columbia Regional where it lost host South Carolina sweeping conference realignment, adding George Mason University above the national average. The Atlantic 10 had 49 teams rated with and were knocked out of the tournament with a loss to Clemson. for 2013 and Davidson College in 2014. The additions follow a very perfect scores, up from 40 last year, and there were 106 teams with MEN’S BASKETBALL successful first year by Virginia Commonwealth University, which a score of 990 or better. In total, there were 184 conference teams In what was a historic season for the Atlantic 10 Conference, Saint began full membership on July 1, 2012. The league continues to with APR scores at or above the national average, representing 76 Louis won its first A-10 title with a 62-56 win over league newcomer draw national praise for its decisions during conference realignment percent of all A-10 teams. Of the 21 championship sponsored sports VCU in the first championship played in Barclays Center. The in selecting institutions driven by academics and basketball. The in the Atlantic 10, 19 had a sport average at or above the national Billikens, who lost former coach Rick Majerus in December, were league was deemed the “winner” of conference realignment in 2011- average. There were 54 A-10 programs that earned national APR one of a record nine teams selected for the postseason, including 12. The three additions were part of a five-year Strategic Initiative public recognition for scores ranked in the top 10 percent of their five selections (VCU, Temple, Saint Louis, La Salle and Butler) into Plan that was adopted during the 2010-11 academic year. respective sports in APR scores and the league ranked fourth among the NCAA Tournament. La Salle, which played in the opening round all Division I conferences in number of teams publically recognized The 13 member institutions of the A-10 are united and strengthened in Dayton beat Boise State to start a 6-0 streak for the A-10 that by the NCAA. by their diversity. Each is extraordinary in its educational mission, resulted in every team advancing to the third round. La Salle then whether of a Catholic faith, a private university or a land grant The Atlantic 10 boasted a second-place ranking in the single-year picked up one more win and advanced to the Sweet 16, the sixth institution. The varied pursuits of each member prove that there are Graduation Success Rate (GSR) among all Division I leagues that straight year the Atlantic 10 had a team in the Sweet 16. Charlotte, many threads that weave the fabric for a great conference. was released in the Fall of 2012. Measured in a six-year window, UMass and Saint Joseph’s all earned NIT bids and Richmond played The Atlantic 10 Conference, with a total population of over 82 million 90 percent of freshman enrolling in an A-10 institution in 2005 in the CBI. The historic year saw seven different teams earn poll people within its geographic footprint of seven states and the District graduated. Twelve of the league’s institutions were above the votes or get ranked, 10 teams in the Top 100 of the RPI and 16 wins of Columbia, will crown champions in 21 sports this year: baseball, national four-year GSR average of 8o percent and four of those over ranked opponents. programs, Dayton, George Washington, Richmond and Saint men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Joseph’s were all over 90 percent. The Atlantic 10 also rates in the field hockey, men’s golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s Natasha Cloud scored 15 points to help Saint Joseph’s rally to Top 10 in men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball in the indoor and outdoor track & field, women’s rowing, men’s and beat Fordham, 47-46, and win the Atlantic 10 Women’s Basketball single-year GSR. The league is ninth nationally in men’s basketball, women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s swimming & diving, Championship, earning the Hawks their first trip to the NCAA graduating at a 74 percent rate, nearly 7 percent above the national men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball. tournament since 2000. This was the first year that the women, average. In women’s basketball the league ranks sixth with an along with the men, played at Barclays Center. In the past the The presidents and chancellors of Atlantic 10 institutions, in incredible 96 percent graduation rate for its 2004 freshman class, 10 women played their tournament on four consecutive days in conjunction with Atlantic 10 Commissioner Bernadette V.