TO NEWS MEDIA: This 1977-78 edition of the Morehead State University Men's Basketball Media Guide has been prepared to aid you in covering the Eagles and to provide information about our athletes, coaches and University. If additional materials are needed, please write or call the Sports Information Director at any time. Black-and-white photographs are available with newspaper releases. Color slides, 16mm movie film and tape recordings are supplied to radio and television outlets. GENERAL INFORMATION CONTENTS LOCATION-Morehead, Kentucky (40351), Rowan County, THE UNIVERSITY ........ ................ .. 1 on Interstate 64, equidistant from Ashland and Lexington THE ADMINISTRATION .... .. .. ... ... ... ... 2 in the foothills of, the Daniel Boone National Forest. THE COACHES . .. ... .. ... ... .. ........ 6 ENROLi.lMENT-7,234 (Fall, 1977) THE EAGLES ... ........... .............. 10 FOUNDED-1922 THE ROSTER ........... .t.' ... .............. 19 PRESIDENT -Dr. Morris Norfleet THE OPPONENTS ..... ... .. ... ......... .. .. 22 ATHLETIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN-Dr. Rodger Hammons, THE RECORDS . .. ... ... ......... ... 26 Associate Professor of Mathematics ATHLETIC DIRECTOR-G. E. (Sonny) Moran Office Phone: 606-783-3335 Home Phone: 606-784-6789 ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR-John E. (Sonny) Allen Office Phone: 606-783-3335 Home Phone: 606-784-5332 PRESS INFORMATION HEAD BASKETBALL COACH-John V. (Jack) Schalow, PRESS PASSES-Passes for the working press are Pacific '65 issued on an individual game basis by the Sports Office Phone: 606-783-3353 Information Director. Credentials should be requested as Home Phone: 606-784-6807 early as possible. Press personnel attending as guests are ASSISTANT COACHES- entitled to general admission seating outside the press row Jimmy Russell, Louisiana State '64 area. Ike Unseld, Morehead State 73 HEAD TRAINER-A. G. (Ray) Mullins BROADCAST-Permission for broadcast rights must be SCHOOL COLORS-Royal Blue and Gold secured from the Sports Information Director. Line NICKNAME-Eagles installations are ordered by the individual stations through CONFERENCE-Ohio Valley Conference (NCAA Division I) their local telephone companies. Each station is assigned GYMNASIUM-Wetherby Gymnasium (5,000) two seats. MEN'S SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR-Jim Wells Office Phone: 606-783-3325 PRESS ROW SEATING-Wetherby Gymnasium press row Home Phone: 606-784-8073 is restricted to accredited writers, radio-television Telecopier: 606-783-3325 broadcasters, scouts and other designated officials. Only Press Row: 606-783-3281 cameramen and photographers are permitted on the 1976-77 LETTERMEN LOST, RETURNING-5, 6 sidelines, and their activity must not interfere with play. HOME TIPOFF TIME-7:30 p.m. EST Seating is assigned by the Sports Information Director. MSU BASKETBALL ADDRESS-UPO 1236, MSU, Morehead, KY supplies a play-by-play account at the end of each half. First 40351 half and final statistics also are provided. Telephones and OFFICE LOCATION-Wetherby Gymnasium refreshments are available. In addition, a Xerox Telecopier is on duty at each game. SCOUTING PASSES-Passes for scouts should be requested at least a week in advance from the Sports Information Director. One seat is allocated to each 1977-78 MEDIA GUIDE-Published by Morehead State organization requesting credentials. Additional seating will University. Information compiled and edited by Jim Wells, be granted if available. Passes must be claimed in person at Randy Stacy, and Jack Kelley. Photography by George the main ticket window. Burgess. 1 MOREHEAD STATE program has produced a series of design awards from the Kentucky UNIVERSITY Society of Architects. Dominating MSU's campus skyline are the two tallest occupied structures in Eastern Kentucky, 19-story Cartmell Hall and 16-story Mignon Tower. Academically, the University is comprised of six schools-Applied Sciences and Technology, Business and Economics, Education, Human­ ities, Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences. They offer 145 programs of study from the associate degree through a joint doctoral degree. Almost 50 per cent of the faculty holds earned doctorates. Administratively, the University operates under a 10-member Board of Regents with eight citizens appointed by the governor of Kentucky. The two other seats are held by elected faculty and student representatives who hold full voting rights. The administrative structure consists primarily of four bureaus-academic affairs, f i scal affairs, research and development and student affairs. Dr. Morris L. Norfleet, who took office Jan. 1, 1977, is MSU's eighth president. A graduate of Purdue University and the University of Kentucky, he joined the faculty and administrative staff in 1962 as director of student teaching. The Pulaski County (Ky.) native also served as director of research and program development, vice president for research and development and as acting president. Athletically, the University spon­ sors a full program of intercollegiate sports for men and women. Intercollegiate competition at MSU is Growth-in quality and quantity-is and upwards of $75 million has been conducted in accordance with the the continuing theme at Morehead expended in capital construction. rules and regulations of the Ohio State University. The faculty and staff today number Valley Conference, National Colle­ From a teachers' college little more than 900 persons and the fiscal giate Athletic Association, the known outside Kentucky, MSU has outlay exceeds $25 million yearly. Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate evolved into a regional university More than 20,000 persons hold MSU Conference and the Association of reaching out to serve Kentucky, degrees. lntercolleg iate Athletics for Women. Appalachia and the nation. Physically, the University consists In addition, students may participate Morehead State stands today on a of more than 50 major structures. MSU in almost 30 intramural activities. The 500-acre campus in the foothills of also owns an agricultural complex University's athletic facilities include a Daniel Boone National Forest, an north of Morehead, a nine-hole golf 10,000-seat stadium with an eight­ academic community known for its course east of the city and an outdoor lane, quarter-mile oval track, a physical beauty, educational excel­ education center on Cave Run Lake, 5,000-seat gymnasium, a nine-hole lence and congenial spirit. west of Morehead. Capital con~truc­ golf course, a 1,200-seat indoor track, Statistically, the rise of MSU in the tion projects totaling $8 million are an indoor swimming pool, 14 last two decades has been breath­ under way or in the planning stages. all-weather tennis courts, a 1,200-seat taking. Enrollment has mushroomed In recent years, Morehead State's baseball park and a lighted soccer more than 1,000 per cent to over 7,500 imaginative yet practical building field. 2 THE ADMINISTRATION Although he technically is a " new" development in 1965. He became a Directors of the Gateway Area president, Dr. Morris L. Norfleet is no vice president in 1968. Development District, and a member stranger to Morehead State University. He began his career in education as of the Board of Trustees of By the time he was chosen last fall a teacher in the Spiceland (Ind.) Public Campbellsville College. to take office Jan. 1, 1977, as MSU's Schools in 1952and joined the Indiana He formerly served the Kentucky eighth chief executive, Dr. Norfleet Farm Bureau Cooperative Association Council on Public Higher Education as had been a member of the University's as a public relations assistant in 1958. a member of the Formula Funding faculty and staff for nearly 15 years, He assumed duties as a market Task Force and Long-Range Planning including the last six months of 1976 research analyst with the Indiana Farm Committee and chairman of the as acting president. Bureau Cooperative Association in Comprehensive Planning Task Force. 1960 and then served two years as He also has served on the Gateway Before moving into the president's instructor of education at Purdue Comprehensive Health Planning office permanently he had served eight University. Council, the Kentucky Science and years as vice president for research Dr. Norfleet earned his bachelor's Technology Commission and the and development. degree in 1952 from the University of Northeast Kentucky Crime Com­ The Pulaski County (Ky.) native was Kentucky and received an M. S. in mission. selected from more than 120 education from Purdue University in Dr. Norfleet has been listed in the candidates to succeed the retiring Dr. 1957. He earned his doctoral degree Outstanding Educators of America, Adron Doran and was appointed to the from Purdue in 1962. Outstanding Personalities in the presidency by unanimous vote of the Dr. Norfleet currently is serving as a South, National Directory of Adminis­ Board of Regents. member of the Federal Relations trators in Higher Education and Phi He joined the MSU faculty in 1962 Committee of the American Associa­ Delta Kappa National Directory of as associate professor of education tion of State Colleges and Univer­ Researchers. and director of student teaching and sities, a member of the Board of He is married to the former Loistene advanced to professor of education Directors of the Area Health Education Tarter of Nancy. They have one son, and director of research and program System, chairman of the Board of Douglas Lee. 3 served on the Mountaineer staff for nine seasons, the last ATHLETIC five as head coach. Moran began his coaching career at Chamberlain Junior High School in Charleston, W. Va., in 1950. After serving as DIRECTOR head basketball coach and coaching numerous other sports G.E.- (Sonny) Moran at Elkview and Stonewall Jackson high schools, he became head coach and athletic director at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. He remained at Morris Harvey from 1957 through 1965 before moving to WVU. He posted a 205-141 career coaching record. He was selected the college "Coach of the Year" in West Virginia in 1962 and was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference "Coach of the Year" in 1964. He served The foundation for any structure must be strong for the as coach of the South squad in the North-South College structure to withstand the elements.