Bob McKillop

The McKillop Era Owns Davidson record in career wins with 340 All-time leader in SoCon victories with 191 Five NCAA Tournament appearances Three NIT appearances 2008 National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year 2008 Coach Clair Bee Award winner 65 of 65 seniors graduated Eight 20-win seasons Five SoCon Tournament championships Nine SoCon regular-season titles Three undefeated SoCon seasons 36 professional players BOB MCKILLOP

Davidson coach Bob McKillop gets on into the players’ entrance at Ford Field. THE MCKILLOP FILE the bus like a general preparing to lead his The trip took 15 minutes. It was no or- troops into battle. He takes his seat on the dinary trip from Dearborn into Detroit. It NAME Robert McKillop front row to the right of the driver, and was more magic than routine. It was a BIRTHDATE July 13, 1950 when he sits it’s the signal for the driver ride that took the Wildcats to the site of BIRTHPLACE Queens, N.Y. to shut the door and get the NCAA , the finals of the WIFE Cathy moving. Midwest Regionals. CHILDREN Kerrin, Matt, Brendan This is the way it is for Davidson was on the Broadway stage, COLLEGE Hofstra ’72 Davidson basketball on all right. The Wildcats of Bob McKillop DEGREE History road trips. Bus leaves at against the mighty Kansas Jayhawks, All-time winningest coach in Davidson and Southern 6:40. It’s best to be steeped in a rich basketball tradition. The Conference history with 340 victories and 191 league aboard by 6:30, because dome hosted 57,563 fans for this game wins. the Wildcats operate on while millions more watched on televi- 65 of 65 seniors have graduated during the McKillop era. sion around the world. They saw a great MST – McKillop Stan- COACHING HONORS Bob McKillop dard Time. game, a fierce tug of war that saw neither Head Coach Once the bus rolls, si- side blink, neither team willing to con- NABC NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR lence prevails. It’s time cede an inch. at its best. 2008 to focus, reflect, get ready to play. As Kansas ended the 40-minute battle with COACH CLAIR BEE AWARD McKillop likes to say to his players at two more points than Davidson and went 2008 breakfast the morning of a road game, on to become national champions. SOCON COACH OF THE YEAR “It’s Game Day, baby.” All was not lost for the ‘Cats, though. 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008 This time things were different, signifi- They proved that dreams do come true, HUGH DURHAM FINALIST cantly so. It was March 30, 2008, and while that David and Goliath can be replayed in 2007, 2008 the calendar said it was spring the brisk the 21st century, and that pride in a bas- CHAMPIONSHIPS Michigan air said otherwise. It was cold ketball program and the way it goes about 1996 and snow lay on the ground. The team its business can bring more goodwill and North Division Regular Season 1997 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE North Division Regular Season “Last year during the NCAA Tournament, the entire country got to see what I've 1998 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE known for 30 years. Bob McKillop is one of the best coaches in the country and North Division Regular Season has been for a long time.” Southern Conference Tournament University of Texas coach 2002 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE North Division Regular Season bus was preparing to leave the Dearborn recognition to a great liberal arts college Southern Conference Tournament Inn and head over to Ford Field in Detroit, than could $20 million in the hands of a 2003 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ordinarily a ride of 30 to 35 minutes de- advertising agency. North Division Regular Season pending on traffic. Inside Ford Field, “Sweet Caroline,” the 2004 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE Not this day, though. adopted theme song of the Wildcats, was South Division Regular Season A Detroit policeman stood next to the never louder or delivered with more 2005 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE Davidson bus, and once the driver said, pride than on this Sunday afternoon. South Division Regular Season 2006 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE “We’re ready,” the officer barked his own McKillop had lost a game but the body Southern Conference Tournament orders. Five Detroit police cars sprung of their work had captured a nation’s bas- 2007 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE into action, emergency lights swirling and ketball heart. It was real life Hoosiers. All South Division Regular Season sirens blaring. Working with as much co- the hard work paid off. Southern Conference Tournament ordination as synchronized swimmers the Each morning when McKillop enters 2008 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE officers raced down Oakwood Blvd., his office in Davidson’s Baker Sports South Division Regular Season clearing a path for the bus by stopping Complex, he passes a December 1968 Southern Conference Tournament traffic and shooing it aside. Police cars in Sports Illustrated magazine that is dis- NCAA Tournament Regional Finalist front of the bus, beside it, behind it, one played prominently, one that has a cover racing ahead to clear a path. picturing North Carolina’s Charlie Scott, history, finished the season ranked third The bus moved rapidly behind a flying Kentucky’s Mike Casey and Davidson’s in the nation, and fought powerful North wedge of black and whites. Down Oak- Mike Maloy, under a headline that reads, Carolina to the final second before falling wood Blvd. past the Ford plant to I-94, “Challengers to UCLA.” 87-85 in the NCAA Elite Eight. One step four lanes, traffic being whisked to a stop. While others might have doubted from the Final Four. , the The police caravan cleared the way for a Davidson’s ability to again achieve such a coach at the time, said it was most likely high-speed transition to I-96 East and then lofty place among basketball’s elite, the best team he ever had at Davidson. onto Fisher Street past the beautiful St. McKillop never did. He knew his Wildcats To even suggest that Davidson basket- John’s Episcopal church. A right onto – with dedication and hard work – could ball might reach those heights again Rush Street, a left on St. Automotive, a reach the pinnacle, too. Davidson won 27 caused some people to scoff. Not McKil- right on Beacon and finally down a ramp games in 1969, the second most in school lop. He knew it could be accomplished. It

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was in his heart and soul, so sure was he. He received the Coach If he hadn’t allowed himself this dream, Clair Bee Award. He hadn’t had such faith, he wouldn’t have was named the South- stayed at Davidson for 20 years as its head ern Conference Coach basketball coach. He would have sought of the Year for the sev- another rainbow where maybe dreams do enth time. Davidson come true. has won nine of the He knows now that nothing is impossi- last 13 Southern Con- ble for Davidson basketball. Hey, if he tells ference Division cham- his players to latch onto large dreams, pionships, six of the why should he be different? Coming off last seven, and three two consecutive 29-win seasons, he be- consecutive league ti- lieves now more than ever. Believing tles. should not be confused with complacency, Every basketball fan however. He remains fired up and hungry. in America knows ation in 1972, he signed as a free agent He signed a contract extension with about Davidson now. The dream-maker with the Philadelphia 76ers but was cut. Davidson that will keep him with the has spun some magic. The 76ers went 9-72 that season. “I was school at least through 2016. Davidson is “Many times you only hear about the cut from the worst team in NBA history,” his home. He wants more banners, cham- coaches in the power conferences being McKillop jokes. Humility surfaces in pionship banners. great coaches,” says , the strange ways, sometimes humorously. Basketball coaches around the nation highly successful University of Michigan Reluctantly accepting the fact that his have long known how talented McKillop coach. “Bob McKillop is equal or better playing career was over, he took a job is. But when a coach labors just out of the than any other coach that I know, and I’ve teaching history and coaching basketball national spotlight it sometimes takes a lit- coached against most of the best in the at Holy Trinity High in in

“When coaches in Europe talk about the influence of American coaches in helping build up the international game of basketball, Bob McKillop is on a short list with guys like , Hubie Brown and . Because he has given them his valu- able time through the years, they figured out long ago what college basketball fans have discovered recently - Bob is a great coach.” Fran Fraschilla, ESPN Basketball Analyst tle longer for others to discover and rec- country in my 16 years in Division I.” 1972. After a sparkling 86-25 record as ognize his good works. Now the world Like many outstanding coaches, McKil- coach, in 1978 McKillop was offered assis- knows about Davidson basketball and its lop cloaks himself in mystery, lest he dare tant coaching positions at the University head coach. McKillop was named 2008 become predictable, a trait coaches aren’t of Pennsylvania and Davidson where National Coach of the Year by the Na- allowed. His resume tells an interesting had just been named tional Association of Basketball Coaches. story, one of dedication, discipline, prepa- head coach. In making his decision, ration, competitiveness and humility. McKillop recalled his last game for East He was a successful baseball and bas- Carolina, the loss to Davidson, the way ketball player at Chaminade High School the fans celebrated the championship. In in the New York City High School making his decision between Penn and Catholic League, where one of his fellow Davidson, he visited the Davidson cam- students in homeroom for four years was pus in North Mecklenburg, was stricken Bill O’Reilly of the O’Reilly Factor on FOX with its beauty and charm, as well as the News. Jack Curran, the coach at rival mission of the college, and the uniqueness Archbishop Molloy High, helped him get of the village. “Davidson, here I come!” a basketball scholarship to East Carolina. The Wildcats went 8-19 that season. Penn His last game at East Carolina was in the went to the NCAA Final Four. Oh, well. old Charlotte Coliseum in the 1969 South- After one year on the Davidson staff, a ern Conference tournament champi- great high school opportunity beckoned at onship game, a 102-76 loss to Davidson, a Long Island Lutheran High School. game that stuck in his mind and later McKillop went there as head basketball would have major consequences in his coach, director of summer programs, and life. for two years served as interim headmas- Homesick and ready to do something ter. He compiled a record there of 182-51. about it, he left East Carolina for Hofstra In his high school coaching career, he won University where he became the team’s five New York State championships, MVP and later was inducted into the Hof- coached five high school All-Americas, stra Basketball Hall of Fame. After gradu- 73 BOB MCKILLOP

one of whom was Matt Doherty, former Coach McKillop leading the way.” head coach at North Carolina and now in McKillop’s players talk about his lead- the same position at SMU. ership, teaching, and confidence. “Bob McKillop is easily one of the na- “Coach McKillop is the best at prepar- tion’s best coaches,” Doherty says. “What ing his team,” says Logan Kosmalski, who he has done at Davidson is truly remark- was an All-Southern Conference player in able. He recruits top-flight students for 2005 and now plays professionally in Ger- one of the country’s top liberal arts col- many. “His knowledge and attention to leges and competes in the demanding detail made us feel like we could win Southern Conference along with a ridicu- against any opponent.” lously tough non-conference schedule.” Now 58 years old, McKillop loves his- McKillop accepted the challenge of re- tory, politics, Italian cuisine, nice clothes, building Davidson basketball and became good books and movies that teach him its head coach in 1989. He proceeded cau- life’s lessons. A frequent lecturer, he has as tiously at first, as he learned to mesh what many basketball friends in Europe as he fit at Davidson with his personal philoso- does in the United State. He once dreamed phy. “Davidson is a special place, a unique of being a U.S. Senator from New York, a place,” McKillop says. “In recruiting and notion that has since subsided. His read- staffing, we must have the right fit, other- ing preferences lean toward history, poli- wise it could lead to frustration and im- tics, leadership, coaching stories, and not mediate failure.” much fiction. Four movies rank as his fa- Davidson has a special blend of aca- vorites: Life is Beautiful, Michael Collins, demics, social life and athletics. Not all Godfather, and Schindler’s List. He grew up on Long Island and had a good players with excellent grades are a “Those movies teach great lessons fascination with sports for as long as he fit. McKillop’s ability to put the proper about life, family, struggles and leader- can remember. He loved Army football people in place has been a leading reason ship,” he says. In his view, movies should and the legacy of the Black Knights of the that he has succeeded at such a high level do more than entertain; they should also Hudson. The first college basketball game at Davidson. teach life’s lessons. that he saw in person was atAlumni Hall, One of McKillop’s former Davidson McKillop cherishes each moment and St. John’s vs. NYU. He loved going to players, Martin Ides, now in his seventh treats it as gold. Whether it’s on the bus

“Bob is one of the coaches you want coaching your son. He values character and hard work as much as he values winning and doing things the right way. Bob has put his stamp on Davidson. He is to Davidson what Coach K is to Duke.” University of Michigan coach John Beilein

season of playing professional basketball with his team to a road game or waiting games at Alumni Hall and Madison in Europe, says: “There are many things for a flight in an airport terminal, he al- Square Garden and dreamed of playing that set Coach McKillop apart from all the ways has work at hand. When a friend for NYU, a powerhouse at the time. Al- coaches I’ve had…However, what I ap- was late to a breakfast meeting last sum- though he’s been in North Carolina for 20 preciate most is what Coach calls our mer, McKillop waved it off, saying as he years, he hasn’t lost the sharp edges of his Davidson ‘basketball family.’ I stay in con- surveyed papers on the table in front of New York brogue. His phone mail mes- tact with many of our guys…I would love him, “No problem. I had plenty of work sage begins, “How ya doin’?” His to be on an all-Davidson team again with to do.” He carries his office with him. metaphors, which he often uses, speak of “Broadway stages,” and “magical carpet rides.” His coaching career at Davidson has been scintillating by any barometer: 340- 225, the longest tenure of any Davidson basketball coach, more victories than any coach in school history, and his 191 South- ern Conference wins –including 20 wins and no losses last season — are more than any coach in league history. He’s won nine Southern Conference division titles, five SoCon tournament championships, and taken his team to five NCAA tournaments and three postseason NITs. All this win- ning hasn’t come at any academic sacri- fice, as all of his Davidson seniors have

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graduated. late syrup on top of a chocolate brownie. Duke coach calls McKillop and his wife Cathy, a knowl- McKillop “a sensational coach.” Texas edgeable basketball person in her own coach Rick Barnes says, “There are some right, have three children – Kerrin Heil, great coaches out there who deserve 28, a 2002 Davidson graduate who mar- recognition, and Bob is at the very top of ried Henry Heil last August, Matthew, 25, that list.” who graduated from Davidson three McKillop derived his basketball philos- years ago after playing for his father for ophy from many sources: , four years, and came back last summer to Al and Frank McGuire, Jack Curran, join the Davidson coaching staff as an as- Frank Morris, Paul Lynner, Dean Smith, sistant, and Brendan, 20, a sophomore on , Red Auerbach, Ettore this year’s Davidson team. Messina and others. He’s studied the win- “Davidson College is a special place,” ning ways of former college football Coach McKillop says. “One reason our coaches Ara Parseghian, Bud Wilkinson teams have been so united and close is be- and Knute Rockne. “I’ve stolen from the cause we reflect the total Davidson phi- best,” he says, laughing. losophy. Our players remain close long McKillop’s demanding practices are after they leave Davidson.” planned to the second. He stresses funda- When McKillop thinks back to playing mentals, is a disciplinarian as well as a against Davidson in 1969, he reflects on All-America selection in junior Stephen stickler for details, but his players always the job Lefty Driesell did in putting the Curry. know he cares. Wildcats in the nation’s Top 10 and twice Davidson basketball returned to the Jouni Eho, one of McKillop’s former taking them to the NCAA Elite Eight. “Broadway stage.” A great season that players now playing overseas, was mar- “What Lefty Driesell and his players did produced a pleasant, life-long memory, ried in the summer of 2005. McKillop at- is one of the greatest stories in college bas- but it’s the past. That’s the way McKillop tended the ceremony – in Finland. “That ketball history,” McKillop says. views it. was very special to me,” Eho says. With Lefty in attendance for two of the Now the scoreboard for his program Terrell Ivory, now Davidson’s director NCAA games, the story was repeated by reads 0-0, ready to turn the page and start of basketball operations, often was pres- the 2008 Wildcats. Back to the Elite Eight, a new chapter. The dream is still alive, ent when McKillop was recruiting his a ranking of ninth in the nation in the final burning brightly. brother, Titus, who eventually chose Penn 2008 college basketball poll, a preseason State over Davidson. “Even though Titus didn’t go to Davidson, when my father COACHING RECORD died, Coach McKillop was at the fu- neral,” Terrell said. “I said then that I OVERALL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE YEAR SCHOOL WLPCT. WLPCT. FINISH wanted to play for this man. He’s like a 1973-78 Holy Trinity H.S. 86 25 .775 second father to me.” 1979-89 Long Island Lutheran 182 51 .781 McKillop runs several miles most 1989-90 Davidson 4 24 .143 Independent days, never gains an ounce, and as his as- 1990-91 10 19 .345 68.429 4th (Big South) sistants can attest, often gets so lost in his 1991-92 11 17 .393 68.429 6th (Big South) work that he can go a full day without 1992-93 14 14 .500 10 8 .556 5th eating. Sweets are a weakness, though, 1993-94 22 8 .733 13 5 .722 T-2nd and he attacks a bag of chocolate chip 1994-95 14 13 .519 77.500 3rd North Division 1995-96 25 5 .833 14 0 1.000 1st North Division cookies the way a woodpecker works on 1996-97 18 10 .643 10 4 .714 T-1st North Division a sugar maple. Maybe even adds choco- 1997-98 20 10 .667 13 2 .867 T-1st North Division 1998-99 16 11 .593 11 5 .688 2nd North Division 1999-00 15 13 .536 10 6 .625 2nd North Division 2000-01 15 17 .469 79.438 4th North Division 2001-02 21 10 .677 11 5 .688 T-1st North Division 2002-03 17 10 .630 11 5 .688 T-1st North Division 2003-04 17 12 .586 11 5 .688 T-1st South Division 2004-05 23 9 .719 16 0 1.000 1st South Division 2005-06 20 11 .645 10 5 .666 2nd South Division 2006-07 29 5 .853 17 1 .944 1st South Division 2007-08 29 7 .806 20 0 1.000 1st South Division DAVIDSON 340 225 .602 203 83 .710 1st South Division HIGH SCHOOL 268 76 .779 The McKillop family. Front (L-R): Sons Matt and NCAA TOURNAMENT — 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008 Brendan, wife Cathy. Back (L-R): Son in law NIT — 1994, 1996, 2005 Henry, daughter Kerrin. * Davidson competed in the Big South in 1990-91 and 1991-92

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CLASS OF 1992 Paul Denmond Insurance Agent Metropolitan Life Insurance Houston, Texas Paul Drobnitch Director of Business Development Stryker Communications McKillop with Edward Gaines Paul Denmond Dallas, Texas Jeff Anderson Mark McGuire Sterling Freeman Jeff Anderson CLASS OF 1990 Executive Director Sr. Developing Manager Edward Gaines Wildacres Leadership Bankston Partners Durham, N.C. Charlotte, N.C. Cardiovascular Specialist Scios Inc. Paul Rybiski Quinn Harwood Tallahassee, Fla. Marketing Representative, IT Sales Youth Pastor Maurice “Mo” Gray Avnet Amateur Support Sydney, Australia Tustin, Calif. Commercial Lender Pro Basketball — CBA Washington Mutual CLASS OF 1993 Miramar, Fla. Mark McGuire J.D. Heuer Jeff Harris Professor — John Abbott College President, Founder Quebec, Canada Neurologist Altos Medical, LLC Ph.D. — Cornell University Huntsville, Ala. Raleigh, N.C. Brandon Williams Alan Hunter NBA — Director of Player Development Century Chemical Controller Assoc. Head Basketball Coach New York, N.Y. Jonesboro, Ga. Davidson College NBA — Atlanta, New York, San Antonio, A.J. Morgan Detlef Musch Golden State; CBA; France, Greece, Ger- many, Italy Vice President of Amateur Sports Division Pro Basketball CLASS OF 1997 Bollinger Insurance France, Italy, Germany Caldwell, N.J. CLASS OF 1994 Jay Arial Jay Schmitt Ronald Horton Master’s Program Director of Business Development Teacher and Basketball Coach Strategic Benefits Advisors Assistant VP of Client Access Christ Church School Atlanta, Ga. Bank of America Alexandria, Va. Dick Seidel Charlotte, N.C. Narcisse Ewodo Janko Narat Sales Representative Pro Basketball — France, Italy, Germany Ticor Title Insurance Computer Programmer CLASS OF 1998 Chicago, Ill. Lucent Technologies CLASS OF 1991 Columbia, Md. Billy Armstrong Pro Basketball — Slovenia Turner Gilmore Chris Shields Camp Director Pro Players Basketball Instruction Attorney, Teacher Financial Advisor New Jersey Miramar, Fla. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Pro Basketball — Kosovo, Belgium Thomas Helland Durham, N.C. Mark Donnelly Jason Zimmerman Sports Consultant Commercial Real Estate Agent Blue Sombrero Head Basketball Coach Stafford Smith Commercial Realty Atlanta, Ga. Emory University Manasquan, N.J. Darry Strickland Atlanta, Ga. Basketball — Italy Asst. Principal and Head Coach CLASS OF 1995 Chris Stec Bell Multicultural High School Tim Caldwell Asst. Director of Safety,Education and Instruction Washington, D.C. American Canoe Association High School Teacher and Coach Fredericksburg, Va. Louisville, Ky. George Spain Pro Basketball — Sweden CLASS OF 1996 Chris Alpert NBDL - VP of Basketball Operations New York, N.Y. Pro Basketball — France Darry Strickland Detlef Musch NarcisseEwodo MarkDonnelly

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CLASS OF 2002 Michael Bree Irish Junior National Coach Pro Basketball — France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Poland Emeka Erege Pro Basketball — France, Germany LandryKosmalski ChaddHolmes Martin Ides Conor Grace John Falconi Pro Basketball — Czech Republic, Italy, CLASS OF 1999 Greece, Germany Chris Pearson Kenny Grant David Burns Pro Basketball — France, Italy, Greece Pro Basketball — France, Romania, Sweden Circulation Manager Fernando Tonella Ian Johnson Charlotte Observer Cornelius, N.C. Investment Banking UK IB Consultant Pro Basketball — Spain, Sweden Ben Ebong Factset Europe, Ltd. Matt McKillop London, England Pro Basketball — CBA, Australia, Spain, Ar- Pro Basketball — France Assistant Basketball Coach gentina, Germany, Turkey CLASS OF 2003 Davidson College Chadd Holmes Pro Basketball — Czech Republic Pete Anderer Jason Morton Middle School Teacher Fort Myers, Fla. Manager Wellington Management Company Pro Basketball — Ireland Tabla Restaurant Philadelphia, Pa. Ali Ton New York, N.Y. Pro Basketball — Germany Assistant Basketball Coach Wayne Bernard Pro Basketball — France, Germany Radford University Radford, Va. Pro Basketball — Israel, Greece, Sweden, CLASS OF 2007 Pro Basketball — Turkey France, Finland, Germany CLASS OF 2000 Michel Lusakueno Lamar Hull Jeff Bergmann Business School Pharmaceutical Sales Chapel Hill, N.C. Pro Basketball — England Financial Advisor CLASS OF 2004 John Falconi Bank One Chicago, Ill. Jouni Eho Associate Database Specialist Davor Halbauer The Nielsen Company Pro Basketball — Finland Wilton, Conn. Pro Basketball Terrell Ivory Graduate school, University of Connecticut Croatia, Ireland, Kosovo CLASS OF 2008 Assistant Basketball Coach Davidson College Boris Meno Head Basketball Coach / Dean of Students Pro Basketball — England The Webb School Nick Booker Pro Basketball — France Knoxville, Tenn. Jason Richards Pro Basketball — Sweden, France Assistant Coach Stephen Marshall Saddleback College Pro Basketball — Miami Heat Graduate School Thomas Sander Master’s Program CLASS OF 2005 Drexel University Loan Workout Analyst Pro Basketball — Germany, Conor Grace Wachovia The Netherlands New York, N.Y. Pro Basketball — Italy, Sweden, Greece Logan Kosmalski Pro Basketball — France, Poland, Germany CLASS OF 2006 Eric Blancett Comercial Real Estate Analyst Bank of America Atlanta, Ga. Chris Clunie Coordinator of Basketball Operations NBA International New York, N.Y. 2008 graduates Boris Meno (left), Thomas Sander Stephen Marshall Martin Ides (right) and Jason Richards (center)

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Career Coaching Records by Year

COACH YEARS SEASONS WLPCT J.W. Rhea 1908-09 112.333 No coach 1909-12 367.462 W.T. Cook 1912-13 101.000 No coach 1913-16 3 14 12 .538 W.M. Fetzer 1916-18 2 18 10 .643 No coach 1918-19 136.333 Fred Hengeveld 1919-22 3 20 19 .513 H.M. Grey 1922-23 198.529 Monk Younger 1923-31 8 83 61 .576 Eddie Biedenbach Flake Laird 1931-37 6 43 74 .368 Jim Larranaga Davidson Head Coach (1978-81) 1937-49 12 169 120 .585 Davidson Assistant (1971-76) UNCA Head Coach Boyd Baird 1949-52 3 24 53 .312 George Mason Head Coach Danny Miller 1952-55 3.5 24 52 .316 1956-60 4.5 35 79 .307 Lefty Driesell 1960-69 9 176 65 .730 1969-74 5 92 43 .681 Bo Brickels 1974-76 2 12 40 .231 Dave Pritchett 1976-78 2 14 40 .259 Eddie Biedenbach 1978-81 3 29 51 .363 1981-89 8 108 127 .460 Bob McKillop 1989-Pres. 19 340 225 .602 TOTALS 100 1220 1095 .527 Career Coaching Records by Wins

Rick Barnes COACH YEARS SEASONS WLPCT Bob McKillop Davidson Assistant (1978-80) 1. Bob McKillop 1989-Pres. 19 340 225 .602 Davidson Assistant (1978-79) Texas Head Coach 2. Lefty Driesell 1960-69 9 176 65 .730 Davidson Head Coach 3. Norman Shepard 1937-49 12 169 120 .585 4. Bobby Hussey 1981-89 8 108 127 .460 5. Terry Holland 1969-74 5 92 43 .681 6. Monk Younger 1923-31 8 83 61 .576 7. Flake Laird 1931-37 6 43 74 .368 8. Tom Scott 1956-60 4.5 35 79 .307 9. Eddie Biedenbach 1978-81 3 29 51 .363 10. Danny Miller 1952-55 3.5 24 52 .316 Boyd Baird 1949-52 3 24 53 .312 12. Fred Hengeveld 1919-22 3 20 19 .513 13. W.M. Fetzer 1916-18 2 18 10 .643 14. Dave Pritchett 1976-78 2 14 40 .259 Jeff Bzdelik 16. Bo Brickels 1974-76 2 12 40 .231 Matt Doherty 17. H.M. Grey 1922-23 198.529 Davidson Assistant (1978-80) 18. J.W. Rhea 1908-09 112.333 Davidson Assistant (1989-92) Air Force Head Coach Southern Methodist Head Coach 19. W.T. Cook 1912-13 101.000 No coach 7 23 25 .479 OVERALL 100 1220 1095 .527

NORMAN SHEPARD CHARLES “LEFTY” DRIESELL TERRY HOLLAND 1937-49, RECORD: 169-120 1960-69, RECORD: 176-65 1969-74, RECORD: 92-43

Norman Shepard held Coming from the high As an assistant and coaching ranks at David- school coaching ranks player under Driesell, son for 12 seasons while where his teams at New- Terry Holland became the also assuming the position port News posted a record 13th Davidson head bas- of athletic director. Shep- of 64-6, including a 57- ketball coach. He contin- ard was active in basket- game winning streak and a ued where Driesell left ball since his college days state championship, off, leading the ’Cats to at Davidson and North Driesell was determined to their third straight SoCon Carolina, where he re- put Davidson on the national map. As it title and an NCAA Tournament berth in ceived his bachelor’s degree. As coach of turned out, he coached three of Davidson’s his first season. Holland never had a los- the ‘Cats, Shepard’s win total of 169 has five All-Americans, led the Wildcats to ing season and was league coach of the only been surpassed by Lefty Driesell and their highest national ranking, took the year in 1970, ’71 and ’72. During his five current coach Bob McKillop. Prior to ’Cats to the Elite Eight on two consecutive seasons, the ’Cats lost only seven league Davidson, Shepard coached at UNC and occasions and won SoCon Coach of the games. Holland ended his career after in 1924 led an undefeated team to 25 con- Year an unprecedented four straight times. combining for 418 wins at Davidson and secutive wins and a recognized national His .730 winning percentage has yet to be Virginia. He ranks second in winning championship. He ranks third in career surpassed at Davidson. Driesell coached percentage at Davidson with a .681 mark wins at Davidson and fourth in winning the Wildcats to six straight 20-win seasons, and is currently the athletic director at percentage. also a mark that has not been outdone. East Carolina.

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After one of Davidson’s 29 victories in a fession, coaching was not always Matheny’s THE MATHENY FILE championship season last year, coach Bob goal. He grew up in Statesville about 20 miles McKillop was analyzing the game on his post- from the Davidson campus. He was a star stu- NAME Matthew Manson Matheny game radio show when he said, “I want to dent and football, basketball and tennis stand- BIRTHDATE Feb. 11, 1970 emphasize how much Coach Matheny con- out at North Iredell High School. He had BIRTHPLACE Shelby, N.C. tributed to our winning tonight. His excellent intentions of going to Wake Forest or Duke, WIFE Jennifer scouting and the way he communicated the but those plans changed when Davidson re- CHILDREN Brock (4) information to our players were invaluable.” cruited him as a football player. He had never COLLEGE Davidson ‘92 It’s not an uncommon sentiment around seen the Davidson campus until he visited as DEGREE History Davidson over the last 15 a high school senior, liked it, and enrolled as a years. student-athlete. He was a quarterback and COACHING HISTORY A 1992 Davidson gradu- wide receiver on the football team, a point ate and former Wildcat guard on the basketball team. 2003-Pres. Associate Head Coach Davidson football and basketball After graduation in the spring of 1993, Ma- 1993-2003 Assistant Coach Davidson captain, Matheny has been theny went to Germany to play a summer of an assistant coach on American football. McKillop contacted him McKillop’s staff since Aug. there and offered him a job as an assistant 1, 1993. Davidson has won coach on the Davidson staff. Matheny ac- 283 games during their cepted and joined Steve Shurina and Larry Matt Matheny stint together on the bench, Garloch on McKillop’s staff. Associate averaged 19 wins a season, The detour in career plans even surprised Head Coach won five SoCon tourna- Matheny. He graduated from Davidson with 16th Season ment championships and the full intentions of going to law school. But played in four NCAA even though he was recruited to Davidson to tournaments. play football, and joined the basketball team Now the program’s associate head coach, as a walk-on, basketball was always his first Matheny has been involved in more victories love. If he were going to coach, he knew bas- than any assistant coach in Davidson’s history. ketball would be his sport. But even when he He’s been by McKillop’s side as the Wildcats joined the coaching staff, he thought the job have won Southern Conference division would be a stopover between coaching and championships in nine of the last 13 years, and law school. now are considered the team to beat from year “The more I coached, the more I grew to to year. love it,” Matheny says. “A coach can play an “Coach Matheny is a symbol of what our influential role in the life of a college athlete.” program tries to represent,” Coach McKillop Matheny’s goal is to become a head coach says. “He’s smart, hard working and team ori- of his own program. McKillop has prepared ented. And, he wears Davidson on his heart.” him well, allowing Matheny to become im- Matheny loves preparing for games: the mersed in every single area of college coach- The Matheny Family: Matt, Jennifer and Brock. scouting of the opponent, drafting a plan for ing. He is the point man for Davidson’s the players, and then relaying that plan to the scheduling, works extensively with recruiting, team in video sessions and on the court. He excels at public relations, and is superb as an excels in all those areas. His rapport with the on-the-court teacher. players is so strong that a visitor could hear a “Coach McKillop has allowed me to work pin drop when he imparts scouting informa- in all areas,” Matheny says, “and I’ve learned tion to them in pre-game meetings. so much from him, in the way he has built a Although he now excels in his chosen pro- leading program with high integrity.” A highly-competitive person, Matheny says losing is tougher on him now than it was earlier in his coaching career, because he has so much invested now. “When we lose, it makes me want to work harder,” he says. “That’s another thing I learned from Coach McKillop.” Matheny and the former Jen- nifer Collins were married in June 2001. They are parents of Brock, born in April 2004, who is now a popular figure at Davidson’s home games. Jen- nifer is a licensed Real Estate Broker. The Matheny family lives in Davidson and is expect- ing their second child this Spring.

79 JIM FOX

Jim Fox has been an assistant coach on when he was still in high school. THE FOX FILE Bob McKillop’s Davidson basketball staff Coaching was in his blood, but so was during some of the program’s most suc- federal law enforcement. He interned with NAME James Patrick Fox cessful seasons. the U.S. Secret Service between his junior BIRTHDATE Oct. 2, 1973 Now in his eighth year as a Davidson as- and senior college years and seriously BIRTHPLACE Queens, N.Y. sistant, Fox has been on the bench as David- thought about joining the service as a career. WIFE Single son compiled an 146-64 overall record, 96-21 Fox saw how much his father loved basket- versus teams in the Southern Conference, ball and enjoyed the work, which influ- COLLEGE SUNY-Geneseo ‘95 won four conference tournament champi- enced him to give coaching a try, which he DEGREE Political Science onships, played in four did at St. Dominic. He’s glad he did. HIGH SCHOOL Chaminade NCAA tournaments and In addition to coaching at St. Dominic, one postseason NIT. Fox was also head coach and director of the COACHING HISTORY “It’s no coincidence Long Island Lightning AAU Basketball 2001-Pres. Assistant Coach Davidson that our program has en- Club, where one of his players was Matt 1996-2001 Associate Head Coach joyed consistent success McKillop, Coach McKillop’s son and a St. Dominic High School since Jim Fox joined our three-year starter at Davidson who gradu- 1995-2001 Head Coach/Director staff in August 2001,” ated in 2006. Fox coached more than 20 Long Island Lightning AAU Coach McKillop says. young men who went on to play college “Jim has developed into a basketball. Jim Fox superb recruiter and cou- Fox’s father now runs the Island Garden, Assistant Coach pled with his under- where Coach Fox and his brother, Jeff, have 8th Season standing of the game, he their own basketball camp for two weeks has become a very valu- each summer - the Fox Offensive Skills Bas- able member of our ketball Camp. staff.” Fox has had a long acquaintance with Now an assistant on the Davidson staff, Coach McKillop, first meeting him when Fox, a native of Levittown, N.Y., spent five McKillop was a highly successful coach at years as associate head coach at St. Dominic Long Island Lutheran High School. When High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y. He served McKillop offered Fox a job at Davidson, he one year as the school’s athletic director, and quickly accepted. as the head coach of the freshman team, di- “I knew Coach McKillop as a person and rected the St. Dominic frosh to an impres- a coach,” Fox says, “and I knew working for sive record of 55-1 and four consecutive him and learning from him would be great Catholic High School championships. He for my career. Coach lets his assistants get also taught government, economics and involved in all areas of coaching. The work criminal justice and psychology at the high ethic in the Davidson program runs from school. the coaches to the players. Everyone is Fox graduated in 1995 from the State Uni- working towards a common goal: to get to versity of New York at Geneseo College, the NCAA tournament and be successful in earning his degree in political science. Fox’s it.” father retired as a chief U.S. Probation Offi- Fox is single and lives in Davidson. His cer, and his mother retired as a school prin- brother, Jeff, is a lawyer, and his sister, Jen, is cipal at a Catholic elementary school on a nurse. His parents travel to see Davidson Long Island. In his off time, Fox’s father ran play several times each year. Coach Fox a youth basketball program on Long Island, loves golf, tennis, politics and rooting for his and Fox began coaching in the program beloved New York Yankees.

80 MATT MCKILLOP

Matt McKillop is back chasing a dream enough to win at a competitive Division III THE MCKILLOP FILE that he set aside for a year or two. McKillop, program, who also are good students, and now an assistant coach on his father’s staff then tell them there are no athletic scholar- NAME Matthew Robert McKillop at Davidson, always thought that he wanted ships available. You’ll find out in a hurry if BIRTHDATE March 22, 1983 to be a coach. you really want to be a coach. BIRTHPLACE Long Island, N.Y. Things changed somewhat, though, after Coach Zimmerman is special, though, WIFE Single McKillop and six other senior players grad- and certainly has the talent, skills and de- COLLEGE Davidson ‘06 uated from Davidson in 2006. They won the termination to get the job done. It will take DEGREE History Southern Conference championship and him some time, but he’ll do it. When David- HIGH SCHOOL played Ohio State a close son made its remarkable run to the Elite Charlotte Catholic game in the first round of Eight last season, Matt McKillop was pres- COACHING HISTORY the NCAA tournament ent for the Southern Conference tourna- before losing. The senior ment, as well as the NCAA tournament 2008-Pres. Assistant Coach Davidson class was extremely close games in Raleigh and Detroit. 2007-08 Assistant Coach Emory so it was an emotional Davidson basketball was still an impor- time for Matt McKillop tant part of his life, understandably so. when the season ended. When Tim Sweeney resigned from the Those seven guys would Davidson staff after last season to take an- never again play together other coaching job, Matt McKillop went Matt McKillop on the same team. Had to through the process of applying for the po- Assistant Coach come to grips with it, but sition and was hired. First Season it took time. Working for his father will take very lit- Unsure about a possi- tle adjustment, he believes. After all, he ble coaching career, Matt McKillop accepted grew up with him in the same house talking an offer to play professional basketball in basketball and reviewing strategy. He the Czech Republic, an experience that was- played for him for four years. He knows the n’t all that it might have been. Furthermore, system well and what his father expects. he injured his knee and within three months He’s quite familiar with assistant coaches returned home to have surgery. Matt Matheny and Jim Fox, as well as one McKillop took a job with the NBA Char- of his former teammates, Terrell Ivory, now lotte Bobcats in marketing. It kept him close Davidson’s director of basketball opera- to basketball only in the sense that he tions. The get acquainted period for Matt worked for a basketball franchise. Market- lasted all of about 15 minutes. ing and coaching are light years different. He will be involved in all aspects of the He missed the direct contact with the sport program: recruiting, editing tapes for scout- and realized that he really did want to ing and teaching purposes, and in practice coach. He waited until Davidson’s season he will scrimmage a lot with the scout squad was over before talking to his father about when they go against players who get the it. Then he sent out job resumes to coaches, bulk of Davidson’s playing time. Matt will made phone calls, built contacts. Then he push the regulars and challenge them to be- caught a break, a good one. Jason Zimmer- come better. man, a former Davidson player and assis- “I love all aspects of coaching,” he says. McKillop played for the Wildcats from 2002-06. tant coach to Bob McKillop, was named “I didn’t know exactly how busy my father head coach at Emory, a Division III pro- was and how many demands are made on gram. Matt McKillop called to inquire about his time. It’s amazing to me that he’s been his chances of becoming his assistant coach. able to handle that kind of schedule for so Things worked out and Zimmerman long.” hired him. He and McKillop traveled far Matt McKillop has seen the other side – and wide talking to high school players life without basketball. Now that he’s back, with good academic standing to consider he’s not worried about working long hours Emory. Division III offers no athletic schol- or the pressures that coaches face. “I’m arships, just financial aid based on need. It doing something that I truly love at the makes recruiting extremely dicey, especially place that I want to do it.” at a prestigious academic school such as Who could ask for more than that? Emory. You want a challenging coaching job? Try locating players that are talented

81 TERRELL “TI” IVORY

Terrell Ivory experienced a little bit of much that after one year in England he re- THE IVORY FILE everything during his four-year playing ca- turned to the United States to accept a job at reer at Davidson. Overall it was a great time, Blair Academy, a New Jersey prep school. NAME Terrell Lamarque Ivory although he’s much fonder of some memo- He interned there his first year, and the fol- BIRTHDATE Jan. 16, 1981 ries than others. lowing two years he was an assistant bas- BIRTHPLACE Charlotte, N.C. His 2002 team won the Southern Confer- ketball coach and Algebra II teacher who WIFE Single ence championship and was sent to Albu- lived in a campus dormitory. COLLEGE Davidson ‘04 querque, N.M. to play to play fourth-seeded Joe Mantegna was head coach at Blair, DEGREE Sociology Ohio State in the NCAA tournament. Al- and Ivory learned a good bit about running HIGH SCHOOL though a heavy under- a program while working as his assistant North Mecklenburg dog, the Wildcats coach. “He runs his program like a college COACHING HISTORY outplayed Ohio State for program,” Ivory says. “I met a lot of college 39 minutes before losing coaches who came to our campus looking at 2008-Pres. Dir. of Operations Davidson the game, 69-64. some of our players. Coach Mantegna 2005-2008 Assistant Coach Blair Academy The next season didn’t worked hard to help his players get into end quite so well for good academic schools that played either Ivory and his teammates, Division 1 or Division III basketball.” but he learned that in col- Ivory must have learned his lessons well lege basketball, anything because at the end of last season he was of- Terrell “TI” Ivory is possible. The Wildcats fered the head basketball coaching job at a Dir. of Operations went 11-5 in the Southern prep school in New England. He declined First Season Conference in 2003, and in anticipation that a job opening might on March 1 in Belk Arena occur on the Davidson staff for which he closed out the regular season with an 84-49 could apply. shellacking of VMI. Five days later the two When Henney left for Indiana, Ivory teams met again in Charleston in the SoCon found himself on his way back to Davidson. tournament, and the Keydets won, 66-60. Welcome home. He grew up in Therein rests the beauty of college bas- Huntersville, played high school ball at ketball: exciting, unpredictable, never count North Mecklenburg High School, spent four an underdog out. Those elements and a years playing with the Wildcats where he deep love for the game have led Ivory into a was popular with his teammates, coaches career of coaching, with this being his first and the fans that follow Davidson basket- year on Davidson’s staff as director of bas- ball. ketball operations. “It’s an unbelievably great feeling to be “I am thrilled to be back,” Ivory says. back at Davidson and working with the “The coaches here knew that if a job open- coaches and players in this program,” Ivory ing occurred on staff and I had a chance to said. “I knew the job would entail a lot of get it, I would probably take it.” work, but I was still surprised by just how The opening came after last season when much work. But I’m not complaining, be- Jeremy Henney returned to his native state cause this is a wonderful opportunity for of Indiana as head coach of a high school me.” basketball program. Ivory said that even though he and his Ivory played for the Wildcats from 2000-04. Ivory, known to former teammates and Davidson teammates worked hard, he was friends as “T.I.,” didn’t know exactly what nonetheless taken aback by just how hard he wanted to do when he graduated from the current players work and how dedi- Davidson in the spring of 2004. He was sure, cated and committed they are. “I don’t think however, that basketball was still in his many people understand how good the kids blood. He wasn’t ready to give it up. He in this program are or how hard they work,” went to Manchester, England, to play bas- he said. “These players are always in the ketball for a year. “There’s nothing better gym and are completely committed to get- than getting paid to play basketball,” Ivory ting better. They certainly deserved all the says of the experience. good things that came their way last sea- Professional basketball teams in Europe son.” don’t usually play but one game a week, so Is Ivory happy that he made the career T.I. had plenty of time on his hands. He took decision to become a coach? “Absolutely, I the opportunity to spend two days a week am,” he replied. “I want to be a head coach coaching basketball to high school students. in college eventually, and there’s no place He enjoyed the coaching experience so better to learn than right here.”

82 SUPPORT STAFF

Administrative Assistant paraffin bath. Sports Information OrthoCarolina A familiar face, in Charlotte serves Marc Gignac be- Susan Mercer re- as Davidson’s pri- gins his second sea- turned to the men’s mary orthopedic son as the Davidson basketball program consultant, and Dr. sports information in 2005. She spent 11 Don D’Alessandro director and oversees years as the staff as- is the Wildcats’ the day-to-day opera- sistant from 1989- team physician. Dr. tion of the sports in- 2000, and it is as if Skip Barkley, a gen- formation office, she never left her eral practitioner at including all publica- post. Among her du- University Family tions and the Web Susan Mercer Marc Gignac ties are managing Physicians, also site, DavidsonWild- Administrative Sports Information various athlete and acts as one of the cats.com. He serves Assistant Director alumni databases, or- department’s primary physicians. as the primary sports ganizing files and in- information contact voices, answering the phones and Equipment Room for football and men’s basketball. making hotel and meal arrangements for Gignac came to Davidson from Can- the team and coaches. When it comes isius College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he “Susan ties it all together,” said Coach right down to it, the spent six years as the director of athletic McKillop. “Her bright smile and friendly equipment room communications. While at Canisius, he voice signals a warm welcome to all who keeps all the athletic served as the assistant media director for come into contact with the Davidson bas- teams prepared to the 2004 and 2007 NCAA Men’s Basket- ketball program.” play. ball Tournaments and the 2003 Frozen Mercer joined the Davidson athletics Brian Barmes be- Four at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y. department as basketball staff assistant gins his third year as Gignac began his career as a gradu- in 1989. She previously worked for the head equipment ate assistant at Canisius in 1997 before Reeves Brothers in Cornelius, and for manager. Prior to Brian Barmes becoming the assistant sports informa- two years as a sales representative for coming to Davidson, Equipment Manager tion director at Fairfield University in First Union National Bank in Davidson. Barmes was a sales 1998. He served as an assistant sports in- In between her stints on staff, she representative for formation director at George Mason Uni- worked from home for an adoption Riddell and served a versity in 2000 before moving back to agency. Mercer placed 25 Romanian chil- pair of one year stints Canisius in 2001. dren in North Carolina homes. with the Florida Bob- The Charlotte, N.C., native earned in Mercer graduated in 1982 from North cats and Georgia his bachelor’s degree in journalism and Mecklenburg High School. She and her Force of the AFL. mass communication from the Univer- husband, Garry, reside in Mooresville Joining Barmes is sity of North Carolina in 1997 and his and have four children — Buddy (25), faithful assistant Will master’s degree in sport administration Caitlin (10), Christopher (9) and Lydia DuBose, who at- from Canisius in 1999. (6). tended Fayetteville Athletic Trainer Tech for two years Will Dubose prior to joining the Assistant Equipment Davidson staff in the In his seventh Manager fall of 1983. Now in year at Davidson, his 26th season, only Ray Beltz serves as one coach has been the athletic trainer for with the department longer. the Wildcat men’s basketball team. He earned his under- Student Managers graduate degree from East Stroudsburg in 2000 and is working Ray Beltz towards his master’s Athletic Trainer degree from his alma mater. The Davidson College Sports Medicine facilities are among the best in the re- gion. In the training room, there are many of the modern, technological ma- chines that aid in the recovery from in- juries, including ultrasound and electric Omar Pickett Darry Spasova Billy Thom Imani Bryan stimulation. There are also three whirlpool tubs, a hydroculator and a

83 JOHN KILGO

Veteran broadcast journalist John cluding North Mecklenburg. While at Big WAYS, Kilgo was the Kilgo will be the radio play-by-play voice play-by-play man for UNC Charlotte’s basketball games for for Davidson for the ninth straight season. seven seasons, including the school’s run to the NIT finals in Although Kilgo graduated from the 1976 and the Final Four in 1977. University of North Carolina in 1957, his Kilgo moved across Charlotte to rival broadcaster Jefferson- roots to Davidson College go back to July Pilot in 1984, where he eventually became general manager of 1966, when former college president Grier WBT Radio as well as general manager of J-P Sports Enter- Martin convinced him to leave a job as prises. One of his roles at J-P was to produce the weekly televi- columnist for The Charlotte News to be- sion show for former UNC basketball coach Dean Smith and to come the first full-time sports information conduct Smith’s weekly call-in radio show that was heard on director for the Wildcats. It was an excit- more than 50 stations. ing time to be around Davidson’s athletic department, as Lefty Kilgo co-authored Smith’s memoirs, A Coach’s Life, which Driesell built a national powerhouse in basketball and Homer was published by Random House and became a national best- Smith took the school’s football team to the Tangerine Bowl to seller. He and Smith later did a second book, The Carolina Way, play Vanderbilt. which was published by Penguin Press. After working for Davidson, Kilgo returned to Charlotte to Kilgo lives in Davidson and continues his writing from his become news and sports director for Big WAYS Radio, the first home office. His expertise has been invaluable in the produc- true Top 40 radio station in the Carolinas and the top-rated sta- tion of recent Davidson media guides, including the 2008-09 tion in Charlotte. In his 18 years there, and in addition to his version. He has written and edited almost all of the copy you radio responsibilities, Kilgo started a chain of eight weekly are enjoying. newspapers that served Charlotte and surrounding areas, in-

2008-09 Radio Schedule

Date Opponent ...... Time Stations (AM unless noted) Nov. 14 Guilford ...... 9:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 1 17 vs. James Madison ...... 6:00 p.m. 1350 1 18 vs. Oklahoma/Mississippi Valley St. . .6:30/9:30 p.m. 1350, 95.7 FM 21 Winthrop ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 1660, 95.7 FM 24-28 NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament ...... TBA 1350, TBA

2 Dec. 6 NC State ...... 12:00 p.m. 1350, 610 3 9 vs. West Virginia ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 13 Chattanooga* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 4 20 vs. Purdue ...... 4:00 p.m. 1350, 1660 29 at College of Charleston* ...... 9:00 p.m. 1350, 610

Jan. 3 Samford* ...... 2:00 p.m. 1350, 610 Coach McKillop does his postgame show with Kilgo after every 7 at Duke ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 95.7 FM contest. 10 at The Citadel* ...... 7:05 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 12 at Appalachian State* ...... 7:30 p.m. 1350, 1660, 95.7 FM 14 Elon* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 17 at Georgia Southern* ...... 3:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 21 Furman* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 95.7 FM 24 Wofford* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 28 at Chattanooga* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 95.7 FM 31 at Samford* ...... 3:00 p.m. 1350, 1660

Feb. 2 Western Carolina* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 1660, 95.7 FM 5 5 at UNC Greensboro* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 7 College of Charleston* ...... 6:00 p.m. 1350, 1660, 95.7 FM 12 at Wofford* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 14 at Furman* ...... 4:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 18 The Citadel* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350 20/21 BracketBuster ...... TBA 1350, TBA 25 UNC Greensboro* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 610, 95.7 FM 28 Georgia Southern* ...... 2:00 p.m. 1350, 95.7 FM

Lebron James stopped by for a halftime interview when the ‘Cats Mar. 2 at Elon* ...... 7:00 p.m. 1350, 1660, 95.7 FM 6 played Wisconsin in Detroit. 6-9 SoCon Tournament ...... TBA 1350, TBA

All times Eastern (unless noted) and subject to change Davidson Radio Network * Southern Conference game Home games in bold 1 Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament (Norman, Oklahoma) All of Davidson’s games can be heard on either WHIP 1350 2 AM out of Mooresville, WXRC 95.7 FM out of Charlotte or Time Warner Cable Arena (Charlotte, N.C.) 3 WFNZ/WFNA 610/1660 AM out of Charlotte. In addition, the Jimmy V Basketball Classic ( - New York, N.Y.) 4 broadcasts can be heard via TEAMLINE at (800) 846-4700, ext. Wooden Tradition (Conseco Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, Ind.) 5 1143, and on the internet via TEAMLINE on the Davidson web Greensboro Coliseum (Greensboro, N.C.) 6 site, www.DavidsonWildcats.com. Southern Conference Tournament (McKenzie Arena - Chattanooga, Tenn.)

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