MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2019-2020 2 | CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU SILVERSWORDS MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2019-2020 Message from Director of Athletics . 4 Athletics Staff and Coaches . 5 Head Coach Eric Bovaird . 6 Assistant Coaches . 7 Maui Jim Maui Invitational Bracket . 8 Season Outlook . 9 Quick Facts . 10 Roster . 11 TV/Radio Roster . 12 Player Profiles . 13–19 Season Box Score . 20 Season Results and Results . .21 2018-19 Season in Review . 22 History . 23–25 The 2019-20 Chaminade University of Honolulu Men’s Basketball Media Guide was produced by Kevin Hashiro, Chaminade Sports Information Director . All rights reserved . Photography by CJ Caraang, Andrew Lee, Lenora Lee, Texas Powers and Chaminade University of Honolulu Athletics . PacWest championship photo by Stuart Ballew, PacWest Conference . MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2019-2020 | 3 Message from the DIRECTOR OF ATHELETICS Aloha, and welcome to Chaminade Athletics! Our Chaminade men’s basketball team is anxious and excited to return to the Lahaina Civic Center to participate in the 2019 Maui Jim Maui Invitational! Last year was a historic one for us, as we did not play on Maui for the first time due to a new alignment in which we now play on Maui every other year . We enjoyed a new experience as we played in front of over 10,000 spectators in the beautiful Viejas Arena at San Diego State and McHale Center at the University of Arizona . We can proudly say that we gave them competitive games on their home courts . These games set the tone for a very successful season, which ended with us qualifying for and playing in the NCAA Division II West Regional Tournament . This was off the heels of our women’s volleyball team reaching the NCAA Division II West Regionals! This past August, back on our campus in Honolulu, we opened the doors to brand-new men’s and women’s locker rooms, which house all 10 of our NCAA Division II teams! It was the first time in Chaminade history that our student-athletes all had locker rooms . Their eyes were wide as they entered the beautifully constructed facility for the first time. The student-athletes, coaches, and especially athletic trainers were thrilled with the improvements and size of our new Silversword Athletic Training Center . This locker room/ athletic training facility is located just above McCabe Gymnasium . Our visiting teams will also enjoy using the locker rooms . The strides made in our athletics department over the past few years continue to be magnificent, and they happened because we are blessed to have generous and faithful supporters who believe in our program and vision . We have a supportive Board of Regents, and campus administrators who strive to make improvements at our university each and every day—not only for athletics, but for all student programs at Chaminade University . We will not rest on these accomplishments . There are still more goals to achieve, traditions to uphold, and lives to touch . We are doing it all at Chaminade! We are Chaminade on the Rise! Aloha, Bill Villa Director of Athletics 4 | CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU SILVERSWORDS Silverswords ATHELETIC STAFF AND HEAD COACHES Dr. Lynn Babington, PhD Allison Jerome Bonnie “Leiko” Bedoya Deven Bukoski Shawn Sueoka President Vice President for Student Assistant to the A .D . Compliance Officer/Senior Special Assistant to the Affairs Woman Administrator A .D ./Event Manager Kevin Hashiro Prof. Wayne Tanna, JD, Sports Information LLM Caroline Shafer Tyler “Kapono” Johnston Melissa Wilkins Director Faculty Athletics Head Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Graduate Assistant Representative Athletic Trainer Arthur King Shadrack Nabea Renee Yuen Jayson Abe Michelle Richardson Women’s Basketball Head Men’s and Women’s Cross Men’s Golf Head Coach Men’s Soccer Head Coach Women’s Soccer Head Coach Country Head Coach Coach Kent Yamaguchi Ty Aki Kahala Kabalis Hoke Jarrett Fujita Jorge Negron Softball Head Coach Women’s Tennis Head Women’s Volleyball Head Women’s Volleyball Women’s Volleyball Coach Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2019-2020 | 5 Men’s Basketball Head Coach ERIC BOVAIRD CAREER RECORD Year Overall Pct. Conf. Pct. Finish Rec vs. D2 D2% Postseason 2011-12 11-14 440 . 9-9 500 . 6th 11-10 524 . None 2012-13 19-11 .633 14-4 778. 4th 18-8 .692 NCAA 1st Round 2013-14 19-13 .594 13-7 .650 T-4th 19-9 .679 NCAA 1st Round 2014-15 10-12* 455 . 7-9* 438 . 8th 9-9* 529 . None 2015-16 12-15 444 . 10-10 500 . T-7th 11-12 478 . None 2016-17 18-11 .539 13-7 .650 T-4th 17-8 .680 PacWest Semifinals 2017-18 16-12 .571 11-9 .550 T-6th 15-10 .600 PacWest Quarterfinals 2018-19 23-8 742. 16-6 727. T-3rd 23-8 742. NCAA 1st Round Totals 128-96 .571 93-61 .604 123-74 .624 *Did not coach four games in January 2015 (team was 2-2) Eric Bovaird is in his ninth year as men’s basketball head coach having captured an at-large berth in 2013 . He also took CUH to for Chaminade University of Honolulu . During his tenure he the championship game of the inaugural PacWest Conference has guided the Silverswords to three NCAA West Regional Basketball Tournament in Azusa, California, in 2013 . appearances, five trips to the Pacific West Conference Of course Chaminade basketball is also synonymous with the Tournament, and a PacWest Tournament title . Maui Jim Maui Invitational, the premier preseason college With 128 career wins, he ranks as the second all-time winningest basketball tournament in the nation, which features Division coach in school history, only trailing the legendary Merv Lopes’ I powerhouses . Under Bovaird’s direction, the Silverswords 237 . Bovaird also sports an impressive career 123-75 ( .624) maintained their reputation as “giant-killers” with wins over Texas record against NCAA Division II opponents . (2012) and Cal (2017) in front of national television audiences on the ESPN family of networks . Their blitzing of the Golden In addition to on-the-court success, Bovaird’s teams have also Bears was their all-time eighth win on Maui and was their largest gotten the job done in the classroom, earning the NABC Team margin of victory over a Division I program . Their upset over the Academic Exellence Award each year since the 2015-16 season . Longhorns, considered to be one of the school’s greatest wins Individually, junior forward Tyler Cartaino was named to the since the historic 1982 victory over No . 1 Virginia, sent the social Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team in 2019, media world into a frenzy . while Lee Bailey was an Academic All-West District selection in 2015 . A total of 63 players have garnered Academic All-PacWest Bovaird spent seven years as an assistant at West Liberty honors during his tenure . University, in Wheeling, West Virginia, under legendary coach Jim Crutchfield (now at Nova Southeastern University). While at Bovaird has also sent a number of his former student-athletes West Liberty, Bovaird recruited top players from the Midwest to play professionally overseas in places that include England, and landed several future All-Americans . One of them was Alex Lithuania, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, India, China, Taiwan and Falk, who became the Division II National Player of the Year in Germany. His 2017 team saw five of his players sign professional 2013 . During Bovaird’s time at WLU, the Hilltoppers boasted contracts—the most in a single class . the highest winning percentage in Division II with seven 20-win His 2018-19 squad won 23 games, the most ever in the school’s seasons, an appearance in the DII Final Four, two DII Sweet Division II era that began in 1986-87 . The Silverswords spent Sixteens, four NCAA Regionals, two regular season conference much of the season in the NABC national rankings, including a titles, and a conference tournament championship . Known for school-record seven consecutive weeks, peaking at No . 12 on its high-octane offense, WLU led the nation in scoring five times Dec. 21, their highest-ever ranking in the poll. They finished the while he was there. In his seventh and final year, West Liberty was season by earning an at-large bid to the NCAA West Regional, 33-1 and averaged 111 .3 points per game, the second-highest Bovaird’s third as head coach . single-scoring season in DII since 1969 . During the 2017-18 season, the Silverswords made their second Along with a successful coaching career, he excelled on the consecutive trip to the Pacific West Conference Tournament, court as well . A two-time All-American in 1994 and ’95 at West their fourth appearance in the championship’s six-year existence . Liberty, the sharp-shooting Bovaird broke school records in Midway through the season Bovaird reached a milestone—on 3-point shooting, single-season scoring and career scoring January 15, 2018, he recorded his 100th career win at Academy average . After departing with most of the Hilltoppers’ scoring of Art, just the third head coach in Chaminade basketball history records, he accepted offers to play professionally in Europe and to reach the century mark . Twelve days later, a win over Hawai‘i Australia between 1996 and ’98 . Pacific University moved him into second place all time in Bovaird was raised in Brockway, Pennsylvania, and graduated coaching victories . The season was also memorable with a 96-72 from West Liberty in 1995 with a B .S . in Physical Education and a rout over California at the Maui Jim Maui Invitational .