William and Mary Basketball W&M Sports Information • PO Box 399 • Williamsburg, VA 23187 Contact: Dan Wakely • Phone: (757) 221-3368 • Email: [email protected] • Internet: www.TribeAthletics.com Release Date: January 27, 2004 William and Mary Tribe (5-13, 2-7 CAA) at James Madison Dukes (4-12, 1-7 CAA) Game 19 • Wednesday, January 28, 2004 • 7:00 PM • Harrisonburg, Virginia • JMU Convocation Center (71,56) 2003-04 Schedule Top Storylines Nov. 11 GT Express (exhibition) W 94-76 • William and Mary looks to win its second straight game on Wednesday at James Nov. 18 Interhoop (exhibition) W 69-61 Madison ... The Dukes lead the series with the Tribe, 37-23, although W&M has Nov. 23 LIBERTY W 91-64 dominated the series lately, winning four of the last five and 12 of the last 18 Nov. 24 at Radford L 86-89 Nov. 28 vs. St. Francis $ W 80-60 meetings between the two teams ... The Tribe has swept the last two regular Nov. 29 at George Washington $ L 57-73 season series against the Dukes ... Last season, W&M defeated JMU, 61-59, in Dec. 4 UNCW * W 67-66 (OT) Harrisonburg and 75-72 in Williamsburg. Dec. 6 at Virginia Commonwealth * L 60-71 • W&M is led by first-year head coach Tony Shaver ... Shaver put together a record Dec. 19 HAMPTON L 72-79 Dec. 23 at Virginia Tech L 54-80 of 358-121 (.747) in an outstanding 17-year career at Division III Hampden- Dec. 30 CAMPBELL W 82-67 Sydney prior to joining the Tribe ... While there, Jan. 3 at #15 Pittsburgh L 55-70 he led the Tigers to eight Old Dominion Athletic What’s Inside... Jan. 5 at Virginia L 71-84 Conference championships, 12 20-win seasons Roster/Pronunciations .............. 2 Jan. 7 at UNC Wilmington * L 59-67 W&M Record Watch ................. 8 Jan. 10 GEORGE MASON * L 71-84 and 11 NCAA Tournament appearances (includ- James Madison Series ............. 9 Jan. 14 at Towson * L 67-73 ing trips to the Final Four in 1999 and 2003). Coach Tony Shaver ................ 10 Jan. 17 DREXEL * L 76-80 • Senior forward Adam Hess was voted the 2003- Player Bios ............................. 11 Jan. 21 at Delaware * L 82-93 (OT) 04 CAA Preseason Player of the Year by the Box Scores ............................. 22 Jan. 24 at Hofstra * L 71-98 Statistics ................................. 31 Jan. 26 OLD DOMINION * W 86-77 league’s media ... Through Jan. 27, Hess leads the Jan. 28 at James Madison * 7:00 PM CAA in scoring with 19.6 points per game, and is ranked in the top-15 in the Jan. 31 at George Mason * 2:00 PM league in seven other categories ... He has a total of 1,361 points in his career, Feb. 4 JAMES MADISON * 7:00 PM including 246 in his freshman season at Eastern Michigan and is the 27th player Feb. 7 at Drexel * 1:00 PM Feb. 11 DELAWARE * 7:00 PM to score 1,000 points in a W&M uniform. Feb. 14 HOFSTRA * 7:00 PM • Freshman forward Corey Cofield is making a strong case for CAA Rookie of Feb. 18 TOWSON * 7:00 PM the Year honors, as he is currently the only freshman ranked in the top-20 in the Feb. 25 at Old Dominion * 7:00 PM league in both scoring and rebounding ... He is tied for 15th overall and the Feb. 28 VA COMMONWEALTH * 7:00 PM March 5 CAA Tournament First Round # second-highest scoring freshman with 11.9 points per game, and is 12th overall March 6 CAA Tournament Quarterfinal # and second among rookies with 5.6 rebounds per game ... Cofield also has the March 7 CAA Tournament Semifinal # highest shooting percentage and is fourth overall in the conference with a .574 March 8 CAA Tournament Championship # field goal percentage ... He has scored at least 15 points in five of his last six * Colonial Athletic Association game games, including three games of 21 points or more ... Cofield has been named $ Red Auerbach Colonial Classic (Washington, DC) CAA Rookie of the Week twice this season (Jan. 12 and Jan. 26). # Richmond, VA Probable Starters No. Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Wt. PPG RPG APG Notes 00 Nate Loehrke C So. 6-10 245 3.8 2.1 0.6 Career high 14 points in first ever start vs. ODU 10 Nick D’Antoni G Jr. 6-0 185 7.2 3.1 5.4 2nd in W&M history with 5.4 assists per game this season 13 Zeb Cope F Sr. 6-8 245 11.9 6.3 1.5 21 pts and 11 reb. vs. Drexel for 2nd career double-double 34 Adam Hess F Sr. 6-7 220 19.6 6.2 2.2 Leads CAA in scoring; Nine 20+ point games this season 45 Corey Cofield F Fr. 6-6 220 11.9 5.6 1.2 Only CAA roookie in top-20 in both pts and reb. per game Off the Bench No. Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Wt. PPG RPG APG Notes 2 Dave Holtzmuller G Sr. 5-9 185 1.0 0.7 0.8 Five points, four assists, two rebounds at Towson 3 Adam Trumbower G Fr. 6-2 190 3.0 1.9 1.4 At Delaware, had first start for W&M walk-on since 1996-97 15 Reid Markham G Jr. 6-3 200 8.3 2.6 2.3 Out with a broken right hand; Missed last 11 games 22 Taylor Mokris G So. 6-6 205 8.4 3.4 1.1 Shooting 44.8% from the field this season 40 Steve Sorenson F So. 6-9 225 2.0 0.3 0.0 Four points in first 50 seconds of action at Hofstra 41 Brian Hutt C RF 6-9 237 2.4 3.9 0.6 Six rebounds and career-high six points at Hofstra Head Coach: Tony Shaver (North Carolina, 1976) • 5-13 (.278) at W&M (First season) • 363-134 (.730) overall (18th season) Assistant Coaches: Ted Jeffries (Virginia, 1993), Dee Vick (Hampden-Sydney, 1994), Joe Wolf (North Carolina, 1987) Officials: Keith Maxwell, John Spears, Curtis Blair Page 1 • William and Mary Basketball www.TribeAthletics.com Media Information Cofield Named CAA Rookie of the ociation’s Preseason Player of the Year Week Again by the media at the conference’s annual William and Mary Sports Information For the second time in the last three media day, held at the Washington, DC Dan Wakely, Assoc. Dir. (Basketball Contact) weeks, freshman forward Corey Cofield ESPNZone on October 29 ... Hess was Office: (757) 221-3368 Home: (757) 476-5314 was selected as the CAA Rookie of the also projected by Sporting News as the Cell: (757) 208-3076 Week ...Most recently he earned the league’s best player ... No W&M player Email: [email protected] award on Jan. 26, after a two-game has ever been named CAA Player of the Main Office Phone: (757) 221-3344 stretch in which he averaged 22.5 points Year at the end of the season ... Only Fax: (757) 221-3412 Website: www.TribeAthletics.com and 9.0 rebounds per game, while shoot- twice in history has a Tribe men’s bas- ing 68.0% (17-25) ... One of those games ketball player been selected as any was at Hofstra, in which he recorded his league’s player of the year ... Jeff Cohen CAA Telephonic Press Conferences first career double-double with 21 points (1961) and Tom Jasper (1971) were each Members of the media are invited to participate in the CAA’s weekly telephonic press conference and 11 rebounds ... Just hours after he named Southern Conference Player of series. The first call will occur on January 6 and earned the award on Jan. 26, he helped the Year ... Hess has been unanimously run each Tuesday morning through March 2. lead W&M to a win against ODU, record- picked to be the only player this season CAA coaches will be available to answer ing his second double-double with 15 to repeat as a first team All-CAA hon- questions beginning at 10:10 AM. The weekly lineup is listed below. The phone number for the points and 10 rebounds ... He also earned oree, including predictions by the call is 888-452-9753. Members of the media should the award on Jan. 12, following a three- conference’s coaches and media and nu- contact Tripp Sheppard (804-754-1616 x15) at the game stretch in which he averaged 17.7 merous publications, including Athlon, CAA office for the password to access the call. points and 5.7 rebounds per game, while Basketball News, Lindy’s, Sporting News, 10:10 Tom Pecora (Hofstra) shooting 66.7% (22-33) from the field ... and Street & Smith’s. 10:20 Jeff Capel (Virginia Commonwealth) This season he is tied for second on the 10:30 Blaine Taylor (Old Dominion) team with 11.9 points and is second with Fabulous Freshman 10:40 Tony Shaver (William and Mary) 5.6 rebounds per game and is fourth in Forward Corey Cofield is making a 10:50 Brad Brownell (UNC Wilmington) 11:00 Sherman Dillard (James Madison) the conference with a .574 field goal per- strong case for CAA Rookie of the Year 11:10 Jim Larranaga (George Mason) centage. honors this season ... Through Jan. 27, he 11:20 Michael Hunt (Towson) is tied for 15th in the CAA overall and 11:30 David Henderson (Delaware) W&M’s Adam Hess Voted CAA Pre- second among the league’s freshmen 11:40 Bruiser Flint (Drexel) season Player of the Year with 11.9 points per game, and is sixth Senior forward Adam Hess was voted overall in the conference with 5.6 re- William and Mary Radio Network the 2003-04 Colonial Athletic Ass- bounds per game, also the second-best Teaming up once again to call all the action of Tribe basketball over the airwaves will be Jay Colley, Charlie Woollum and Bill McDonald.