NCCU MEN’S BASKETBALL 1 DIVISION II NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 1989 4 NCAA DIVISION I TOURNAMENT NCAA DIVISION I TOURNAMENT APPERANCES HISTORY 2014 2017 2014- #14 Seed vs. Iowa State - 75-93 Loss 2018 First Round - San Antonio, Texas 2017- #16 Seed vs. UC Davis - 63-67 Loss 2019 First Four - Dayton, Ohio 2018- #16 Seed vs. Texas Southern - 46-64 Loss First Four - Dayton, Ohio 2019- #16 Seed vs. ND State - 74-78 Loss First Four - Dayton, Ohio 1 NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT APPERANCE NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT HISTORY 2015 2015- #7 Seed at Miami - 71-75 Loss First Round - Coral Gables, Florida 2 NCAA DIVISION II REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 1989 1993 3 MEAC REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 2015 2018 NCCU MEN’S BASKETBALL INDEX Program Overview ...................... 4 Individual Career Records ............5 Coaching History ...................... 10 Individual Honors ..................... 12 Season Records ........................ 13 Season Leaders ........................ 14 30-Plus Point Games ................. 16 Individual Game Highs .............. 17 The Last Time .......................... 18 Season History ......................... 20 Team Scoring and Overtime ....... 28 2011-12 NCCU MBB .................. 31 2012-13 NCCU MBB .................. 33 2013-14 NCCU MBB .................. 35 2014-15 NCCU MBB .................. 37 2015-16 NCCU MBB .................. 39 2016-17 NCCU MBB .................. 41 2017-18 NCCU MBB .................. 43 2018-19 NCCU MBB .................. 45 McDOUGALD-McLENDON ARENA BUILT: 1950 CAPACITY: 3,116 The McDougald-McLendon Arena was named to honor utive national titles (NAIA 1957, 1958, and 1959 with alumnus and civic leader Richard L. McDougald, and Tennessee State). He was NAIA Coach of the Year in former basketball coach John B. McLendon. 1958 and the acknowledged leader in the emergence of black colleges into the various national athletic pro- McDougald was born in 1896 in Whiteville, North Car- grams. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial olina. On December 26, 1919, he married Mattie L. Basketball Hall of Fame on April 30, 1979 and the North Moore, daughter of North Carolina Mutual Life Insur- Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1994. ance founder and National Religious Training School and Chautauqua incorporator, Dr. Aaron M. Moore. They had two children, Virginia and Aaron. His second marriage was to Dorothy Everette. They had one child, Dorothy. McDougald was educated in the public schools of New York and North Carolina College for Negroes. He served in the United States Air Force during World War I. At the time of his death, he was executive vice president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank; president of Mutual Building and Loan Association, which he helped to or- ganize in 1921; treasurer of Union Insurance and Real- ty Company; and a director of Bankers Fire Insurance Company Sothern Fidelity Mutual Insurance Company and Regal Holding Company, Incorporated. McDougald was a member of White Rock Baptist Church where he served on the Trustee Board from 1922 to 1944; the American Legion; National Negro Bankers Association; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; and Bull City Lodge No. 317, I.B.P.O. E. of the World. Coach John B. McLendon, born in 1915, was a profes- sor, chairman of the Department of Physical Education, and basketball coach. He was one of the founders of the CIAA and, in 1941, led North Carolina College (now NCCU) to win the CIAA Visitation Championship for the fi rst time. He was the fi rst coach to win three consec- 4 EAGLES IN THE NBA DRAFT NCCU’S YOUNG SELECTED BY SEATTLE IN NBA DRAFT North Carolina Central University senior David Young had his dream fulfi lled on June 24, 2004, when the Seattle Supersonics selected the All-CIAA guard with the 41st overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft. Young, NCCU’s fi rst NBA draft pick in 21 years, sat alone in an Atlanta hotel room when he saw his name fl ash on the television as the 12th player chosen in the second round. After ending his college career as the Eagles’ top scorer in 2003-04 with 20.5 points per game, Young faced a long and tough journey around the NBA workout circuit. “I have endured and persevered through a lot of tough times.” Young said refl ecting on his life and basketball career. “I have always dreamed about playing in the NBA. I got a second opportunity at North Carolina Central University and now my dream has come true.” NCCU Eagles in the NBA Draft Year Name Team Round Pick Overall 2004 David Young Seattle 2 12 41 1983 David Binion Seattle 10 16 221 1982 Donald Sinclair Washington 10 12 217 1969 Joe Pridgen San Diego 18 3 208 1968 Lee Davis Phoenix 10 13 133 1965 Ted Manning Detroit 5 3 41 1957 Sam Jones Boston 1 8 8 Sam Jones- Boston Celtics 1957 First Round- 8th Pick Former NCCU Eagle Dominique Sutton was a key member of the NBA Development League's 2012-13 Tulsa 66ers. (Photo by Shane Bevel/NBAE/Getty Images) 5 EAGLES IN THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME JOHN B. McLENDON SAM JONES Enshrined: As a coach on April 30, 1979 Enshrined: As a player on April 30, 1984 Born: April 5, 1915 in Hiawatha, KS Born: June 24, 1933 in Laurinburg, NC Died: October 8, 1999 NCCU: Student-Athlete, 1951-54 / 1956-57 NCCU: Head Coach, 1940-1952 North Carolina College Playing Highlights: John B. McLendon’s contributions to the sport of basketball Scored 1,745 points playing for Hall of Fame coach John are virtually innumerable. His advisor at the University of Kansas McLendon; Three-time All-Conference; Enshrined in NAIA Hall was the inventor of of Fame (1962). basketball, Dr. James Naismith. At North Pro Highlights (NBA Boston Celtics, 1957-69): Carolina College from All-NBA Second Team (1965-67); Five-time NBA All-Star (1962, 1937 to 1952, and as 1964-66, 1968); Member of 10 championship teams (1959- head basketball coach 66 and 1968-69); Tallied 15,411 points (17.7 ppg) in his 12- from 1940 to 1952, he year career; Scored 2,909 points in 154 playoff games (18.9 pioneered basketball’s ppg), 15th best in full court game, using history; NBA 25th such strategies as the Anniversary Team full court press, the full (1970); NBA 50th court zone (now known Anniversary Team as the zone press), the (1996). open center offense whose variants include Hall of Fame Bio: the “four corners,” the At six-foot- rotating pivot, and the four, Sam Jones double-pivot. In 38 was the prototype years as a head coach, of the tall guard he achieved a collegiate who could run the coaching record of 523 fl oor, bang the wins to 165 losses boards and had for a .760 winning percentage, including a rangy offensive a 239-68 record at game that gave NCC. He was also the opponents fi ts. fi rst black coach in a One of the “Jones professional basketball Boys” in Boston, league (with the Sam teamed Cleveland Pipers in the with K.C. in the American Basketball Celtics backcourt League in 1961) and the fi rst black coach at a predominantly to create havoc white university (Cleveland State employed him in June 1966). in NBA arenas around the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Bio: country. Jones John B. McLendon’s engaging personality made him favored an a popular basketball fi gure for more than 60 years. His unorthodox but extraordinary knowledge of basketball history made him one of highly effective “bank shot” that became the muscle behind his the game’s leading ambassadors. But, it is his coaching resume and Boston’s 10 NBA championships, including eight in a row that makes many in the profession envious. McLendon, who (1958-66). As a collegian, Jones was an offensive fi rehouse learned basketball from Dr. James Naismith as an undergraduate scoring 1,745 points while playing for Hall of Fame coach at Kansas, is the fi rst coach in history to win three consecutive John McLendon at all-black North Carolina College. Jones was national titles. McLendon earned this honor by guiding Tennessee not a collegiate All-America and was a relative unknown, but State to the 1957, 1958 and 1959 NAIA national championships. that didn’t sway Red Auerbach, who drafted Sam in the fi rst McLendon championed for heightened awareness of basketball round of the 1957 draft. Jones didn’t disappoint the Boston at all-black colleges, and helped initiate an era of integrated faithful. His 12-year NBA career included fi ve All-Star Game basketball. McLendon’s well-rounded coaching background appearances, 871 regular season games and 154 playoff included positions at the collegiate, AAU and professional games. Considered one of the NBA’s most prolifi c graceful level. He coached North Carolina College, Hampton Institute, shooters, Jones scored 15,411 points (17.7 ppg), plus 2,909 Tennessee State, Kentucky State and Cleveland State along (18.9 ppg) more in the playoffs. Considered one of the fastest with the Cleveland Pipers (NIB-ABL) and the Denver Rockets NBA guards with superb court vision and savvy, Jones led the (ABA). Named the 1958 NAIA Coach of the Year, McLendon Celtics in scoring three times, averaging a career-high 25.9 coached teams that won eight CIAA titles between 1941 and points in 1965. An extremely popular player, in 1970 Jones 1952, the NIBL and AAU championships in 1961, and the ABL was selected to the NBA Silver Anniversary Team (1970), a Eastern Division crown in 1962. McLendon, who has traveled composition of the greatest NBA stars of the league’s fi rst 25 the world promoting basketball, wrote two books, Fast Break years. He later would be named one of the top 50 players in Basketball and The Fast Break Game.