FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2010 CONTACT: [email protected] and/or (ph) 866­IBL­GAME VANCOUVER VOLCANOES EVANS & JACKSON MAKE ROMANIAN ALL STAR GAME Portland, Oregon—Theo Evans and Josh Jackson both made it as All Stars in Romania. Theo Evans two year head coach of the Vancouver Volcanoes, was highly successful for a professional team in Romania as their head coach during the 2008­2009 season and, upon completion of the 2009 Volcanoes IBL season, was invited back to coach in Romania for the 2009/2010 season­ bringing multiple IBL players with him—one of those players was Josh Jackson. This year (2010) ­ Theo Evans and Josh Jackson both made their league’s All Star game­ representing the South. Theo Evans and Josh Jackson’s team won by 2 points as the South All Stars scored 105 to the North All Stars 103 points. Evans team (Rovinari) was 13­14 and was fighting for one of the final playoff spots. Evans team was doing pretty well considering a large decrease in budget from the previous season. Rovinari was in 9th place heading into that All­Star game­ one game out of the last playoff spot. Josh Jackson has the following statistics in Romania: Josh played 37.0 Minutes per game, he shot 56.3% from 2pt range and he shot 40.4% from 3pt range. Josh shot 83.8% from the free throw line. Josh averaged 3.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.2 steals per game to go along with his 16.8 points per game. Josh's team is currently 15 – 12. 1. U.Mobitel.CN 22­4 2. Gaz Metan 21­6 3. Ploiesti 21­6 4. CSU Sibiu 19­8 5. Timisoara 17­10 6. Pitesti (Jackson’s team) 15­12 7. Steaua Turabo 14­13 8. Mures 14­13 9. Rovinari (Evans team) 13­14 10. Oradea 13­14 11. Otopeni 12­14 12. Dinamo B. 11­16 13. Bucuresti 9­18 14. Gladiator CN 5­22 15. Brasov 5­22 16. Craiova 4­23 Pictured: Theo Evans About the IBL: the International Basketball League is an established sixth year basketball league. The league’s season goes from late April through the first week in July. In 2007, 102 players who played in the IBL went on to land jobs playing professionally overseas; this 2007 season established the IBL as the league to play in to get or maintain an overseas job. Twenty­three former NBA players have played in the IBL including Tim Hardaway, Dennis Rodman, and Shawn Kemp. For more information and or to see videos about the IBL, visit­ www.iblhoopsonline.com.