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Showing posts with label Xaiver Gold Rush Basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xaiver Gold Rush Basketball. Show all posts
Head coach Dannton Jackson will
conduct tryouts for the Xavier men's
basketball team Friday at the Barn
New Orleans - Xavier University of Louisiana will conduct men's basketball tryouts for the 2011-12 season this Friday from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at The Barn.
Participants must be full-time Xavier students and enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours for the fall 2011 semester.
Contact assistant coach Alfred Williams at (504) 520-6778 or awilli39@xula.edu for more information.
Xavier was 27-6 in 2010-11, ranked 17th in the final NAIA Division I poll and qualified for the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I National Championship for the fifth time in seven seasons.
NEW ORLEANS — What does Xavier University of Louisiana have in common with Connecticut, Duke, North Carolina and Notre Dame?
All five colleges had men's and women's basketball teams that won at least 27 games during the 2010-11 season.
The list isn't much bigger than that. Xavier was one of three NAIA Division I members to reach a pair of 27s — Azusa Pacific and Texas Wesleyan were the others — and NAIA Division II's Davenport and Indiana Wesleyan also achieved it. No schools in NCAA Division II or III had a pair of 27-game winners.
U.S. four-year colleges with 27-game winners in men's and women's basketball during 2010-11.
So that brings the total to nine out of more than 1,200 four-year U.S. colleges which sponsor men's and women's teams.
"That's an amazing list," said Dennis Cousin, Xavier's athletics director. "It's not a long list, and that's why it's great to see Xavier on there. I know our coaches and athletes worked very hard this season. Any positive recognition is good for them and for Xavier."
Although Xavier's basketball teams have combined for nearly 50 20-win seasons, this was the first time that both reached 25 victories in the same season. It's the seventh time in Louisiana history that a college had a pair of 25-game winners and the fourth time for a pair of 27s.
Among Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Xavier is the first with a pair of 25-game winners since Norfolk State in 1994-95. Norfolk State is the only other HBCU with a pair of 27-game winners, accomplishing that in 1993-94.
U.S. four-year colleges with 27-game winners in men's and women's basketball during 2010-11
College
Affiliation
Women's W-L
Men's W-L
Azusa Pacific
NAIA I
33-5
29-6
Connecticut
NCAA I
36-2
32-9
Davenport
NAIA II
29-6
37-1
Duke
NCAA I
32-4
32-5
Indiana Wesleyan
NAIA II
28-8
29-6
North Carolina
NCAA I
29-8
28-9
Notre Dame
NCAA I
27-7
31-8
Texas Wesleyan
NAIA I
30-4
28-6
Xavier
NAIA I
27-7
27-6
Louisiana four-year colleges with 25-game winners in men's and women's basketball during same season
College
Season
Women's W-L
Men's W-L
Xavier
2010-11
27-7
27-6
LSU
2005-06
31-4
27-9
LSU
1999-2000
25-7
28-6
New Orleans
1986-87
25-7
26-4
LSU
1985-86
27-6
26-12
Louisiana Tech
1984-85
29-4
29-3
Louisiana Tech
1983-84
30-3
26-7
Four-year HBCUs with 25-game winners in men's and women's basketball during same season
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Devin Andrew received honorable mention Wednesday on the 2010-11 NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball All-America Team.
Andrew — a 6-foot-4 senior guard from Harvey, La., a graduate of Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma and a former student at Karr High School in New Orleans — led the Gold Rush this season with 10.9 points per game, 1.2 steals per game and 111 free throws in 147 attempts. He won two January home games with points in the final two seconds.
He helped the Gold Rush finish 27-6 this season — the most victories by an XU men's team since 1983-84 — finish second in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament and earn an at-large bid to the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I National Championship. Andrew
scored 946 points and made 77.3 percent of his free throws in 113 games during four seasons.
Andrew was one of four from the GCAC to be honored. Tougaloo's Marquise Mems made the first team, and SUNO's Brent Leduff and Tougaloo's Mario Luckett received honorable mention.
Xavier Gold Rush NAIA All-Americans
First Team
1972-73 — Bruce Seals
Third Team
1981-82 — Alvin "Bo" Dukes
2006-07 — Shaun Dumas
2008-09 — Shaun Dumas
Honorable Mention
1971-72 — Bruce Seals
1971-72 — Don "Slick" Watts
1985-86 — Derrick Collins
1987-88 — Juan Mercier
1990-91 — Merlin Peters
2000-01 — David Egans, Kermit Smith
2004-05 — Timothy Green
2007-08 — Shaun Dumas
2010-11 — Devin Andrew
