2001-02 men's
Basketball
(2000-01: 26-4 overall, 18-2 GLVC)Head
Coach: Rick Herdes (email)
Phone: 812/465-1639
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For
Immediate Release
August 10, 2001
USI men’s basketball schedule features
four NCAA II Tournament teams
The University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball
team will tip-off the 2001-02 regular season on November 16-18 in the
Disney Division II Tip-Off Classic at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. USI
will play Texas A&M University Kingsville in the first round of the
three-day tournament.
The Tip-Off Classic also features Grand Valley State
University, in the opposite bracket, and Wingate University, a likely opponent
for USI on the second day of the tournament. Both were in the NCAA Division II
Tournament last spring.
In addition to the classic, the non-conference schedule
will feature home contests with Oakland City University on December 15;
Abilene Christian University, December 18; Brescia University, December 29;
Wilberforce University, January 5; and Olivet Nazarene University, January 31.
The 2001-02 campaign would not be a worthy schedule
without the 20 Great Lakes Valley Conference contests. The GLVC schedule, as
each year, is highlighted with a home-and-home series with Kentucky Wesleyan
College, the defending national champion on January 3 at the Physical
Activities Center and February 23 in Owensboro, Kentucky; and Northern
Kentucky University, an NCAA Division II Tournament team on December 8 in
Highland Heights, Kentucky, and January 24 at the PAC.
With the departure of Indiana University/Purdue
University Ft. Wayne from the GLVC, the Eagles will play a home-and-home
schedule with each team in the GLVC, something which has not been done the
last two seasons.
The 2001-02 schedule is very fan friendly with a seven-game homestand in
December and January and a four-game homestand at the end of January.
USI will have a new head coach at the helm for the first time in 10 seasons
when Rick Herdes leads the team this year. Herdes, who was the
associate head coach a year ago, has helped lead USI to a 231-46 record over
nine campaigns.
Herdes will depend heavily upon the two returning
starters, senior forward Marlowe Currie and senior guard/forward Wes
Attebury to set the tone for the Eagles in 2001-02. Curries, who was
second team All-GLVC and second team All-Region in his first season for the
Eagles, led USI with 17.0 ppg and 7.6 rpg. Attebury, who became a starter late
last season, averaged 8.6 ppg and 2.7 rpg.
Currie and Attebury will have plenty of help with the
return of forwards Diond’re Givens, a junior, and Billy Harris,
a sophomore. Givens, a part-time starter, averaged 8.6 ppg and 4.4 rpg, Harris
should return from a season-ending knee injury this fall to pick-up where he
left off his freshman season (8.6 ppg and 3.9 rpg).
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