Jan. 25, 2002

OLD DOMINION VS WILLIAM AND MARY
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2002, 7:00 p.m. ODU Fieldhouse/ ESPN 1310 Radio/Comcastsports

ABOUT THE MONARCHS: 9-9 Overall/3-5 CAA
/6-4 Home/1-0 Neutral /2-5 Away
Last Game
* Lost at UNC Wilmington, 66-56
* Rasheed Wright career high 23 pts
* Troy Nance 9 pts/7 assists.
* ODU shot .407, UNCW shot .444 from the floor

HEAD COACH: Blaine Taylor (Montana '81)
* Top Assistant at Stanford the last three years
* 142-65 at Montana (1991-1998) - five 20+ win seasons.
* 384-156 in 18 years as an assistant and head coach
* 1992 Montana team was 27-4
* 1992 National Rookie Coach of the Year
* 1992 Big Sky Coach of the Year

MONARCH PROBABLES
F 21 Ricardo Marsh, 6-7, 225, Jr, Mebane, NC. 14.7 ppg/ 7.1 prg
F 22 Rasheed Wright, 6-5, 195, Jr., Greensboro, NC. 14.4 ppg/ 5.5 rpg
C 40 Clay McGowen, 6-11, 220, So, Westerville, OH. 5.7 ppg/ 5.3 rpg
G 13 Troy Nance, 5-9, 175, So., Va.Beach, Va. 8.1 ppg/ 4.6 apg
G 12 Pierre Greene, 6-2, 185, Sr, Chicago, IL. 10.1 ppg/3.1 rpg

TOP SUBSTITUTES
G 10 John Waller, 6-4, 175, So, Richmond, Va. 6.1 ppg./ 3.1 rpg
G 24 Kiah Thomas, 6-4,185, Fr., Norfolk, Va. 5.1 ppg/ 2.8 rpg
C 30 Charles Dunnington, 6-9, 220, So. Washington, DC. 3.2 ppg/ 3.7 rpg
G 11 Marcus Drewry, 6-2, 180,Jr., Evanston, IL. 0.0 ppg/ 0.8 apg
C 41 Joe Principe, 6-10, 225, So., Gladstone, MO. 0.7 ppg/ 0.9 rpg
F 33 James Smith, 6-7, 200, Fr., Norfolk, Va. 0.5 ppg/1.0 rpg

THIS DAY IN MONARCH HISTORY
Jan. 26, 1977 Ronnie Valentine scores 25 points and Wilson Washington hauls in 14 rebounds as ODU defeats East Carolina, 86-74 in Greenville.

TONIGHT'S OFFICIALS Raymond Styons, Mike Eades, Kelly Lombard

CAA GAMES TODAY:
George Mason at Drexel, Delaware at Hofstra
Towson at James Madison, UNCW at VCU

SERIES VS. W&M ODU leads, 45-12. The two teams played three times last year, splitting the regular season games. ODU won the CAA Tournament game, 53-47 in overtime.

First Meeting: 1968-69 at W&M, ODU won 80-65

Tribe defeated ODU in the fieldhouse, in 1997-98 68-58.

COMPARING TEAM STATS

		ODU		W&M

Scoring	        67.6		 65.4

FG%		.408		.401

FT%		.717		.622

3PT%		.332		.313

Rebounds	37.6		 39.7

FG Def.	        .424		.407

Scoring Def.	67.0		68.3 

MONARCHS VS. CAA TEAMS Delaware (3-0) Drexel (1-0) George Mason (24-7)
Hofstra (1-1) James Madison(36-20) UNCW(15-15)
Towson (8-0) VCU (32-28) W&M (45-12)

WRIGHT AND MARSH Rasheed Wright and Ricardo Marsh are the only two Monarchs who have started all 18 games...Marsh has 721 career points thus far.

MARCUS DREWRY JOINS LINEUP Junior Marcus Drewry (Evanston, IL.) Missed the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair an unhaled stress fracture in his right foot. Drewry was born in nearby Portsmouth, VA.. His mother Karen was a Virginia High School League All-Star. She once scored 68 points in a game, and in 1988 helped Hampton University win the NCAA Div. II National Championship. She is HU's fourth all-time assist leader with 352.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE PERFORMERS
Ricardo Marsh vs. Coastal Carolina (21 pts/11 rebs) VCU (14 pts/12 rebs)
Rasheed Wright vs. Delaware State (18 pts/ 10 rebs)
Clay McGowen vs. East Carolina (15 pts/ 10 rebs)

AN ARTIST Sophomore center Charles Dunnington (Washington, DC.) is an art major and has one of his paintings in the lobby of Firestation #7 by the ODU campus.

MONARCH SCORING LEADERS THIS SEASON
Ricardo Marsh (7) Rasheed Wright (7)
McGowen & Waller (1) Nance & Greene (1)

MONARCH REBOUND LEADERS THIS SEASON
Ricardo Marsh (7)+
Clay McGowen (3)
Rasheed Wright (4)+
Dunnington +
Pierre Greene (2)
+ co leaders

INDIVIDUAL SEASON HIGHS (* Career Highs)

	Marsh			Wright		        McGowen

Points  *24 vs. Hampton	        *23 vs.at UNCW		*15 at ECU

Rebs	*12 vs. VCU		10 vs. Del.State	*12 vs. UNCW

Assts:	*7 vs. Coastal		4 vs. Sac. State	*2 vs. ECU

FGM	*10 vs. Hampton	        *8 vs. UNCW		*5 vs. ECU

FTM	*7-10 vs. Coastal	9-11 vs. Hampton	*5-7 vs. ECU

3PTM	* 1 (4 times)		3-7 vs. ECU/UNCW		0-0


	Waller		       Dunnington		Drewry

Points	*20 at UNLV		*10 at Gmu		0

Rebs	*10 vs. UNCW	        *7 vs. Va.Tech		*2 at Hofstra

Assts	*4 vs. UNCW		1 (3) times		*2 vs. UNLV

FGM	*4 vs. UNLV		*5 at GMU			0

FTM	*3-4 vs.Del & NCW	*3-4 vs. Sac.State		0

3PTM	*4-6 vs. UNLV	        0-0				0-0



	Nance			Greene			Thomas

Points	*18 vs. Coastal	        24 vs. Drexel		*16 vs. Memphis

Rebs	*6 vs. Va.Tech	        6 vs. Ill-Chicago	* 6 at ECU

Assts	7 vs. CCC & NCW 	7 vs. VCU		*3 (7) times

FGM	*5 vs. Coastal/Hoft.	8 vs. Drexel		*6 vs. Memphis

FTM	*7-9 vs. Coastal	6-9 vs. Drexel		*4-4 vs. UIC

3PTM	*4-7 at. GMU		2 (5) times		*4-8 vs. Memphis

Others: Steals- Pierre Greene (7) at Towson (1 shy of school record ) Blocks: 5 by Clay McGowen vs. Memphis

TROY NANCE CAA PLAYER OF THE WEEK Troy Nance was named CAA Player of the Week on Dec. 17. He scored a career high 18 points (14 in the second half) with 7 assists and four steals in the Monarchs 81-67 victory over Coastal Carolina.

GREENE, THE FIRST TO GRADUATE : When Pierre Greene receives his diploma in May, he will be the first in his family to do so. The Senior guard Pierre Greene was selected to the CAA pre-season men's basketball All-CAA team by the league's head coaches and media in attendance at media day on Oct. 31 in Baltimore, MD. As a team, the Monarchs were picked to finish seventh. He has 803 career points.

WALK-ON'S: The Monarchs have two walk-ons in sophomore Andreas Themistocleous (Nicosia, Cyprus) and junior Samir Hickson (Collegeville, Pa.). Themistocoleous appeared in 15 games last year, including a career high seven points against Taylor's Stanford squad in the Puerto Rico Shootout. Hickson got into the Coastal Carolina game.

MONARCHS IN THE FIELDHOUSE: 112-16
Last year, ODU was 6-1
UNCW has beaten ODU three times

BEST YEAR BY YEAR RECORDS IN THE FIELDHOUSE
14-0 in 1974-75 (Div. II National Champions)
11-0 in 1976-77 (First Div. I team/ NIT)
13-1 in 1975-76 (Div. II Final Four)
13-1 in 1973-74 (Div. II Regional Finals)
12-2 in 1970-71 (Div. II Championship Game)

GLOBAL SPECTRUM TO MANAGE CONSTANT CENTER Old Dominion University has selected the Philadelphia based firm Global Spectrum to manage the 8,600 seat Constant Convocation Center, which is slated to open in late fall of 2002. The highly regarded company provides management for public assembly facilities across the country, most notably the First Union Center, which is home to the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, as well as facilities at Temple, South Carolina and Rhode Island.

CENTER CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:
* General Contractor, S.B. Ballard is ahead of schedule
* Construction is over 55% complete.
* The arena roof long span trusses that will support a four-sided scoreboard With jumbo-tron video screens on each side have been installed.
* Installation of the sound attenuating arena steal roof decking has begun. This System will help improve the quality and clarity of the sound system.
* The building is expected to be completely weather tight by March.

DEFENSE 17 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor. Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, the lowest since ODU held American to .259 shooting in 1996. The Hokies scored 19 points in the first half, the lowest since VMI was held to11 in 1982. ECU shot .333 Only Hampton has shot over 50 percent. They hit .582 for the game.

When ODU Does the Following:

MON		TUE		WED		THU	FRI	SAT	SUN

3-0		1-1		0-3		0-1	0-1	5-2	0-1

Leading at Halftime: 7-4

Tied at Halftime: 0-1

Trailing at Halftime: 2-4

The Monarchs were 3-4 in December and 3-1 in November

January :3-4

Scoring: 51- 60 Points 3-1
61-70 Points: 2-5
71-80 Points: 3-3
81-90 Points: 1-0
90-100 Points: 0-0

Outrebounds Opponents: 7-3

Opponents Outrebounds ODU:2-6

MONARCHS SIGN TWO IN EARLY PERIOD Isaiah Hunter, 6-3 G, Charlotte, NC., Independence High School Scored 32 points in a game last week and was named Scholastic Player of the Week by the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Janko Mrksic, 6-10, 250, C, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, bishop Ryan High School

MONARCH CAA STATISTICAL RANKINGS
Individual

Scoring:	Marsh	7th	14.7

		Wright	8th	14.4

FG PCT:	        Marsh	3rd	.485

FT PCT: 	Wright	2nd	.816

REBS: 	        Marsh 	8th	7.1

ASST:	 	Nance	4th	4.6

Steals: 	Greene	10th	1.5

		Nance	4th	1.7

Blocked Shots: McGowen	7th	1.1	 


Team

Scoring:	5th	67.6

FG PCT:	        6th	.408

3PT FG:	        4th	.332

Rebs:		7th	37.6

Scoring Def:	4th	67.0

FT PCT:	        2nd	.717

FG PCT Def:      8th	.424

3PT FG Def:	5th	.322

Assists:	2nd	14.7

Blocks	        4th	4.6

Steals:		3rd	7.3

BLAINE TAYLOR'S RADIO CALL IN SHOW Every Thursday afternoon from 5-6 p.m. on ESPN 1310 radio with host John Castleberry.... Fans can also e-mail questions to Taylor at www.odusports.com

MONARCH ASSISTANTS Kenny Gattison (ODU'86) Sun Belt Conference All-Decade Team and League Player of the Year in 1986. Larry Krystkowiak (Montana '86) Three-Time Big Sky Player of the Year and Academic All-American. *Both played nine years in the NBA.

CAA TELECONFERENCE CALL Begins Tuesday Jan. 8. Blaine Taylor is on at 10:30...Call 888-935-0164..Members of the media should contact Tripp Sheppard at the CAA office for the password to access the call.

CURRENT ALUMNI MONARCHS IN NBA
Mark West ('83) Assistant General Manager with Phoenix Suns (Played 17 years in the NBA)
Cal Bowdler ('99) In third season with Atlanta Hawks Current Avg:3.9 ppg/ 3.1 rpg (14 pts at Phila./ 6 rebs vs. MIL.) Chris Gatling ('91) Now with the Miami Heat.
(NBA All-Star in 1997) current avg:7.5 ppg/ 4.5 rpg NOTE: Skipper Youngblood ('2000) is playing for Roanoke in the NBA Developmental league

NEXT GAME: Jan. 30 at James Madison at 7:00 p.m.