Feb. 3, 2002

OLD DOMINION VS TOWSON
Monday, Feb. 4, 2002, 7:37 p.m. ODU Fieldhouse./ ESPN Radio/Comcast Sportsnet

ABOUT THE MONARCHS:
10-11 Overall/4-7 CAA /7-4 Home/1-0 Neutral /2-7 Away
Last Game- Lost at Delaware, 75-70
* Ricardo Marsh 18 pts along with 5 rebs.
* Rasheed Wright 14 pts
* Delaware outrebounded ODU 32-21
* ODU shot .509 from the floor/Delaware shot .522.

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. 15.3 ppg/ 7.1 prg
F 22 Rasheed Wright, 6-5, 195, Jr., Greensboro, NC. 14.6 ppg/ 5.3 rpg
C 40 Clay McGowen, 6-11, 220, So, Westerville, OH. 5.4 ppg/ 5.3 rpg
G 13 Troy Nance, 5-9, 175, So., Va.Beach, Va. 7.1 ppg/ 4.7 apg
G 12 Pierre Greene, 6-2, 185, Sr, Chicago, IL. 9.9 ppg/3.0 rpg

TOP SUBSTITUTES
G 10 John Waller, 6-4, 175, So, Richmond, Va. 6.0 ppg./ 3.1 rpg
G 24 Kiah Thomas, 6-4,185, Fr., Norfolk, Va. 5.3 ppg/ 2.6 rpg
C 30 Charles Dunnington, 6-9, 220, So. Washington, DC. 3.0 ppg/ 3.4 rpg
G 11 Marcus Drewry, 6-2, 180,Jr., Evanston, IL. 0.3 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. 0.4 ppg/0.6 rpg

TONIGHT'S OFFICIALS Frank Scagliotta, Robert Donato, Sean Hull

CAA GAMES TODAY:
Drexel at UNCW,
W&M at James Madison
Hofstra at VCU

MARSH'S WEEK Last week, Ricardo Marsh was 18-28(.643) from the floor with 16 rebounds, 45 points and four assists in 69 minutes of play against JMU and Delaware.

SERIES VS. TOWSON ODU leads, 8-0. The Monarchs defeated the Tigers in Towson, 66-53 on Jan. 14.

First Meeting: 1956-57, ODU won 72-68

This is Towson's first game in the ODU fieldhouse.

COMPARING TEAM STATS

		ODU		TU

Scoring	67.4		 57.8

FG%		.413		.432

FT%		.711		.610

3PT%		.337		.322

Rebounds	36.9		 33.3

FG Def.	.422		.447

Scoring Def.	66.7		71.7

MONARCHS VS. CAA TEAMS
Delaware (3-1) Drexel (1-0) George Mason (24-7)
Hofstra (1-1) James Madison(36-21) UNCWilmington(15-15)
Towson (8-0) VCU (32-28) W&M (46-12)

WRIGHT AND MARSH Rasheed Wright and Ricardo Marsh are the only two Monarchs who have started all 21 games...Marsh has 778 career points thus far.

MARCUS DREWRY Junior Marcus Drewry (Evanston, IL.) Missed the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair an unhealed 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)
At JMU (27 pts/ 11 rebs)
Rasheed Wright vs. Delaware State (18 pts/ 10 rebs)
Clay McGowen vs. East Carolina (15 pts/ 10 rebs)
W&M (10 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 (9) Rasheed Wright (8)
McGowen & Waller (1) Nance & Greene (1)

MONARCH REBOUND LEADERS THIS SEASON
Ricardo Marsh (9)+
Clay McGowen (4)
Rasheed Wright (4)+
Dunnington +
Pierre Greene (2)
+ co leaders

INDIVIDUAL SEASON HIGHS (* Career Highs)

	Marsh			Wright		        McGowen

Points  *27 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. HU & JMU	*8 vs. UNCW		*5 vs. ECU

FTM	*7-10 vs. CC & JMU	12-15 vs. VCU		*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		*3 vs. W&M

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

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

FGM	*4 vs. UNLV		*5 at GMU		*1 vs. W&M

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

3PTM	*4-6 vs. UNLV	        0-0			*1-1 vs. W&M



	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	8 at UNLV &Del. 	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 813 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: 113-16
Last year, ODU was 6-1
UNCW has beaten ODU three times

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 19 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor. Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, & W&M to .288, 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 and Delaware have shot over 50 percent. The Pirates hit .582 for the game. The Blue Hens hit .522.

When ODU Does the Following:

MON		TUE		WED		THU	FRI	SAT	SUN

3-0		1-1		0-4		0-1	0-1	6-3	0-1

Leading at Halftime: 8-4

Tied at Halftime: 0-1

Trailing at Halftime: 2-6

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

January :4-5

February :0-1

Scoring: 51- 60 Points 3-1
61-70 Points: 3-7
71-80 Points: 3-3
81-90 Points: 1-0
90-100 Points: 0-0

Outrebounds Opponents: 8-4

Opponents Outrebounds ODU:2-7

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

MOVING UP THE STEALS LIST Pierre Greene has 141 career steals, moving him up to ninth place on the ODU all-time list, six behind Chris Gatling ('91).

MONARCH CAA STATISTICAL RANKINGS
Individual

Scoring:	Marsh	6th	15.3

		Wright	7th	14.6

FG PCT:	        Marsh	3rd	.504

FT PCT: 	Wright	2nd	.820

REBS: 	        Marsh 	6th	7.1

ASST:	 	Nance	4th	4.7

Steals: 	Greene	5th	1.6

		Nance	6th	1.6

Blocked Shots: McGowen	6th	1.1	

Asst/TO Ratio: Nance	2nd	1.94


Team

Scoring:	5th	67.4

FG PCT:	        7th	.413

3PT FG:	        3rd	.337

Rebs:		7th	36.9

Scoring Def:	3rd	66.7

FT PCT:	        1st	.711

FG PCT Def:      6th	.422

3PT FG Def:	3rd	.322

Assists:	2nd	15.1

Blocks	         4th	4.2

Steals:		3rd	6.9

MONARCH CAA STATISTICAL LEADERS FROM LAST YEAR Assists: Pierre Greene & Troy Nance (5th) 3.48 Free Throw Percentage: Greene (5th) .769 Wright (10th) .740 Steals: Greene (9th) 1.23 Three-Point Field Goal PCT: Wright (10th) .364

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 Every Tuesday 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.

"FAREWELL TO THE FIELDHOUSE TRIBUTES" * UIC game was 70's night * Virginia Commonwealth was '80's night * Feb. 16 vs. James Madison is '90's night

NEXT GAME: Feb. 9 at VCU 7:30 p.m.