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Monarchs Travel to William and Mary For 2 p.m. Game
Feb. 22, 2002
OLD DOMINION AT WILLIAM & MARY
ABOUT THE MONARCHS: 12-14 Overall/6-10 CAA
HEAD COACH: Blaine Taylor (Montana '81)
MONARCH PROBABLES
TOP SUBSTITUTES THIS DAY IN MONARCH HISTORY Feb. 23, 1980, ODU defeats William and Mary in W&M Hall, 71-69 in overtime as All-American and ODU Sports Hall of Famer Ronnie McAdoo scored 17 and Grant Robinson added 16 points. Mark West hauled in 11 rebounds. TONIGHT'S OFFICIALS Terry Nobles, Bill Humes, Emanuel Upton
CAA GAMES TODAY: SUSPENDED Charles Dunnington has been suspended indefinitely for violation of team rules. SERIES VS. WilLIAM & MARY ODU leads, 46-12. ODU won the last meeting68-52 in the fieldhouse.Rasheed Wright led with 21 points and Clay McGowen added ten rebounds. First Meeting: ODU won, 80-65 at W&M Hall. Last win at W&M Hall: 1999-00, 71-62. (ODU is 20-8)
COMPARING TEAM STATS ODU W&M
MONARCHS VS. CAA TEAMS WRIGHT AND MARSH Rasheed Wright is the only Monarch who has started all 26 games...Ricardo Marsh did not start against Drexel. Marsh now has 849 career points thus far. Nine different Monarchs have started atleast two games this year. 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
Rasheed Wright vs. Delaware State (18 pts/ 10 rebs)
Clay McGowen vs. East Carolina (15 pts/ 10 rebs) Pierre Greene vs. JMU 13 pts/10 rebs
MONARCH SCORING LEADERS THIS SEASON
MONARCH REBOUND LEADERS THIS SEASON
INDIVIDUAL SEASON HIGHS (* Career Highs) Marsh Wright McGowenOthers: Steals- Pierre Greene (7) at Towson (1 shy of school record ) Blocks: 5 by Clay McGowen vs. Memphis 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 845 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, and has thus far played in 14 games this season. Hickson got into the Coastal Carolina game.
MONARCHS IN THE FIELDHOUSE: 116-17
BEST YEAR BY YEAR RECORDS IN THE FIELDHOUSE 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: 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. DEFENSE 20 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor. Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, , W&M to .288, & Hofstra .283 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 Hampton, Delaware and Towson & Drexel have shot over 50 percent. The Pirates hit .582 for the game. The Blue Hens hit .522., the Towson Tigers hit .523, and Drexel hit .532. Three of the last four opponents have shot over 50 percent. When ODU Does the Following: MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUNLeading at Halftime: 10-4 Tied at Halftime: 0-1 Trailing at Halftime: 2-9
The Monarchs were 3-4 in December and 3-1 in November
Scoring: 51- 60 Points 3-2 Outrebounds Opponents: 9-5 Opponents Outrebounds ODU:3-9 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 144 career steals, moving him up to ninth place on the ODU all-time list, three behind Chris Gatling ('91).
MONARCH CAA STATISTICAL RANKINGS Scoring: Marsh 6th 15.1
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