MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Jacketlawyer]

FYI - On March 25, Tyler Sanborn of Guilford was named DIII Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.  He'll be recognized April 4 in Indianapolis at the NABC's awards dinner during the DI Final Four weekend.  As you may recall, GC's Ben Strong and Amherst's Andrew Olson shared the award in 2007.  Congratulations!

Congrats to him.  From what I saw of him in the ODAC title game, he deserved it!

[hasanova]

FYI - On March 25, Tyler Sanborn of Guilford was named DIII Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.  He'll be recognized April 4 in Indianapolis at the NABC's awards dinner during the DI Final Four weekend.  As you may recall, GC's Ben Strong and Amherst's Andrew Olson shared the award in 2007.  Congratulations!

Congrats to him.  From what I saw of him in the ODAC title game, he deserved it!

I agree, jacketlawyer.  I've watched Tyler for four years and he's progressed faster and farther than any player I remember seeing.  His growth as a player has been truly exponential.  What makes it even better, he's a quality person with a great family.  I know he hopes to play somewhere professionally next season, so this certainly helps his cause!

[2RMCFans]

^ Congratulations to Mr. Sanborn & good wishes for his future.  Between him and Molly Ariail, ODAC players surely rose to the top nationally this year.  And, they will be missed at their college homes... but hopefully both will be playing somewhere else after graduation.

Congrats to all on the final rankings in the poll--- we can't wait for November-December to maybe shake things up a little. 

GO JACKETS!!!

[sludge]

Congratulations ...
... to all the ODAC teams for the great season. 
... to my shameless homer Guilford team for the wonderful ride.  Rest assured, you've got fans all over the world, even in Haifa, Israel and Ramallah in the West Bank!
... to Tyler Sanborn for bringing the POY back to Guilford where it belongs.     I figured Tyler's awards season might not be finished after the All American recognition, but kept quiet about it.

Thanks to all you wonderful posters who kept a fun and sometimes wacky dialogue going here.

[hasanova]

Congratulations ...
... to all the ODAC teams for the great season.  
... to my shameless homer Guilford team for the wonderful ride.  Rest assured, you've got fans all over the world, even in Haifa, Israel and Ramallah in the West Bank!
... to Tyler Sanborn for bringing the POY back to Guilford where it belongs.    I figured Tyler's awards season might not be finished after the All American recognition, but kept quiet about it.

Thanks to all you wonderful posters who kept a fun and sometimes wacky dialogue going here.

sludge, not sure where you are in your travels, but I hope the trip's gone well!  It was a great season for Guilford and all the ODAC teams ... makes it hard to wait 'til November.     If he'd played for a team without so many seniors and in a system that played freshmen more, I think we would have had a ROY candidate in Josh Pittman ... expect him to be a 15-20 ppg player over the next three years.

[hasanova]

I am very sad to report that long-time former Guilford basketball coach and current men's golf coach Jack Jensen passed away last night after returning with the team from a golf tournament at Camp Lejeune.  I have no further details at this time, except to say I have reason to believe it was a heart attack.

Of Guilford's five national championships, Coach Jensen was at the helm for four of them.  He is a member of numerous halls of fame and coached many of Guilford's sports legends in both sports.  He was the head basketball coach from 1970-1999, so he was the Quakers' coach when they first entered the ODAC in 1991.  He played basketball for the iconic Coach Bones McKinney at Wake Forest and counted among his teammates such legends as Len Chappell and Billy Packer.

He will be sorely missed by his family, his friends and his players.  It is truly a sad day for Guilford College.

[deangn]

Coach Jensen was one of the few people who I considered to be a friend, a mentor, and someone who I looked to as a model in life.  He was first and foremost, a family man.  He dearly loved his wife and children.  He was a man of great faith in God.  He loved Guilford College and the opportunity that came with his job to be an influence on young people. 

He will be greatly missed by generations of former students and players. 

[hasanova]

Coach Jensen was one of the few people who I considered to be a friend, a mentor, and someone who I looked to as a model in life.  He was first and foremost, a family man.  He dearly loved his wife and children.  He was a man of great faith in God.  He loved Guilford College and the opportunity that came with his job to be an influence on young people. 

He will be greatly missed by generations of former students and players. 

Absolutely.  Jack Jensen is such a part of the sports - no, make that overall - fabric of Guilford College and Greensboro that I cannot yet imagine us without him.  Several tributes to him in the media today and his services will be, as his daughter said, "like having a state funeral."  His wake will be Wednesday night 6-9 in Alumni Gym and his service will be Thursday at 2 pm on, appropriately, Jack Jensen Court in Ragan-Brown Field House.  Somewhere, I have my 1973 Sports Illustrated with his photo and the story about the NAIA national champions.  Who knew he would win three more national titles in golf?  What a legacy.

I sat with him during a recent Guilford basketball game and he taught me more about the game in that 40 minutes of basketball than I would have garnered in years of sitting alone.  If you had two minutes to chat, you better plan on an hour - and at the end, you wish you could have stayed longer.   Jack, we all wish you could have stayed longer, too.

[kingtim]

It's a bold step to pick teams so early. But, I like bold steps.


In a lot of ways the only southern team I care about is my alma mater: University of Houston.

That being said, the Old Dominion has a lot of great teams.


I'm excited to see the picks of everyone else who posts.

[hasanova]

Sanborn, Henson and Palombo receive April 2 postseason awards:

http://www.guilford.edu/athletics/mbball/releases/2009-10/AA-Awards.html

[hasanova]

I first saw a small item in today's Greensboro News & Record about Guilford signing Asheboro (NC) guard Saegan Hilliard, then found this longer piece on the net:

https://www.myrandolphsports.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?_cgifunction=details&school_id=1&id=620

He put up 1091 points in his HS career for the Blue Comets, with 1045 of them coming as a Junior and Senior.  His 23.6 ppg average in 2009-10 helped him earn Mid-Piedmont 3-A POY.  With a 4.5 GPA, he sounds like a good student too!

[hasanova]

I've been reading about 6'7" Omer Atishkin since January - he attends AHA (American Hebrew Academy), a private boarding school about 2 miles from Guilford's campus in Greensboro.  This piece was in today's News & Record:

http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/04/14/article/israeli_commits_to_guilford

[Mr. Ypsi]

You mean that Guilford DOES allow students less than 6'10" enroll?!

[hasanova]

You mean that Guilford DOES allow students less than 6'10" enroll?!

Yeah - I think most of the golf team is too. 

[donho]

 It appears that Asst. Coach Byers has left the R-MC b-ball program, as his bio has been removed from the b-ball page. He will be a winner !!! Good Luck coach!!