Where are they now: Andre Foreman

We’ve actually written about Andre Foreman before — he’s the all-time leading scorer in Division III men’s basketball history who was the Division III player of the year at Salisbury State long before our time, 1992. He finished with 2,940 career points and is still playing, most recently in Finland.

But for those who don’t know what he’s been up to, Kevin Froelich, writing for the Salisbury Daily Times, caught up with Foreman, who finally exorcised one of his basketball demons.

We last wrote about Foreman as Willie Chandler was threatening his record, in the Feb. 20, 2003, edition of Around the Nation. It’s the fourth item down on the page.

Whitten might be leaving King’s

The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader reported in Wednesday’s editions that King’s women’s coach Bryan Whitten is a finalist for an assistant coach position at Division I Virginia Commonwealth.

Whitten is 220-103 in his career at King’s. There are two positions open and a hiring for one of them could be announced as early as Thursday. Unnamed sources told the newspaper Whitten would be hired.

St. Vincent turned down for NEC

St. Vincent was turned down for membership in the Division I Northeast Conference yesterday, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Why should you care? St. Vincent, an NAIA member which competes in the association’s Division I for basketball, has been discussed as a possible future Division III member. If so, they’d be a natural for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

“I think, should they decide to go Division III, we would welcome their formal application,” Joe Onderko, PAC information director, told the newspaper.

Another western Pennsylvania NAIA school, Seton Hill, is in the pipeline to enter Division III, but is making noises about either going to Division II or staying NAIA. Of course, this is the same school that objected when we ran a story on D3football.com about them entering the Division III pipeline, since they didn’t understand the Division III process. 🙂

Is it 2005-06 already?

No, not exactly, but we’re already delving into 2005-06 schedules. We don’t have many, but it’s a start — Albion’s men’s schedule and Carleton’s men’s and women’s schedule.

There are other schedules available, but they’re not complete. We need to know the first-round pairings for any in-season tournament before we post the schedule. So if you know a school has a schedule on its Web site, e-mail us and/or post it here. We’ll punch it in if it has tournament pairings — not just the four teams listed.