Author Archives: Pat Coleman

D-III alumni earn NBA rings

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Congratulations to the Division III alumni on the San Antonio Spurs, who won the 2004-05 NBA championship in seven games against the Detroit Pistons.

Sure, most people should know that Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was formerly head coach at Pomona-Pitzer. But can you name two others?

They’re both alumni of Emerson College. One is Sam Presti, the team’s director of player personnel. The other is a D3hoops.com All-American from 2004, Rob Hennigan, also working in the player personnel department. Of course, you know about Presti if you’re a loyal reader of Around the Nation (about two-thirds of the way down the page). That’s not the first time we’ve mentioned reading Around the Nation, by the way … maybe there’s something to be learned there.

Congrats to all.

Where are they now: Andre Foreman

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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

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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

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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. 🙂