A little more than two months after UW-Oshkosh women’s coach Pam Ruder took the head coaching job at Southwestern, Oshkosh has finalists for the position, according to the Oshkosh Northwestern.

The finalists are Oshkosh West HS coach Terri Schumacher, Milwaukee Pius HS boys’ basketball coach Joel Claassen, DePauw women’s coach Kris Huffman and former UW-Oshkosh player and graduate assistant Trish Betthauser. Betthauser later was an assistant at Indiana.

Absent is assistant coach Kris Schoonover. She told the paper in June, “This came real quick. But yeah, I’ve been approached to take over the position.”

The Scranton Times-Tribune is publishing a countdown of the Top 25 area coaches, and while most of the people on the list coach or coached high school sports, two Scranton basketball coaches have done pretty well in the coach’s box and on the list.

Check out features on No. 4, former Scranton men’s coach Bob Bessoir (top photo) and No. 2, current Scranton women’s coach, Mike Strong.

I’m heading up to Philadelphia shortly to address the Division III Sports Information Directors at the CoSIDA convention. I’m not expecting to break any news of a basketball nature but if I do, I’ll post it either from the hotel or upon my return.

To the SIDs reading this — see you there!

On Jan. 31, 2005, Jordan Snipes heaved the ball the length of the court, and was the talk of the sports world. His shot with 0.6 seconds remaining turned a would-be 89-88 overtime loss at Randolph-Macon into a 91-88 win.

Luckily, the local ABC affiliate in Richmond still had a camera there at the end of the game. Their video not only made SportsCenter’s top 10 plays, it was top play No. 9, No. 7, No. 5, No. 3 and No. 1. The anchors said we would see it again on the ESPYs.

One problem — less than five months later, ESPN has snubbed the shot seen ’round the world. Snipes shot isn’t even on the ballot for Best Play. Surely we could have done without the X-Games “play” that was included.

Not that the shot hasn’t had lasting effects. Later in the season I saw women’s basketball players imitating it in a shootaround before an NCAA Tournament game. Heck — Randolph-Macon is even remodeling its gym completely this offseason, and that can’t be a coincidence. I wouldn’t want any reminder of that shot left either if I were there.