NAIA Morning Bullet Points: 500 Coaching Wins, 1K Scorer, Small College Traditions, and More…

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NAIA Morning Bullet Points: 500 Coaching Wins, 1K Scorer, Small College Traditions, and More…

By naiahoopsreport_admin November 26, 2019 0 Comments

Our apologies for missing this, this past weekend, but Coach Brian McDermott, from Southern Oregon, reached the 500 wins mark in his career! Congrats Coach!!

Final: @SOUhoops 75, No. 15 Vanguard 71
• Tate Hoffman 20 pts
• Aaron Borich 13 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast
• Tez Allen 10 pts, 5 ast, 4 stl
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Congratulations to Brian McDermott, who is now among 5 active coaches at the NAIA DII level with 500 wins!https://t.co/OenUrCfUT8

— Southern Oregon Raiders (@SOURaiders) November 24, 2019

While we celebrated Head Coach Ray Shovlain’s win mark this weekend, another St. Ambrose Fighting Bee hit a milestone as well. Congrats Jake!

Congratulations to senior Jake Meeske for scoring 1,000 career points! 🏀@SAUMensHoops | #BringTheSting 🐝 pic.twitter.com/4hy4zlzcze

— Fighting Bees Athletics (@SAUBEES) November 23, 2019

In last nights action:
Mount Marty beat #16 Jamestown 93-88 in OT. This team will have a chance to crack the official Top 25 this week after being projected to finish last in the GPAC, in the preseason poll.

Todd Lorensen’s team does it again

Mount Marty men’s 🏀 knocks off No. 16 Jamestown 93-88 in OT

Lancers are 9-2 (3-1 in the GPAC) pic.twitter.com/S424N8BClO

— Jeremy Hoeck (@jhoeck) November 26, 2019

Westmont (CA) also continued their winning ways last night with a nice win over Carroll (MT).

Warriors defeat Carroll (Mont.) to improve to 8-0. pic.twitter.com/31J9we804B

— Westmont Athletics (@WestmontSports) November 26, 2019

Traditions aren’t limited to small colleges, but one of the beautiful aspects of small college athletics is the fact that there are a lot of GREAT traditions across NAIA. Two of them you seem to hear about each and every year are actually happening just 11 days apart this year! Tonight William Penn gets us started with their annual Toilet Paper Game, and then next week (Dec. 6th) we get the Taylor (IN) Silent Night Game! Here is more information on both:

GAMEDAY pic.twitter.com/GyJjTTB8jx

— William Penn Men’s Basketball (@WPUBasketball) November 26, 2019

Then Friday, December 6th we get the Annual Taylor Silent Night Game. Which may be the coolest tradition in any level.

Limited number of online tickets for Silent Night (Dec 6) will go on sale at noon (ET) on Monday, November 25. https://t.co/btfg5W8qrS pic.twitter.com/xlAk2IBB9d

— Taylor Trojans (@taylortrojans) November 22, 2019

Both teams actually have pretty good records in these games. More importantly, traditions like these give players, students, and fans memories to talk about for a lifetime. I encourage you all to tune in and watch these games!

With many programs on break and/or bad weather on it’s way, there are a lot of early games today! We will have the Schedule and Links posted earlier then usual today.