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Sep

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Coaches Spotlight: Matt O’Brien

Matt O’Brien is entering his 12th season as the Head Coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. During his time with the Moundbuilders, O’Brien has developed a program based on winning and consistency. Some of his accolades include, 11 straight winning seasons, 2018 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, 2019 Kansas Basketball Coaches
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17

Jul

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NAIA Player Spotlight: Matt Simpson – Florida College

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFC1UGUVKV0&feature=youtu.be One of the top scorers in all of the NAIA, just so happens to be a part time grocery clerk at Publix, and big time gamer, who loves Call of Duty. While he may look like a regular guy off the floor, when Matt Simpson steps on the floor, you will know who he
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11

Jul

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NAIA Player Spotlight: Makenzie Fessler – William Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3jwoj9Gys&feature=youtu.be Everyone chooses a program and University for different reasons. For Makenzie Fessler, William Woods was a smaller college atmosphere, where he could grow both as an individual and as a basketball player. He saw a University in which he could be a hooper, but also have success in the classroom, while also doing something
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6

Jul

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NAIA Hoops Report – We’re Baaaaccckkk for Year Two!!

July 1st, in leap years, signals the midway point of the entire year. Which means that this crazy 2020 is only halfway over with. We get asked daily if we think there will be a season, and the short answer is always “yes”! In honesty, we don’t really know what to expect for this season.
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1

May

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2019-2020 League Recap Series: Appalachian Athletic Conference

Preseason The Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC), quite frankly, has been dominated by Union (KY) over the past seven seasons. They entered the 2019-2020 season as the six time defending regular season champs, AND the six time defending AAC Tournament Champs. Coach Kevin Burton and his Union Bulldogs entered the 2019-2020 season looking to push both
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30

Apr

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2019-2020 League Recap Series: American Midwest Conference

Preseason There were a lot of question marks in the American Midwest Conference (AMC) headed into the 2019-2020 season. The AMC entered the season with four new coaching staffs, and just one player from the 1st two All-AMC teams returning. With all of the turnover happening, one of the biggest question marks entering the season
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7

Apr

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Mangas wins Bevo Francis Award As Best Small College Basketball Player

Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyan continued to bring in the post-season hardware as the NAIA DII National Player of the Year winner, was also named the Bevo Francis Award winner yesterday. The 6’3 Junior averaged 26.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game this past season. The Wildcats finished the Covid-19 shortened season at
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30

Mar

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NAIA All-Americans & Coach of the Year Winners

We know we are a little late with this article, but we elected to make some changes to the website, and have been working on that for awhile. As we are still learning, it takes us a little extra time to get changes up and running how we like them. We aren’t fully done with
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16

Mar

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A Thank You Letter To Close Out Our First Season

Dear NAIA Hoops Report Nation, Not the way we thought our first season would end, and we can’t help but to feel bad for ALL the seniors out there!! On a positive note though; What a first season it has been for us. When I first started NAIA Hoops Report back in late May, I
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9

Mar

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NAIA DI Bracketology Report – Road to Kansas City

It’s the Monday before the last ever DI bracket reveal, so we thought we would do a bracketology report, on where we have things standing with just a few conference championship games left. The overall #1-seed belongs to Georgetown if they win the Mid-South Tournament. If they were to lose to Thomas More, for the
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