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Date Posted: 04:34:23 03/05/04 Fri
Author: TD
Subject: +++Midconfans 3/5/04+++


CHICAGO STATE’S KEVIN JONES NAMED MID-CON COACH OF THE YEAR;THREE COUGARS EARN ALL-CONFERENCE ACCOLADES--CSU Website
In addition to Jones, junior guard Craig Franklin was named Second-Team All Mid-Con, while senior forward Rubeen Perry and junior guard Tony Weeden were named Honorable Mention All Mid-Con. Weeden was also one of five to be named to the league’s All Newcomer Team and freshman guard Royce Parran was named the league’s Sixth Man of the Year.

Wisniewski Named First Team All-Conference, Pettway Also Honored--CC Website
In Centenary’s first season of competition in the Mid-Continent Conference, Wisniewski led the Gents to a 10-6 conference record, tied for second with IUPUI and Oral Roberts in the final conference standings. Centenary was able to defeat every team in the conference at least once, and the Gents won every conference game at the Gold Dome.

Michael Watson Named First-Team All-Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball--UMKC Website
Becomes first player in UMKC history to earn three straight first-team all-conference honors

Tutt and Green Make League History By Earning First-Team All-Conference; Tutt Named Newcomer of the Year--ORU Website
Tutt, a 6-1 guard from Garland, Texas, is ORU's leading scorer (20.7 ppg, 5th in the Mid-Con, ) and has set a new school record with 96 3-pointers made this season. He joined Reggie Borges as the second ORU player in three seasons to earn the league's Newcomer of the Year award, but is the first freshman to win the honor since Valparaiso's Lubos Barton did so in 1998-99.

Green, a 6-7 forward from Tulsa, has nearly averaged a double-double (17.3 ppg, 9.9 rpg) in his inaugural collegiate season. He leads the Mid-Con in rebounding and field goal percentage (.598), as well as double-doubles (14), while also ranking seventh in scoring.

Valpo's Gomes, Oppland & Berdiel Selected To All-Mid-Con Second Team--VU Website
Gomes, a senior forward from Luanda, Angola, finished the regular season as the Mid-Con's leader in blocked shots per game (1.89, 51 in 27 games) and ranked 2nd in rebounding (9.0 pg.). An Honorable Mention All-Mid-Con selection a year ago, Gomes has averaged 12.6 ppg., while shooting .479 overall and leading the league in defensive rebounding (6.89 pg.). He has recorded 12 double-doubles (points,rebounds) this season - the second most in the Mid-Con. Gomes, who has 988 career points, was chosen as the league's player of the week on Dec. 15.

Oppland, a sophomore from St. Louis, Mo./Whitfield, has been the model of consistency. The 6'8" forward has tallied double-figure points in 25 of the 27 games. Oppland leads Valpo in scoring (15.4 ppg.), ranking 9th in the Mid-Con. An Academic All-District V selection, Oppland stands 2nd in the league in offensive rebounding (3.22 pg.), 3rd in field goal percentage (.541), 6th in rebounding (7.2 pg.) and 8th in free throw percentage (.776). He was particularly effective in Mid-Con games, averaging 17.1 ppg. and 7.3 rpg., while shooting .568 from the field. Oppland has recorded six double-doubles this season.

Berdiel, a junior from Ponce, Puerto Rico, stands 2nd in the Mid-Con and 16th nationally in assists (5.96 pg., 161 in 27 games). The Crusaders' point guard, Berdiel ranks 3rd in the league in steals (1.81 pg.) and 6th in assist/turnover ratio. He has averaged 11.0 ppg. and made .372 from 3-point range. On Valpo's all-time lists, Berdiel ranks 4th in assists (365) and 9th in steals (137).

Gray Named to Mid-Con All-Newcomer Team--WIU Website
Western Illinois University true freshman T.J. Gray (Chicago, Ill./Julian) was one of five league players named to the 2003-04 Mid-Continent Conference All-Newcomer Team. The 5-foot-9 point guard became the highest-scoring freshman in the school’s Division I history, scoring 281 points and averaging 10.0 points per game.

UMKC's Watson is all-league again--Kansas City Star
Watson became the Mid-Con's all-time leading scorer in the middle of the season and now has 2,430 points. He's averaging 23.0 points per game this season, third in the conference. He is also the Mid-Con's career leader in three-point field goals (384) and has made 91 this year.

Gents star earns Mid-Con honor--Shreveport Times
In conference games, Wisniewski averaged 23.7 points per game, third in the conference behind 2003 Mid-Con Player of the Year Mike Helms of Oakland and 2004 Mid-Con Player of the Year Odell Bradley of IUPUI. He led all Mid-Con guards in field goal percentage in conference games, hitting 55.8 percent of his field goal attempts.

True to himself--NW Indiana Times
Dan Oppland has a style all his own, and he wouldn't want it any other way.

Crusaders shut out of Mid-Con awards--NW Indiana Times
Crusaders shut out of Mid-Con awards, but three players earn all-conference honors.

All-Mid-Con Teams: Golden Eagle freshmen make mark--Tulsa World


All-Mid-Con Teams: Golden Eagle freshmen make mark

By MIKE BROWN World Sports Writer
3/5/2004

Green, Tutt both named first-team all-conference.

Oral Roberts coach Scott Sutton said he's glad he wasn't permitted to vote for his own players for Mid-Continent Conference basketball honors.

Sutton wouldn't have known which of his talented freshmen to choose -- guard Ken Tutt or forward Caleb Green.

"I would have voted it a tie, co-newcomers of the year," Sutton said with a chuckle. "They both had great years."

Tutt and Green made Mid-Con history Thursday by being the first freshman teammates voted to the all-conference team, said Cory Rogers, ORU media relations director.

Tutt edged Green for newcomer of the year, and both were on the all-newcomer team.

"They're very deserving and I'm excited for them," Sutton said. "I'd have been disappointed if they weren't on the first team because they both had sensational years."

Together, they fueled ORU's surprisingly strong bid for the regular-season Mid-Con title in what was expected to be a rebuilding year. The Eagles tied for second place in the league and had an eight-game winning streak during the season.

Tutt, the sharpshooting guard from Garland, Texas, ranked 19th nationally in scoring with 20.7 points per game and ran off eight straight 25-plus games, the nation's longest streak of its kind this season.

Tutt needs only three points to break Richard Fuqua's 34-year-old school freshman scoring record.

Green, the 6-foot-7 Memorial High product, led the league in rebounds (9.9) and shooting percentage (.598) and ranked seventh in scoring (17.3).

He scored a season-high 33 points in a game at Missouri-Kansas City and had 22 rebounds against Southern Utah last Saturday, the highest one-game total for an ORU player in 30 years.

Green and Tutt were the only underclassmen on the all-conference team. They were joined by seniors Odell Bradley of Indiana-Purdue, Michael Watson of UMKC, Mike Helms of Oakland (Mich.) and Andrew Wisniewski of Centenary.

Bradley, who scored 41 points in each of IUPUI's wins over ORU, was the player of the year.

Coach of the year was Chicago State's Kevin Jones. He guided the Cougars to their most wins (11) since 1989 and highest Mid-Con finish (sixth) since joining the league in 1994.

ORU (17-10) plays UMKC at 2:15 p.m. Sunday in the first round of the Mid-Con Tournament at Kemper Arena in Kansas City.

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Mid-Continent Conference
All-Conference Team
First Team

Odell Bradley, IUPUI, sr.; Caleb Green, ORU, fr.; Mike Helms, Oakland, sr.; Ken Tutt, ORU, fr.; Michael Watson, UMKC, sr.; Andrew Wisniewski, Centenary, sr.

Second Team

Ali Berdiel, Valparaiso, jr.; Tony Franklin, Chicago State, jr.; Joaquim Gomes, Valparaiso, sr.; Rawle Marshall, Oakland, jr.; Dan Oppland, Valparaiso, so.

Honorable Mention

Akeem Clark, IUPUI, jr,; Matt Crenshaw, IUPUI, sr.; David Palmer, Southern Utah, sr.; Rubeen Perry, Chicago State, sr.; Tony Weeden, Chicago State, jr.

All-Newcomer Team

Akeem Clark, IUPUI, jr.; T.J. Gray, Western Illinois, fr.; Caleb Green, ORU, fr.; Ken Tutt, ORU, fr.; Tony Weeden, Chicago State, jr.

Coach of the Year --Kevin Jones, Chicago State.

Player of the Year --Bradley.

Newcomer of the Year --Tutt.

Defensive Player of the Year --Crenshaw.

Sixth Man Award --Royce Parran, Chicago State, fr.



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