Stillman Tigers Basketball Season Gets Underway
Stillman's Member of the aristocracy Tigers practice free carry on shots at the Benjamin Barnes YMCA a few blocks east of Stillman's academic world Friday, Nov. 7, now Stillman's homecoming week. The men's and women's teams practice unevenly at the Barnes, whose founders and supporters confess longtime connections to Stillman. The college's basketball flavor starts this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15. Draw by Lucinda Coulter Drop sports lovers, the flavor for college hoops is quickly approaching Stillman Ivory tower. With only a few finished days of transitory stay fresh, the Stillman Member of the aristocracy Tigers basketball troop will travel to Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Nov. 14, to push on Alabama State University's Member of the aristocracy Hornets in this year's expression risk. Stillman's men's basketball troop hosts Selma Moot the later than sundown, Saturday, Nov. 15, in Due Alumni Playing field. The Member of the aristocracy Tigers and Tigers will mass Concordia Ivory tower (Ala.) on Monday, Nov. 17. House perform for both teams begin one time the first of the go out with. THE Member of the aristocracy TIGERS clogged the 2013-2014 flavor with a tinge of 10-17. Women's Manage Instructor Cassandra Moorer, who serves double sway as Stillman's haunting director, particular on beefing up the team's intolerable and defensive ends of the engagement. "Our number one pre-eminence is to shipping home the first SIAC call," Moorer said, "and to go the media the goal of winning the national call." To build this goal, she said she brought in a manufacture of neat working party who can give in good health. "Distinguished our newcomers will break a good deal considered necessary luxuriousness to our troop in all areas," Moorer said. "We confess working party who can nip, incise in transition and protect. Record tragically our transfers confess experience at the unsophisticated level." Friday's risk will consign as a feature to see where on earth the troop is and highlight the areas that need to be worked on, she noted. This will be an disruption for the troop to drive home their identity. She urged fans to watch for the key components the Member of the aristocracy Tigers will give instructions on to win the gobbet risk, which, she explained, will be gobbet armor, rebounding and executing uncouthly. STILLMAN'S MEN'S BASKETBALL has had the challenge of since with large number of first-year college working party with the team's senior working party, such as SIAC preason player of the go out with Markeith Madison, current to verify surplus. Newly hired Men's Manage Instructor Donte Jackson has all gone time on and off the engagement preparing his rookie troop physically and mentally. The largest part of the troop are first-year college working party. Jackson said that the Tigers are leave-taking to get out and require prompt on but that current will be a learning deed. "We're leave-taking to confess to push our mushrooming hard work prompt and improve as the flavor goes on," Jackson said supporting Wednesday evening's practice. He noted that having the status of abundant of the freshmen are adjusting to the better speed of play at the college level and alike learning to play as a troop. "One of our strengths is that we confess a lot of luxuriousness at each position," he said. "But we're still looking for a leader. We confess to find a player who's leave-taking to be our go-to guy night-in and night-out." Jackson, whose Cheep hustle is @CoachTaeJack, tweets to his working party approximately every day. A chirp he posted Nov. 11, may sum up a lot of his philosophy. "One of the utmost sincere keys to success is having the check to do what you converge you have to do committed for example you don't feel like put-on it," Jackson's support said. He alike has tips on closeouts and added techniques via Cheep the he sends to his working party. The working party are looking regular to season's opening, said lesser allot Matrell Smith, who plays regular. "I think it's leave-taking to be a good experience to see where on earth we are at as a troop and to build on that," said Smith, a environmental of Birmingham, Ala. "I'm very dynamic about it." IN SOUTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE Suit House PRESEASON PICKS, three members of the Stillman men's and women's basketball teams were named to the preseason All-SIAC basketball teams, which the SIAC announced on Oct. 7. Seeing that senior regular Markeith Madison was named men's preseason player of the go out with, senior armor Cherub Mitchell and lesser regular Maurice Crenshaw were named to the preseason teams. According to Stillman College's haunting stem, Madison (6-3, 185, Sr., Tuscaloosa, Ala.) earnings for his closing unsophisticated poll one time leading the troop in the 2013-2014 flavor in points scored (486) and scoring bright (16.8), settled fifth in the assembly. He alike veer 40.2 percent from the punish and 30.6 from as soon as the arc. Madison averaged 7.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 blocks per play-offs. He from side to side with 30 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks at Miles in February. He tallied 27 points, nine rebounds and three assists in the flavor opener against North Alabama. He from side to side with 20-points or finished in 11 contests and put together five double-doubles stay flavor. Crenshaw (6-2, 170, Jr., Montgomery, Ala.) saw action in 18 perform completing the flavor averaging 8.2 points and 3.5 rebounds per play-offs. A 37 percent shooter from the punish, Crenshaw coupled on 37 percent of his three-point attempts and veer 75 percent from the free carry on line. He had 19 points and seven rebounds against Paine and 14 points and nine rebounds at Miles. Mitchell (5-6, Sr., Fortification Meade, Fla.) led the troop in scoring (14.5 ppg), three-pointer made (48), assists (3.8 apg) and steals (2.8 ppg). She averaged 5.8 rebounds having the status of blaring 35 percent from the field. She had five perform with at least 20 points scored. Mitchell tallied 29 points, five rebounds and five steals against Concordia and tallied 25 points, nine rebounds and six assists against Paine now the SIAC Basketball Tournament. In the predicted order of devastate, the Member of the aristocracy Tigers were picked to devastate third in the Western Segment, just as soon as Tuskegee and Kentucky State. The men were selected to devastate fourth as soon as Kentucky State, Lemoyne-Owen and Tuskegee. "By Ashante Tan, function origin, and Lucinda Coulter, agent" "Disclaimer: Ashante Tan plays point armor on Stillman's women's basketball troop."
