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  • Page 3 WESTERN CAROLINIAN August 19, 2011 SPORTS Mens basketball season to start with seven road games From Staff Reports Road trips to regional- rivals South Carolina and North Carolina State, as well as 12 home games at the. Ramsey Center high- light the 2011-12 Western Carolina mens basketball schedule unveiled by head coach Larry Hunter. Seven of the Catamounts 2011-12 opponents saw post-season play a year ago that includes third-seeded Purdue three others that advanced to the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Field a sea- son ago. Western Carolinas 2011- 12 schedule culminates with the Southern Conference Mens Basketball Champi- onship as it makes its return to Asheville, N.C., and the Asheville Civic Center for the first-time since 1995. We are again fortunate to be able to assemble a very challenging and diverse non- conference schedule this year, said Hunter, whose squads have won SoCon North Division titles two of the past three seasons. We play teams from several of the power conferences, along with teams from the Missouri Valley, Mid-Amer- ican and Big South confer- ences. This is a schedule that will afford our team room for growth and development as we prepare for the rigors of the Southern Conference schedule, Coming off the programs third-straight winning sea- son, Western Carolina opens the 2011-12 campaign with . seven-straight games away from home to match the secs ; ond-longest such streak es- tablished one year ago when __ the Catamounts played sev- en-consecutive road games spanning, the month of De- cember. The season opens with a Friday night road trip to the Colonial Life Arena to face the South Carolina Gamecocks (Nov. 11). It will be the eighth all-time meet- ing (0-7) between WCU and USC - the second at the state-of-the-art Colonial Life Arena with the most re- cent meeting coming back in From Staff Reports ; Western Carolina head womens basketball coach Karen Middleton has an- nounced the 2011-12 sched- ule. - The 29-game slate. in- cludes 14 home dates and match-ups with five teams that played in postseason tournaments in 2011. West- ern Carolina will play eight of its first nine games in North Carolina. . During non-conference play, eight of our first nine games will be played in the state of North Carolina. Middleton said. The four home games in November will be challenging competi- tion which will be exciting for Catamount fans. Five of our opponents participated in post season play last year. The Catamounts will face two teams who participated in the NCAA. Tournament including Southeastern Con- ference member Vanderbilt and Southern Conference foe Samford. Western Caro- lina faced the Commodores in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. and Delaware State, PHOTO BY MARK HASKETT: 2005. Nearly a week later, WCU returns tothe Palmet- . to State to face Presbyterian (Nov. 17) in Clinton, S.C., before opening first-round play in the South Padre Is- land Invitational in. Iowa. The Catamounts will face both Northern Iowa and Iowa State on the road on Nov. 20-22 before flying to the southern tip of Texas for two additional games of the four-game guarantee tour- ney. Pairings for the on-site portion of the South Padre Island. Invitational in South Padre Island, Texas, will Hee determined following the home: site rounds. In addi- tion to WCU, Iowa State . and Northern Iowa, the other - include schools. involved Northern Clorado and Southern Uni- versity. The South Padre Island Tournament over Thanks- giving provides excellent competition, but also an opportunity for our team to play in a unique environ- ment, Hunter said. As the calendar flips to: December, Western Caroli- (Dec. na opens its 18-game South- ern Conference slate before five-straight non-conference games carry the squad into the New Year. WCU plays all five North Division foes home-and-home, also playing South Division squads Furman and Wof- ford twice. The other four remaining South Division are slated for one meeting with WCU hosting Georgia Southern (Feb. 4) and The Citadel (Feb. 16) while vis- ~ iting Davidson (Jan. 12) and College of Charleston (Feb. 9). The Catamounts league schedule opens by visit- ing divisional foe, Samford opener on Sat., Dec. against UNC Greensboro, The then-home design of the schedule December 7 as Western _ Carolina travels to West Lafayette, Ind., to face the Purdue Boilermakers in the third-meeting all-time in the series - and first since 2006. The Catamounts came very close to making NCAA his- is as a.No. 16 seed in the while | 1) before returning _to Cullowhee for the aoe alternating away- continues on > 1996, nearly pulling off the upset gver the regions top- seeded Boilermakers. In the 96 West Region in Albu- querque,. N.M., WCU, led by 1996 SoCon Player of the Year and current assistant coach Anquell McCollum, _ were tied at 71 with less than three minutes remaining. Purdues Brandon Brantley scored the games final bas-, ket with 1:30 to play with WCUs final two attempts to. tie the game came up empty in the 73-71 victory. Kent State returns the 2009-10. . ESPN Bracket- Buster meeting with WCU on Dec. 10 in the final game _ prior to final exams with the Catamounts traveling the Bradley Braves on Dec. the holiday season. WCU played Kent State on the road in back-to-back sea- sons, winning in overtime in 2008-09 before falling by two in 2009-10 as a part of the BracketBusters event, and have claimed both meet- ings over the last two years with the Braves. In the first game after Christmas, WCU welcomes back to Peoria, T., to face 20 in the final game before mountain-rival UNC Ashe- ville to the Ramsey Center on Dec. 28 before spend- ing New Years Eve in the state capital against North Carolina State at the RBC Center. WCUs Hunter was an associate head coach at NCSU prior to coming to Cullowhee, and N.C. States current staff includes former Catamount assistant coach Orlando Early who like Mc- Collum was a part of the. 1996 championship squad. Five, of WCUs nine games in January will be played on the road while five of the eight games down the _ stretch in February are slated _ for the friendly confines of | the Ramsey Center where the Catamounts have won y 38 of. their last 44 games including 26 of the last 30 against SoCon foes; Januarys schedule in- cludes home dates against Wofford (Jan. 7), Furman (Jan. 14), non-conference foe Toccoa Falls (Jan. 17) and a visit from the Elon Phoenix on Jan. 25. The Catamounts travel to Chat- tanooga (Jan. 5), Davidson - (Jan, 12), arch-rival Appa- lachian State Ge 21) and consecutive trips to UNC Greensboro (Jan. 28) and Wofford (Jan. 30) to close the month. WCU bookends the Feb- ruary schedule with con- . secutive home games by welcoming Chattanooga _(Feb. 2) and Georgia South- em (Feb. 9) on the open- ing weekend of the month before closing the regular season with divisional. foes Samford (Feb. 23) and arch- rival Appalachian State (Feb. 25) in the finale. Road games during the month include trips to College of Charleston (Feb. 9), Furman (Feb. 11) and Elon (Feb. 18). Western Carolina fin- ished the 2010-11 season by winning eight of its final nine regular season games to claim a share of the SoCon North Division title, posting an 18-15 overall record. The squad also garnered a No. 1 seed in the SoCon tourna- ment for just the second-. timein program history. The Catamounts return 10. play- ers from a season ago, eight of which seeing court-time a year ago including reign- ing SoCon Freshman of the Year, Trey Sumler, and red- shirt senior Harouna Mu- tombo, who also garnered the league s top rookie hon- or in his first season and is a two-time All-SoCon tourna- . ment selection. All told, the Catamounts return three of their top five scorers in Sumler (11.5 ppg), Mutombo (10.1 ppg) and freshman Brandon Boggs _ (7:7 ppg). We graduated some out- standing players, but also have some key performers "returning . and most of our | younger players gained alot of valuable experience last _ season, said Hunter. We : _ learned last season how im- portant winning some games in the non-conference part of the schedule can be. I am - looking forward to seeing how we handle this years challenges. Season tickets for the 2011-12 will be available for purchase in September. . Start times for each game wil be announced soon. -29- -game season to be played by Western's womens basketball team PHOTO BY MARK HASKETT Western Carolina womens basketball coach Karen Middleton, pictured, thinks the four home games in November will be challenging. Tennessee Tech, whom WCU travels to on Nov. 26, was a Post-Season WNIT participant in 2011 as well as SoCon member Appala- chian State. Fellow Southern Conference opponent Elon played in the Womens Bas- ketball Invitational. Western Carolina .opens the season with a Nov. 4 ex- hibition game against Mars Hill. The Catamounts hold a 37-0 record over Mars Hill dating back to 1966. Overall, lina will host Charleston Southern, UNC. Asheville Western Caro- | and Georgia State in non- . conference action. in the Ramsey Center. The Cata- mounts will travel to North Carolina Central, Campbell, Tennessee Tech, Vanderbilt and USC Upstate is in non- conference games. Our team is seca about the opportunity to take our game to another level during the 2011-12 season, Middleton said. The non- conference opponents will help prepare us for the rig- ors of Southern Conference play. The SoCon continues to grow in talent and has consistently competed in post season tournaments. Western Carolina opens ' Southern Conference play on December 3, hosting Da- - vidson. The last time the Cat- amounts opened SoCon play in December was in 2008, when the WCU opened So- Con play, ironically, against Davidson in 2008. This season, our team will be young and hungry as we look to build on fast years tournament win, we are poised and ready to compete for a champion-: ship, Middleton admitted. This will be an exciting season, and we look forward to watching the growth of our team as the season pro-. gresses.
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