Men's Basketball
2001-02 All-Conference Team
| March 4, 2002
McKendree College Claims League Postseason Tournament Title Lebanon, Ill. - The McKendree College men's basketball team seized an automatic berth to the NAIA Division I National Tournament tonight, knocking off Columbia College in the championship game of the American Midwest Conference postseason tournament by a final score of 66-56. With the win, the secure an automatic berth into the NAIA Men’s Division I National Tournament scheduled for March 13-19 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.In
a vote by league coaches, Darrell Flake, a 6-4 senior forward for
McKendree, is the 2001-02 AMC Most Valuable Player. Flake led the Bearcats
to a regular season conference title, scoring a conference-high 23.8
points per outing. In addition, he shot 70 percent from the field,
dropping in 308 of his 442 field goal attempts. Flake, a native of
Chicago, Ill., also averaged 8.7 rebounds per outing, corralling 271
during the regular season. The
AMC Freshman of the Year is Chad Storck from McKendree College. Storck,
who hails from Farina, Ill., averaged 6.6 points during his rookie
campaign, starting at the point guard for the Bearcats. He led the team in
free throw percentage, netting 85 percent of his attempts. In addition,
the 6-0 guard’s turnover to assist ratio was nearly 2 to 1. Storck
passed out 3.4 assists per game, while committing only 1.6 turnovers. The
AMC Newcomer of the Year honor is presented to the top transfer
student-athlete in the AMC. Miquel Coleman, a sophomore for the Columbia
College Cougars is the 2001-02 recipient of this award. Coleman, a 6-4
forward from Louisville, Ken., led the Cougars in scoring this season,
averaging 13.1 points a game and shooting 52 percent from the field. In
addition, Coleman pulled down 5.4 rebounds each game for Columbia. The
2001-02 AMC Coach of the Year for men's basketball is Harry Statham.
Statham is in his 36th year at the helm of the Bearcat program.
His overall record stands at 812-319. This season, he led McKendree to a
9-1 mark in league play and a regular-season conference title. Statham is
the winningest active coach in the NAIA and needs just six victories to
become the organization’s all-time leader. A
complete list of the 10-member AMC All-Conference team, the honorable
mention squad and the academic all-conference team, is included on the
below. Members of the academic all-conference team have earned at least a
cumulative 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. |
2001-02 AMC
All-Conference Team
Men's Basketball
|
Most
Valuable Player |
Newcomer
of the Year |
|
Darrell Flake (SR),
McKendree College |
Miquel Coleman (SO),
Columbia College |
|
Freshman
of the Year |
Coach
of the Year |
|
Chad Storck,
McKendree College |
Harry Statham,
McKendree College |
1st Team All-Conference
|
Player |
School |
Pos.
|
YR |
Hometown |
|
Miquel
Coleman |
Columbia
College |
Forward |
SO |
Louisville,
KY |
|
Sean
Dooley |
Columbia
College |
Forward |
SR |
Gladstone,
MO |
|
Mark
Jones |
Columbia
College |
Guard |
SR |
St.
Louis, MO |
|
Garrett
DeBrock |
McKendree
College |
Guard |
JR |
Delta,
MO |
|
Matt
Laur |
McKendree
College |
Center |
JR |
Kinmundy,
IL |
|
Darrell
Flake |
McKendree
College |
Forward |
SR |
Chicago,
IL |
|
Donald
Bell |
Missouri
Baptist College |
Guard |
JR |
Tyler,
TX |
|
Adam
Riva |
Missouri
Baptist College |
Guard |
SR |
Peru,
IL |
|
Michael
Brinkley |
Williams
Baptist College |
Guard/Forward |
SR |
Pleasant
Plains, AR |
|
Brian
Tanner |
Williams
Baptist College |
Forward |
SR |
Blytheville,
AR |
Honorable Mention All-Conference
|
Player |
School |
|
Justin
Keen |
Columbia
College |
|
Phillip
Clophus |
Hannibal-LaGrange
College |
|
Tim
McAuliffe |
Hannibal-LaGrange
College |
|
Harlon
Coleman |
Harris-Stowe
State College |
|
Brandt
Jefferson |
Harris-Stowe
State College |
|
Chad
Storck |
McKendree
College |
2001-02 American
Midwest Conference
Academic All-Conference Team
|
Columbia
College McKendree
College Williams
Baptist College |